The Sex Peddlers Are Using Your Money to Get to Your Teens 
By Mary Beerworth

It is fairly typical for the average Vermonter to ignore the alarms raised by pro-lifers who try to call attention to the reality of what is happening to young people in our state. For years, many of us have pointed out that Planned Parenthood of Vermont is up to no good, should not be trusted, and certainly should not be the recipient of the millions of taxpayer dollars they receive annually. 

Despite the exposure of scandal after scandal involving Planned Parenthood (Staff Daze, the Safety Dance, The Man Phone, the Condom Scandal, underreporting of statutory rape and incest, and much more), the radical organization continues to seduce and encourage younger and younger teens into sexual activity and profit by selling those same kids birth control, condoms, STD treatment, HPV vaccines, morning after pills and abortions. Good for Planned Parenthood’s pocketbook, very bad for your kids.

Pro-lifers repeatedly warned that once Planned Parenthood acquired all the abortion business in Vermont the number of abortions would begin to rise – and they have. Planned Parenthood gobbled up the last free-standing abortion clinic in 2001 when they acquired the Vermont Women’s Health Center and they now admit to performing nearly 90% of the abortions done in the State. The number of abortions has been on the rise since, following 17 years of decline. To no avail have we pleaded for parental involvement laws before a minor daughter, in a panic, finds herself getting advice from no one other than the pro-abortion folks at Planned Parenthood. To no avail have we pleaded for a statewide abstinence education program to prevent teen pregnancy and abortion. Planned Parenthood will oppose anything that conflicts with their unfettered access to teens. Unfortunately, given the current makeup of the Vermont Legislature, if Planned Parenthood opposes a public policy initiative then it is "dead on arrival" in this state.

Vermont faces rising health care costs due to the not-so-subtle encouragement of risky sexual behavior from those entrusted with the welfare of our kids. It is important for parents to know that the sex peddlers are not just out on the street, or on the internet or in the media doing their dirty work. Make no mistake about it, here in Vermont sex is being peddled to minor children in the 15 Planned Parenthood clinics around the state. While Planned Parenthood masquerades as trusted substitutes for good parenting, in reality they are using your tax dollars to undermine your family. 

Some states vigorously fight allowing Planned Parenthood to open clinics and some states successfully block PP from receiving federal or state tax dollars. But here in Vermont, Planned Parenthood has the highest number of clinics per capita of any state in the US. Furthermore, Planned Parenthood of VT has referred to themselves as "partners" of the Vermont Department of Health and is the sole recipient of all of the Title X federal family planning money in our state. As the number one provider and promoter of abortion in the state, in the country and in the world, it is long past time for the Vermont legislature to question the wisdom of allowing such a radical, agenda driven, controversial entity to hold a monopoly on the resources available to Vermont teens in crisis.

Don’t take my word for it. Instead, here are two links to recent advertisements. One will take you to an advertisement for a training seminar sponsored by Planned Parenthood of Northern New England.* The weekend event for Health Educators (the ones teaching in your public school) centers largely around the viewing of "sexually explicit films" – a more accurate title for the event could be "Let’s Watch Porn for Continuing Education Credit." The second link will take you to a description of a campus event for incoming college freshmen that promoted casual sex, sponsored by Student Life at state-funded University of Vermont. Not surprisingly, Planned Parenthood had a booth on campus shortly after the controversial event displaying their wares including condoms, access to morning after pills and more - an apparent follow-up act to the main event.

*UVM Event Link
The presenters, Marshall and Solot, are also associated with a website entitled www.unmarried.org

Planned Parenthood Educational Seminar Link
Earlier in the year, PP advertised the same event to be held in Stowe, VT.

For another opinion on Planned Parenthood check out Townhall columnist Alan Sears who wraps things up quite neatly in his most recent column entitled: Safe, Legal and Rare? 
 

Mary Beerworth is the Director of Vermont Right to Life http://www.vrlc.net