WARNING: GRAPHIC AND SEXUALLY EXPLICIT
FOX NEWS reports on a new initiative by Planned Parenthood to target children as young as ten years old for teaching the pleasures of sex. The initiative, Stand and Deliver is linked here.
From the Fox Report:
The report, “Stand and Deliver,” charges that religious groups, specifically Catholics and Muslims, deny their young access to comprehensive sexual programs and education.
“Young people’s sexuality is still contentious for many religious institutions. Fundamentalist and other religious groups — the Catholic Church and madrasas (Islamic Schools) for example — have imposed tremendous barriers that prevent young people, particularly, from obtaining information and services related to sex and reproduction. Currently, many religious teachings deny the pleasurable and positive aspects of sex.” the report states.
The report demands that children 10 and older be given a “comprehensive sexuality education” by governments, aid organizations and other groups, and that young people should be seen as “sexual beings.”
“Young people have the right to be informed about sexuality and to have access to contraceptives and other services,” Bert Koenders, the Netherlands Minister for Development Cooperation, wrote in the foreword to the report. It was his organization that helped fund the report.
The report argues that sex education should be “recast” to show sexuality as a “positive force for change and development, as a source of pleasure, an embodiment of human rights and an expression of self.”
Much like a U.N. report released last August that advocated teaching masturbation to children as young as 5, “Stand and Deliver” has set off a wave of protest among religious and conservative groups.
Ed Mechmann, spokesman for New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, charged that Planned Parenthood was “trying to teach children sex without values and that sex is a matter of pleasure and done without consequences.”
He said religions like Catholicism and Islam teach sex as part of a much bigger picture and that Planned Parenthood was trying to de-link sex from traditional values.
“It is part of an effort to get children to reject traditional values and accept a liberal American-European view,” he said. “In many traditional countries — Catholic and Muslim — it won’t work and should be seen as cultural imperialism.”
Mechmann also charged that Planned Parenthood’s report was compromised because it has a financial stake advocating the changes. “The difference between Planned Parenthood and us is that we don’t make money off what we teach and say. They do. They make money off contraceptives and abortions,” he said.
Well said Ed Mechman. There are dire consequences for young people. Condoms, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, simply do not work. Consider the following CDC data:
The graphs below come from CDC’s Sexually Transmitted Diseases Surveillance, 2008, with the exception of the HIV data, which is also CDC data available here. For purposes of classification, I have divided these diseases into two groups: A & B. This division is entirely my own and not a CDC classification scheme.
GROUP A DISEASES
Number of AIDS cases, AIDS deaths, and people living with AIDS, 1985-2004, United States (CDC, n.d.a)
Chlamydia
Genital Warts (HPV) Initial Visits to Doctor's Office
Herpes Simplex Virus
Trichomoniasis and Other Vaginitis
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GROUP B DISEASES
Chancroid
Syphilis
Gonorrhea
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Explaining the Data
In making sense out of these data, they have been divided into two groups based upon some shared characteristics.
Group A data all show the incidence of disease trending steadily upward. These diseases also share another common characteristic. They all possess the capacity to remain ‘silent’, or asymptomatic in a large percentage of their victims.
HIV Less than half of infected people develop a conversion reaction with its flu-like symptoms.
Trichomonas Though curable with drugs, up to 1/3 of women are asymptomatic carriers.
Human Papilloma Virus (Genital Warts) 60% chance of infection with one contact. Up to 1/3 women remain asymptomatic.
Genital Herpes 80%-90% of people fail to recognize symptoms or have no symptoms at all. They may still shed the virus.
Chlamydia 70%-80% of women have no symptoms. 25%-50% of men have no symptoms.
HPV and Herpes are contact transmission infections. Any exposed skin on the penis not covered by the condom, or on the labia contacting exposed penile skin with condom use, can become infected with a single act of intercourse. These diseases are also spread by oral-genital transmission.
The prevalence line in the HIV graph indicates the number of people living with HIV. As is evident, the rate continues to soar.
The question needs to be asked, with the explosion in condom usage and sales over the past 25 years, why the steady rise in these STI’s? Chlamydia experts believe that the rise in the graph is the result of a combination of better testing methods and mandatory reporting that didn’t come about until the late 1990’s. While that’s understandable, the basal level of infection was not always this high in the population.
Indeed, the graphs all indicate that prior to 1968, the disease rates, even in diseases that had mandatory reporting were extremely low. The graphs tell the sad story of the sexual revolution that really got going with the widespread availability of the pill in the late 1960’s.
This soaring rate of STI’s and STD’s can be explained by the condom bible. Consider an excerpt from the following book available to be read online:
The book Contraceptive Technology is the most authoritative source of information on all methods of birth control in the world today. This two-inch thick book is often referred to as the “family planner’s bible,” and is revised every few years in order to include updated information. The latest edition was published in 2004, and it is considered by family planners to be the “last word” on all matters contraceptive…
According to Contraceptive Technology, the condom’s user effectiveness rate is 85 percent [9]. This means that, under real-world conditions, a woman whose sexual partners use condoms for every act of sexual intercourse has a 15 percent chance of becoming pregnant in a year.
Figure 2 shows the chances of pregnancy for a woman whose sexual partners faithfully use condoms for 83 average annual instances of sexual intercourse.[10]
Keep in mind that these are the lowest rates that can generally be expected, since they assume 100% condom usage.
Figure 2
Probability of Pregnancy Over Time for Women Whose Sexual Partners Always Use Condoms
1 year 15 percent
2 years 28 percent
3 years 39 percent
4 years 48 percent
5 years 56 percent
10 years 80 percent
It must be stressed that these are probabilities for pregnancy, which can only occur one week per month. Slippage and breakage happen the other three weeks out of the month as well.
How then do we explain the data in Group B? Why the decline?
These diseases manifest immediately, and in the case of gonorrhea and chancroid, painfully. People seek medical treatment immediately, as all three of these diseases are curable with antibiotics. Not so for the viral diseases in Group A. There are no silent infections in Group B to enable transmission between a series of unsuspecting partners. Note too that the infections in gonorrhea and chancroid declined precipitously only at the outset of the HIV pandemic in the mid-late 1980’s. That’s when public health officers required names of partners in order to go out into the community and dry up the reservoir of pathogens. The same for syphilis.
In Group A, because the infections remain asymptomatic in so many for so long, the diseases are able to be transmitted unchecked. Unlike the pathogens in Group B, it’s next to impossible to dry up the reservoir of Trichomonas and Chlamydia because they lurk silently for months to years. The viral diseases HIV and Herpes cannot be eliminated, only held in check. To a good extent, HPV resolves spontaneously in most people, but not before being transmitted.
If condoms were so effective and could be rightly credited for the declines seen in group B, then we would have seen declines in Group A pathogens, minimally Chlamydia and Trichomonas, as well.
Some might argue that there is simply an increase in the number of young people having sex without condoms. Certainly some of these increases in Group A can rightly be attributed to this. Even stipulating this point does not diminish the 15% condom failure rate detailed above, nor does it obviate the fact that condoms do not cover the entire penis, hence not protecting against the spread of HPV and Herpes. The false sense of security leads people to engage in more frequent sex, often with several partners either at once or serially, leading to a greater probability of disease transmission through skin contact, oral sex, or catastrophic condom failure.
Finally, there is CDC’s own Fact Sheet on the Male Latex Condom for Public Health Personnel.
“Latex condoms, when used consistently and correctly, are highly effective in preventing the sexual transmission of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. In addition, consistent and correct use of latex condoms reduces the risk of other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including diseases transmitted by genital secretions, and to a lesser degree, genital ulcer diseases. Condom use may reduce the risk for genital human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and HPV-associated diseases, e.g., genital warts and cervical cancer.”
Finally consider this statement from the fact sheet:
“The most reliable ways to avoid transmission of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), are to abstain from sexual activity or to be in a long-term mutually monogamous relationship with an uninfected partner.”
It seems very much like a variant expression of traditional morality, which is abstinence before and fidelity in marriage.
CDC gives no guarantees beyond that, and very little encouragement in the way of condom safety.
Planned Parenthood loves to start them early. Ugh. Great way to boost sales.
Bethany,
If I don’t do this later, please remind me. I plan a commentary on this, including the point you just made in conjunction with Abby Johnson’s reporting that PP makes its money on abortions. So think about it: The younger the children, the greater the contraceptive failure, the more abortions.
Malevolence.
Oh good, something we can all agree on. The closing statement is indisputable. It is also true that the more casual sex by men and women who are not prepared for the responsibilities of being parents, the more pregnant women seeking abortions there will be. Except by the measure of how much money is in it as a growth industry, that’s not good, even, or especially, by the most libertarian pro-choice standards. And, I have little doubt about the study showing the PP has come to rely on abortion as a prime source of revenue, as distinct from offering a service to individuals who seek them out to request it. Its the same story with many “non-profits,” the ones that don’t pay a corporate dividend, but rely on commercial sales of services to support a mostly paid (not volunteer) staff.
Everyone is talking about different angles on the Tebows, but Rod Dreher had an interesting take on Tebow being asked by reporters “are you saving yourself for marriage,” and replying “yes I am,” then laughing at the reporters for being embarrassed. A Washington Post sports writer even complimented his answer.
What grabbed me about this long column was way back at the beginning: sex education should be compulsory, and ten year olds should be seen as “sexual beings,” no matter what the family or their church might be teaching.
This is a lot like the Freedom From Religion Foundation, wanting everyone to be free to think just like they do — e.g., if you’re not an atheist, you’re not free. In this case, the authors of the report have a notion that “my personal attitudes toward sexuality, and the ones I share with the other people who prepared this report, are THE proper way for all human beings to think about sexuality.” Excuse me, but I might think differently about sexuality, and since its still a free country, sort of, I don’t have to think the way you do. I also don’t have to think the same way Gerard Nadal does, or the way Hugh Heffner does, or the way Barack Obama does, or the way Dr. James Dobson does.
Protecting children from obvious abuse has its place. But inevitably, since nobody has advocated that ten year olds are adults, eligible for adult prison sentences or execution, eligible to vote, etc., decisions about their upbringing are going to be made by their parents. There is a long line of Supreme Court precedent on this point, from
Pierce v. Society of Sisters of the Holy Name of Jesus and Mary
http://supreme.justia.com/us/268/510/case.html
to Troxel v. Granville
http://supreme.justia.com/us/530/57/index.html
Decisions about raising children are not helpful for the state to usurp, and as Justice Brennan wrote half a century ago, the framers of our constitution were no more willing to subordinate individual rights to the whim of electoral majorities than to monarchy. Planned Parenthood, or anyone of similar tastes, proclaiming that because Roman Catholic, Orthodox Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, or any other faiths don’t reach sex like WE teach sex, and therefore WE should get to teach ALL children OUR way, is totalitarian freethinking at its worst.
It reminds me of an obscure Ph.D thesis I read about while researching the biography of Howard University philosophy professor Eugene C. Holmes. His dissertation was a critique of John Dewey’s development of pragmatism. Dewey has come in for the same sort of flak Margaret Sanger has — he basically advocated public schools so the dirty ignorant unwashed children of immigrants would be socialized to be obedient factory workers. Holmes particularly critiqued the way that pragmatism had attached itself to populist and progressive currents in American politics, masquerading as democratic opposition to monopoly capitalism.
We have to get the nanny state social worker mentality unwound from both libertarian and communalist strands of our history and culture. Of course the way I frame this still means we will disagree about abortion, but, if we get the hands of this arrogant report off of children’s education, and if churches prepared to teach abstinence and fidelity can get a positive response from children they reach, then there will be a lot less abortion to debate about.
SJ,
My spam filter is set to hold posts with multiple links. Be patient if you post multiple links. I’ll free it from limbo as soon as I see it.
Gotta fly. I’ll comment later.
God Bless
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Micah 7:3-4 paints a really nice picture of the consequences of the types of actions Planned Parenthood is involved in.
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