Girl Scouts Distribute Planned Parenthood Sex Guide at United Nations Meeting

You don't actually say that Planned Parenthood was not involved in this event. You say they were only given one "document" PDF is computer format, so that wouldn't be a "written document" anyway. The article never says that C-FAM was in attendance, nor reporting on the event, only their take on the Planned Parenthood propaganda.

You also don't deny that Planned Parenthood played any part in this event. Did they or didn't they?

I have a 16 year old in Girl Scouts, though not involved in the UN thing. I personally would throw a fit if Girl Scouts sponsored ANY event that Planned Parenthood is even remotely involved in. Kind of flies in the face of everything I always thought Girl Scouting stood for. Is that why you never really answered the questions raised by this article?

oops. didn't realize I repeated myself in paragraph two. I sound like an idiot. Sorry.

I actually think it's great if the Girl Scouts are involved with Planned Parenthood. Regardless of people's stance on abortion, young girls should be given the knowledge and education on how to protect themselves and how to practice safe sex. People are delusional when they think that kids will not have sex just because you as a parent tell them not too.

Kelly,

So if the article is inacurate, please tell us what did happen. What was on the agenda? What was discussed? What were the girls there for? What documents were presented? What documents were produced? I have a Girl Scout and I don't want to have anything to do with supporting Planned Parenthood or the "Happy, Healthy, and Hot" literature. How can I see a copy of "The Girls' Statement"?

How do you help girls protect themselves when enabling or permitting them to have acccess to a brochure which takes the position that someone - i.e. a horny young man - is not morally or legally obligated to notify a sex partner that he has AIDS?

Tom

Thank you Girl Scouts for allowing your members to recieve fact based materials regarding human sexuality.

As to the detractors who would deny their children this information because it is provided by Planned Parenthood, please take the time to learn the facts. No organization does more to prevent unintended pregnacies, and thus abortions, than Planned Parenthood. No organization does more to prevent sexually transmitted disease than Planned Parenthood. No organization does more screenings for cervical cancer than Planned Parenthood.

Let's stop the hollow rhetoric and make a true commitment to what should be our common goal, that of empowering young women to take responsibility for their reproductive choices, a goal that is only acheivable if we are willing to give them the tool of truth.

We don't care.... there is NO EXCUSE to be promoting UN programs in the GIRL SCOUTS who are supposed to be learning about THIS country not how to be 'world government slaves'.


BAH!

One of the last bastions where girls can get together and just be kids is being ruined by liberal women who think abortion is birth control. Why can't we just let them be kids? Let moms take care of educating them about sex. Girl Scouting was founded because there were too many progressives influencing young girls. I guess the profits from all of those cookies attracted the wrong types of leadership

"violate the rights of people living with HIV"?

Yeah, so, uh, what about the rights of the people who DON'T have it? Don't we have the right to know that the person we're considering sleeping with has a lethal, incurable disease that basically will ruin your life? Yeah, no. I want to know if the person I'm with is a health risk for me.

Girl Scouts is a great organization. They work to help all girls and definitely work to make the world a better place. There will always be those who won't listen to the facts and believe the lies told by certain groups who are trying to promote their own agendas at the expense of others.

Keep up the good work of empowering girls and making the world a better place.

WTF!?! since when did the sweet innocent little girls who sell me cookies start promoting sex education. Thats ridiculous, you know the world is going down the pipes when the girl scouts of all people are promoting sex. Stick to selling cookies and that god-awful popcorn okay.

Thanks, Kelly, for giving us an unbiased report, not a hysterical reaction.

I have been involved in Guiding since I was a young girl. I have been a leader for 3 years and my girls are also involved. But now, I have been enlightened about the Guides new agenda. Not only has God been removed from the promise but the issues and affiliations that WAGGGS has become a part of flies in the face of all morals, values and standards that I have ever been taught. Any Catholic, or Christian will not be able to sit idley by and watch what is happening. Its going to be a very hard thing to do, but at the end of this year, when I have fulfilled my commitment for the year, I intend on leaving Guides, pulling my girls from their units and lobbying against such ugly changes in the new WAGGGS policies. I will always remain loyal to God, the Queen, and my Country( Canada ), just as in the promise I recited and pledged as a girl.

I have a call in to Girl Scouts of America. I left a message for the person in charge of their press releases. I asked him for confirmation about the Girl Scouts and Planned Parenthood rumors concerning the brochure, "Healthy, Happy & Hot". He has not returned my call. This is a good chance for the Girl Scouts to set the record straight. I wonder why he hasn't called???

I think the point that most parents are trying to get across is that they want to be the one to give their girls information on sex, not some random organization that claims to have their best interest in mind. As a parent, I believe that I have a responsibility to teach my girls my moral values which may or may not be consistent with what Planned Parenthood is peddling. This should be my decision, not the decision of the Girl Scouts of America.

I have no idea how you draw an analogy between sex and animal cruelty. To be truthful, this is precisely why I don't want someone else teaching my daughters about sex.

Right on, Witty! I've been a Girl Scout for 60 years (Lifetime Member) and am deeply committed to the organization. You seem to be saying, "Think for yourself and be open-minded". Girl Scouting (and other life experiences) has taught me that we can't change others and that it's okay to disagree. Other organizations (including Planned Parenthood) all have their own viewpoints, and we can empower ourselves by learning about them and not reacting. "Take what you like and leave the rest".

I do respect parents right to teach their children about sex. But the public left it up to parents to do the job and have the talk for a long time. It didnt work out so well. Most people dont know enough about safe sex to protect themselves and i dont think we should have another generation of young adults that dont know enough about safe sex because their parents either A) didnt know enough about it to educate their own kids, B) didnt talk to them because they figured the kids would wait until mariage, or C) figured the kids would get what they needed to know from their friends. Young people have far too many misconceptions about sex and i blame that, in large part, to the laziness or ignorance of the parents of past generations.

I am a girl scout troop leader and I am shocked that Planned Parenthood and girl scouts are even in the same category! If we need to educate our children then do it in sex ed classes in school! Girl scouts is not the place for that especially at WHAT 5 or even 7! Girls at that age are just learning about themselves and do not need any extra influence! About the whole HIV patients having rights, if you give someone HIV and never told them you had it is called attempted murder since when do criminals have PRIVACY? I feel that all HIV patients should be public record like sex offenders and maybe the spread of this terrible disease would slow down! Leave the sex stuff to parents and schools and let the innocents alone!!!!!