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The Planned Parenthood brochure encourages young people to explore their bodies.
The "Happy, Healthy and Hot" (PDF) brochure is geared towards young people living with HIV and encourages them to explore their sexuality: "Masturbation is a great way to find out more about your body and what you find sexually stimulating." The guide also encourages young people to "Talk about or act out your fantasies. Talk dirty to them."
The brochure says national laws requiring HIV-positive people to reveal their status to their partner(s) "violate the rights of people living with HIV" and calls for advocacy to "change laws that violate your rights," C-FAM reports.
Planned Parenthood's involvement has drawn the ire of some conservative organizations. Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America tells C-FAM, "Governments and NGOs should be aware of Planned Parenthood's insidious plan to work with UN agencies and girls' organizations in order to profit from encouraging kids to be sexually active."
The Girl Scouts weren't alone in their efforts to promote sex education and HIV issues. The heads of several powerful UN agencies at CSW last week released a "UN Joint Statement" under the name of the "UN Adolescent Girls Task Force," which calls for their agencies to promote and support programs "that empower ... adolescent girls, particularly those aged 10 to 14 years," C-FAM reports, and a priority for empowerment is ensuring access to "life-skills based sexuality education, HIV prevention, and sexual and reproductive health."
The UN Population Fund and the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization also recently co-sponsored controversial curriculum that included teaching children as young as five to be sexually active and training adolescents to advocate for abortion.
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3-18-2010 @ 9:32PM
Alicia said...Okay, usually I fully support Planned Parenthood as a safe, cheap place for women to get breast and gyno exams, sexual health information and, yes, abortions when a woman chooses to do so. I also think it's wonderful that Planned Parenthood and Girl Scouts are informing young girls about sex, sexual rights and sexual health, since parents and schools fail so horribly at it. However, the idea that HIV positive people should not be required to inform their partners about their illness is irresponsible and endangers the lives of millions of men, women and children. It's horrible and sad that people inflicted must bear their soul, possibly before they are emotionally ready to trust a person with delicate information like this, but it's for the greater good.
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3-19-2010 @ 2:14PM
Witty said...I might be mistaken, but when it was explained to me, it didn't sound as though they were advocating for people who have contracted HIV to NOT tell thier partner, but instead that health clinics and so on cannot reveal to your boyfriend or girlfriend that you have HIV without your consent. After all, you may not even have been having sex with them yet--so in the long run if you haven't had sex already, they can't spread your business around. If you're going to have sex, do it safely and if your in a commitment why don't you just ask your partner to go and get tested together? It's much safeter (sp?) and spares the dignity of both. I'm just voicing my opinion on this, I don't personally know anything about it. And besides we had a health class where we learned about these things--sex, std's, pregancy, we even had a baby doll that was programmed to cry, poop and everything. Learning about sex in school (or wherever) can really help--it alerts you to the dangers and consequences much like planned parenthood is doing. Anyway, I got kind of sidetracked but that is just my opinion.
3-18-2010 @ 9:38PM
Martin said...WTF!!! I consider myself very liberal, borderline socialist, and this disgusts me. The brochure says national laws requiring HIV-positive people to reveal their status to their partner(s) "violate the rights of people living with HIV". This is a moronic, dangerous philosophy. Not revealing HIV status violates the most basic human right of the partner, the right to live. Thanks alot Girl Scouts, for giving conservatives an argument that liberals are stupid. I'll never buy your damned cookies again!
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3-18-2010 @ 9:40PM
fg said...I was a Girl Scout and got my first birth control pills at Planned Parenthood. I have three children and have been with my husband since I was 18 and are about to celebrate our 21st wedding anniversary. I learned much worse from my Catholic school girl friends. It's what we learn inside our home that teaches us right and wrong.
Also, read the title of the document; "A young person's guide to their rights, sexuality and living with HIV." Clearly this was not aimed at the Girl Scouts, nor is the article written by someone who actually attended the meeting. Keep in mind, the Girl Scouts are not the only teens or young adults in attendance.
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3-18-2010 @ 9:40PM
Richard said...Does it teach them how to give good blow jobs and how to use sex to advance themselves or gain material wealth....why not? Why would anyone find this more offensive then what is already in the literature?
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3-18-2010 @ 9:46PM
Martin said...Would you give kudos to a man who refused to tell his girlfriend that he is HIV positive, and spreads the disease to her? I support the right to choose, and agree that it is best to encourage girls to discuss sexuality; but, spreading an incurable fatal disease is where anyone with a brain draws the line. The pamphlet is dangerous, stupid, and makes us progressives look bad.
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3-18-2010 @ 9:50PM
Belle said...What is the world coming to? Encourage girls to have sex, here use condoms, if you have HIV don't tell, what is going on? You know back in the day we didn't have kids having kids are abortion because having sex before marriage was frown upon. BUT today society condones such behavior and they wonder why there is an up raise in the number of sexually active kids and abortion among kids. I recently went to a Strong Bond class. And we watched Mark Gungor speak about sex. He's funny and enlightening, this is just a clip but if you can watch the whole video you will be dumbfounded and all of a sudden everything will connect and make sense. Go on you tube and look up Mark Gungor on sex its a short clip but well worth it. His official site is www.laughyourway.com
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3-18-2010 @ 9:52PM
Dorothy Ellen Whitsell said...Generally, sex education for young people is probably a more worthwhile activity than selling cookies because it really does save lives. Aren't young lives worth it?
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3-19-2010 @ 10:26AM
Truthseeker said...I think most parents know what is best for their own children! Why do you think you and other self proclaimed intellects have the market on how and when it should be done? Have you polled parents or are you just making these facts up in your mind? If you are honest with yourself you will have to admit your advice has been around for a while now and teen pregnancies and disease has increased tremendously through your efforts. Do your words apply to others only or your children as well? If your answer is yes to both does this mean you can tell other parents children what is best for them but not your own? What makes you think so little of your peers?
3-18-2010 @ 10:23PM
tlogan2483 said...I was a Girl Scout as a girl member from 1st grade through my senior year. I then went on to be a leader of a troop for 4 years until I sadly had to move and leave my troop to another leader. To those unaware of Girl Scouts and what Girl Scouts really is- this is EXACTLY the type of thing that the organization is about. NO, this event was not about promoting sex and encouraging girls to go out and have rampant sex. It was a self empowering event that allowed girls to discuss the truth of the world. I'm sorry if some of you think that HIV and teen sex don't exist, but they do. And why not teach them about the realities of what they face. And beyond that- why not address what really is a GLOBAL problem? The girls I led were too young for me to lead this type of talk, but I would have been willing to do it when they were older. We talked about this stuff in my troop when I was an older girl because it was something that we wanted to discuss, and our leader was not afraid to facilitate our discussion.
There are so many other things I'd like to say, but I'm not going to because I think my comments above are likely to anger people already and I just don't think some people can handle any more.
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3-19-2010 @ 10:33AM
Truthseeker said...I think most parents know what is best for their own children! Why do you think you and other self proclaimed intellects have the market on how and when it should be done? Have you polled parents or are you just making these facts up in your mind? If you are honest with yourself you will have to admit your advice has been around for a while now and teen pregnancies and disease has increased tremendously through your efforts. Do your words apply to others only or your children as well? If your answer is yes to both does this mean you can tell other parents children what is best for them but not your own? What makes you think so little of your peers?
3-18-2010 @ 9:58PM
Dorothy Ellen Whitsell said...Like most people, I would definitely object to a pamphlet that encourages people with HIV and other STDs not to tell that fact to their partners. But in some places in Africa and elsewhere, disclosing the fact that you are HIV-positive can cause you to be arrested and given a jail or prison sentence or even to be executed or lynched by a hysterical mob because both the oppressive governments and the uninformed public ostracize and persecute such people.
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3-18-2010 @ 10:02PM
mnv said...The fact that the Girl Scouts are advocating something to politically divisive is troubling. Keep these girls out of politics , theyll have plenty of time to make up their own minds and shake their head at whomever is on the side they oppose. For now just let them be little girls and keep all sexuality out of the girl scouts, they are already being forced to grow up too fast as it is.
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3-18-2010 @ 10:07PM
Crazyworld said...Prevention is the answer, not "birth control," in the form of abortion. What right do these people have to get these girls in a room with only seven adults, and encourage their own sense of morallity, regardless of that of the families?
Explore fantasises? Talk dirty? Practice masterbation? Where does all of this lead? Do not kid yourself folks...Once the thought has been placed, action generally follows. Do not reveal a life threatening, contagious disease? Are you kidding? This watered down sense of morallity has been and continues to be the ruination of our youth!
Abstinence is cool, pass it on! Seriously, everyone is doing it!
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3-18-2010 @ 11:23PM
J.J. said.....and you're the crazy!
Once again, there is a turnabout of ideologies from the folks that always think they know better.
How is the "personal responsibility" that bigot republican conservatives always blabber about, learned in an attitude of "let's-make-laws-against-the-other-guy"?
It is indeed more empowering to teach girls that its up to themselves to prevent HIV transmission.
3-18-2010 @ 10:19PM
paigeotron1 said...The part that busted my chops was "act out your fantasies" Are you kidding me!! Now, I am no prude, but I do not think this is a good thing to be teaching girls as young as 10 years old!! Btw, I was a girl scout and so was my daughter. I am also a registered democrat and still think this is horsesh*t!!
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3-18-2010 @ 10:24PM
mellyseren said...Planned Parenthood is an amazing thing and I'm glad its available to less fortunate women. Also, for someone who said they aren't around after the "choice" is made..you're wrong. PP actually provides therapy for women who may need it giving the choice they may of had to make. To add further, one thing that was done in Girl scouts and even in school when they covered sex-ed was a waiver the parent had to sign. You could always NOT have your daughter participate if you are that against it.
I was in girl scouts for about 9 years.I am honestly happy they taught me about safe sex. Sure, my parents said some things here and there but I felt more comfortable being around other girls my age who were also just as clueless at the time. I felt comfortable with myself and when I thought I was ready, I made sure to only have protected sex because of the influence the girl scouts had on me.
Though , I wish they would've talked about masturbation more with us.That may have prevented some of the girls from being where they are now.
I honestly suggest that the Nay-Sayers study up a bit more about what they are so readily putting down.
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3-19-2010 @ 11:49AM
NH said...Is there nothing that the UNESCO scum has not infiltrated and destroyed in this country?
This is communist!
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3-18-2010 @ 10:38PM
SKL said...It does not surprise me that a pro-abortion group thinks it's OK for people with AIDS to have sex without disclosing their disease. It's not that much of a jump. They are already advocating emotionless killing for convenience. Why not reckless endangering for pleasure?
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3-18-2010 @ 10:43PM
Crazyworld said...Does anyone have the statistical data on teen pregnancy and std's since sex education has become a common place topic which is taught in school? I think many liberal minded individuals would be quite surprised, if they can be honest with themselves...
Kids do not even take sex seriously anymore. This has been allowed to happen by the liberals and lazy parents. Make no mistake, I do not have my head in the sand, but when people start congratulating and having baby showers for fourteen and fifteen years olds, what is the stigma or drawback to teen pregnancy? These particular young people consider babies accessories.
If you do not believe what I have said, research it yourself! The truth is what it is...
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