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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 @ 10:46PM
jerol said...Many boy scout leaders have been found out to be gays and pedophiles even though most have also been fathers of the boys. I assume its the same with women girl scout leaders that just like little girls a little bit tooooo much .
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3-18-2010 @ 10:51PM
ILCAPO said...This is why the Boy Scouts keep fighting to keep liberal organizations out. This is what happens when sick-minded people take control. They're taking an organization for young girls and turn it into a "let's explore how to be a slut while you're still prepubestent" freeforall. Also look what they're promoting. Laws requiring people tell they partner they have HIV is a BAD THING? It violates their privacy? How about the right of the partner to protect themselves from HIV? What the hell happened to the rights of others to NOT be infected? This is sick, but it's precisely what the United Nations is all about. They're trying to promote this kind of crap, as well as homosexuality and bixsexuality all over the globe. It's a call for unity in destroying cultures all over the globe. It's PERVERTS OF THE WORLD UNITE!
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3-18-2010 @ 11:05PM
Samantha said...Girl Scouts may very well stand for preserving innocence, but when sixteen year old bare bum is being shown on MTV (drunk and sexually active) - which I'm sure many of the ladies in the 'Scouts watch - it's time for any self-respecting mother to teach her daughter some healthy responsibility for her body. Is it really better to let them see their peers boasting about and glamorizing teenage pregnancy than to hear a trusted association giving them facts, so they can learn how to make the right choices intelligently with a foundation they can rely on? Keep in mind the fact that having a sex drive is normal, people, and wondering about and exploring your own body is as well. Surely far more normal than babies having babies...
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3-18-2010 @ 10:52PM
Crazyworld said...I think the point that you make is very fair. When considering all of the predators out there, and how they go about getting near children, who in their right mind would let a "stranger" teach their child about sex? NO WAY!
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3-18-2010 @ 11:51PM
Crazyworld said...This comment was for Jerol, until AOL moved things around...
3-18-2010 @ 10:56PM
sandi said...i agree that young women should be empowered to be in charge od their sexuality. this includes beind responsible for their decisions. they need information for that.
but....how can we ever believe that someone has the right to knowingly and PRIVATELY destroy someone elses life.
NO..NO..NO.. to keeping your aids status private from your sexual partners.
imho.
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3-18-2010 @ 11:40PM
J said...I love that the girl scouts are getting this kind of education...I learned the ins and outs of sex and what it entailed at 8 years old from my grandmother and pbs. Because of this, I abstained until I was fully an adult (25). I think knowledge is essential for these girl and should be taught. Show them the repercussions. The pbs show my grandmother had me watch at 8 had a great deal of information on how pregnancy occurred without the details of how sex occurred so I don't see how that could be offensive. Also, it showed a pregnant woman giving birth...which honestly made me swear off sex until an age I could handle that sort of thing. That by itself taught me to wait until I was mature.
If you think no sex education is the best than you are fooling yourself. In high school, my class year got a very basic sex ed in 10th grade...we probably had 20+ pregnant teenagers by that point who honestly thought that a coca cola douche afterwards would prevent pregnancy...It was sad.
I say go girl scouts for promoting information.
On that note...not requiring HIV positive partners to disclose that information is just wrong...It's a death sentence eventually...yes, research and treatment has come a very very long way...and many people can live for years with the disease...but not disclosing that you have it is not right. A very close person to me had it...and he disclosed to his partner this fact...they lived as a married couple for many years using protection and safety methods. HIV does not bar you from a relationship...dishonesty does...especially if it involves health. This person did eventually die and his partner remains...and I am sure is appreciative of the fact that he had a choice in the matter...I am disgusted by the fact that some people wouldn't tell they have the disease...it's not fair to your partner.
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3-18-2010 @ 11:48PM
Linda and Kenzie said...I have a problem with any organization (but particularly Planned Parenthood) who is allowed to run roughshod over my rights as a parent to make decisions about what is best medically for my child. Planned Parenthood has the right to offer PRESCRIPTION birth control to a child who they do not know or even care about and the parent is not required to be notified! That is so wrong. If I am legally responsible for my child, then I should be a minimum notified of any prescription that is being considered for my child! And I sure want to know what kind of information they are giving out! If my daughter had gotten that info at the convention, I would have had a good long sit down conversation about how bogus and unsafe that attitude was, from acting out their fantasies to not telling another human being about a potentially deadly disease. That latter has to do with basic human decency. But I doubt Planned Parenthood has any idea of what human decency is about.
By the way...... teaching abstinence has seemed to have a far better positive effect on minimizing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases than teaching kids "protected sex."
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3-18-2010 @ 11:07PM
Crazyworld said...Empowerment my a**. I do not need to know all the ins and outs of prostitution or drug addition in order to decide that it is not for me. Young women need to be taught how much power they already posses, and how to use it. Remember when for the most part) the only girls who went all the way had a bad reputation? Oh we can not say that, that may hurt some feelings. So what, we sacrifice our own daughters instead? NO is a very powerful word!
Bad association spoils usefull habits!
Abstinence is cool, pass it on. Seriously, everyone is doing it!
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3-19-2010 @ 2:23PM
Witty said...And just what kind of world are YOU living in? So, many teens in the U.S. are having sex, that the rest of the world is living their ASSES off at us!! Abstinence advocating is perfectly fine but when it comes down to it, learning about safe sex, is better. Why wait for your child to get pregnant to then say, "oh sweetie, I thought I told you to wait.." PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN A CURE!!!
3-18-2010 @ 11:09PM
David said...I hope more information becomes available on this. The post by Kelly, which seems very believable, contradicts the initial article. The original article has several important flaws:
- it does not state the source of its information
- it does not clarify whether the Planned Parenthood brochure was part of a Girl Scout event, or was just handed out at the same conference. The first paragraph could be interpreted both ways.
- it distorts the brochure, by singling out just a few sentences in a detailed, lengthy document. The brochure contains many reasonable statements, such as encouraging HIV positive people to disclose their status.
I hope the author can clarify some of this, because it is unfair to create negative impressions that appear to be misleading.
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3-18-2010 @ 11:26PM
floyd said...not happy to hear there opinion that its A violation of rights of Aids infected person to have tell partner.Its just too bad you would have to force what should be common decentsy. it ranks with assult with A deadly weapon. [ how about the rights of the partner ]
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3-18-2010 @ 11:41PM
Crazyworld said...JJ, Wow you have certainly taken my point out of context, not to mention the insult. Let me just say for the record first of all, I am niehter dem nor rep. I am certainly quite conservative.
While I do not agree with mandating everything and leaving it in the hands of the government, I certainly believe in common sense, decency, as well as personal and parental responsibility.
That said, I do not see the benefit in teaching a ten year old about masturbation, fantasy, and talking dirty. This is inappropriate at best. I believe in answering questions and addressing issues, but certainly not instructions at this age, and never in a public forum with strangers and potential predators.
Perhaps you are the crazy one...
Abstinence is cool, pass it on. Seriously, everyone is doing it!
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3-19-2010 @ 4:45PM
LBIKate said...I would seriously like to see this information confirmed by GSUSA before i give any credibility to the contents of this article.The very first thing i noticed was that the name of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts - WAGGGS - was rearranged. Care was not taken to verify something so simple that any daisy level scout could point out the error. What else is inaccurate here?
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3-19-2010 @ 12:17AM
Kelli said...Hey, guess what? I have been a Girl Scout leader for 5 years since my girls were in 2nd grade...and yes-they are Girl Scouts, and yes, they are awesome girls who have values and morals...but they are teenagers who THINK ABOUT SEX!!!
Oh My Gosh!!! NO WAY!!! You mean they're not out hiking and selling cookies all the time??? You mean THEY NOTICE BOYS???
Granted, they're middle school kids who hopefully aren't ready for the Planned Parenthood stuff yet, but come on! We have to be honest with them and give them the info they need. I'd rather have them trust me and ask me questions than try to figure it out themselves....isn't that what a "role model" is???? Of course, my girls know they can ask me anything, and they do (sometimes I think a few just try to embarrass me!) but they also know if it's something big, we'll talk to their mom together if they need me to be there!
That's what Girl Scouts is about...helping these great young girls turn into RESPONSIBLE, great, young women with a future!
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3-19-2010 @ 12:22AM
Kathy Handyside said...The fact that girls can get pregnant is reason enough for them to be involved in this. Anyone who says they shouldn't is either a prude, or a frightened fundamentalist conservative who wants to continue hiding their head in the sand. Time for America to grow up about sexuality. This county is still in the Dark Ages, for crying out loud! America: you're pathetic in so many ways.
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3-19-2010 @ 2:29AM
Lee Graber said...That's right all you nay sayers. Keep the girls ignorant, bare foot, and pregnant.
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3-19-2010 @ 1:32AM
Wadi Khoury said...This should make selling Girl Scout Cookies a little more interesting. At least when the Girl Scouts take a roll in the hay with the Boy Scouts, they will be better informed.
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3-19-2010 @ 2:22AM
NYCBruce said...OK-- let's leave YOUR daughter out of education programs, so that she can become an unwed mother (or a potential abortion statistic). Anyone that thinks that girls in their early teens are NOT already discussing sex (if not outright HAVING it) has their head firmly planted up their rectum. In a sense, you are betraying your daughters, and just HOPING that things turn out alright.
(Are we SURE that all of these e-mails weren't posted by Phyllis Schlafly, or Karl Rove??? One has to wonder...)
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3-19-2010 @ 2:28AM
Dori said...I was a Brownie and a Girl Scout. When I was a Brownie, we had a special meeting about menstruation--why you get it and how to deal with it. This, of course, required a bit of a lecture about reproduction. This was in 1959. What's the big deal?
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