The truth is, Planned Parenthood's sex education programs have backfired, actually increasing teen pregnancies. According to its own survey, conducted by the Louis Harris pollsters, teens who have taken "comprehensive" sex education courses have a fifty percent higher rate of sexual activity than their "unenlightened" peers. And yet the courses had no significant effect on their contraceptive usage. The conclusion, one that even Planned Parenthood researchers have been unable to escape, is that sex education courses only exacerbate the teen pregnancy problem. . . .
In 1970 fewer that half of the nation's school districts offered sex education curricula and none had school-based birth control clinics. Today more than seventy-five percent of the districts teach sex education and there are more than one hundred clinics in operation. Yet the percentage of illegitimate births has only increased during that time, from a mere fifteen percent to an astonishing fifty-one percent.
In California, the public schools have required sex education for more than thirty years, and yet the state has maintained one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the nation.
According to the Harris poll, the only things that effectively impact the teen pregnancy problem are frequent church attendance and parental oversight, the very things that Planned Parenthood has been railing against for three-quarters of a century -- the very things that sex education courses are designed to circumvent.
George Grant, "Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood," p.32-33
This citation is dated from 1992; imagine how much worse it has gotten.
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