North Carolina 7th Graders to Learn About IUD, Spermicides, Morning-After Pill

We wonder how many of them are able to diagram a sentence, divide fractions, or find Afghanistan on a map.

From Catholic World News

North Carolina public schools are preparing for the fall implementation of the Healthy Youth Act, which mandates that seventh and eighth graders be instructed in “the effectiveness and safety of all FDA-approved contraceptive methods in preventing pregnancy.” These methods include the male condom, female condom, diaphragm with spermicides, sponge with spermicide, cervical cap with spermicide, spermicide alone, the birth control pill, the birth control patch, the vaginal contraceptive ring, a contraceptive shot/injection, the morning-after pill, the IUD, the implantable rod, and sterilization. Some of these contraceptive methods are also abortifacient.

The 2009 law, opposed by the state’s bishops, was backed by Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice NC (the state branch of the former National Abortion Rights Action League), and the state teachers’ union (the North Carolina Association of Educators). Parents are permitted to exempt their children from the instruction.

The passage and implementation of the Healthy Youth Act follows the 2008 election of North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue, Lieutenant Governor Walter Dalton, and Superintendent of Public Instruction June Atkinson, all of whom received the endorsement of NARAL (formerly the National Abortion Rights Action League) because of their support for legalized abortion.

The Healthy Youth Act is not the only issue that has raised questions about the direction of public education in North Carolina. In Februrary 2010, the state’s Department of Public Instruction published a revised civics curriculum that compared pro-life laws to oppressive pro-segregation legislation; that proposal was withdrawn following opposition by the state’s bishops. The state’s revised US history curriculum would have eliminated the study of pre-1877 American history during the high school years; that curricular change was also abandoned after intense grass-roots opposition. In addition, State Superintendent June Atkinson announced earlier this year that all statewide mathematics tests would incorporate a framework developed by a firm whose president, Malbert Smith, donated $2,000 to her election campaign.

Source(s): these links will take you to other sites, in a new window.

• Healthy Youth Act (State of North Carolina)
• Birth control guide (FDA)
• Healthy Youth North Carolina Coalition
• Victory for NC bishops as state abandons plan to compare pro-life laws to segregation (CWN, 2/22/10)
• NCDPI Adopts New Math Measure To Boost Student Achievement (Department of Public Instruction)
• Campaign Finance Transaction Inquiry (State of North Carolina)

British Boys As Young As 12 To Be Given "Credit Cards" For Obtaining Condoms

From LifeSiteNews
By Thaddeus M. Baklinski

The UK Department for Children, Schools and Families has announced a new program that will give boys as young as 12 a condom "credit card", or "C-card", allowing them to receive free condoms at sport fields, clubs and barbershops.

The strategy was thought up by the Brook Advisory Service, a UK organization that promotes contraception to teenagers, as a way of providing more condoms to teenagers with the hope that it will help cut teenage pregnancies.

Britain has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe, Times Online reports, and the government has failed in its pledge to halve rates of pregnancy in girls under the age of 18.

Boys will be able to obtain condoms by showing a plastic card which will be issued to them after they have received instruction in "safe sex" and how to use condoms according to new government guidelines, with boys who attend additional talks about sexually transmitted diseases getting a stamp on their card, which those running the scheme hope will become a status symbol.

Simon Blake, chief executive of Brook, told Times Online the C-card would make condom use "an everyday reality".

However, critics of the scheme say it will simply encourage children to be sexually active from a younger age.

Josephine Quintavalle, founder of Comment on Reproductive Ethics (CORE), a Christian pro-life organization in the UK, warned: "We are just facilitating and encouraging sexuality without any deeper understanding of the emotional side of relationships.

"We used to talk about recreational sex among 18-year-olds – now it is 13-year-olds."

Studies have repeatedly shown that "safe sex" education and easy access to condoms does not reduce teenage pregnancy rates or incidence of sexually transmitted disease.

Dr. Philip Ney, a retired professor of psychiatry with wide academic and clinical experience, wrote, "The more sex education, the more sexual activity. It is quite conclusive now, that the more sex education, the more sexual activity and all the problems that go with that.

"The introduction of sex education is well correlated with the increase in abortion, STDs and boy-girl interpersonal problems. Good education gives people the desire to try it out or learn more experientially. Paradoxically, in that respect, current forms of sex education are good education but have the wrong results." See the complete text of Dr. Ney's commentary here.

How Children are Sexually Corrupted in Public Schools

From News With Views
By Joel Turtel

One of parents’ most important duties is to protect their children from harmful sexual values and behaviors. Yet many public schools force potentially harmful, sometimes shockingly explicit sex education on their students. Most of the time, parents have no control over the content of these classes. Occasionally, a group of parents finds out about a particularly obnoxious sex education class and protests to the principal or local school board. The class may be dropped, only to be replaced by another class that teaches equally objectionable material, again without parent’s consent. School authorities’ attitude towards parents on this issue shows their anti-parent bias, and their contempt for parent’s rights to control the values their children are taught.

Many school authorities insist that children need comprehensive sex education from kindergarten through high school. They believe parents can't be trusted because they have shameful feelings about sex or have “outdated” moral or sexual values. School authorities, claiming that they know best regarding sex education, usurp parents’ role, allegedly for the “good of the children.” In doing so, they show contempt for parents’ rights, values, and common sense.

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