SAY NO TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD IN OUR SCHOOLS
THE DANE COUNTY YOUTH COMMISSION, LED BY PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN’S DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION, ADMINISTERS COUNTYWIDE STUDENT ASSESSMENT
By Anna DeMeuse, Pro-Life Wisconsin Communications Director
In January of 2021, the McFarland School District sent out a letter to students’ parents and guardians informing them that the Dane County Youth Assessment would be administered to all students in grades 7-12. According to the letter, the intent of the assessment was “to provide educators, community agencies, parents, policy-makers, and funding bodies the data needed to inform grant writing, program development, and public policy.” One of the community agencies is Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin whose Director of Education, Meghan Benson, is the chair of the Dane County Youth Commission and a point of contact regarding the assessment.
Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion provider, killing 345,672 babies in 2018 alone. The organization receives over $600 million dollars in federal funding each year which allows for the continued killing of innocent children every day in states across the country.
Since its founding in 1935, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin has guised itself as a bastion of “reproductive freedom,” working its way into our schools and communities. Their educational programs promote abortion – the direct and intentional killing of a preborn human being, and hormonal birth control – a chemical abortifacient and known carcinogen.
The morning-after pill (a high dosage of the birth control pill) and most if not all hormonal birth control drugs and devices including the intrauterine device (IUD), Depo Provera, the Patch, and the Pill can act to terminate a pregnancy by chemically altering the lining of the uterus (endometrium) so that a newly conceived child (human embryo) is unable to implant in the womb, thus starving and dying. The United Nation’s International Agency on Research of Cancer reported that estrogen-progestin combination drugs (the Pill) were a Group 1 carcinogen for breast, cervical and liver cancers.
In 2018, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin reportedly performed 4,639 abortions in the state, contributing to our ever increasing annual abortion rate. These 4,639 innocent children were the casualties of an organization who is profiting at the expense of human life and normalizing the cycle of sexual behavior, contraception, and abortion. The work of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will continue to take root as long as we allow them to infiltrate our counties, communities, and schools.
It is time to take action and say no to Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin.
The 72-page assessment from the Dane County Youth Commission, led by Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin’s Director of Education, includes questions on sexual orientation, gender identity, and sexual conduct, among other intensely private topics. Cloaking itself as a helpful aid to improve the lives of students, the assessment serves as another tool to encourage teen sexual promiscuity and abortion.
Pro-Life Wisconsin shares the common goal of improving the lives of Wisconsin students. However, we oppose and condemn all efforts to normalize sexual promiscuity in our youth which increases contraceptive use and, when it fails, leads to a higher demand for abortion, causing the death of more innocent human life. (View Pro-Life Wisconsin’s educational programs dedicated to building up our youth and combating the tactics of organizations like Planned Parenthood here.)
Our Wisconsin students deserve better, and no organization profiting off the murder of innocent children should have a place in our Wisconsin schools.
PETITION
Sign your name to the petition below, and tell the McFarland School District and the Dane County Youth Commission that our Wisconsin students deserve better. An organization profiting off the murder of innocent children has no place in our Wisconsin schools.