Planned Parenthood Uses Taxes to Pay for Abortion, Radical Sex Ed
This is Part 2 of a two-part series examining the federal government’s support of Planned Parenthood under the guise of “family planning.” Part 1 unearthed Title X grants to Planned Parenthood. Part 2 highlights what these grants are used for, including implementing comprehensive sex education. These curricula frequently include crude or graphic references to sex. Caution: some of which are included below.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has paid Planned Parenthood entities more than $53.7 million in “family planning” and “teen pregnancy prevention” grants”” grants since 2022, spending documents show.
Worth a cumulative $66.2 million, HHS will pay another $12.4 million on these eighteen grants by 2028.
The federal government has no business funding an abortion conglomerate like Planned Parenthood. The Hyde Amendment forbids Congress from promoting or paying for elective abortions.
But pro-abortion presidential administrations have undermined this spending restriction for decades using Title X, a federal grant program supporting “comprehensive family planning and related health services.”
Title X money is distributed by HHS, which gives the executive branch significant authority over which kinds of services qualify for funding. Organizations that are physically and financially connected to abortion clinics, and those that refer women to get abortions, have been eligible for Title X grants since 2021.
In April 2022, HHS awarded 13 Title X grants to nine Planned Parenthood entities for “family planning services.” Worth a cumulative $56.6 million. HHS will pay another $7.3 million on these grants by March 2027.
Planned Parenthood claims Title X grants pay for services like cervical and breast cancer screenings, sexual wellness exams and STD testing and treatment. But HHS doesn’t require clinics to separate money for abortions and money for non-abortion services.
In other words, Title X grants — your taxes — dump into the same bank accounts that fund infanticide.
Even if Planned Parenthood clinics could prove taxes don’t pay for abortions directly, Title X grants inevitably free up unregulated donations to do the clinics’ dirty work. The line between abortion and non-abortion services gets particularly blurry when Title X-grantees profit from referring vulnerable women to the abortionist next door.
“Family planning services” aren’t the only way Planned Parenthood gets Title X money. HHS also distributes grants for “teenage pregnancy prevention programs.”
In July 2023, HHS awarded Planned Parenthood clinics five grants worth $9.6 million for teenage pregnancy prevention. All five recipients use this money to implement and advance comprehensive sex education (CSE) — radical “rights-based” and “pleasure-based” sexuality curricula.
HHS offered Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts $2 million to implement its in-house CSE curriculum, Get Real: Comprehensive Sex Education That Works, in local high schools.
Published by Education Training and Research (ETR), a group whose motto is “Advancing Health Equity,” Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts describes Get Real as:
It does not mention that Planned Parenthood, an organization with financial incentive to encourage sexual activity, developed Get Real. Nor does it address International Planned Parenthood’s alarming stance on the “sexual rights” of young people, which states:
Planned Parenthood’s significant bias toward premature sexual engagement show up in Get Real, despite the Massachusetts clinic’s claims to the contrary.
Stop Comprehensive Sexuality Education is an online database of information on CSE curricula and “the serious harms” they cause. Here’s what it had to say about Get Real’s high school curriculum:
According to StopCSE’s analysis, Get Real’s high school curriculum contains 15 of 15 “harmful elements typically found in CSE curricula or materials,” including,
- Sexualizing children by “normalizing child sex or desensitizing children to sexual things.”
- Teaching children to consent to sex.
- Promoting anal and oral sex.
- Promoting homosexual and/or bisexual behavior.
- Promoting sexual pleasure as the main purpose for sex.
- Promoting solo and/or mutual masturbation.
- Promoting condom use in inappropriate ways, including “inappropriately eroticizing condom use or using sexually explicit methods to promote condom use to children.”
- Promoting premature sexual autonomy.
- Promoting transgender ideology.
- Promoting contraception and/or abortion to children.
Get Real’s high school lessons, which includes exercises like labeling photorealistic genitalia and identifying the differences between circumcised and uncircumcised penises, build on lessons introduced in its middle school programs.
Get Real’s sixth grade curriculum, for instance, teaches 11- and 12-year-olds:
- Explicit definitions of vaginal, anal and oral sex.
- That “masturbation is a [safe sexual behavior] and a healthy way to explore one’s own body to find out what feels good.”
- That “postponement and condom use are healthy behaviors for sixth graders.” (emphasis added)
- That deciding when to become sexually active depends on whether a person “feels ready for sex.”
The four other Planned Parenthood clinics awarded HHS grants for “teen pregnancy prevention” are pushing “medically accurate and age-appropriate, evidence-based programs” just like Get Real in California, New York and Florida, according to their grant applications.
Together, Title X “family planning” and “teen pregnancy prevention” grants form a taxpayer-funded abortion pipeline: American taxes pay pro-abortion organizations to teach kids how to have sex, then they pay Planned Parenthood to treat young people’s STDs and kill their unplanned babies.
The Daily Citizen supports any and all executive actions that defund Planned Parenthood and uphold the Hyde Amendment. The Trump administration has made important steps in this direction. To halt tax-payer support of domestic abortions, however, the President must reinstate his 2019 Title X rules making it near impossible for pro-abortion organizations to get their hands on Title X funding.
This author, for one, is heartily sick of involuntarily enriching the abortion industry.
Additional Articles and Resources
To learn more about comprehensive sex education in schools, check out this free parent’s guide from Focus on the Family.
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