{"id":182025,"date":"2018-04-26T16:23:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T20:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=182025"},"modified":"2018-04-26T16:23:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T20:23:26","slug":"judge-hhs-sex-education-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/judge-hhs-sex-education-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge: HHS can&#8217;t halt Obama-era sex education grant to Planned Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A Washington federal judge ruled this week that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is not allowed to terminate a Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program grant, which was set to extend to 2020, two years early. The lawsuit was filed by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/abortioncorporation\">Planned Parenthood<\/a> of Greater Washington and North Idaho, and &#8220;was\u00a0joined by Planned Parenthood affiliates in Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Texas and Nebraska,&#8221; according to Courthouse News Service, arguing that early termination of the &#8220;research&#8221; from the program would cause &#8220;irreparable harm.&#8221;\u00a0CNS also\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagolawbulletin.com\/judge-enjoins-trump-from-cutting-planned-parenthood-grants-20180425\">noted<\/a> the judge&#8217;s remarks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe court finds that HHS arbitrarily and capriciously terminated the (teen pregnancy prevention) program,\u201d Rice wrote. \u201cThe court determines that the public interest weighs in favor of (Planned Parenthood), as it would prevent harm to the community and prevent loss of data regarding the effectiveness of teen pregnancy prevention.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;[S]ince the program\u2019s inception in 2010, the teen birth rate in the United States has dropped by 41 percent,&#8221; the plaintiffs claimed in their lawsuit. But while Planned Parenthood tries to take credit for this, the truth is that as abortions have decreased nationally, Planned Parenthood has <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/while-abortions-decreasing-nationally-planned-parenthood-market-share-continues-rise\/\">managed to increase its market share of abortions<\/a> in the United States to nearly 35 percent. And while the organization continues to sneer at abstinence-based sex education, the CDC reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/cdc-teen-sexual-activity-drops-12\/\">teen sexual activity has decreased<\/a> 12 percent over the past two decades.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-zp4rJW1tFY\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And\u00a0Valerie Huber, chief of staff for the Office of Assistant Secretary of Health, stated that the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program actually &#8220;normalizes teen sex&#8221; &#8212; something sadly predictable from an organization like Planned Parenthood, which <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-bad-teens-parents\/\">has been known to give teens dangerous advice on sex<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Live Action News <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/federal-report-planned-parenthoods-touted-sex-ed-programs-failure\/\">noted<\/a> that a five-year HHS study revealed that &#8220;in some cases, the federally-funded sex education programs helped contribute to an <em>increase<\/em> of pregnancy and sexual exploration in teenagers, while other programs didn\u2019t impact behavior changes at all.&#8221; Among those who received grants for this failed sex education? Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n<p>Live Action News <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/sex-education-birth-control-access-dont-reduce-teen-pregnancy-studies-show-increase\/\">reported<\/a> last year that\u00a0U.S. and U.K. studies have both recently shown that sex education and birth control access don&#8217;t reduce teen pregnancy &#8212; and in fact, may have the opposite effect. &#8220;The public has been led to believe that providing sex education programs, as well as contraception, is the best way to reduce unwanted pregnancies, as well as the abortions that often follow,&#8221; wrote Live Action News&#8217; Susan Michelle-Hanson. &#8220;But when these 149 UK regions cut funding for these programs, the results indicated the opposite.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Washington federal judge ruled this week that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is not allowed to terminate a Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program grant, which was set to extend to 2020, two years early. 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