{"id":327924,"date":"2025-03-17T14:53:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T19:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=327924"},"modified":"2025-04-10T19:20:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T00:20:27","slug":"sex-ed-leader-prenatal-development-stigmatize-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/sex-ed-leader-prenatal-development-stigmatize-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex ed ‘leader’ slams prenatal development education because it might ‘stigmatize’ abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SIECUS, an acronym which stands for “The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States,” (also known as SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change<\/a>) is now coming out strongly against Live Action’s “Meet Baby Olivia” video, which uses state-of-the-art animation to accurately highlight prenatal development milestones from the moment of fertilization up to birth.<\/p>\n

This organization has been at the center of promoting “comprehensive sex education” for decades, yet its name is not as commonly known as that of Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n

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  • SIECUS<\/a>, which “advances sex education through advocacy, policy and coalition building” and collaborates<\/a> with multiple pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood, views sex-ed<\/a> as a “vehicle for social change” to promote abortion.<\/li>\n
  • SIECUS, founded by a former Planned Parenthood medical director, “believes<\/a> that sexually explicit<\/strong> visual, printed, or on-line materials can be valuable educational or personal aids when sensitively used in a manner appropriate to the viewer\u2019s age and developmental level.”<\/li>\n
  • The organization’s 2025 State of Sex Education Legislative Look Ahead<\/a> report<\/a> referred to “Baby Olivia” as the “greatest potential for harm, especially in a post-Dobbs America,” because it would require students to be shown “stigmatizing and medically inaccurate fetal ultrasound videos as part of their sex education.”<\/li>\n
  • SIECUS refers to showing students ultrasounds of prenatal development and other such videos as “anti-abortion disinformation” paired with “medically inaccurate fetal development lessons and forced ultrasound videos.” It falsely claims Live Action’s “Baby Olivia” video has been “discredited.”<\/li>\n
  • SIECUS says showing ultrasound videos and prenatal videos like “Olivia” “distort[s] reproductive health care,” “reinforce[s] abortion stigma,” and blocks students from receiving sex education, adding that it is “disinformation designed to shame students, confuse science, and deny young people the tools they need to make informed decisions about their health, their bodies, and their futures.”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    SIECUS on Live Action’s Baby Olivia<\/p><\/div>\n

    SIECUS claims the following education efforts<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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    • Enhance educator, advocate, parent, youth, clinician, partner, and public understanding of the current state of sexuality education in the United States and opportunities for improvement in both policy and practice.<\/em><\/li>\n
    • Publish toolkits and reports to inform and educate various constituencies on comprehensive sexuality education and quality sexual and reproductive health services.<\/em><\/li>\n
    • Partner with national, state, and local organizations to promote standards elevating the provision of quality sexuality education.<\/em><\/li>\n
    • Provide training and technical assistance to stakeholders on how to use resources to improve sexuality education implementation, evaluation, and policy development.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      While these objectives sound innocuous, in reality, SIECUS fully approves<\/a> of the perverse ‘work<\/a>‘ of Alfred Kinsey<\/a> \u2014 who utilized convicted pedophiles for his ‘research’ \u2014 yet SIECUS’ founding<\/a> eight years after Kinsey’s death was allegedly “not connected to the Kinsey Institute.”<\/p>\n

      In its 50th Anniversary video, SIECUS applauded all sexual identities, including LGBTQ, transgender, bisexual, or “everything.”<\/p>\n