{"id":332308,"date":"2025-06-06T10:46:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=332308"},"modified":"2025-06-06T15:52:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T20:52:25","slug":"taxpayer-funded-sex-ed-club-reject-pro-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/taxpayer-funded-sex-ed-club-reject-pro-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxpayer-funded sex ed group starts &#8216;club&#8217; telling teens to reject pro-life ideology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Planned Parenthood-backed <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/defund-planned-parenthood-extremist-coalition-sex-miseducators\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sex ed group<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Advocates for Youth (AFY) has launched a revamp and rebranding of its sex ed with a &#8216;club&#8217; which warns teens that &#8220;pro-life&#8221; individuals are &#8220;red flags&#8221; who hold unscientific views.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In early May, AFY announced the launch of &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.advocatesforyouth.org\/thebusybodiesclub\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Busy Bodies Club<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,&#8221; a virtual &#8220;PSA-style&#8221; campaign which promises &#8220;easy-to-understand, bite-sized knowledge to debunk myths around sex education, reproductive health, LGBTQIA+ rights, abortion access, HIV awareness, and racial justice.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>KEY TAKEAWAYS:<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Advocates for Youth&#8217;s new &#8216;club&#8217; attempts to convince students to treat any &#8220;pro-life&#8221; information as unscientific while recruiting students to its online platform and to its on-campus advocacy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Planned Parenthood and AFY get <em><strong>millions from taxpayers<\/strong><\/em> and spend millions on sex education that skirts parental safeguards and laws meant to protect minors from harmful pro-abortion and transgender ideologies.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>THE DETAILS:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Club promises to help youth &#8220;sift through all the online info on sexual health and reproductive rights topics.&#8221; Right now, the Club is mostly digital, but the group&#8217;s publicity for the Club states &#8220;we may have some in-person opportunities to get involved very soon.&#8221; Those who want to become &#8216;members&#8217; simply have to subscribe to an email list.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Why &#8220;busybodies&#8221;? The publicity states that though the term has been used mainly to denote someone &#8220;too interested in things that do not involve them,&#8221; the group wants to &#8220;reclaim[] the term&#8221; and &#8220;<strong>democratize sex ed<\/strong> and make sure <strong>everyone has access<\/strong> to the info they deserve&#8221; (emphases added). The group, of course, had to add that they think &#8220;getting busy with your body is a great euphemism for sex.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is clear that this &#8220;digital community&#8221; intends to reach youth <em>anywhere<\/em>, regardless of state laws aiming to protect children from harmful Planned Parenthood-affiliated sex ed ideology.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_332450\" style=\"width: 435px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-332450\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-332450\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/intro-busybodies-560x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/intro-busybodies-560x700.jpg 560w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/intro-busybodies-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/intro-busybodies-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/intro-busybodies-500x625.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/intro-busybodies.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-332450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AFY Busybodies Club<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_332451\" style=\"width: 435px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-332451\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-332451\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/busybodies-faq-560x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/busybodies-faq-560x700.jpg 560w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/busybodies-faq-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/busybodies-faq-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/busybodies-faq-500x625.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/busybodies-faq.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-332451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AFY Busybodies Club (2)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_332452\" style=\"width: 435px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-332452\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-332452\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ok-but-why-busybodies-560x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ok-but-why-busybodies-560x700.jpg 560w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ok-but-why-busybodies-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ok-but-why-busybodies-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ok-but-why-busybodies-500x625.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ok-but-why-busybodies.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-332452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AFY Busybodies Club (3)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-332453\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/busybodies-club-4-560x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/busybodies-club-4-560x700.jpg 560w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/busybodies-club-4-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/busybodies-club-4-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/busybodies-club-4-500x625.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/busybodies-club-4.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Club&#8217;s first sex ed modules focus on birth control, abortion access, and &#8216;trans health&#8217;:<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_332448\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-332448\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-332448\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sex-ed-modules-AFY-700x304.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sex-ed-modules-AFY-700x304.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sex-ed-modules-AFY-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sex-ed-modules-AFY-768x334.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sex-ed-modules-AFY-500x217.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sex-ed-modules-AFY.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-332448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot, Advocates for Youth<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><strong>WHY IT MATTERS:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>1. Advocates for Youth uses millions of taxpayer dollars to promote its agenda, which is fully aligned with that of Planned Parenthood.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AFY has received more than $32 million in grants issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) since 1995 [Source: HHS Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website]<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interestingly, AFY claims to have recently <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2025\/05\/advocates-for-youth-federal-funding-trump\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rejected $1.2 million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in federal funding under the current Trump administration. It remains unclear whether AFY intends to decline funding from both HHS and the CDC.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Planned Parenthood (which supports AFY)<\/span>\u00a0has <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-annual-report-spending-sex-ed\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">spent $166 million on sex ed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> since 2021-22, based on its annual reports. From 2021-2024, Planned Parenthood reported over $186 million spent on &#8220;advocacy&#8221; promoting abortion. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AFY\u2019s 2024 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.advocatesforyouth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2023-Advocates-for-Youth-990.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">990 form<\/span><\/a> shows that<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> over $7.5 million was spent for lobbying and \u201cgrassroots\u201d activities from 2020-2023.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>2. Groups aligned with Planned Parenthood&#8217;s pro-abortion, pro-transgender agenda are looking for ways to indoctrinate youth while bypassing parental consent requirements. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite continued growing efforts by parental rights groups and state lawmakers to guard against <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/selling-sex-schools-ed-designed-failure\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Planned Parenthood-backed sex education curriculum<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and protect children from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-coalition-sexually-graphic-books-schools\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">explicit pornographic materials<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, members of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/where-todays-sex-ed-came-from-matters\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Future of Sex Education (FoSE) coalition<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> continue to expand their efforts to reach youth through digital campaigns. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They work around parental consent requirements while receiving taxpayer funds \u2014 and turn youth into paid activists who spread anti-life propaganda on school campuses and in communities. Much like AFY, Planned Parenthood targets and trains minors through its &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthoodaction.org\/communities\/planned-parenthood-generation-action\">Generation Action<\/a>&#8221; program, often working in conjunction with AFY and sharing literature &#8220;resources&#8221; for participants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alongside Planned Parenthood, AFY remains a leader in creating sex education curriculum, not just in the U.S. but internationally by collaborating with the United Nations and<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/biden-pro-abortion-unicef-millions\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UNICEF sex education programs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/ark:\/48223\/pf0000260770\/PDF\/260770eng.pdf.multi\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">initiatives<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>3. They&#8217;re recruiting students to spread their ideology on school campuses.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AFY continues to promote its &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.advocatesforyouth.org\/program-applications\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Youth Activist Network<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,&#8221; recently closing application submissions for its year-long fellowship training program. Each approved applicant receives an all-inclusive paid trip to Washington, D.C., and a $600 stipend per semester &#8220;to bring gender-neutral housing to their campus, pass state legislation expanding abortion access, urge their campuses to adopt better policies to combat sexual assault, advocate for better HIV policies in their cities, educate their communities about LGBTQ Muslims, and so much more.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to its website, AFY youth activists are trained to bring back &#8220;tools&#8221; to deploy into their communities and school campuses, such as &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/12z6nJ0Fq76mAkG3jMRfYil-nF2P1jofz\/view?pli=1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Youth Abortion Support Collective (ASC) Resources<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8221;\u00a0 and &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/10Y4U8F5juzmCgjsxR-f-FV-KzeYLXy6rh4sIA4fEZo4\/edit?tab=t.0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abortion Access on Campus Organizing Toolkits<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.&#8221; These &#8220;tools&#8221; contain information on &#8220;self managed abortions&#8221; and contact information for abortion-seeking minors to obtain &#8220;judicial bypass&#8221; around parental consent. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But no pro-abortion kit would <em>truly<\/em> be complete without information and worksheets on how to avoid &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1E_SVr0GfGRcGtZP_0sk5nU46an7UvZns\/view\">fake abortion clinics<\/a>&#8221; \u2014 more properly known as pregnancy resource centers.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_332455\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-332455\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-332455 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/abortion-out-loud-AFY-700x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/abortion-out-loud-AFY-700x230.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/abortion-out-loud-AFY-300x99.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/abortion-out-loud-AFY-768x253.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/abortion-out-loud-AFY-500x165.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/abortion-out-loud-AFY.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-332455\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Advocates for Youth Toolkit<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/12z6nJ0Fq76mAkG3jMRfYil-nF2P1jofz\/view?pli=1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">their documents<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, AFY also trains teens and youth activists to become \u201cabortion doulas\u201d and to advocate for abortion access on college campuses\u2014 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/college-plan-b-vending-machines\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dozens of which<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are expanding access to abortion drugs as well as &#8217;emergency contraception&#8217;.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>THE BOTTOM LINE:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Planned Parenthood, Advocates for Youth (AFY), and other members of the Future of Sex Education (FoSE) coalition <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/report-details-planned-parenthood-record-abortions-funding\/\">use taxpayer money<\/a> to undermine parents and legislators seeking to shield minors from inappropriate sexualized content. It is well past time to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-rejected-defunded\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">defund Planned Parenthood<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/actnow.io\/G3Bhv6M\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-332271\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-700x251.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-700x251.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-300x107.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-768x275.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-500x179.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02.jpg 1167w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planned Parenthood-backed sex ed group Advocates for Youth (AFY) has launched a revamp and rebranding of its sex ed with a &#8216;club&#8217; which warns teens that &#8220;pro-life&#8221; individuals are &#8220;red flags&#8221; who hold unscientific views. In early May, AFY announced the launch of &#8220;The Busy Bodies Club,&#8221; a virtual &#8220;PSA-style&#8221; campaign which promises &#8220;easy-to-understand, bite-sized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1029,"featured_media":288977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Taxpayer-funded sex ed group starts &#039;club&#039; telling teens to reject pro-life ideology<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Planned Parenthood-backed sex ed group Advocates for Youth has a new club which warns teens that &quot;pro-life&quot; people hold anti-science views.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/taxpayer-funded-sex-ed-club-reject-pro-life\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Taxpayer-funded sex ed group starts &#039;club&#039; 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