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(The Daily Signal<\/a>)\u00a0Why is Planned Parenthood interested in a local school board election in the battleground state of Colorado?<\/p>\n

That is what parents and voters are asking themselves in Jefferson County, Colo., this week after Planned Parenthood waded into a local recall election aimed at ousting three Republican school board officials in the middle of their terms.<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood Votes Colorado<\/a>, a non-profit 501(c)4 organization, has sent letters to voters asking them to become involved in the school board rec<\/span>alls by first signing the petition to recall their elected officials, then volunteering for the effort to oust their local school board members.<\/p>\n

The Planned Parenthood affiliated organization has also endorsed some of the candidates who are running to replace the current school board members in an announcement titled, \u201cVote in the Election on November 3rd for Real Sex Ed!<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

The message is contrary to the one being pushed by recall proponents\u2014which is that the recall campaign is about educating kids.<\/p>\n

However, the Planned Parenthood group boasts of advancing \u201cColorado youths’ rights to real sex education<\/a>\u00a0and reproductive health care.\u201d The group still\u00a0opposes<\/a>\u00a0the state\u2019s Parental Notification Act passed by the legislature in 2003 that requires parents of school-aged children under the age of 18 must be notified within 48 hours prior to abortion.<\/p>\n

So what exactly does Planned Parenthood stand to gain from involvement in a local school board race?<\/p>\n

Access, for one thing.<\/p>\n

It turns out that Planned Parenthood is selling sex kits to local schools\u2014including schools in the county in question\u2014which Planned Parenthood\u2019s own national website calls \u201cBirth Control Training Kits<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Planned Parenthood\u2019s website, each of the kits contains 10 male condoms, two \u201cfemale condoms,\u201d one intrauterine contraceptive, one package of oral contraceptives, one \u201cdental dam,\u201d two samples of \u201cwater-based lubricants,\u201d \u201ccycle beads\u201d for natural family planning purposes, one \u201cToday\u201d contraceptive sponge, one \u201csyringe\u201d containing a Depo Provera shot, and two vaginal contraceptive spermicidal films.<\/p>\n

At least one local official in Jefferson County familiar with the kit reports that it includes a faux \u201cPlan B\u201d pill to familiarize school-aged students with \u201cthe morning after\u201d pill.<\/p>\n

In a statement given to The Daily Signal, Cathy Alderman,\u00a0vice president of public affairs at\u00a0Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains,\u00a0said:<\/p>\n

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Planned Parenthood Votes Colorado generally takes interest in school board races especially when extreme politicians attempt to block or restrict access to accurate, sound curricula including curricula related to the provision of complete, age-appropriate, medically-accurate, and culturally-sensitive sexual health education.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

At $125 per kit per student, it stands to reason that Planned Parenthood may view access to schools not simply as an opportunity to educate, but rather as a lucrative business opportunity.<\/p>\n

According to the\u00a0National Center for Education Statistics<\/a>, the population of children enrolled in school is expected to increase 6\u00a0percent\u00a0through the school year 2024-2025\u2014from 49.8 million to nearly 53 million.<\/p>\n

In border states and near-border states, the increase is even higher at upwards of 10\u00a0percent\u00a0and 15\u00a0percent\u00a0growth. In Nevada, the increase in population growth of school-aged children is even higher, at 26 percent.<\/p>\n

Not a bad business model, if you can get it.<\/p>\n

Thus, as the population of schoolchildren grows in America and as Planned Parenthood seeks to educate schoolchildren about sex at increasingly younger ages, the opportunity exists for a long-term profit center for the organization, as well as a \u201ccradle-to-grave\u201d institutionalized dependence upon Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s where the really big money comes in.<\/p>\n

Each year, American taxpayers send an estimated $540 million in annual federal funds to Planned Parenthood affiliates.<\/p>\n

While Planned Parenthood claims that those taxpayer funds are not used for abortions, the organization is demonstrably utilizing those funds to market their goods and services to schoolchildren.<\/p>\n

It is not unreasonable to suggest that eventually, services provided to schoolchildren could include referrals for on-demand abortion services should the above-mentioned \u201cBirth Control Training Kits\u201d fail.<\/p>\n

Think it couldn\u2019t happen?<\/p>\n

In politics, one needs only to \u201cfollow the money\u201d to see why a national pro-abortion organization is so interested in a local school board recall election.<\/p>\n

Does Planned Parenthood presume that if conservatives on a local school board were to fulfill the terms to which they were elected, they might eventually call into question Planned Parenthood\u2019s active presence in local schools? Perhaps require that taxpayer funds no longer go toward sex education pushed by the group?<\/p>\n

It certainly appears that way.<\/p>\n

It appears that in addition to sex education, recall proponents are concerned about a number of other liberal issues. On their official website, proponents list upcoming battles like a laundry list of progressive fights such as \u201ccharter school accountability, religious school vouchers, AP U.S. history curriculum, discrimination and bullying [as it relates to transgender individuals, per Colorado law], sex education, confidential health services, collective bargaining agreements, vaccinations, STEM funding, and local control and national education standards.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the debate over Planned Parenthood funding continues around the country and\u00a0on Capitol Hill<\/a>, one thing is certain: the state\u2019s local school board elections to be held in this swing state next Tuesday raise sincere questions about the involvement of Planned Parenthood and their liberal agenda inside our public schools.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most important question of all is, if Planned Parenthood succeeds in the battleground state of Colorado, which state\u2019s schoolchildren will they attempt to influence next?<\/p>\n

[Editor’s Note: Article originally printed October 28, 2015 at The Daily Signal<\/a>. Reprinted here with permission.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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