Planned Parenthood Abortion Business Wants to Open Clinic at Local High School

By Micaiah Bilger
Life News

A school board in Pennsylvania is considering a new proposal to allow the Planned Parenthood abortion chain access to its high school students.

Last year, the Reading School Board narrowly rejected a proposal to put a Planned Parenthood-run health center inside Reading High School after a strong public outcry.

But abortion supporters are trying again.

Under the new proposal, the abortion group would not run the health center inside the high school, but it still would be involved, according to the Reading Eagle.

The Co-County Wellness Services and Berks Teens Matter would run the center inside the high school, and funding would come from the Pennsylvania Department of Health, according to a board presentation Aug. 15.

However, Berks Teens Matter lists the abortion chain Planned Parenthood Keystone as a partner organization on its website, and the Aug. 15 presentation includes the abortion group on its partner list as well.

The proposed health center would provide “age appropriate” sexual and reproductive health education to students, one-on-one counseling and referrals to other agencies including Planned Parenthood. It also would provide condoms and organize health awareness campaigns for the school, according to the report.

Carolyn Bazik, executive director of Co-County Wellness Services, and Dr. Jen May, Berks Teens Matter project director, defended the abortion group’s participation in the program during the school board meeting last week.

According to the local news:

“What is Planned Parenthood providing on this list that could not be obtained by another organization on the list?” [board president Dr. Brian] Bureke asked.

The way Planned Parenthood is funded, most of its services are free, and for some students and families, some services might be cost prohibitive, Bazik said.

She also pointed out that the high school has had a program for teen mothers for decades.

“You have been helping teen moms for 30 years to get through high school,” May said. “To make sure they get their diplomas and not get pregnant a second time before they graduate.

“This would help prevent those pregnancies from happening in the first place.”

Pro-lifers and parents, however, are concerned that the health center also could encourage vulnerable teens to abort their unborn babies when pregnancies occur.

Local pro-life advocates are raising awareness about the new proposal and planning to protest again this year. The local chapter of Students for Life of America is organizing a rally at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the school district prior to the school board meeting.

Numerous communities across the United States have rejected Planned Parenthood as a sex education teacher inside its middle and high schools. Earlier this summer, the Massachusetts legislature rejected a bill that recommended Planned Parenthood’s middle school sex education curriculum. The program teaches children as young as 12 “how to perform oral and anal sex.”

In 2014, Live Action release an undercover video series showing Planned Parenthood employees encouraging young teens to participate in sado-masochistic sexual activities, including gagging, whipping, asphyxiation, shopping at sex stores and viewing pornography.

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High School Rejects Request From Planned Parenthood Abortion Business to Open New Clinic

By Micaiah Bilger
Life News

A Pennsylvania school board voted Wednesday against a measure to put a Planned Parenthood-run facility inside Reading High School.

WFMZ News 69 reports the Reading School Board voted 5 to 4 against the proposal as a large group of protesters gathered outside and in the meeting.

The sex education advocacy group AccessMatters first proposed the Planned Parenthood-run center in May 2017. The group asked the school board to approve putting the center inside the high school — giving the abortion chain direct access to young, vulnerable students.

The Reading Eagle reports the facility would not do abortions at the high school, but Planned Parenthood staffers would offer students sex education, counseling about reproductive health and referrals to their abortion facility in Reading. In addition, the center would have been paid for by tax dollars.

Here’s more from the local news:

Dozens of protesters and supporters lined the outside of the district administration building on Washington Street ahead of the vote. Tensions were expectedly high. …

Even Montgomery County Commissioner Joe Gale — who was against the center — felt compelled to join the protesters in Reading.

“I felt that this issue was so important that it was worth making the trip to Berks County because it comes to our youth,” said Gale. “What our youth should not be learning is that abortion is a form of birth control.”

Some board members who voted “no” said they weren’t totally against the health resource center, but had concerns with not having enough solid information about it, or concerns with its political optics.

Dan Bartkowiak, director of communications for Pennsylvania Family Council, who was at the meeting Wednesday, said the public did not want Planned Parenthood in its local high school.

“We heard from the board that contacts they received were overwhelmingly against the proposal,” Bartkowiak said. “And many across Pennsylvania made their voice heard as well since every taxpayer would have helped pay for this proposed program.”

Planned Parenthood Keystone sent out a scathing comment after the vote, claiming that those opposed to the center “don’t care about our children” and were not local residents.

This is not true. LifeNews learned that a number of local pro-life groups, including Pro-Life Berks and the young adults group Lehigh Valley Pro-Life Future joined local residents in opposing the measure.

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