Post by Portiaami on Jun 22, 2020 13:41:24 GMT
Girl Scouts and Planned Parenthood
www.all.org/pro-life-this-week-02-22-2019/
We are receiving an increasing number of phone calls in the office concerning the relationship between the Girl Scouts and Planned Parenthood. There is real confusion over whether or not the Girl Scouts “support” Planned Parenthood. The confusion occurs when defining what “support” means. It appears most Americans equate “support” with money. When we say that the Girl Scouts support Planned Parenthood, what people hear is, “Some of the money from the sale of Girl Scout cookies goes to Planned Parenthood.” This is NOT true. To the best of our ability, we have never found any money flowing directly from the Girl Scouts to Planned Parenthood. However, it is an absolute truth that the Girl Scouts do support PP—just not directly with money. Support of PP comes in the way local Girl Scout troops and councils hold up Planned Parenthood leaders as “women of distinction.” The support also comes as the Girl Scout manuals and lessons are changed to reflect the values in sex and abortion that Planned Parenthood embraces. It comes in places where young girls seeking a “Becoming a Teen” badge are sent to Planned Parenthood for sex education classes. Make no mistake; today’s Girl Scouts definitely support Planned Parenthood’s agenda. Rather than doing it with money, they do it by corrupting the girls entrusted to them—a much more serious offense.
Having made that clear—we hope—let us mention a way in which families of Girl Scout members indirectly fund groups associated with Planned Parenthood. When a young lady joins a local Girl Scout troop, she automatically becomes a member of Girl Scouts USA (GSUSA) and she also automatically becomes a member of WAGGGS (World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts). GSUSA is a member of WAGGGS and pays dues to WAGGGS based on the number of members in GSUSA. Thus, every girl who joins a local troop increases the amount of money that goes from GSUSA to WAGGGS. At a 2010 UN conference, GSUSA girls joined with WAGGGS to distribute the sexually explicit “Healthy, Happy and Hot” booklet published by International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). Again, there was no direct money given from GSUSA, but the activities at the UN conference were financed in part by WAGGGS that is, in turn, funded in part by every girl who joins a local GSUSA troop. This kind of relationship and spreading the message of Planned Parenthood is still going on today.
Most callers to our office ask, “Do the Girl Scouts still support Planned Parenthood?” The answer, unfortunately, is “YES.” (See more proof in our ALL in the NEWS section of this newsletter.)
