"Every day teens are bombarded with messages about sex and sexuality, but oftentimes, these are not the messages we want them to hear," (Diane Luby, "Teens need facts, candor about sexual health," April 16, 2008). If you or I, as parents, wrote that statement, it would be true. Perhaps Ms. Luby was putting herself in our shoes, but in her shoes, as president and CEO of Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, those words ring hollow.
Planned Parenthood is a business. It provides goods and services to sexually active people. It wants people, especially teens, to be sexually active.
Why particularly teens? Because teens have more to lose, are willing to take greater risks and generally lack the knowledge, wisdom and maturity to understand or accept the consequences of their behavior.
Planned Parenthood's goal is to bring their philosophy of sexuality into our children's classrooms and introduce them to their product line of contraception and abortions. By engaging in early sexual behavior, teens become conditioned to a lifestyle dependent upon the products and services provided by Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood's philosophy is that sex is not just about making babies anymore. We have only to reverse that statement to see the flaw in their argument. Making babies is all about sex. It not only creates future generations, but serves to provide a natural, secure, loving bond between the mother and father to nurture their offspring. To trivialize and discount this most important purpose of our sexuality does our children, and society, a tremendous disservice.
Planned Parenthood makes sex out to be a recreational activity between two (or more) persons, regardless of their ignorance and distortion of the facts. Do we really want Planned Parenthood teaching and targeting our children?
JIM DIXON, Waltham
