Planned Parenthood's Campus Crusade
That’s right, besides lectures and labs, many universities also provide extracurricular events, such as the University of Florida’s “Sex on the Lawn.”
Oh, the joy of seeing your child off to college, where she gains inspiration from her peers and wisdom from her professors – and attends stimulating school-sponsored events like “Sex on the Lawn.”
That’s right, besides lectures and labs, many universities also provide extracurricular events, such as the University of Florida’s "Sex on the Lawn,” where students “Roll the Sexy Dice,” play “The Condom Game” and break open a piñata filled with lubrication, candy and condoms.
Thank Planned Parenthood’s “Vox” for “Sex on the Lawn” and other similar campus “learning experiences.” Vox is Latin for voice, and “hard times” is the vernacular for the future Planned Parenthood faces if the teen abstinence trend extends into college years. Planned Parenthood wants college students to “raise their voices to support reproductive freedom.” Reproductive freedom is, of course, Planned Parenthood’s chief marketing mantra, and Vox – whose Web site calls the birth control pill and the sexual revolution “watershed events” – is its campus advertising agency.
Perhaps instead of “Just Say No,” Vox and its campus partisans will “Just Say Hurry!”
Just Say Hurry!
In Vox's "The Condom Game" blindfolded students “race against each other to see who can properly put a condom on a penile mold fastest.” Perhaps instead of “Just Say No,” Vox and its campus partisans will “Just Say Hurry.”
Planned Parenthood convinced the UF student government to shell out $195 in grant money to purchase 13,000 condoms for “Sex on the Lawn.” Scott Kennelly, UF student senator and chairman of the allocations committee, said, “It’s a worthwhile return on our money.” Is he correct?
In “The case for condoms,” Elliot Haspel, Associate Editor for the University of Virginia’s Cavalier Daily, argues that condoms on campus are not easily accessible and too expensive. Haspel echoes the increasingly familiar call for universal access for free condoms. Does Haspel’s argument make sense?
For condoms to be 95 percent effective – the figure condom manufacturers typically claim on their packaging – the product must be used correctly and consistently 100 percent of the time. One recent study found that as few as 13 percent fulfilled that requirement of perfectly consistent error-free use.
And that 95 percent figure gives the benefit of the doubt to those who profit from condom sales. A 2001-published study by the government’s leading health experts found condoms to be 85 percent effective per episode in blocking HIV and relatively effective blocking female-to-male transmission of gonorrhea. But the expert panel found no conclusive evidence that condoms protect against the spread of some 25 other sexually transmitted diseases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently concluded that it cannot recommend condoms as a primary prevention method against human papillomavirus (HPV), the nation’s most common (and potentially deadly) STD.
Your Money, Your Values
You pay thousands for your children’s college education, expecting they’ll learn how to be self-sufficient and productive adults. You don’t expect the institution that’s sucking away your retirement nest egg to hook up with the world’s largest sex promoter and abortion provider to turn them against your values.
To find out if your tuition money supports a college with Vox on campus, go to “Groups” at http://www.plannedparenthood.org/vox.
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Updated May 27, 2005
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