Planned Parenthood is all about abortion, yet provides contraceptive services to reduce the probability of an abortion? That makes sense...
Republicans have been hard at work in attempting to strip funding from Planned Parenthood. Texas Republican State Senator Ken Paxton is attempting to minimize the group's influence even further by prohibiting them from providing public school sexual education classes with any instructional materials or contraceptive resources. With regard to this, Paxton has proposed a bill and during a recent hearing surrounding the bill, Renate Sims of Round Rock said the following to the Senate Education Committee: "[I strive to teach my five children that] married sex and only married sex is appropriate. Abortion providers like Planned Parenthood and their affiliates can't possibly communicate this message effectively because of their inherent conflict of interest. If teenagers consistently viewed sex as something to be saved for marriage, Planned Parenthood would lose abortion business." Let's think about this for a moment. Senator Paxton and company seem to believe the...