An action item that would have planted a Planned Parenthood clinic on the campus of John Glenn High School in Norwalk was withdrawn from the school board’s agenda.
The Norwalk La Mirada Unified School District Board of Education was scheduled to take action on July 18 about a clinic services agreement between Planned Parenthood Los Angeles and the school district. The agreement, if approved would exclude parental notification and consent if a student obtained services at the clinic.
“Provider and District acknowledge that under California law minors have the right to consent to reproductive health services without parental consent or notification,” the agreement states. “Provider will encourage Students to involve their families in decision making regarding the Services, as appropriate.”
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Members of the school board did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
“To put these clinics in these schools shows the ignorance of the school system to the agenda of Planned Parenthood,” said Dan Steiner, executive director of the Avenues Pregnancy Clinic, a Christian-focused pregnancy crisis center in Glendale. “They are the biggest abortion purveyor in the United States. That's what they do. They have to feed the cycle and this means the school system is complicit in that.”
Pregnancy crisis centers are different from abortion centers in that they provide resources for pregnant teens and women who choose to carry their babies to full term.
“Planned Parenthood wants to be involved in the sexuality of students by giving free condoms and low-cost birth control pills so they are normalizing and facilitating sexual activity,” Steiner told the Southern California Record. “The worst-case scenario is it raises the rate of teen pregnancy, abortion and sexually transmitted diseases for their students.”
Steiner added that instead of planting Planned Parenthood on the school campus, the board of education should consider abstinence-teaching organizations.
“Planned Parenthood would be very much against it,” he said. “A woman thinks abortion is a simple lunch hour procedure, but it is not, she could suffer remorse the rest of her life.”
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
"Sexually transmitted diseases like Hep B and others are epidemic in young people and Planned Parenthood charges for testing services and drugs to treat sexually transmitted disease, and then they charge women for the abortion," Steiner added. "They send her back out with more contraception and she continues to be sexually active so they can charge to abort her again. So, it's a vicious cycle."