As part of a post-election webinar in November, Pennsylvania Planned Parenthood looked ahead to elections in 2025 and discussed its plans to participate in school board races. It’s a relatively new (and very troubling) venture for the abortion and sex giant. To our knowledge, until the 2023 school board elections in Pennsylvania, Planned Parenthood did not engage or endorse in school board races. In that case, they only endorsed in one district (out of 500 statewide)— the Manheim Township, Lancaster County school district race. Sadly, all their endorsed candidates won there. Now, they want to expand their influence into your school district, and if they succeed, children and parents will be the losers.
If one were to believe the positive public relations image of Planned Parenthood echoed in the media, one might be glad they’re insinuating themselves into the teaching of children. But that image is just a façade. We know better. Those who understand the agenda and activities of Planned Parenthood (PP) and its corrosive impact on children and society rightly express shock and outrage at the notion that voters could be duped into letting them anywhere near our schools and children. Planned Parenthood’s involvement in elections for higher office is no surprise. They’ve been up to it for many years, engaging in what appears to be a mutual “back-scratching” arrangement with some politicians. Political candidates get robust campaign contributions from PP and then return the favor by sending them our taxpayer dollars and advancing their policy agenda when in office.
We’ve seen this play out with both Gov. Josh Shapiro and his predecessor, Tom Wolf. Both received big endorsements from the abortion giant, and in Wolf’s case, they promised more than $ 1 million for his election. 1 I’ll never forget Gov. Wolf showing up at the largest abortion center in the Commonwealth donning an “escort” vest and hamming it up with Planned Parenthood staff and executives. This was at a site that takes the lives of more than 7,000 unborn babies every year through abortion.
And then, in Shapiro’s first week as Governor, he welcomed Planned Parenthood leaders into his office to thank them for their support. 2 And then he infamously provided PP with one of its biggest policy priorities, canceling the pro-life Real Alternatives abortion alternatives program that had been in place for three decades under both Republican and Democrat administrations. 3
This apparent quid-pro-quo arrangement between Planned Parenthood and politicians has been on full display with Pennsylvania’s top leaders (and many lawmakers, too). If Planned Parenthood’s endorsed candidates win seats on local school boards, we must ask: what sort of back-scratching arrangements might follow? And most importantly, what will this mean for our children?
We really don’t have to guess. And I’m sure you won’t like what it would likely mean:
- Explicit, perverse sex “education” brought into the schools, with Planned Parenthood speakers welcomed into the classroom to promote their agenda and ideology to our children. 4
- The promotion of LGB and transgender ideology, teaching even the littlest children they can change their sex, requiring teachers to hide “transitions” from parents, abandonment of personal privacy in bathrooms and locker rooms, and more.
- Installation of school-based “health clinics” 5 where minor children can get access to contraceptives, abortion referrals, and guidance on embracing a new “sexual identity.”
- The hiring of like-minded Superintendents and other top staff who align with this worldview and will implement it – and resist the efforts of parents and children who are troubled by it.
Consider the curriculum and textbook choices, which the board must approve. Or what materials will be placed in school libraries. Or whether our daughters will be forced to have boys (who identify otherwise) in their locker room or on their sports teams. Targeting our children is a growth industry for Planned Parenthood — whether through encouraging sexual experimentation that creates demand for their abortion business — or fostering gender confusion, which feeds Planned Parenthood’s exploding business of providing puberty-blocking drugs and cross-sex hormones for teens and adults.6. They even provide referrals for destructive, disfiguring surgical procedures like double mastectomies on the healthy bodies of teen girls struggling with gender dysphoria. Awful.
As Jared Eckert and Emma Sofia Mull said in an article in The Federalist, “Ultimately, Planned Parenthood’s rapid expansion of services should raise alarm. Planned Parenthood is no longer a danger just to the pregnant and the unborn, but to every teen as well.”
It’s critical that we stay vigilant and proactive, standing together to protect the innocence and well-being of our children while advocating for educational environments that reflect truth, respect parental rights, acknowledge objective truth, and uphold the values that strengthen families and communities.
End notes:
4 https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-western-pennsylvania/education-services
5 https://www.yesmagazine.org/health-happiness/2020/03/03/health-high-school-clinic-teens
