Girl Scout Troops Work With Planned Parenthood

[ironmonk]

[b]Report Shows Girl Scout Troops Work With Pro-Abortion Planned Parenthood[/b]
by Paul Nowak
LifeNews.com Staff Writer
April 12, 2004

New York, NY (LifeNews.com) -- A month after Girl Scouts of America CEO Kathy Cloninger announced on national television that her organization partners with Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion business, to teach sexual education to girls, a national pro-life organization has released the results of a survey showing more than one-quarter of GSA troops work with the pro-abortion group.

"We are astonished to find that, of the councils that responded to our questions, 26% have relationships with Planned Parenthood," said Jim Sedlak, executive director of STOPP International, an organization that actively opposes Planned Parenthood's pro-abortion agenda.

"But what is even more surprising is that 79% of Girl Scout councils have not disclosed their position on Planned Parenthood by failing to answer a simple question -- Do you have any relationship with Planned Parenthood," Sedlak added.

Of the 315 Girl Scout councils in the U.S., 17 councils reported having a relationship with Planned Parenthood and its affiliates, and 49 reported they do not. The other 249 refused to disclose any relationship.

According to STOPP, one council's CEO admitted she was told to keep silent, and told STOPP, "I have been instructed to say 'no comment' to whatever you ask."

"If the Girl Scouts believe that partnering with Planned Parenthood is a benefit to young girls, then why are the Girl Scouts reluctant to talk about the connection?" asked Sedlak. "Their failure to answer the question leads many to wonder if these councils, in fact, do work with the organization. If that is the case, their stonewalling may represent an attempt to hide a relationship they do not want parents and the public to know about."

Sedlak asks that if any individuals discover that their council is involved with Planed Parenthood, to contact STOPP so it can update its site tracking Girl Scout Councils that have connections with the nation's largest abortion business.

"It is important to understand, we are not at war with the Girl Scouts, but that we are trying to protect young girls from the evils of Planned Parenthood," said Sedlak. "We are simply asking that Girl Scout councils stop their partnership with Planned Parenthood."

STOPP's investigation into Girl Scout councils across the country comes after Cloninger stated that Girl Scouts partner with many groups, including Planned Parenthood, during an interview on NBC's "Today" show in March.

Cloninger was on the program to discuss a Girl Scout cookie boycott in the Waco, Texas area that resulted in the ending of a decade-long relationship with the Bluebonnet Council and the local Planned Parenthood affiliate.

Less than three weeks after John Pisciotta of Pro-Life Waco called for a boycott of the annual Girl Scout cookie sale, the board of directors of the Waco area council voted to end their partnership with Planned Parenthood of Central Texas, and issued a statement late February. The decision came almost a month earlier than expected, as Council Director Beth Vivio said previously that the council would take up the issue at their meeting on March 25.

Pisciotta, an economics professor at Baylor University, said the boycott alone did not provide the pressure to end the relationship.

"The pressure came when local, web, and national news outlets picked up the story," Pisciotta told LifeNews.com. "The result was a firestorm of protest about the local Girl Scout and Planned Parenthood entanglement."

According to Pisciotta, several troops in the Waco and Houston areas disbanded or severed ties with the national Girl Scout Organization during the Waco boycott.

Related Sites:
Girl Scouts of the USA - [url="http://www.girlscouts.org"]http://www.girlscouts.org[/url]
STOPP International Girl Scout Information Page -
[url="http://www.all.org/stopp/scouts/index.htm"]http://www.all.org/stopp/scouts/index.htm[/url]

[Dave]

Geez, the scouts of this country are getting into all sorts of awful stuff! First the brouhaha over gay Boy Scout masters, and now this!

[Ellenita]

What is the world coming too?! When I was the leader of Daffodil Patrol in my girl scout troop all we were concerned about was how to tie different knots in rope and what to do to make sure your tent didn't fall down at camp!! The idea of having anything to do with planned parenthood couldn't have been further from our minds....I'm beginning to feel old, lamenting the loss of 'innocence' of youth!

Seriously, in the US there are links between scout troops and planned parenthood?!

Edited April 19, 2004 by Ellenita

[ironmonk]

What a cool acronym:

[b]S[/b]ociety [b]T[/b]o [b]O[/b]utlaw [b]P[/b]lanned [b]P[/b]arenthood


Email campaign time... tell all your friends.


Pro-Life Group Unveils Findings of Planned Parenthood/Girl Scouts Probe
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A pro-life group investigating Planned Parenthood's ties to the Girl Scouts organization has found that 26 percent of Girl Scout councils have relationships with the abortion provider.

"But what is even more surprising is that 79% of Girl Scout councils have not disclosed their position on Planned Parenthood by failing to answer a simple question - Do you have any relationship with Planned Parenthood?" said Jim Sedlak, executive director of STOPP International, in a statement.

American Life League's STOPP International launched its probe after a remark made by Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. CEO Kathy Cloninger, who told NBC News, "We have relationships...with Planned Parenthood organizations across the country, to bring information-based sex education programs to girls."





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Girl Scouts Boycotted Over Planned Parenthood

CRAWFORD, Texas — Some families are boycotting Thin Mints and Do-Si-Dos and other Girl Scout (search) cookies. Troop 7527 is down to just two members after the other girls were withdrawn by their parents. And Brownie Troop 7087 is no more.




[b]Be sure not to buy their cookies... be sure to tell them why. Talk to the Catholic schools and other non-Catholic religious schools to prohibit girl scout uniforms.

We must take a stand.[/b]


God Bless,
ironmonk

[ironmonk]

Email addresses:

misc@girlscouts.org

alumni@girlscouts.org

gscomm@girlscouts.org

[ilovechrist]

we have a Catholic troop at our parish that has refused to sell cookies as a fundraiser, but rather goes and sells peanuts and other things that are donated by parishoners.... they're protesting against the National people to make them change orginizations.. email those addresses above!

[ironmonk]

Here is my email... it's late, I'm tired, so it's not the best sounding, but it'll do....


To Whom it May Concern,

My daughter will not now or ever be a Girl Scout as long as the Girl Scouts associate with Planned Parenthood.

Abortion is the greatest evil on this planet.

Some have said, 'it's the mother's body'... but it's also the babies body. The baby has it's own DNA... not the mothers. Planned Parenthood goes against everything the Girl Scouts USE to be for. There is no place for sex education in the Girl Scouts - that is in the public schools already. Planned Parenthood lies. For example, there are about 63 STD's, a condom only protects from about 3 of them.

Our organizations will stop promoting Girl Scouts... it will spread through the Catholic world and no more Girl Scouts in Catholic Schools.

If Girl Scouts wish to save what little reputation that it has left, it must break all ties with Planned Parenthood AND join with promoting life.

Sincerely,
Max Brackett
Florida

[ilovechrist]

awesome ironmonk!
perfect letter.. for now i've heard (i'm looking through the news) that they're even trying to get some of that stuff into the small Brownies... and THAT is completely wrong as well, for those girls are just learning their time tables! very sad what's happening, and we just have to pray that it stops soon..

[mom25angels]

I have been working locally to educate our Catholic parents on this issue with help from STOPP. Pray for me next week as I will be presenting a vast amount of information to our Bishop concerning GSA and PP links.
There is not a single Catholicschool in our city that doesn't have a GS troop in it!
Don't you think PP is aware that it can access our youth through GS?
My hope is that untill GSA can clean up their act, they will be unwelcome in Catholic schools!

Also, if you have girls over the age of 10 involved with GS you should look into whether or not their GS council is involved with thr new Studio 2b program offered by GS. It's reallly bad news.

[Dave]

Go get 'em, Ironmonk! Now if only everyone would send a letter like that to the Girl Scouts ...