Failed Family Planning

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Decades of “family planning” programs have left America diseased, hurting and confused. For more than three decades, “safe sex” ideology has been taught in our schools to our children with the belief that these sex-ed courses would reduce teen pregnancy and other related consequences through the increased and proper use of birth control . However, despite billion of taxpayer dollars being poured into “family planning” programs, the results have been disastrous.

Teenage Sexual Promiscuity Increased

	William Bennett, U.S. Secretary of Education in 1987 reported that since the big push to encourage contraception use by teenagers, teen sexual activity and teen pregnancy had increased by almost 400%.1
	In 1970 only 4.6% of girls ages 15 reported having had sexual intercourse. In 1988, that figure had risen to 25.6%2 In 1992, a survey conducted by the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control show nearly 40% of high school students have sex regularly.3
	When participation in federally-funded family planning clinics decline, teen pregnancies slow down.4

Pregnancy and STD Infections Increased Dramatically

	The number of births to unwed mothers hit a record high in 1990, up 75% over the decade.
	From 1970 to 1991, the federal government had spent over $2.5 billion on Title X, the federal family planning program which promotes contraception usage.5 Nonmarital teen births rose 62% over this same time period.6
	12 million new cases of STDs are reported each year7—33,000 every day. Of these, 86% occur among persons aged 15-29 years,8 with 3 million occurring among teens9—that’s 8,219 new cases every day!
	STDs are the second most common type of infection today. The common cold is number one.10
	1 in 5 Americans are presently infected with an STD.10 1 in 4 sexually active teens have been infected.
	45 million are infected with an incurable STD.10
	There are 20 different STDs rampant among the young.10
	The number of new STD cases reported annually are alarming:

	Gonorrhea has increased 400% among teenage girls since 196512 with 1.1 million new cases annually among all ages.13
	Syphilis rate is at a 40-year high,14 120,000 new cases annually, rising 60% among teenager age 15-19 between 1985 and 1990.15
	Before the introduction of the Pill there were 2 common STDs, both curable, now there are more than 70, many of which are incurable.
	Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is more contagious and is responsible for more deaths than AIDS.16 HPV is the cause of almost all cervical cancer in the U.S.17 1 in 3 women are infected with HPV.18 Approximately 7,000 women in the U.S. die every year from genital cancers related to HPV.
	Taking a look at 1971-1978: the amount of annual federal funding for family planning services increased 198%.119 The number of teen attending sex education programs quadrupled to 1.2 million. Yet:
	From 1971-1979, there was a 50% increase in premarital sex among teen. Out of wedlock pregnancies went up 90% among teen girls.20
	Of the teen girls who became pregnant in 1976, 23.5% were using birth control when they conceived.21 Also, 50% of the 15-19 year-olds who sought abortions had likewise.22
	Among unmarried teen girls between 1971 and 1979, the proportion who became pregnant while using contraception to avoid pregnancy rose 266%.

Admitting Family Planning Programs Don’t Work

	Planned Parenthood’s own data shows that education teens about sexuality and contraception does not result in increased contraception use.23
	Dr. Robert Kistner, developer of the oral contraceptive stated, “About ten years ago I declared that the pill would not lead to promiscuity. Well, I was wrong.”24
	Even though we are much more aware of the threat of AIDS, a poll found that only 20% of adults have altered their sexual behavior because of fear of getting AIDS.25
	Currently less than half of sexually active teen use condoms.26

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1. “Sex and the Education of Our Children,” Address to the National School Board of Education, Jan 22, 1987

2. “Premarital Sexual Experience Among Adolescent Women—U.S., 1970-1988,” MMWR (Center for Disease Control monthly report, Jan. 4, 1991, p. 930

3. “Most Sexually Active Teens Don’t Use Condoms,” Atlanta Journal and Constitution, June 5, 1992, p. A1

4. Jacqueline Kasun, The War Against Population, Ignatius Press, 1988, p. 144

5. Centers for Disease Control—Atlanta Georgia, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, 1987

6. U.S. Bureau of the Census, op cit, p. 71

7. Elise Jones, et al., “Contraceptive Failure Rates Based on the 1988 NSFG” Family Planning Perspectives, vol. 24, No. 1, Jan/Feb 1992, pp. 12-15

5. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Office of Population Affairs, April 15, 1992

6. U.S. Bureau of the Census, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1991, 111th edition, Washington D.C., 1991, p. 67

7 . Alan Guttmacher Institute, Sex & America’s Teenagers, 1994, p. 39

8. “Sexual Behavior in High School,” Life Scenes, a publication of CA Nurses for Ethical Standards, Feb. 1992, p. 3

9. Lloyd J. Kolbe, Director of the Div. of Adolescent and School Health for the Centers of Disease Control, quoted by Charles S. Taylor, “Survey: Most High School Students Have Had Sex,” UPI, Jan. 3, 1992

10. “Is Sex Safe? A Look at: Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs),” brochure, Grapevine Publications, 1992

11. “How At Risk Are You?” brochure, Why kNOw? Abstinence Programs, 1997

12. Kotulak, Ronald, “Teen, Sex Can Be Unhealthy Mix,” Orlando Sentinel, Jan. 31, 1987, p. E4

13. “How At Risk Are You?” brochure, Why kNOw? Abstinence Programs, 1997

14. Wensley, Germaine, R.N., “The Silent Epidemic” brochure, California Nurses for Ethical Standards, 1994

15. Centers for Disease Control 73.2638: CDC:CPS:DSTD/HIVP: Atlanta, GA 30333, June 13, 1990

16. Centers for Disease Control

17. Susan Okie, “Test Helps Pinpoint Risk of Cervical Cancer,” The Washington Post, May 28, 1999

18. Medical Institute of Sexual Health

19. “The $100 Million Misunderstanding,” Family Planning Perspectives May/June, 1978, p. 144

20. Melvin Zelnik and John F. Kantner, “Sexual Activity, Contraceptive Use and Pregnancy Among Metropolitan-Area Teenagers: 1971-1979,” Family Planning Perspectives, 12:5 Sept./Oct., 1980, p. 233, Table 2

21. Melvin Zelnik and John F. Kantner, “Contraceptive Patterns and Premarital Pregnancy Among Women Ages 15-19 in 1976,” Family Planning Perspectives, 10:3 May/June 1978, p. 140, Table 3

22. Frances Frech, “Update on Teen Pregnancies,” Heartbeat, 3:2 Summer, 1980, p. 13

23. Marion Howard & Judith Blaney McCabe, “Helping Teenagers Postpone Sexual Involvement,” Family Planning Perspectives, Jan./Feb., 1990, vol. 22, #1, p. 21

24. Family Practice News, Dec. 15, 1977, as cited in “Birth Control for Teenagers: Diagram for Disaster,” James H. Ford and Michael Schwartz, Linacre Quarterly, Feb. 1979, p. 76

25. “Poll Finds AIDS Cause Single People to Alter Behavior,” New York Times, June 18, 1991, p. C3

26. “Sexual Behavior Among High School Students—United States, 1990,” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Jan. 3, 1992, vol. 40, #51 and 52, p. 886