ALL Pro-Life Today: Planned Parenthood in Houston hiding sex ed involvement – again

Thursday, December 27, 2012 Planned Parenthood in Houston hiding sex ed involvement–again By Rita Diller, Wednesday STOPP Report Parents and other concerned citizens in the Cy-Fair School District of Houston, Texas, launched a website, recently to expose the graphic It’s Your Game sex ed curriculum developed by the University of Texas Prevention Research Center (UTPRC). According to Jennifer Fleck, our contact in Houston, Planned Parenthood subsequently rewrote the information on its website that tied the abortion giant to the curriculum and took down the It’s Your Game videos from the Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast website in an apparent attempt to hide its involvement in the UTPRC curriculum. As of December 17, Planned Parenthood had eliminated the It’s Your Game videos that were previously on the Planned Parenthood website. [ Click here to read more. ]

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