This Week's MIP Digest

#FreeThePill (and the FDA) puts kids at risk, MA wants to teach your 5-year-old about genitals, Planned Parenthood takes its mask off, Vaccines for kids at any age without parental consent, and more

Jul 15, 2023

Here’s the weekly MIP Digest!

The MIP Digest is a regular feature with all the great information that has been posted in the MIP Facebook group during the previous week and sent directly to your inbox. It won’t capture all of the interesting comments and conversations that happen in the Facebook group, but it will include the highlights and provide a quick overview of the content, in case you missed it.

First, here are the posts from our Admins:

7 more weeks to submit your comment on DESE's new (#grooming) Health Framework!

Starting today (Monday, July 10th) we will be giving you a weekly reminder to send DESE your public comment on the new draft Comprehensive Health and Physical Education Framework.

Along with the friendly reminder, every week we will be highlighting one objectionable area of the framework and providing you with an example of a curriculum that would align with the Framework.

Today we are highlighting this lesson on genitalia from the Rights, Respect, Responsibility (3Rs) curriculum. This curriculum is produced by Advocates for Youth, an activist organization whose Director of Sexuality Education and Training served as a content advisor for DESE's draft Framework. DESE has not released its list of recommended resources for this Framework yet, but we can tell a lot about what curriculum will probably be recommended by the people they asked to be content advisors!

This lesson correlates to the standard for ages PreK-2 viewable on page 19 of the draft Framework:

Physical Health and Hygiene [PK.2.PH] standard
3. Use medically accurate names for body parts, including genitals when communicating about their body and physical health.

A few notable quotes from this lesson:

“Most girls have a vulva, which is the name for the area between the legs. The vulva describes the whole area including the small hole where urine or pee comes out called the opening to the urethra, the hole below that, which is a little bigger and is called the vagina that is used when a female has a baby, and the hole below that where a bowel movement, or poop, comes out is called the anus. So a person with a vulva has three holes between their legs and a very sensitive little area at the top called the clitoris."

"Conclude the lesson by asking students “Can anyone tell me a body part that most girls have but not boys?” (vulva). “Can anyone tell me a body part that most boys have but not girls?” (penis). “Can anyone tell me a body part we learned about today that both boys and girls usually have?” (anus, nipples). Explain “Most people have a vulva or a penis but some people’s bodies can be different. Your body is exactly what is right for you.”

This sounds too inappropriate to be true, but don't take our word for it. Read the lesson for yourself!

You can download this free lesson online HERE.

Or read the lesson and view the corresponding PowerPoint here:

The Director of Sexuality Education and Training for Advocates for Youth, the organization that produced this lesson, served as a content advisor for the draft Framework.

Talking to young children about sensitive private parts in a public-school classroom is NEVER appropriate. This is information that should be shared at home by parents or guardians, not in a mixed-sex classroom with a teacher!

This is just ONE of the many reasons we urge everyone to contact DESE and tell them that its Framework is not appropriate and cannot be accepted.

To submit your comment today, click HERE to use MFI's easy submission form.

Or read THIS POST for other ways to submit your comment, plus lots of other useful links.

And finally, ICYMI last week, we have put together a pdf one-sheet (front and back) that you can share with friends, family, your unconvinced neighbor, playgroup parents, your legislators, or anyone who needs to know about the graphic and harmful content in DESE's draft framework. It's just a sample of the concerning issues with DESE's draft and it doesn't include everything, but it's a great way to introduce new people to the CSE agenda, what it means for MA students, and how to take action against it.

Click HERE for the FREE download.

As of today, there have been 588 emails sent through MFI's simple submission form alone! Let's see how high we can get that number over the next 7 weeks!

Here's how to Participate in "See You at the Library" on August 5th!

Last week on the MIP Substack, we exposed the American Library Association's bizarre, Orwellian effort to shut down a conservative, family-friendly story hour event. ICYMI, you can read more about that HERE.

And today, we are inviting you to participate in that very event! Let's see how many See You at the Library story hour events we can schedule in MA on August 5th!

To learn more about See You at the Library, including how to plan your own event, click HERE.

The ALA pretends to support free speech and freedom of thought, but they want to silence SYATL. Broad support for events like this shows local libraries that their patrons want books that represent conservative, family-friendly values. Let's show our local libraries that, despite what the ALA says, supporting events like this is good for free speech and good for our local communities.

If you are hosting a SYATL event on August 5th, or plan to attend one, let us know in the comments!

Planned Parenthood Takes a Stand… on Behalf of Kink

Look what PP posted on their FB page. PP was on the panel that wrote the draft updated sex ed standards for MA K-12 students now under consideration by DESE. They also produce the Get Real comprehensive sexuality education curriculum in use in many MA schools.

“Don’t yuck someone else’s yum…”

Sick.

PP and its curriculum don’t belong anywhere near MA children.

See the news article about this HERE.

Also, click THIS LINK to send an email to DESE to ask them to reject the draft updated Framework.

Teachers are Quitting and Superintendents are Stressed

Teachers are quitting. Could it be that they’ve had enough of the ideologically driven content they are being forced to teach?

#Groomer Summer Camp

Planned Parenthood is enticing kids to attend their sex ed summer camp with gift cards.

Seriously?

#groomers

Read more and watch a video interview HERE.

Parent Alert: FDA flip-flops on OTC birth control pills, puts your kids at further risk

Activist groups like Advocates for Youth have been pushing for over-the-counter access to hormonal birth control for years (we've talked about that before, HERE). Their #freethepill campaign recruited kids as young as 11 years old to spread the word about their efforts and participate in the study.

(If 11 sounds awfully young to you, that's because it IS. 11-year-olds aren't even allowed to take aspirin without parental permission in school!)

And now, the FDA has made the activists' dreams come true. This week they approved Opill, a birth control pill, for OTC sale with NO age restrictions. Read more about the FDA’s decision HERE.

AfY is celebrating, but that's no surprise since they put ideology over real safety concerns on a regular basis.

This approval is alarming because, in addition to making birth control more accessible to even the youngest teens without parental knowledge or consent (and all of the potential social, moral and ethical issues present in that decision), the FDA overlooked some known safety concerns that disproportionately impact adolescents.

The AP reported on these concerns HERE.

And you can read the FDA's briefing HERE.

From their briefing:

“Adolescents represent a population of special concern with regard to the nonprescription availability of norgestrel...”
“The Applicant did not collect information on sexual history at enrollment, nor elicit sexual activity during study participation in the adolescent population...”
“Since questions regarding sexual activity were not asked, it is unclear how many of the adolescent participants were at risk for pregnancy...”
“As previously discussed, younger adolescents in particular demonstrated low comprehension of certain key labeling messages...”
“Moreover, this age group also scored low in comprehension of ‘Do not use as an emergency contraceptive.’”
“In addition, adolescents... represented a significant proportion of study participants who reported “off-label” use... raising concerns that many adolescents used the norgestrel study drug product for a purpose other than its approved indication...”
“The impact of chronic use of the proposed norgestrel product on bone health in adolescents remains unclear...”
“A lack of available data limits our ability to assess the impact of chronic use of the proposed norgestrel product on bone mineral density in the adolescent population.” (See picture for full quote)

So with the lack of safety assurances and the data demonstrating that adolescents don't fully understand how to use Opill properly, why would the FDA approve it for OTC use?

We can understand why groups like AfY and Planned Parenthood would push to #freethepill. Pushing sexual activity amongst youth is part of their brand, and if the pill fails because a 12-year-old didn't follow the instructions and she becomes pregnant, they would be more than happy to help her get an abortion. They only care about increasing "access" to "reproductive services"... they don't care about the many downsides or negative outcomes for young girls.

What about the fact that now an abuser or molester can purchase these pills for a girl and force her to take them - and no doctor would ever know?

What about the girl who feels pressured to become sexually active even though she really doesn't want to, because the "gatekeepers" actually provided her cover from a pushy boyfriend?

What about the girl who has a health issue from taking the pills, and her parents are clueless because they don't know she is taking them?

AfY and Planned Parenthood don't care about those girls. Those girls don't fit their agenda.

And of course, Planned Parenthood is celebrating... if more teens get pregnant accidentally because they are taking a pill they don't understand how to properly use, it will create more business for PP.

But the FDA should care, and the fact that they flip-flopped on this issue and approved this pill for all ages without any medical consultation or supervision should concern parents everywhere.

So, parents, be aware. With AfY and Planned Parenthood with their hands in public school curricula in MA, it's only a matter of time before this issue hits someone you know. If your child is old enough to learn what the pill is (or be taught about it at school), talk to them about the risks surrounding hormonal birth control. If they don't hear the downsides from you, they might never hear them.

ACTION ALERT: STOP COERCIVE AND DISCRIMINATORY VACCINE BILLS

Several vaccine bills will have a hearing at the State House next Wednesday, July 19th from 9 am to 6 pm.

HB604 - An Act relative to routine childhood immunizations SB1391 - An Act relative to vaccines and preventing future disease outbreaks HB2151/SB1458 - An Act promoting community immunity

These bills MUST be stopped!

They would:

Eliminate religious exemptions for vaccines for attendance at both public AND private schools.
Require all exemption requests to go through the MA Department of Public Health (DPH) and shame schools and parents who request them.
Allow the DPH to mandate vaccines for college students.
Allow private daycares, preschools, elementary, and secondary schools, and colleges to require additional vaccines not currently required by the applicable statute or by DPH - like the COVID-19 vaccine.
Allow minors to consent to vaccination without their parents’ or guardians’ knowledge or consent.

Take these action steps now:

Sign up to testify at the hearing in opposition to these bills. The deadline to sign up to testify is Monday, July 17th at 5 pm.
Email or call your legislators and ask them to oppose these bills.
Share this post far and wide!
Attend the hearing, even if you don’t testify. Numbers matter.

Read the blog post from Massachusetts Family Institute for more information.