Same author, different book,
younger age group - and, of course, Planned Parenthood....
OCTOBER, 2001
Review of "It's So Amazing"
Across the country, Planned Parenthood is pushing a sex education book, It's So Amazing, for "elementary school children." The author, Robie H. Harris, who also wrote It's Perfectly Normal, is affiliated with the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts. She is also a member of Planned Parenthood Federation of America's board of advocates.
This book, aimed at children
age 7 and up, attempts to answer the questions children have "about reproduction and babies - and about sex and sexuality too." What it really does is indoctrinate our kids in the sexual attitudes of PP.
Children are told: "a male and female can only make a baby after puberty has begun. But most of the time, it is easier and healthier for people to wait to have a baby until they are older and become grownups." Notice that children are told to wait to have children "most of the time" - implying there are times they don't have to wait.
On page 28, elementary school children are presented with a specific description of gotcha146. But why do our seven-, eight- and nine-year-old children need to know this?
Chapter 10 introduces the children to homosexuality (including the terms lesbian and gay) and describes it as being as normal as heterosexuality. Chapter 18 presents the concept of families and states that "kids whose parent or parents are gay men and kids whose parent or parents are lesbian women" live in families as nor-mal as those "kids who grow up with their birth parents."
Children are told that what exists in the mother from day 1 after fertilization until day 5 is not a zygote or blastocyst but "a ball of cells." On page 40 children are told, "It's so amazing that a tiny ball of cells can grow into a whole new person - a baby!" They are further told "a pregnancy begins when the ball of cells plants itself in the lining of the uterus and becomes an embryo." (emphasis in original)
Seven-year-old children are introduced to the concepts of in vitro fertilization and birth control. Children are specifically told about birth control pills and condoms.
The definition of abortion on page 42 is: "a medical way to end a pregnancy." The marginal note to kids on this page, which also talks about miscarriage and adoption, says: "I like to have lots of choices."
It is interesting that, later in the book (page 62), children are told that all their physical characteristics are determined "the moment a sperm cell and an egg cell join together." The book explains chromosomes and genes, but apparently feels no need to reconcile this with the earlier "ball of cells" language.
©2001 STOPP International
A project of American Life League, Inc.
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