Abortion provider increases access to Puerto Rico youth
The “Asociación Puertorriqueña Pro-Bienestar de la Familia” PROFAMILIA, the Puerto Rico branch of the notorious abortion provider Planned Parenthood, has recently signed an agreement with the Puerto Rico Department of the Family to provide “servicios de orientación y educación en salud sexual” to young participants of the project “Redes de Apoyo Familiar y Convivencia Comunitaria” in poor neighbourhoods of Mayagüez, Humacao, Cayey and Caguas and later Vieques.
These services will include “orientations” on prevention of pregnancy by means of artificial contraception and abortion. This is in clear conflict of interest with the fact that Planned Parenthood has a financial incentive in increasing the number of abortions and is on record as demanding the “right” to commit abortion on minors. Indeed, Planned Parenthood opposes all laws that would respect the rights to parents on such matters — even the right to be informed. Planned Parenthood also opposes abstinence education.
In reality, research [1] has shown that teen pregnant rates fall significantly when Planned Parenthood offices close.
It is also of no small coincidence that Idalia Colón Rondón, the Secretary of the Department of the Family, was for many years the Director of PROFAMILIA.
Planned Parenthood, via its Puerto Rico affiliate PROFAMILIA, has for many decades organized workshops and training for young children on topics such as contraception, abortion and homophobia. By promoting premarital and homosexual sex, and propagating the deluded notion that so called “safe sex” is really “safe”, they have contributed greatly to the current epidemics of venereal disease, teen pregnancy and abortion in Puerto Rico [2] while, no doubt, reaping handsome profits in their abortion clinics. Indeed, PPF training material is often indistinguishable from pornography.
Planned Parenthood actually boasts of its ability to “penetrate” the kindergartens of Puerto Rico. According to a 1994 PPF newspage,
Our first stop was at a fabulous elementary school (the Escuela Luis Muñoz Rivera) in Carolina, PR, where we received a warm welcome and gracious hospitality from the principal. Our Global Planning Team witnessed a three-hour education session, called PESA PROJECT, provided by PROFAMILIA. PESA PROJECT provides educational programs on sexuality and the prevention of child abuse and neglect to children between the ages of 4–12. This program is offered to school children, parents, local communities, and, quite often, workshops are arranged for professionals. We were all impressed with PROFAMILIA’s ability to not only penetrate, but be well received, within the kindergarten to 6th grade elementary school districts.
More recently, PROFAMILIA has used “flash mobs” to promote so called “reproductive rights” such as abortion to the Boys and Girls Club in Carolina, Puerto Rico.
In the US, videos [3] by the investigative organization Live Action have exposed Planned Parenthood for:
- Covering up and facilitating the sexual exploitation of minors.
- Providing medical misinformation.
- Using manipulative coercion.
- Facilitating race and sex-based abortions.
