Actress (Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice) and Planned Parenthood board member Kate Walsh appeared on CBS’s “The Early Show” to talk about sex education for teens: “Abstinence is one aspect of sex education, but it is not the complete aspect. And to expect, I think, everybody to remain abstinent is just—it’s like asking them not to grow. It’s like we don’t ask people to not try out for sports.” Thank goodness she just plays a doctor on TV. … See the clip here.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists has issued a warning that women are at risk for mental health breakdowns if they have an abortion. The Times of London reports that this professional and educational body for psychiatrists in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland has recommended that abortion information that’s distributed should be updated to include details of the risks of depression. “Consent cannot be informed without the provision of adequate and appropriate information,” the group said.

Meanwhile, the British Parliament will soon vote on a proposed reduction on the number of weeks into a pregnancy a woman can have an abortion from 24 to 20 weeks.

Stateside, Planned Parenthood’s eugenic and racist roots are showing in Idaho, thanks to a UCLA pro-life student magazine, The Advocate.

The same week that the Virginia Senate voted to cut off funds to Planned Parenthood, pro-life students outed the organization for alleged racism.

Lila Rose, UCLA sophomore and founder of The Advocate, a pro-life student magazine, recruited an actor to make phone calls to Planned Parenthood clinics in seven states posing as a racist who wanted to make a donation earmarked for the abortion of black babies. Without objection or question, every representative the actor spoke to said they would accept such a donation.

Here is the dialogue between the actor and the representative at the Idaho branch, according to a video montage Rose posted on YouTube:

Actor: …I really faced trouble with affirmative action, and I don’t want my kids to be disadvantaged against black kids.

Planned Parenthood: Yes, absolutely.

Actor: And we don’t, you know, we just think the less black kids out there the better.

Planned Parenthood: (Laughs) Understandable, understandable… This is the first time I’ve had a donor call and make this kind of request, so I’m excited and want to make sure I don’t leave anything out.

This was not the first time Rose, who claims to be a Christian, used “behind the scenes” techniques with Planned Parenthood. In November 2006, Rose posed as a pregnant 15-year-old. She used an undercover camera to record a Planned Parenthood employee advising her to claim she was 16 so they wouldn’t have to report it as a case of statutory rape. When Planned Parenthood found out, they threatened to sue Rose.

Rose told WoW that she believes Christian journalists, like government agents, are justified in going undercover, and even lying, in order to fight against human rights abuses, such as slavery and abortion.

“You see Christians in history going undercover with this kind of infiltration to save a life, or find a truth…this is the kind of thing we can do bravely,” she said.

On Thursday, Planned Parenthood’s CEO Rebecca Poedy apologized for the actions of the representative at the Idaho branch and said, “Planned Parenthood firmly and unequivocally denounces racial bias in the delivery of health care.”

The charge of racism has legs, though, because Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger helped to fund her organization by suggesting — accurately — that it would cut down the number of African-American births. A much higher percentage of black babies than white babies are now killed before birth.

The Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the “advocacy and political arm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America,” has created a radio spot criticizing John McCain’s “anti-choice” record. Click here to hear it.

HT: Matt Lewis

If Planned Parenthood’s political schemes go according to plan, a pro-abortion candidate will rally to presidential victory in November 2008. Working through Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the world’s largest provider of abortions hopes to bring one million voters to the polls this fall.

Aside from securing a pro-abortion president and one million new abortion activists, the “One Million Strong Campaign” aspires to win key Senate, Congressional and legislative seats on Election Day 2008, creating ideal conditions for the passage of pro-abortion legislation in the future.

In a Jan. 22 press release, Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, explained that the organization’s venture into the political arena will ensure that women in America continue to receive valuable information and health services.

“Under President Bush, women have seen access to basic health care like birth control become increasingly unaffordable and inaccessible. . . . And they’ve now seen the White House and the state governments pour more than $1.5 billion into ineffective and dangerous abstinence-until-marriage programs that do nothing to prevent unintended pregnancies,” Richards said in the press release.

Jim Sedlak, vice president of American Life League, believes the organization’s campaign may falter. “Planned Parenthood has a bad name around the nation,” Sedlak told WoW. “They raise opposition among both pro-abortion and pro-life supporters and, in our opinion, their support of candidates will not be positive.”

Because of its tax-exempt status, Planned Parenthood is prohibited from endorsing a candidate or being involved in political action. Sedlak said that Planned Parenthood often skirts legality during its political ventures rather than leaving campaign work solely to its Action Fund.

“If Planned Parenthood starts putting up signs in clinics, we will file complaints with the IRS to make sure their tax-exempt status is removed,” Sedlak said. “If I was a candidate and I was getting an endorsement from Planned Parenthood, I would be worried.”

The Appleton, Wisconsin, Post-Crescent headline said this: “Turnout huge for controversial Christian event .”

What was the event? The “Secret Keeper Girl Bod Squad Tour,” which encourages girls in grades three through six to (gasp!) dress modestly. Why was it controversial? Because the program is sponsored by a (gasp!) Christian author, and a foundation with ties to the local school district contributed $500 to put it on.

This, of course, raised the hackles of Americans United for Separation of Church and State and another Christophobic junta with a rising profile, the Freedom from Religion Foundation. After Americans United sent the usual threatening form letter to Kimberly School District officials, organizers moved the Bod Squad event to a nearby church. Can’t have little girls tutored on public property in such subversive right-wingery as (gasp!) dressing modestly, now can we?

“If the district understood what it was getting involved with, then it shows a disturbing inability by authorities of the Kimberly Area School District to separate their personal religious views from their professional obligation to run a secular school district,” Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of Freedom from Religion Foundation, opined in a letter to the district. The Positive Youth Development Foundation, not the school district, paid for the event, school superintendent Mel Lightner told the Post-Crescent.

The president of the foundation, Dan Lenz, is also president of the Kimberly School Board, proving, of course, that Hillary was right: There is a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy!

“It is all about a mobilized group of people who just want to raise funds and give it back to the community to help the positive development of children in our community,” Lightner said. Since 1998, the Positive Youth Development Foundation has awarded more than $100,000 for programs that promote youth and family development or work toward prevention of at-risk behaviors. The nonprofit organization generates money through fundraisers. “Frankly, we have funded things at parochial schools and have never thought to make a distinction between a faith-based thing or anything else,” Lightner said. “We’ve funded Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, which have a distinct message, too. The foundation board thinks if it’s good for kids, we’ll do it.”

This tempest in a Wisconsin teapot highlights the fevered Christophobia of groups like Americans United and FRF: Their leaders move to stamp out healthy, sane programs for kids when those programs are religion-based, while keeping mum about multimillion-dollar tax-vampires like Planned Parenthood, which have all-access passes to public schools and sponsor programs like this one. (Go ahead and click around in that last link. I couldn’t find a page suitable to link to.)

And they call us “ideologues.”