Laird, an Altoona, Pennsylvania native who works for Planned Parenthood in the Pennsylvania state capitol of Harrisburg, asked her question at a recent Planned Parenthood conference in Washington, DC, as revealed by an article in the Altoona Mirror. Other attendees at the conference asked a range of questions which reflect Planned Parenthood’s comprehensive sexual agenda, from “Would you push for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment?,” “Will you repeal the global gag rule?” (referring to the Mexico City policy of the Reagan administration, which was reinstated by the Bush administration), to “Would you protect a woman’s right to control her body?” (an obvious reference to Planned Parenthood’s support for Roe v. Wade).
Besides Laird, three other YouTube.com video submissions from the Planned Parenthood conferences dealt with the issue of sex education, whether it was “comprehensive,” “medically accurate,” or as Laird put it, “age-appropriate.” For those who are unaware of Planned Parenthood’s viewpoint on “age-appropriate” sex education, one only need to look at a book that the organization was promoting called “It’s So Amazing,” which introduced children as young as 7 to masturbation and homosexuality, and to Planned Parenthood’s viewpoint that homosexuality is “as normal as heterosexuality.”
Host Anderson Cooper addressed Laird’s question to John Edwards and to Barack Obama. Cooper’s choice of Obama isn’t surprising, since it was only last week that Obama got into some hot water over his comments about sex education for children in kindergarten (which were made in an address to Planned Parenthood, by the way). Cooper and/or CNN must have thought Obama deserved a chance to “redeem” himself, though he has been pretty consistent in his position over the years. This effort follows ABC News’s attempt to turn the Obama controversy into an attack on Mitt Romney, who was vocally critical of Obama on the sex education issue.
Given all of the above, it shouldn’t be surprising that Laird’s video clip was chosen in the first place.
(Thanks to Ken Shepherd for directing me to the PPvotes YouTube.com page in the first place.)
