Taxpayers were funding sexually explicit lessons pushed on kids, until the administration pulled the plug on $67 million
For years, American taxpayers have been paying for what Washington called teen pregnancy prevention. What some of that money actually bought, a federal review found, was classroom material no parent would recognize as prevention at all.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has notified more than 50 organizations that their Teen Pregnancy Prevention program grants are terminated, cutting off $67 million and ending 53 of the 67 grants awarded under the previous administration. The list of defunded grantees includes Planned Parenthood California Central Coast and Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, along with a string of state and local health departments, university systems, and nonprofits.
The reason, according to the termination letters first reported by The Daily Signal, is that the funded curricula were found to be medically inaccurate, age-inappropriate, and "sexually explicit," in violation of the very statute that created the program. Reviewers found materials that normalized sexual activity for minors, including role-play scenarios and content that treated teen sexual behavior as a given to be managed rather than a harm to be prevented. A program created by Congress to keep teenagers from getting pregnant was, in practice, paying organizations whose materials pointed kids in the opposite direction.
And who better to profit from that arrangement than Planned Parenthood? The same organization that performs more abortions than any other in America was collecting federal grants to teach children about sex. The conflict of interest is not subtle. Every teenager formed by that worldview is a potential future customer.
Alongside the terminations, HHS announced new grant opportunities for programs that respect the innocence of children, focusing on education that does not expose minors to explicit content or normalize sexual activity for them.
Final Thoughts
Parents, not federal grantees, are the first educators of their children. That is not just good policy; it is the natural law. This decision returns $67 million worth of leverage to where it belongs and sends a message the abortion industry will not miss: the era of taxpayer-funded access to America's children is coming to an end. Vigilance, though, belongs to parents. Know what your children are being taught, and by whom.
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