Planned Parenthood - children, cover your eyes and ears?

I'm reading our local paper. I'm reading on the latest contrived controversy - Manchester Schools Probe Controversial Field Trip. Did you know a YMCA programme for at risk children - S.T.A.Y. - brought children to a *gasp* Planned Parenthood? Where there were pro life demonstrators?

Now... I'd bet a fair amount of doughnut fare that the reaction is not over the mouthy protestors, but rather over the services a PP might offer. I mean, they actually educate on protection and planning, and that is simply unconscionable.

Anyway, here is a brief blurb from Parkside Middle School in Manchester:

The S.T.A.Y. Program (Support, Tutoring, and Adventures for Youth) is an on-going collaboration between the Greater Manchester Family YMCA and the Manchester School District. providing a support system for students in middle school who are at risk of dropping out and turning to substance abuse, violence, and other at-risk behavior.

Gee, these kids, on the cusp of or already into puberty, have no need to know how their bodies work, and how to self-protect, right? They can all be as ignorant as I was at their age (and older) and blissfully go through adolescence thinking their body has gone haywire.

This sort of nonsense was ended with parental notification as this state has repealed it's law, but now some noisemakers wish to make this an issue. Anytime someone says or does anything that relates to our sexuality in any way, shape, or form, people get all anal. Jocelyn Elders was run out of the Surgeon General position for daring to suggest masturbation be a viable alternative placed before adolescents.Makes me crazy.

The mayor has to join in and  say we can't have this. Yes, we can. Stop trying to make ignoramuses out of  our young.