I posted this story as the Quote of the Day Saturday, but it
is so ridiculous and beyond the pale I wanted to make sure everyone saw it.
From the Virginian-Pilot, May 21:
"It is hard to imagine that we would have an employee who believes it would
be appropriate to share plastic fetus dolls with students in one of our
schools." ~ School Board Chairman Stephen Tonelson
"Very life like, and it's a pro-life tool. To be quite honest, that is so
incredible to me, that a staff member would do something so... entirely
inappropriate and unacceptable. [Board members] were all pretty
dumbfounded." ~ Board member Kirk Houston Sr.
"The administration has to look at that. That's obviously inappropriate." ~
Board member Billy Cook
WAVY-TV did a hit job against rationality in its
May 21 news story, reporting there was "a lot of upset, a lot of outrage" that
these "fetus figures," also described as "squishy, fleshlike figures," were
distributed to children with a "clear anti-abortion message attached."
What was that message? According to the WAVY report (which CNN also ran), the attached card read, "'Some people think that my life began at birth; but my life's journey began long before I was born,' [and] on the back of the card a description of the development of a fetus's 1st 12 weeks of life."
Shock! Horror! Since when did human biology become a "clear anti-abortion message"? Also note WAVY spotlighted 3 pro-abort readers' comments and only 1 semi-pro-life comment ("So sex ed is ok but not a fetus doll? It's not THAT bad.")
Something interesting I realized when reading up on this, which makes total
sense given the ideology at work. "Comprehensive sex ed" focuses only on the
developing bodies and body parts of born people, not preborn people. Here are
"guidelines" from the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United
States for Level 1 sex ed for ages 5-8 (8yo =
3rd grade), quoting:
• Each body part has a correct name and a specific function.
• A person's genitals, reproductive organs, and genes determine whether the person is male or female.
• A boy/man has nipples, a penis, a scrotum, and testicles.
• A girl/woman has breasts, nipples, a vulva, a clitoris, a vagina, a uterus, and ovaries.
• Some sexual or reproductive organs, such as penises and vulvas, are external or on the outside of the body while others, such as ovaries and testicles, are internal or inside the body.
• Both boys and girls have body parts that feel
good when touched....
• Men and women have reproductive organs that enable them to have a child.
• Men and women have specific cells in their bodies (sperm cells and egg cells) that enable them to reproduce.
• Reproduction requires that a sperm and egg join.
• Vaginal intercourse - when a penis is placed inside a vagina - is the most common way for a sperm and egg to join.
• When a woman is pregnant, the fetus grows inside her body in her uterus.
• A woman can be pregnant with more than one fetus at a time.
• Babies usually come out of a woman's body through an opening called a vagina.
The Norfolk Public School System apparently doesn't begin sex ed until 6th grade, but I am curious to know what 3rd-5th graders are taught about human biology.
From the Virginian-Pilot, May 21:Plastic human fetus dolls - soft, in pink and brown, and about 4" long - have been handed out at Oakwood Elementary School [Norfolk, VA] by an employee who was put on administrative leave Thursday over the situation....
The dolls, which were distributed over weeks or months, are not authorized by the division as instructional materials, spokeswoman Elizabeth Thiel Mather said Thursday. Mather said the employee will remain on leave until school officials investigate the reports....First, this is the sort of "investigative journalism" we get from MSM these days? 2nd, what in the h-e-double bamboo shoots is the problem with giving 3rd-5th grade children baby dolls? What's the difference between this doll and any other baby doll? Yet here are incredibly obtuse quotes from school board members, from the Virginian-Pilot:
Principal Sheila Tillett Holas was put on leave today.... The division began its investigation after The Pilot asked school leaders this week about the fetus dolls.
The distribution of the life-like forms among grade school children shocked and repelled some parents and teachers and School Board members who discussed them in a closed meeting this week.
What was that message? According to the WAVY report (which CNN also ran), the attached card read, "'Some people think that my life began at birth; but my life's journey began long before I was born,' [and] on the back of the card a description of the development of a fetus's 1st 12 weeks of life."
Shock! Horror! Since when did human biology become a "clear anti-abortion message"? Also note WAVY spotlighted 3 pro-abort readers' comments and only 1 semi-pro-life comment ("So sex ed is ok but not a fetus doll? It's not THAT bad.")
• Each body part has a correct name and a specific function.
• A person's genitals, reproductive organs, and genes determine whether the person is male or female.
• A boy/man has nipples, a penis, a scrotum, and testicles.
• A girl/woman has breasts, nipples, a vulva, a clitoris, a vagina, a uterus, and ovaries.
• Some sexual or reproductive organs, such as penises and vulvas, are external or on the outside of the body while others, such as ovaries and testicles, are internal or inside the body.
• Both boys and girls have body parts that feel
good when touched....• Men and women have reproductive organs that enable them to have a child.
• Men and women have specific cells in their bodies (sperm cells and egg cells) that enable them to reproduce.
• Reproduction requires that a sperm and egg join.
• Vaginal intercourse - when a penis is placed inside a vagina - is the most common way for a sperm and egg to join.
• When a woman is pregnant, the fetus grows inside her body in her uterus.
• A woman can be pregnant with more than one fetus at a time.
• Babies usually come out of a woman's body through an opening called a vagina.
The Norfolk Public School System apparently doesn't begin sex ed until 6th grade, but I am curious to know what 3rd-5th graders are taught about human biology.
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