May 26, 1998

To the Editor,

I read the press release posing as journalism in last week's edition about Planned Parenthood's new TWIST program, The Walk In Services For Teens. Other businesses have to pay for their advertising in your paper.

An editor doing his job informing the public could have asked the following questions:

-How young will Planned Parenthood take a child in for its self-serving "counseling?" The Mt. Kisco affiliate advertises for teens "under age 17." Why is parental consent never required for any of Planned Parenthood's ventures from administering drugs like Depo-Provera to surgical abortions on minors?

- The "senior clinician" claims that this new program for minors takes away "embarrassment of picking up the phone." Could it be that Planned Parenthood is too embarrassed to pick up the phone and call the parents? 

-What is Planned Parenthood's explanation for the meteoric rise in sexually transmitted diseases in the last thirty years threatening this generation's ability to have children as married adults? 

-Given that most area minors are not reading The Patent Trader, how does Planned Parenthood hope to reach it's "minor" constituency?

You can bet it has an open door to our public schools "comprehensive health education" classroom teachers. 

-Why does the Planned Parenthood's Francine Stein refer to young teenagers as "young men and women?" Does it make it more palatable? How many parents believe, as does Planned Parenthood, that children as young as eight and nine need full details about homosexuality, anal and oral sex? (I have the Planned Parenthood brochure to prove it.)

No matter how Francine Stein "twists" it, Planned Parenthood's target market is the area's minor youth. It should leave town and refrain from imposing its agenda in our public school



Phil Christe

Mt. Kisco, NY 666-8001


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