Roundup: British Sex Ed to Start in Kindergarten

British sex ed to start in kindergarten; Indiana abortion bill gains provision that would actually help women - so antis oppose it; Minnesota protects public funding for abortion; Bonnie Erbe on the YouTube trap.

British Sex Ed to Start in Kindergarten
The Guardian reports:
sex education for British schoolchildren will be mandatory from age 5
to age 11.  The requirements, however, appear to be markedly different
for "faith schools" and other government schools: "Under the plans all
secondary schools will have to teach teenagers about contraception, safer sex and relationships, but faith schools
will also be free to preach against sex outside of marriage and
condoms…It means that all secondary schools in England will for the
first time
have to teach a core curriculum about sex and contraception in the
context of teenagers’ relationships, but teachers in faith schools will
be free to tell them that having sex outside of marriage, homosexuality
or using contraception is wrong."

Indiana Abortion Bill Gains Provision That Would Actually Help Women – So Antis Oppose It
Indiana
Democrats have added a $23 million provision for breast and cervical
cancer screenings for women to a bill that would require abortion
providers in the state to have admitting privileges at local hospitals,
reports the IndyStar.com
Indiana Republicans say the measure will likely not pass with such a
costly program attached to it.  Rep. Scott Pelath, D-Michigan City,
said: "It’s a bill about women’s health," he said. "I don’t know why we
wouldn’t take this opportunity to save a lot of lives."  Here’s what
the lobbyist for the state Right to Life group has to say about a bill
that would enable women to detect cancer earlier: "I think it is
disappointing that this bill, which started out simply
as a follow-up care enhancement for women who have had abortions,
turned into a ($23 million) health-care problem," said Sue Swayze. 

Minnesota Protects Public Funding for Abortion
Both
the Minnesota House and Senate considers banning funding for abortion
through state-funded health insurance programs, but both proposals
failed, Politics in Minnesota reports.  Rep. Tina Liebling (DFL-Rochester) argued against the amendment, saying it "would set up a legal confrontation concerning the 1995 Minnesota
Supreme Court decision Doe v. Gomez. The Gomez case required state
health programs for poor Minnesotans to pay for abortions."

Bonnie Erbe on the YouTube Trap
At US News & World Report,
Bonnie Erbe takes a strong stance against the "YouTube trap"
anti-choice activists have set for Planned Parenthood.  Erbe writes, "The Los Angeles Times has a story about a 20-something abortion foe who videotapes counseling sessions at Planned Parenthood clinics in which she poses as a 13-year-old impregnated by an older man."  (The patient wants an abortion without having authorities notified that she was in a relationship with an older man, and the nursing aide appears to oblige her.)  Erbe writes,

After posting these videos on YouTube and campaigning with them
throughout the netherworld of the antiabortion movement, Lila Rose has
succeeded in getting state and local governments to cut of hundreds of
thousands of dollars in funding to Planned Parenthood clinics. She has
also created a public relations nightmare for the group. NB: The aides
who violated rules by telling the "girl" to lie about the father have
been fired as they were violating Planned Parenthood rules. 

I have three questions for prosecutors who are now considering
investigations into the Planned Parenthood operations in some of the
six states where Rose posed as something she was not:

1. Why don’t they investigate Rose for trespassing, fraud, and
whatever other law she violated by posing as something she was not to
make the videos?

2. Why don’t state authorities prosecute her for violating state privacy laws by videotaping private counseling sessions?…

3. Since antiabortion foes will never succeed in banning abortion (they
got as close as they will ever get with eight years of George Bush in
the White House, and he left office as the worst president in American
history) why don’t they just go away?

Other News to Note
April 27: HuffPo: Pro-Choice Progress: A Primer on President Obama’s First 100 Days

April 27: LifeNews: Democratic Pro-Life Bill, Pregnant Women Support Act, Gets Catholic Bishops OK

April 27: LifeNews: New Jersey Gov Candidate Chris Christie Leads Polls, Has Pro-Life Backing

April 27: Newsbusters: CNN Plan B Coverage an Insult to Pro-Life Women

April 28: Daily 49er: Nonprofit wants to ‘force a consensus’ on abortion

April 27: Fox News: Supermodel Kathy Ireland Lashes Out Against Pro Choice

April 27: The Hill: Abortion activist: Obama flu actions are Sebelius cover-up

April 25: Courier Press: Backers admit possible effects of abortion provider bill

April 27: WIBC: Bill to Regulate Abortion Doctors Still at Stalemate

April 27: Daily Dish: Abortion, Homosexuality And The Young

April 27: Beliefnet: Steve Waldman: An abortion compromise?

April 27: Beliefnet: Abortion Rights: Safe, Legal, and Early 

April 27: NYT: Ginia Bellafante on Bea Arthur, ‘Maude’ and Abortion

April 27: NYT: Is That Plate Speaking for the Driver or the State?

April 27: FOX News: UCLA Student Gets ‘Underage’ Abortion Advice

April 27: AP: Indiana lawmakers deadlocked on abortion doctors bill

April 27: Kansas Liberty: Tiahrt will urge Obama to withdraw Sebelius HHS nomination