{"id":5280,"date":"2012-01-04T06:42:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T11:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5280"},"modified":"2012-01-04T09:41:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T14:41:39","slug":"morning-read-saratoga-springs-based-planned-parenthood-booted-out-of-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/01\/04\/morning-read-saratoga-springs-based-planned-parenthood-booted-out-of-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Saratoga Springs-based Planned Parenthood booted out of schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/local\/article\/Class-is-over-for-Planned-Parenthood-2439672.php\">Albany Times Union is reporting<\/a> that a school district in Clifton Park has severed ties with educators from Planned Parenthood, following complaints from parents affiliated with the local Roman Catholic church.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Maureen Shifler, a district parent, was among those who pushed the  school to cut its ties to Planned Parenthood. She recruited supporters  to her effort through the bulletin at Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church in Clifton\u00a0Park.<\/p>\n<p>Shifler  said a primary concern among the two dozen parents allied to her cause  centered around the way abstinence was presented to children and that  some parents were not given proper notification about their right to opt  out of the coursework. She said that children were being lulled into a  false sense of security and that they could still be exposed to sexually  transmitted\u00a0diseases.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a difference between teaching something and promoting something,&#8221; she\u00a0said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Planned Parenthood had been teaching in the district, offering regular seminars on safe sex, abstinence and other reproductive health issues, for twenty years.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/local\/article\/Class-is-over-for-Planned-Parenthood-2439672.php\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Albany Times Union is reporting that a school district in Clifton Park has severed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}