The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) took a major step toward cleaning house at Planned Parenthood and similar organizations, issuing a sweeping policy directive yesterday that will defund programs promoting radical gender ideology, sexually explicit material, and medically inaccurate information, currently funded under the cover of “teen pregnancy prevention.”
The grooming of teens and pre-teens by left-wing nonprofits and programs is under attack by the Department led by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
HHS’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health issued Program Policy Notice 2025-01, which reaffirms parental rights, prioritizes medical accuracy, and mandates compliance with several recent Executive Orders, including those ending federal promotion of gender ideology, DEI, and what the administration calls “radical indoctrination.”
The move could wipe out millions in taxpayer funding for groups like Planned Parenthood of Greater New York, AccessMatters, Bridgercare, and dozens of other TPP grantees who have been pushing graphic sexual material to children as young as 11 under the federal Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program.
The government encourages 11 year olds to have sex, but just not to ever get pregnant. Pregnancy is treated by the left as a disease, but underage sex is treated as inevitable.
Among the federally funded lessons flagged for immediate defunding:
- “Be Proud! Be Responsible!” (AccessMatters): Instructs children on how to “make condoms fun,” suggesting they “hide a condom on your body and ask your partner to find it,” “pretend you are different people,” and “wrap condoms as a present.”
- “Making Proud Choices!” (Bridgercare): Teaches middle schoolers to practice putting condoms on penis models, with guidance to cut condoms into sheets for oral sex and discussion of flavored condoms for use during foreplay.
- “Linking Families & Teens” (MOASH/AccessMatters): Includes gender pronoun identification sheets and materials normalizing gender transition and sexual activity among minors.
Planned Parenthood’s own entries are especially egregious. According to internal HHS review documents, Planned Parenthood’s programs often:
- Promote hormone therapy for minors on affiliated websites.
- Encourage preteen children to create a “plan to become sexually active.”
- Include gender ideology that replaces biological terms with “internal” and “external” condoms.
“Effective immediately,” the new HHS policy states, “any content that fails to meet the standards of medical accuracy, age appropriateness, or relevance to teen pregnancy prevention will be deemed unallowable and subject to defunding.”
Programs will now be required to:
- Provide advance parental notice for all sexuality-related content.
- Offer clear opt-out mechanisms for parents.
- Eliminate all content that substantially burdens religious beliefs or violates parental rights.
HHS pointed to the Supreme Court’s decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor, which held that public institutions cannot compel children to participate in instruction that contradicts the family’s religious convictions without parental consent.
Dr. Dorothy Fink, Acting Assistant Secretary for Health, said in a statement, “Prioritizing parental involvement in the education of children on the most sensitive topics creates a healthy environment… HHS is committed to ensuring a flourishing and healthy American youth.”
Early sexualization of children has been shown in studies to cause depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem in children. These then cause high rates of body dissatisfaction, eating disorders, depression, dysphoria, and self-objectification.
Youth exposed to sexual materials are twice as likely to engage in sex. Exposure to sex and sexual materials also causes measurably lower academic performance, especially among girls.
The HHS order follows a detailed audit of Teen Pregnancy Prevention grantees and curricula, many of which failed to meet even the most basic standards of medical or educational integrity. Examples include:
- Lessons teaching 8th graders how to engage in anal sex and role-play drunk hookups.
- Promotion of IUDs and hormone-based contraception to girls as young as 14 without mention of side effects or long-term risks.
- Materials that explicitly instruct teens not to talk to their parents about sex.
The sweeping review, which included more than 60 grantee programs, found the vast majority fell outside the legal scope of the TPP Program, which is federally restricted to promoting teen pregnancy prevention through medically accurate and age-appropriate methods—not ideological grooming or sexual experimentation.
The policy, while not explicitly naming Planned Parenthood or its affiliates, places them directly in the crosshairs. Planned Parenthood affiliates were among the most commonly cited violators across dozens of flagged curricula.
HHS has instructed grant recipients to immediately begin reviewing their materials for compliance. Noncompliant organizations could face termination of funding and even clawbacks for misspent federal funds.
The era of taxpayer-funded smut may be coming to an end.
The Trump administration has also, separately, cut tens of millions from Planned Parenthood’s Title X funding. Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortionist.
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