Planned Parenthood Awarded Federal Sex Education Funding Under Injunction

Michaela RammMolly Duffy, The Gazette (Cedar Rapids)
Mon, 06/10/2019 - 10:24am

Despite a new law blocking them from federal funding, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland has been awarded thousands of dollars by state officials to continue teaching sex education to young Iowans. Here’s a look at what’s known so far about Planned Parenthood’s uncertain role in Iowa’s sex education programs. Planned Parenthood awarded funding State agencies announced at the end of this past month Planned Parenthood had received funding from two federally backed grant programs to offer sex education services in schools and other youth programs for the upcoming 2020 fiscal year. Planned Parenthood was awarded more than $231,000 under the Community Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and Services Program, or CAPP, a program administered by the Iowa Department of Human Services. The organization will offer CAPP-related sex education in: • Des Moines • Lee County • Linn County • Polk County • Woodbury County. Planned Parenthood also was one of seven entities named by the Department of Public Health as recipients of the Personal Responsibility Education Program, or PREP, for the upcoming fiscal year.

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