It’s that time of the year again, when Girl Scouts are out and about, trying to get you buy their cookies.
Here’s an updated version of a post I did last year.
Girl Scouts USA (GSUSA) is beginning its annual cookie sales drive.
Here are 5 reasons NOT to buy those cookies:
1. Girl Scouts promote Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the United States
See “Abortion accounts for 94% of Planned Parenthood’s for-profit business.”
Judie Brown, president of the American Life League (ALL), America’s oldest Catholic pro-life education and advocacy group, warns: “The Girl Scouts was once a trusted organization dedicated to character building in young girls and women. Now, GSUSA is abusing that trust. Most parents and grandparents remain painfully unaware the GSUSA has introduced so-called ‘family planning’ ideology in its curriculum and promotes groups like Planned Parenthood to our daughters and granddaughters.”
For its part, the American Family Association (AFA), with its several million constituents and special divisions like OneMillionMoms.com which specifically work to influence corporate America, asks us to consider what Girl Scouts USA supports with the money from sales of their cookies. In a statement on its website, AFA says: “It’s hard to say no to those little girls in the green and brown sashes, but buying Girl Scout cookies serves only to further facilitate a very liberal pro-abortion agenda.”
Christy Volanski of LifeNews.com, whose two daughters are former Girl Scouts, warns us not to be fooled by Girl Scouts’ assurance that the national organization has no partnership with Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the United States. Not only does GSUSA laud Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger as an “eloquent woman” to young girls, GSUSA is part of several organizations, including the coalition for Adolescent Girls and the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, which advocate for abortion.
On March 5, 2004 on NBC’s Today show, Kathy Cloninger, Girl Scouts CEO from 2003-2011 admitted that some local Girl Scout councils partner “with Planned Parenthood organizations across the country to bring information-based sex education programs to girls.”
Some examples of local Girl Scout groups that “work with” Planned Parenthood:
- Girl Scouts of Northern California refers “at risk” girls to Planned Parenthood for help with “family planning.”
- Girl Scouts of San Diego featured a Planned Parenthood “Community Engagement Manager” as a speaker.
- Girl Scouts of Western New York works with Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion groups in programs aimed at tween/teen girls “to reduce teen pregnancy.”
Here are 4 more reasons NOT to buy Girl Scouts cookies.
2. Girl Scouts promote pornOGRAPHY
The Girl Scouts council in Waco, for 14 years, has worked with Planned Parenthood to put on a sex conference called “Nobody’s Fool” for girls in grades 5 to 9. Among materials distributed at this conference in 2003, was a graphic book called It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing up, Sex, and Sexual Health, containing images deemed too obscene for prison inmates. Here’s a video describing the pornographic book.
In 2010, GSUSA sponsored a a workshop with several other groups at the U.N. during its Commission on the status of women. It was a girls only event and adults were barred. Among the materials available to participants was a booklet called, Healthy, Happy and Hot: a Young Person’s Guide to Their Rights, Sexuality and Living with HIV — a graphic piece of porn for children that “there are lots of different ways to have sex and lots of different types of sex….Just have fun, explore, and be yourself.” The booklet even tells kids they need not tell their sex partners if they have HIV and encourages “safer sex” and “safe abortion.”
3. Girl Scouts also extol communists, radical feminists, and lesbians.
Read more here.
4. Most of the money from cookie sales does not go to the Girl Scout troop
A girl’s troop keeps an average of just 10 to 20% of the money she collects from selling cookies. The local council receives an average of 65 to 75% of the money collected by all local troops. The biggest profiteer from those cookie sales is Girl Scouts USA, which collects a royalty payment based upon its licensed trademark on every box of cookies produced. With approximately 200 million boxes of cookies sold annually, this amounts to millions of dollars of funding for GSUSA every year. (From “Where Does the Cookie Money Go?“)
5. The cookies are high in calories and sugar
They also contain stuff you wouldn’t put in your cookies (partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, lecithin, caramel coloring) if you bake them yourselves.
So just say no to those cute little girls outside Walmart and Target, and tell the adults why.
See also:
- American Heritage Girls: a Christian alternative to Girl Scouts
- Girl Scouts, “Buy our cookies, or else!”
- Girl Scouts launch drive to halt membership drop
~Eowyn
