Planned Parenthood: 'Expect to have STD'

Planned Parenthood has announced a new message to sexually active Americans: Expect to have the human papillomavirus, or HPV, sexually transmitted disease because "all of us get it."

Planned Parenthood Federation of America's vice president for medical affairs, Vanessa Cullins, M.D., aired the following advertisement on YouTube, in which she urges viewers to "become more explicit and more concrete in talking about sex."

The video is titled "Let's Talk about Sex." She introduces herself as an obstetrician/gynecologist who is "a sexually active individual."

"Conversation is going to be necessary whether you're thinking this is a relationship going to end up in marriage or one that's going to end up as a one-night stand," she said. "In terms of sexually transmitted diseases, expect to have HPV once you become sexually intimate.

"All of us get it."

Cullins warns about the risks of contracting chlamydia and declares, "My best advice for staying healthy is to admit that you're a sexually active individual – like most of us – and that you're going to have sex and that you need to take precautions in order to stay healthy."

American Life League's Judy Brown blasted the Planned Parenthood video, saying, "Any adult female such as Cullins who can, with a straight face, expound on the virtues of promiscuity is contributing to corruption in more ways than one."

Brown said Cullins implies that individuals who choose not to be sexually active are not "like most of us."

"Cullins' implication … rings true among not only young people but far too many young parents, many of whom are single parents, and even among married couples who have bought into the lies inherent in the prevailing contraceptive mentality," she said in a statement. "It is a sad testimony to the times in which we live, but all too true. If we bury our heads in the sand and pretend that such grossly misguided attitudes and distorted theories about human sexuality are normal, then we too are part of the problem."