Planned Parenthood Education Director Pat Stone said, " This has been a regretable situation because I think kids have been brought into an adult conversation."

The conversation Planned Parenthood Education Director Pat Stone is talking about is the controversey over
the Girl Scouts sponsorship of Planned Parenthood's program Nobody's Fool, an annual educational conference
aimed at equipping adolescents to deal with issues of sex and sexuality.

Stone said, "Information is key in kids being able to make more repsonsible choices, smarter decisions."

But the program draws fire from groups that think it fails to stress abstinence adequately, and from
abortion opponents who are at odds with Planned Parenthood.
That's what's at the root of the call for a boycott of Girl Scout cookie sales.
Girl Scout Executive Director Beth Vivio says 2 out of the 200 Waco-area troops have pulled out in the wake of
the call for the boycott.

Vivio said, "We try not to take a stand on these kind of issues, but we really want to make it available as a resource for our famiies."

Nobody's Fool is an annual half-day conference for boys and girls in grades 5 through 9.
It started in 1989 and attracts from between 4 and 7 hundred area children every year.
Family life educators serve as instructors and participants are grouped by age and gender.
It's designed to provide young people with information about the changes of puberty, dating, peer pressure, sexually transmitted diseases and aids and pregnancy prevention.
And it's designed to foster communication between children and parents about sex.
Abortion is not part of the curriculum.

Stone said, "I've heard comments from the kids that say the only time we heard about abortion was from protestors on the front porch."

Twelve area churches also support the program, including Waco's First Presbyterian.
Jimmie Johnson is the senior minister there.

Johnson said, "I support those in the community who are in favor of absitance based curriculm,but i also like the fact that not all children as they grow are gonna behave repsonsibly."

Supporters say that's why Nobody's Fool is needed, in order to educate before it's too late.