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CRAWFORD, Texas - Some families are boycotting Thin Mints and Do-Si-Dos and other Girl Scout cookies. Troop 7527 is down to just two members after the other girls were withdrawn by their parents. And Brownie Troop 7087 is no more. Why are folks in this conservative Texas town where President Bush has his ranch so mad at the Girl Scout organization? Planned Parenthood and sex education. The furor was started a few weeks ago by the leader of the anti-abortion group Pro-Life Waco, who sent out e-mails and ran ads on a Christian radio station urging people to boycott Girl Scout cookies because of the 'cozy relationship' between the Girl Scouts and Planned Parenthood. Parents were upset to learn that the local Girl Scout organization had given a 'woman of distinction award' last year to a Planned Parenthood executive. And they were disturbed to find out that the Girl Scout organization has been giving its endorsement for years to a Planned Parenthood sex-ed program in which girls and boys are given literature on homosexuality, masturbation and condoms...
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