I'm encouraging all parents and teachers to read Judy Blume's latest writing. And I'm not alone. Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, implores, “Please, let her know how much we appreciate her courage.” That's where Richards and I diverge.

Judy Blume, author of “Superfudge” (a staple in most American schoolchildren's lives for decades now) has most recently penned a fundraising letter for Planned Parenthood for Mother's Day.

“Say thanks this Mother's Day with a gift that honors her courage by making a donation to Planned Parenthood in her name. I guarantee you that she'll be pleased. I know I would be,” Blume writes.

Blume continues: “I'm a mom, and I'm also a writer and an activist. Nothing has made me prouder than seeing my own children - and really, all young people - grow up to be healthy, educated, and in charge of their bodies and their lives.”

Critics are accused of a lack of “compassion” by Richards. But a Mother's Day fundraiser for the single biggest abortion provider in the United States (subsidized by your tax dollars) is insulting, most especially to the women who are suffering because they rejected motherhood and know they ended a life in the process.

The Blume pitch for Planned Parenthood reminds me of something that happened last Mother's Day. In, perhaps, a misguided attempt at compassion, I wanted to highlight a web site called abortionchangesyou.com. But the founder of the site, Michaelene Fredenburg, talked me out of it. Unlike Planned Parenthood, I didn't have fundraising on my mind. I simply wanted mothers who were grieving a painful choice they made in their lives to be drawn to an online, anonymous place where they could discuss their feelings and seek more professional help if they chose to. But it's just too painful, Michaelene said. Every day is painful if you regret your abortion, but Mother's Day can be too painful.

I'm grateful for the Blume fundraising letter, though, because it highlights something busy parents and teachers all too often don't realize: That book your child is reading is imparting values, and they might not be your own. “I first heard about sex from Judy Blume,” a fortysomething mother of six told me immediately after I mentioned Blume's name to her. Today, perhaps, that's not the situation - Blume's not the first time - our culture being as oversexualized as it is. But Blume remains an unnecessary presence in children's lives, as a substitute parent and cheerleader of that sex-ed crazed culture that she served as a trailblazer of. And a presence trusted adults put in children's lives, as if issuing an Imprimatur, A Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval

Her books are hormonal cheerleaders - as if adolescents' bodies need the help. In “Forever,” Blume is right where she was in her fundraising letter, praising a progressive grandmother whose only fault seems to be that she is so devoted to Planned Parenthood rallies that she doesn't have time to help her granddaughter get contraception from there.

“Deenie” is for children on a fourth-grade reading level. Would you knowingly hand your third or fourth grader a guide to self-arousal? You are when you hand him “Deenie.”

This is the dirty little secret the Planned Parenthood world has long been aware of even if every parent and teacher hasn't.

In her fundraising letter, Blume writes that “If you are the daughter whose mom had the guts to give you the answers to questions you couldn't quite figure out how to ask,” you should give to Planned Parenthood. Forget long, protracted policy debates about sex ed. Blume has had it all covered, since, perhaps, long before your child's fourth-grade teacher was even born.

Lopez is the editor of National Review Online

(www.nationalreview.com). She can be contacted at klopez@nationalreview.com