Education Quote by Phyllis Schlafly

A neat piece of agitprop: take a mundane public service and reframe it as a predatory hustle. Schlafly’s simile yanks sex education out of the classroom and drops it into the world of Tupperware-and-Avon “parties,” where the real product is pressure. The jab isn’t subtle; it’s engineered to make parents feel they’re being targeted in their own homes, their kids treated as captive customers. “In-home” turns civic policy into invasion. “Sales” implies cynical profit motive. “Abortions” supplies the moral shock, collapsing a long chain of causes, choices, and medical realities into a single, taboo endpoint.

The intent is less to argue than to pre-load disgust. By skipping contraception, consent, and disease prevention, the line makes sex ed sound like recruitment: teach the topic, create the behavior, sell the “solution.” It’s a familiar conservative syllogism, but sharpened into a cultural meme before memes had a name. The subtext is distrust of institutions - schools, public health, expertise - and a demand to relocate sexual knowledge back under parental and religious authority. It also smuggles in a gendered panic: adolescents, especially girls, cast as easily manipulated and morally endangered by “professionals” with an agenda.

Context matters. Schlafly was a master strategist of late-20th-century backlash politics, from the Equal Rights Amendment fights to the broader movement that fused family-values rhetoric with Republican electoral machinery. This line works because it turns a policy debate into a morality play: corrupt elites, vulnerable children, and a marketplace of sin. It’s not descriptive; it’s mobilizing.