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Planned Parenthood discourages adoption, promotes abortion
liveactionnews.org ^ | February 12, 2016 | Sarah Terzo

Posted on 02/15/2016 9:42:09 PM PST by Morgana

There is a great deal of evidence that abortion providers, particularly Planned Parenthood, discourage women from choosing adoption and instead heavily promote abortion. This is not surprising when you realize abortions bring in revenue for abortion facilities, whereas adoptions do not. Statistics also show that a very high number of pregnant women who go to Planned Parenthood are getting abortions rather than placing their children in adoptive homes. According to LifeNews, for every adoption referral Planned Parenthood makes, 174 women have abortions.

Abortion providers have sometimes revealed that adoption was discouraged in their clinics. And Then There Were None, an organization that helps abortion clinic workers leave the industry, told the story of one former clinic worker who got in trouble for telling women about adoption…

[“Ellen”] was hired on as a patient educator and was reprimanded for quietly giving patients information on adoption services and resource centers in the counseling rooms, because she was not pushing the sale of abortion onto women who weren’t sure what they were going to do. “It took a huge physical toll,” Ellen said. “I would always come home from work and cry.”

Planned Parenthood also condemns adoption when talking to its pro-choice followers. A Chicago Planned Parenthood released a pamphlet entitled “Let’s Tell the Truth about Abortion”(Warning: there is a graphic photo at this link). The pamphlet was meant to encourage and instruct abortion supporters. It says:

But aren’t there alternatives to abortion? Yes, there are. A pregnant women can carry the baby to term and she can then keep it or relinquish the baby for adoption. Relinquishment is often not a very humane procedure.

In Planned Parenthood’s twisted ideology, putting a living, breathing baby into the arms of loving adoptive parents is inhumane. Instead, they promote abortion, which violently tears the baby apart.

The same pamphlet gave false information about fetal development and compared preborn babies to earthworms and mold on bread.

One of Planned Parenthood’s internal surveys, which pro-lifers acquired the records to, asked their clinic workers whether or not they felt adoption information should be offered at Planned Parenthood. Only 20% of the workers said that it should be presented as an option.

Here were some typical answers to the question “Should abortion be part of Planned Parenthood’s mission?”:

No. It would present an apparent and possibly actual conflict of interest. Difficult to finance. Very draining on staff time and overall effort.

Only as a referral. It might be very confusing to maintain a pro-choice stance when an agency also is invested in finding an infant to place.

I think we have to look very carefully at the issues involved. For our clients, we need to be sure that the information and services we provide are really in their best interest. A pregnant fifteen-year-old should not be seen as the ‘solution’ to an infertile couple’s problems. We need to be very careful not to cast women in the role of ‘baby producers’…

One worker who did feel that Planned Parenthood should facilitate adoptions said:

We have historically presented adoption as an option in a most matter of fact way without presenting the whole picture. Of those patients who choose adoption, it only makes sense for us to be their means to an end.

Adoption girl child

This attitude is not unique to Planned Parenthood. In the essay “Alternatives to Abortion and Hard Cases” by Patricia Casey, a British abortionist is quoted as saying:

… it is not in any way standard to offer advice on adoption. It would be subversive…. In fact I would consider firing anyone who did this.

So why do abortion clinics refuse to provide women with unbiased, detailed information about adoption? While some clinic workers may genuinely believe that adoption is harder for a woman than abortion, it’s difficult not to think of profit as being one major motivator. After all, the abortion facility does not make money from adoption. It only makes money if the woman goes through with her abortion.

While no woman should be coerced into placing a child for adoption, the adoption option is good for both mother and baby. It’s definitely best for the baby to be allowed to live and to be placed with loving parents. It also can be better for the birth mother. Rather than having to live with the heavy burden of guilt over killing a child, she can know that she did the right thing and that her child is happy and safe.

embryo-adoption

And in the case of open adoption, a birth mother does not lose contact with her child – she remains a part of his or her life. One young woman placed her baby with a couple in Canada, and every Christmas, she makes the drive up north to spend the holiday with the adoptive couple and her daughter. When she had another child and chose to parent her, the little girl accompanied her on her trips to see her older daughter. The woman’s two children became friends and confidants – and instead of losing her baby, this woman gained a new family.

Some research suggests that the suicide rate for women who have abortions is many times higher than for women who don’t. One study shows that women are 6 to 7 times more likely to commit suicide after the abortion, while another study says teenagers who have abortions are 10 times more likely to commit suicide versus those who have their babies.

Angelina and Ben, choose life, adoption abortion

Adoption, then, can be a life-saving option for both baby and mother. It’s a situation where both mother and the baby win. It is not a painless option, as women who place their children for adoption may suffer a sense of loss. But in the long run, adoption is a life-affirming, positive alternative to an abortion procedure that is destructive to both woman and child.

Read more positive adoption stories below:

Actress Kristen Chenoweth: “Adoption is a full-circle blessing” To be pro-life is to be pro-child: Couple who adopted six now open adoption agency Heroin affected baby gets a new start with adoptive parents Super Bowl QB Kaepernick: Adoption “the biggest blessing of my entire life The Badeau family: Adopting and raising 22 kids! Raped at 14, she refused abortion and placed her baby for adoption One year later: Teen birth parents who chose adoption


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
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1 posted on 02/15/2016 9:42:09 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

PP’s ‘women’s services’ and ‘health services’ are fronts/schemes to trick as many people as possible into supporting abortion.

If anyone supports Planned Parenthood in any manner, even in the slightest, you are supporting abortion.


2 posted on 02/15/2016 9:52:10 PM PST by lifeline (The Bible alone and in its entirety is the Word of God.)
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To: Morgana
You would think that they would encourage adoption seeing as how they could make a lot more money than doing abortions. Thousands rather than hundreds.

So, if they are not motivated by money for adoption that would leave one one motivation left.

They like killing babies.

3 posted on 02/15/2016 10:02:32 PM PST by Slyfox (Ted Cruz does not need the presidency - the presidency needs Ted Cruz)
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To: Morgana

Was PP any better from 2001-2008?

Did the pro-life president from 2001-2008 make any effort to stop abortion at PP?

Did the present pro-life Congress defund PP?

We need a president who is a manager with guts and conviction, who will audit and not fund abortion at PP. Why not try something different?


4 posted on 02/15/2016 10:04:34 PM PST by map
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To: Morgana

Planned Parenthood offends every single living person.

If every persons mom chose abortion, PP would have been there telling the woman thst was an awesome choice, and would have had their abortionists rip that person apart.

Every single living person’s life means absolutely nothing to anyone at Planned Parenthood. You could have just as easily, been aborted and butchered and sold for parts, and they would have been totally cool you didn’t ever exist.

And they’ve proven they believe this over 58 million times. They wish that number was much, much higher, if ty yad their way.


5 posted on 02/15/2016 10:15:30 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: map
Not to excuse Bush, but we had no idea what they were doing.
6 posted on 02/15/2016 10:22:51 PM PST by wastedyears (uchikudake - toki michite - ikiru tame - tokihanate)
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To: wastedyears

We had no idea PP was sponsoring abortion. Gambling in the casino?

Politicians talk the talk, but they are owned.


7 posted on 02/15/2016 10:32:32 PM PST by map
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To: Morgana

Of course they discourage adoption. You cannot sell the parts from an adoption.


8 posted on 02/15/2016 11:09:26 PM PST by Pollster1 ("A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless." - Scalia)
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To: map

We need a president who doesn’t think a partial birth advocate judge would make a terrific Supreme Court justice.


9 posted on 02/16/2016 4:28:35 AM PST by chae (The Lannisters send their regards--Game of Thrones)
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To: chae

I wish someone would come out and say the actual truth about abortion as below.

We Dems in an effort to control the minorities have decided it’s easier to kill off a percentage of unborn humans than to continue supporting even more welfare recipients. We need to keep these humans uneducated to be able to manage the voters to keep us in power. By convincing them they don’t want a white mans education we can do this. Through history this was the way to stay in power. But in the process we can only afford so many of this class of people.

So we have to convince them murdering their children helps them.


10 posted on 02/16/2016 5:53:21 AM PST by oldasrocks (They should lock all of you up and only let out us properly medicated people.)
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To: chae

We had one from 2001-2008.

We need a president who can lead the Congress to defund.


11 posted on 02/16/2016 7:10:13 AM PST by map
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To: map

Yes, that would be Ted Cruz.


12 posted on 02/16/2016 7:11:00 AM PST by chae (The Lannisters send their regards--Game of Thrones)
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To: chae

Possibly. Too bad he won’t have that opportunity.


13 posted on 02/16/2016 7:13:36 AM PST by map
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To: map

I’m going to do my best to make sure he does.


14 posted on 02/16/2016 7:14:59 AM PST by chae (The Lannisters send their regards--Game of Thrones)
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To: Slyfox

Makes sense to me. I see we agree on Ted Cruz, too.


15 posted on 02/16/2016 7:16:26 AM PST by tioga
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To: chae

I wish him well.


16 posted on 02/16/2016 7:20:22 AM PST by map
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