Merry Christmas, kid
Posted on 12/28/2003 11:49:27 AM PST by bdeaner
Bernadette Malone:
Planned Parenthood's
abuse of Christmas
By BERNADETTE MALONE
IF THERE EVER were ever a Christmas card I was glad not to receive, it's the one circulating around the country that reads "Choice on Earth." I'd be embarrassed that the twisted sender even had my address.
The sender of this "holiday" card (sold for $15 per package over the Internet, dressed up with lots of celebration and fanfare) is Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the country. Of course, "Choice on Earth," a mockery of the Christian gospel message of "Peace on Earth," is also a euphemism for "Abortion on Earth!"
Planned Parenthood really ought to be ashamed of itself for marketing this card year after year, putting their own political militancy and fundraising opportunity ahead of sensitivity to the very grim issue of abortion.
I oppose abortion "rights," but I understand that many of my friends see abortion as a necessary evil.
Most pro-choice people seem to talk about how abortion is "not a good thing," and while it may be OK to have one in a woman's lifetime — or even two — to have three or thirty would be rather appalling. Why would that be appalling, if "choice" were really something to celebrate?
There's a twinge of recognition in many sensible pro-choice people: Abortion may be "necessary" in rare occasions, but abortion is killing something human.
Planned Parenthood seems so out of touch with these compassionate pro-choice people. Only the most hard-hearted, un-Christian-like person could celebrate abortion — especially over a holiday that commemorates the birth of a baby to a teen who was unmarried when she conceived him, and was in danger of being excommunicated by her traditional Jewish family and fiance because of her pregnancy.
Viewing their Christmas card through a Christmas lens, how many women who walk through Planned Parenthood's doors are as terrified as the Virgin Mary must have been in those days before Joseph agreed to go forward with their marriage, even though he knew he wasn't the baby's father?
Planned Parenthood seems to relish the opportunity to provide an abortion to these poor desperate girls; just look at how they market themselves to young people on www.teenwire.com — a Web site brilliantly critiqued by columnist Michelle Malkin.
By celebrating abortion on a Christmas card, Planned Parenthood refuses to acknowledge that its work — however "necessary" — is a tragedy, not something to brag about. Whether one believes the contents of a woman's womb — with DNA distinct from the mother's and father's — rise to the level of "humanity," one must acknowledge that something ghastly and morose is happening during an abortion. One must acknowledge that the woman undergoing the abortion will struggle the rest of her life with her decision, if she has a conscience and a heart.
For Planned Parenthood, however, there's no recognition of the obvious. The group has turned what some might consider a "necessary" evil into a giddy opportunity for laughs: " 'Tis the season. Send the holiday greeting Bill O'Reilly loves to hate," the headline on the group's Web site giggles, referring to the anti-abortion Fox News Channel personality who also has criticized this card.
Where's the sensitivity to scared pregnant women?
Where's the sensitivity to Holly Patterson, who died three months ago exercising her "choice on earth" by taking the abortion pill given to her by Planned Parenthood in California?
Where's the sensitivity to the dismembered babies — or whatever Planned Parenthood thinks those little images that suck their thumbs in sonograms are? The organization linguistically reduces them to "the products of conception."
The "Choice on Earth" Christmas card exposes Planned Parenthood as something other than a socially responsible organization concerned with limiting population growth and providing women with safe, affordable abortions, which is how many pro-choice people regard them (until now, I hope).
Its Christmas card reveals Planned Parenthood's true stripes as an organization that has lost all sensitivity to the life-and-death issue it promotes; all sensitivity to the women it purports to serve; and certainly, all sensitivity to the values of Christmas and those who celebrate it. Bernadette Malone is the former editorial page editor for The Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News.
It may be circulating during the Christmas Season, but it's not a Christmas card, it's a satanic motto card. Satan likes to mock God.
Luk 17:2 It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
And evil.
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