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American Life League, STOPP International, Ryan Report ^ | 04.10.03 | Ed Szymkowiak

Posted on 04/12/2003 9:50:31 PM PDT by Coleus

STOPP International's Ryan Report                                           

SPECIAL ISSUE 2003 

Summary and Analysis of Planned Parenthood’s Operations in the U.S.
Behold the Lord, Jesus Christ, who tries so hard to get our attention

Contents:
1) Introduction
2) Abortion
3) Planned Parenthood Financial Information
4) Planned Parenthood Organization
5) Planned Parenthood’s National Headquarters
6) Sex Education and Other ‘Services’
7) STOPP International's Plan for Defeating Planned Parenthood

1) Introduction

This is the e-mail version of STOPP International’s 2003 Special Issue of the Ryan Report.  Its purpose is to provide detailed information about the very head of the Culture of Death in the U.S. – Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA).  Please forward it far and wide. 

Each year, PPFA issues an annual report that summarizes its activities in the United States and abroad.  As a group that has been focusing on understanding Planned Parenthood for over 18 years, STOPP International uses the data in the latest PPFA Annual Report and combines it with historical data to present an accurate picture of PPFA’s programs and policies.  In December 2002, PPFA made available to the public its 2001-2002 Annual Report.  That report covers PPFA provided services for the calendar year 2001 as well as financial data for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2001 and ending June 30, 2002.

This Special Issue of the Ryan Report is packed with links to data tables and charts created with information taken from PPFA’s own Annual Reports, Service Reports and IRS Form 990’s. The charts are presented in PDF format.   The tables are presented in both HTML and PDF formats.  To view a PDF file one needs a viewer such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have this program on your computer, visit www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html to download the free Acrobat Reader.  We encourage readers to share these charts and tables with others via electronic or printed means.  Copies may be made and information may be publicly cited if attribution is given. 

2) Abortion

The number of innocent babies Planned Parenthood kills every year via abortion procedures continues to increase.  PPFA reported that it performed 213,026 abortion procedures in 2001.  That represents an 8.1% increase over the previous year.  The state of New York legalized surgical abortion on Sunday, July 1, 1970.  On July 2, 1970, Planned Parenthood of Syracuse, N.Y., opened the first freestanding abortion clinic in the nation.  While STOPP does not have accurate numbers for Planned Parenthood abortions for the early years, STOPP does have the numbers of abortions PPFA reported dating back to 1977.  Since that time, PPFA has reported doing 3,019,559 abortions up to and including 2001.  Remember that this figure does not include pre-implantation abortions caused sometimes by the anti-implantation effects of various birth control drugs and IUDs. 

If we compare the 2001 PPFA abortion procedures to the generally accepted figure of about 1.3 million abortions procedures per year in the U.S., we can estimate that PPFA performed about 16% of all U.S. abortion procedures in 2001.  Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in the country, running about 160 abortion facilities nationwide.  To see where PPFA abortion facilities are located, visit www.all.org/stopp/plan2.htm.  Please view the chart, Planned Parenthood Federation of America Abortions 1977 – 2001, at www.all.org/stopp/ab77_01.pdf, which shows the annual number of PPFA abortions. 

            Based upon an estimated average cost of $375 per abortion, STOPP estimates that PPFA had a total income of $79,884,750 from abortion procedures in 2001.  STOPP has made a similar estimate for each year 1977 – 2001 based upon the estimated average cost of an abortion in each particular year.  Please view the results in the chart, Estimated Planned Parenthood Abortion Income 1977 – 2001, at www.all.org/stopp/estabinc.pdf.  Adding up each year’s estimated abortion income from 1977 to 2001 gives a total of about $894,000,000 of income from abortion during that period.    

            Details about Planned Parenthood’s various sources of income appear later in this report. However, one measure of how much of Planned Parenthood’s actual business is abortion can be obtained by comparing the estimated abortion income with the income PPFA had from all services combined.  In the 2000-2001 PPFA fiscal year, PPFA reported such clinic services income to be $241.0 million and in the 2001-2002 fiscal year PPFA reported clinic services income of $254.8 million.  Since service data is reported for a calendar year and financial data is reported for a fiscal year (July to June), the estimated $79,884,750 of abortion income for 2001 doesn’t fall completely into either fiscal year.  Comparing the $79,884,750 with the $241.0 million would result in 33.1% while comparing it with $254.8 million would result in 31.4%.  The average would be 32.3%.  Thus, almost a third of Planned Parenthood’s clinic income in 2001 can be attributed to abortion.  Please view the chart, Planned Parenthood Federation of America Estimated Abortion Income (calendar year) Reported Clinic Income (fiscal year), at www.all.org/stopp/ab_cl_in.pdf, which compares estimated abortion income to reported clinic income dating back to 1994.

Keep in mind that Planned Parenthood has other sources of income such as tax money and donations, so one should not say a third of PPFA’s total income is from abortion.  PPFA’s total income for its 2001-2002 fiscal year was $692.5 million.  If one performs calculations similar to those above in order to compare estimated abortion income to total income, one can estimate that abortion accounted for about 12% of PPFA’s total income in 2001. 

Please view the data table, Planned Parenthood Abortions and Estimated Abortion Income 1977 – 2001, which includes the actual numbers used to create the previous PPFA abortion related charts.  The PDF version is at: www.all.org/stopp/abnuminc.pdf and the HTML version is at: www.all.org/stopp/abnuminc.htm.  See also the chart, Percent of Total US Reported Abortions Done by Planned Parenthood 1977 –2001, at www.all.org/stopp/percent.pdf which shows how Planned Parenthood’s percentage of total U.S. abortions has grown throughout those years.  The supporting data table is at www.all.org/stopp/tpercent.pdf and www.all.org/stopp/percent.htm.

 3) Planned Parenthood Financial Information  

            For its 2001-2002 fiscal year, PPFA reported a total income of $692.5 million, which is an increase of about 3% over the previous year.  Clinic income of $254.8 million accounted for 36% of the total income, while government grants and contracts ($240.9 million) accounted for 35%, and private contributions ($190.9 million) accounted for 28%.  Since 1987, PPFA has reported a total of $7,583,700,000 of income with $2,658,800,000 coming from clinic income (35%), $2,454,900,000 coming from government grants and contracts (32%), and 2,016,400,000 coming from private contributions (27%).  Please view the following charts: 

Sources of Planned Parenthood Income 1987 - June 2002  www.all.org/stopp/inc87_02.pdf

Annual Sources of Planned Parenthood Income 1987 - June 2002 www.all.org/stopp/stackin.pdf 

Planned Parenthood profits 

            PPFA has made a profit every year since at least 1987.  The total profit since that year is $466,200,000.  There may well be more profits from previous years, but this figure is based upon the unbroken series of PPFA financial reports currently in STOPP’s possession that dates back to 1987.  The reported PPFA profit for fiscal year 2001-2002 was $12.2 million, which is $26.7 million less profit than PPFA made the previous year.  Please view the following chart for more detail, Planned Parenthood Annual Profits 1987 - June 2002, www.all.org/stopp/profits.pdf. 

Tax dollars for Planned Parenthood 

            If you are wondering how PPFA can manage to make a profit year after year, you should consider how the American taxpayer is helping PPFA sustain itself.  Total tax dollars to PPFA increased nearly 19% from $202.7 million in PPFA’s 2000-2001 fiscal year to $240.9 million in PPFA’s 2001-2002 fiscal year.  Please view the chart, Taxpayer Money to Planned Parenthood 1987 - June 2002, at www.all.org/stopp/tax87_02.pdf, which shows that PPFA received $2,454,900,000 via government grants and contracts during that period.

      Money flows to PPFA from federal, state and local governments.  To see a further breakdown of this total one can view a detailed report from the United States General Accounting Office (Nov. 13, 2001) which is at: www.gao.gov/new.items/d0281r.pdf 

This GAO report states that in FY 2000, PPFA got $137,337,724 from the federal government, up from $125,751,924 in FY 1999.  PPFA’s fiscal year doesn’t match that of the US government, which makes accurate comparisons difficult.  However, the two fiscal years do overlap by 9 months.  If we divide $137.3 million by $187.3 million PPFA reported it got from government sources in its 1999-2000 fiscal year, we can estimate that PPFA gets about 73 percent of its taxpayer funding from the federal government and the rest from state or local governments.           

In addition to the money going to PPFA in FY 2000, the federal government gave International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) $15,768,328 and PPFA’s research arm, The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI), $1,113,712.  The GAO report also indicates what federal programs are involved in such funding.  In FY 2000, the federal domestic “family planning” population control program (Title X), granted PPFA $54,578,663 and AGI $526,584.  PPFA also got $42,058,942 from Medicaid, $21,603,526 from social service block grants, $4,819,161 from maternal and child health services block grants and $14,277,432 from other, unspecified federal programs.   

Private donations to Planned Parenthood 

            Private donations to PPFA in fiscal year 2001-2002 amounted to $190.9 million, which is a less than 1% increase over the previous year.  For more details, please view the following chart, Private Contributions (Including Corporate) and Bequests to Planned Parenthood 1987 - June 2002, www.all.org/stopp/donat.pdf 

            STOPP often gets calls asking for a listing of companies to boycott because they support Planned Parenthood.  Readers may obtain such information from the Saint Antoninus Institute Pro-Life Shopping Guide and Companies Supporting Pro-abortion Organizations at www.stantoninus.net/listab.htm and from Life Decisions International at www.fightpp.org 

More financial data

             More detailed information about PPFA’s finances can be viewed in the following tables:
Planned Parenthood Clinic Income, Government Grants and Contracts, Donations, Total Income, and Profit 1987 - FY 2002 

PDF table: www.all.org/stopp/fd87_02.pdf

HTML table: www.all.org/stopp/fd87_02.htm 

Detailed financial data for Planned Parenthood's last 5 years

(This table includes a breakdown of yearly expenses.)

PDF table: www.all.org/stopp/fdlast5y.pdf

HTML table: www.all.org/stopp/fdlast5y.htm 

4) Planned Parenthood Organization 

            Planned Parenthood continues to operate with a centralized headquarters that coordinates independently incorporated affiliates across the United States. Each of the affiliates operate a number of local facilities generally called ‘clinics.’ The main office is in New York City, with other offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco and Chicago. 

            PPFA has 126 independent affiliates plus a “special affiliate” – the Alan Guttmacher Institute. This number is down significantly from the 181 independent affiliates PPFA reported in 1987.  This 30% reduction in the number of affiliates has generally been driven by a need to reduce expenses through eliminating duplicate management positions and physical facilities. 

            For the third year in a row, PPFA reported having 875 clinics.   This is well below the 938 clinics it reported in 1995.  Since this number has remained unchanged for so long, STOPP tried to verify it through data provided by each of the affiliates on their respective web sites or by phone.  After a thorough review in 2002, STOPP was able to identify only 846 Planned Parenthood clinics.  If that, in fact, were the correct number, it would represent the lowest number of active clinics since PPFA reported having 850 in 1999. 

            Each year, STOPP creates a list of all the PPFA affiliates ranked by the amount of income each generates.  We have done so again this year and have included a second version of the affiliate information sorted by state so that readers can readily see the information about all the Planned Parenthood affiliates in any particular state.  Please view the following tables. 

Planned Parenthood Affiliate Income, Profit, Assets Sorted by Income

PDF table: www.all.org/stopp/03ipabyi.pdf

HTML table: www.all.org/stopp/03ipabyi.htm 

Planned Parenthood Affiliate Income, Profit, Assets Sorted by State

PDF table: www.all.org/stopp/03ipabys.pdf

HTML table: www.all.org/stopp/03ipabys.htm 

Largest Planned Parenthood affiliate 

            The largest PPFA affiliate, based upon income, is Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, Inc. (PPMM), headquartered in San Jose, Calif.  This affiliate has 34 clinics in California and Nevada.  PPMM’s IRS Form 990 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001 indicates that its total income was $50,822,598 (line 12), which included a profit of $9,242,836 (line 18).  In other words, about 18 % of its income was profit!   Incredibly, this affiliate stated that it received $3,694,595 in government grants (line 1c).  Now, why does the American taxpayer need to give nearly $3.7 million to an organization that has a profit of over $9.2 million?  Certainly, PPMM doesn’t need the government grants.  Even without such grants PPMM would have still made a profit. 

            But there is more to this story.  If one looks at line 93 of the IRS Form 990, entitled, “Program service revenue,” one is told to see an attached statement (14) that shows several additional sources of income including the following:  

Medi-Cal/Medicaid                            $4,187,405

State and Local Govt Contribution      $1,113,512 

            Thus, even more government money flows to PPMM via various government programs that apparently subsidize program services.  With hefty government subsidized profits, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that PPMM’s president and CEO, Linda Williams, had compensation amounting to $200,625 with an additional $9,789 listed as contributions to benefit plans.   

            Readers are encouraged to perform a similar analysis on the tax forms of their local Planned Parenthood affiliates and then publicize the results and share them with elected representatives.  American taxpayers should not be forced to support an organization that kills innocent human beings and perverts children.  You can obtain these 990 IRS forms for Planned Parenthood affiliates at www.guidestar.com for free download.  Pay particular attention to lines 1c, 12, 18, 21, 93f and 93g. 

5) Planned Parenthood’s National Headquarters 

PPFA reported that its national organization (headquarters) had a total income of $65.3 million in the 2001-2002 fiscal year.  That figure is $12.7 million less than the previous year.  According to the PPFA 2001-2002 Annual Report, the national organization figures reflect the operations of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Inc. (including its Political Action Committee and other segregated fund, Planned Parenthood Votes) and The Planned Parenthood Foundation.  Please view the graph, Reported Planned Parenthood National Office Revenue 1987 - June 2002 at www.all.org/stopp/hqinc.pdf 

STOPP found PPFA’s IRS Form 990 for the fiscal year 2000-2001 posted at www.guidestar.com.  Therein was listed the following information about how much several key national employees are paid: 

Gloria Feldt, President:  Compensation = $356,300, Benefits = $21,378, Expenses = $55,858

James Minow, VP Development: Compensation = $220,480, Benefits = $13,229

Vanessa Cullins, VP Medical Affairs: Compensation = $ 209,999

John Romo, Chief Operating Officer:  Compensation = $199,212, Benefits = $11,953

Joan Coombs, VP Office of the President: Compensation = $182,000, Benefits = $8,041

Dan Rutberg, VP Information & Technology: Compensation = $173,888, Benefits = $10,433

Jeff Mechanick, VP Business Support Service: Compensation = $161,961, Benefits = $9,600

Mary Allie Stickney, VP International Program:  Compensation = $160,000, Benefits = $9,300 

6) Sex Education and Other ‘Services’

          Please view the chart, Planned Parenthood Expenditures For Community/Public Sex Education and Number of Sex Education Attendees at www.all.org/stopp/sex_ed.pdf.  As that chart shows, PPFA has seen a drop the number of people reached via its sex education programs.  In 2000, such programs reached 1.3 million people, while in 2001 there were 1.0 million attendees.   That’s a drop of about 23 percent and it occurred despite the fact that PPFA increased expenditures for sex-ed in both fiscal years 2000-2001 and 2001-2002.  In fiscal year 2001-2002, PPFA spent a record $40.7 million on sexuality education programs. 

Of course, the drop in sex-ed attendees is good news since many of these attendees are children or teens.  PPFA’s entire business rests upon sex education.  By teaching kids a perverted philosophy of human sexuality, PPFA breaks down natural inhibitions, which then leads to greater promiscuity.  As a result, PPFA then increases its customer base for artificial birth control including abortion.  A long-term effect of such education is that it tends to create citizens who will support Planned Parenthood’s agenda.  

STOPP offers a 102-page book by its founder, Jim Sedlak, which explains how parents can gain control of the school systems that educate their children in order to eliminate perverting sex education programs.  Entitled Parent Power, it is available for free at www.all.org/stopp/pp15.htm or you can order a printed copy by calling our resources department at 866-LET-LIVE. 

            But the good news above needs to be tempered by some very bad news.  A few years ago PPFA opened up a new front on its assault against children and parental authority – its website for kids – teenwire.com.  The utterly disgusting nature of this web site is difficult to even talk about much less describe in print.  Now, parents need to be vigilant about Planned Parenthood reaching their kids online, even in the sanctuary of their own homes.  PPFA reported that, in 2002, teenwire.com received about 360,000 visits a month.  That’s about 4,320,000 visits per year.  Parents should consider blocking software or a filtering service such as the one available at www.afafilter.com.  Insist that your schools and public libraries provide such protection as well.   

Adoptions referrals decrease 

            For the fourth year in a row PPFA’s adoption referrals to other agencies (Planned Parenthood is not an adoption agency) declined.  In 2001, such referrals were down to only 1,951.  That’s a 79 % decrease from what they were in 1997.  Yet, during the same time period, Planned Parenthood’s abortion procedures increased 29 %.  In 2001, Planned Parenthood aborted about 109 babies for every one adoption referral it made to an outside agency (divide 213,026 by 1,951).

Other ‘services’ 

          PPFA reported several other services it performed for the 2,647,423 unduplicated clients it had in 2001.  This information is posted, along with similar information for the previous four years, in the following table. 

Detailed service data for Planned Parenthood's last 5 years

PDF table: http://www.all.org/stopp/sdlast5y.pdf

HTML table: http://www.all.org/stopp/sdlast5y.htm 

            As that table shows, the single largest category of services at Planned Parenthood is contraception. NOTE: Most of the so-called contraceptive methods provided by Planned Parenthood, such as oral contraceptives, emergency contraception (also called “the morning after pill”), contraceptive injectables, contraceptive implants, and IUDs sometimes prevent the implantation in the mother’s womb of a human being about 5 to 7 days old.  This results in the death of a human person. Pope John Paul II refers to such products as “abortifacients” in section 13 of his encyclical, Evangelium Vitae.  Dr. Chris Kahlenborn explains the abortifacient effects of some common types of contraception at www.ccli.org/contraception/Abortifacients.shtml.  American Life League has a list of over 220 doctors that have signed a statement that the pill and emergency contraception kill.  The statement is at www.all.org/news/declife.htm and the list of those who signed it is at www.all.org/news/docsigs.htm. 

PPFA had 2,022,479 women clients for reversible contraception in 2001, an increase of 8.1 % from the previous year. In addition, PPFA had male contraceptive clients, sterilization clients of both sexes, and huge increase in the number of emergency contraception kits it distributed. Such kits numbered 458,892 in 2001, a 248.6 % increase over the previous year. EC kits continue to be the fastest growing part of PPFA’s business in recent years. Planned Parenthood listed the following percentages for contraceptive methods chosen by its clients in 2001.

 43 % Oral Contraceptives

17.9 % Emergency Contraception

11.6 % Contraceptive Injectables

11.6 % Non-Prescription Barrier Methods

8.9 % No-Method

5.4 % Other/Unknown Methods

.7 % IUDs

.5 % Prescription Barrier Methods

.1 % Contraceptive Implants

.1 % Sterilization

.1 % Fertility Awareness-Based Methods 

STOPP subscribes to the truth that the sexual drive in human beings was created by God to fulfill two interrelated purposes – to bring a close union between a married man and woman engaging in intimate sexual behavior (the “unitive” purpose of sex) and to provide a means to propagate the race (the “procreative” purpose of sex).  We further understand that, to be true to the Natural Law that guides all human action, any act of sexual intercourse must be done within marriage and be open to both the unitive and procreative purposes.  Thus, we object to Planned Parenthood facilitating sexual intercourse outside of marriage.  We also object to Planned Parenthood distributing products, such as those listed above, which artificially attempt to render procreation impossible.

 7) STOPP International's Plan for Defeating Planned Parenthood

STOPP’s plan for defeating Planned Parenthood is available at: www.all.org/stopp/plan.htm.  It relies upon people opposing Planned Parenthood in their own communities.  The STOPP plan is divided into sections:

This plan is based on actual experience in fighting -- and defeating -- Planned Parenthood programs, facilities and government funding via peaceful, prayerful, and legal means.  In conjunction with local pro-lifers throughout the country, STOPP has been at the forefront of such battles since 1985.  These tactics are proven.  They work! There have been some amazing victories, but we have a long way to go.  With the help of STOPP’s plan, and constant prayer, you should be able to shut down Planned Parenthood in your community.

More information

To keep abreast of the latest information about Planned Parenthood and how to fight this evil organization, STOPP recommends that you become a regular subscriber to the Ryan Report.  Just send a message to ryanreport-request@all.org with "subscribe" in the subject and/or body.  STOPP’s website is at www.stoppinternational.org.  Here you can find back issues of the Ryan Report and several other free resources to help you stop Planned Parenthood in your community

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Copyright 2003 STOPP International.  Copies may be made if attribution is given.  The Ryan Report is named for John A. Ryan, T.O.P., who was one of the first to speak out against Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood. 

Action Item: The Ryan Report is made possible thanks to the generosity of our donors.  Please consider supporting STOPP with a tax-deductible gift.  To contribute securely on-line using your credit card, please visit http://www.all.org/stopp/support.htm.  Of course, you can always mail a contribution to: STOPP International, P.O. Box 1350 Stafford, VA 22555.  Thank you!  

Please feel free to forward this copy of the Ryan Report.  If you have questions please write us at stopp@all.org.  Mention of a person or group or a person's or group's publication does not constitute an endorsement of all the work, publications and/or information of such person or group.  

If you are receiving the Ryan Report for the first time, you may not be on our regular mailing list.  To subscribe to this list, send a message to ryanreport-request@all.org with "subscribe" in the subject and/or body.  To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to ryanreport-request@all.org with "unsubscribe" in the subject and/or body.  

Action Item:  To schedule a talk in your community by STOPP's executive director, Jim Sedlak, or by STOPP's national director, Ed Szymkowiak, call 540-659-4171 or fax 540-659-2586.  Please pray that God will lead us in our work and that we will always have the courage to do His will.  Visit STOPP on-line at www.stoppinternational.org. 

STOPP International is a project of American Life League.  Visit A.L.L.'s web page at www.all.org.



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To: saramundee
You're right, in my opinion.

As long as no life is begun - there are no human rights issues. The only legitimate purpose of government is to protect human rights.

I understand where the anti-contraceptive, pro-natural contraceptive, etc. come from, and it's not entirely a religious viewpoint. Just as it's vital to the pro-abortion marketers to advocate sex without fear of consequences, there is a need to alert the public to the possibilities. After all, those who have sex have a risk of pregnancy. But, making intentional, interventional abortion illegal except to save the life of the mother, should be our priority.
21 posted on 04/13/2003 11:32:06 AM PDT by hocndoc (Choice is the # 1 killer in the US.)
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To: Coleus
Judy Brown is a practicing Catholic and will not deviate from her faith.

Fair enough, and I totally agree with her faith positions, including Natural Law. Evangelical Christians who have taken the time to understand Natural Law don't need to be Catholic to agree with her.

But if Ms. Brown thinks that she is helping the pro-life cause by simultaneously working for the end of legalized abortion AND prominently wishing (or appearing to wish) for a legal mandate for the "natural law procreative-unitive only" position regarding sex, she is (IMHO) sadly mistaken.

22 posted on 04/13/2003 12:38:36 PM PDT by litany_of_lies
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To: dion
OTOH, dion, your belief that .....

"If you truly want to be able to stop abortion, then you should strongly support contraceptives, because that is the only way abortions are going to be prevented.

....is the argument that PP has dishonestly used for decades.

No one can credibly argue that contraceptives aren't available to anyone who wants them. This availability hasn't slowed abortion, it has caused an INCREASE. Why? Contraceptives aren't 100% effective, and people get careless. Not to mention the obscene proliferation of STDs as a result of sexual promiscuity.

I'm not advocating banning contraceptives. But I am suggesting that mass distribution of them to teens and other non-married people is incredibly irresponsible.

23 posted on 04/13/2003 12:47:31 PM PDT by litany_of_lies
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To: dion
While I have never had and(sic) abortion hired a serial killer, nor do I ever plan on having one, I believe I should have that option (to hire a serial killer). Although, I do think a few might be willing to support the end of partial birth abortion (I know I would).
24 posted on 04/13/2003 12:55:50 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
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To: saramundee
I totally agree. I depend on Planned Parenthood for my birth control because, guess what, insurance wouldn't cover it. Many other adult women also depend on this service for birth control needs. And it's not always free either. At the PP I go to, you have to fill out a sheet about your income, and they figure out what an appropriate fee would be.
I'm not going to get into the abortion issue because there's no way to change anyone's mind, and there's really no point. But eliminating this source of affordable birth control that many women depend on is going too far.


25 posted on 04/13/2003 6:42:22 PM PDT by watchme
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To: dion
You wrote: "I wish I could understand why conservatives continue to pursue the abortion issue."

The Magna Carta

...here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression in a general charter is the great work of Magna Carta; and this alone justifies the respect in which men have held it.

--Winston Churchill, 1956

King John of England agreed, in 1215, to the demands of his barons and authorized that handwritten copies of Magna Carta be prepared on parchment, affixed with his seal, and publicly read throughout the realm. Thus he bound not only himself but his "heirs, for ever" to grant "to all freemen of our kingdom" the rights and liberties the great charter described. With Magna Carta, King John placed himself and England's future sovereigns and magistrates within the rule of law.

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and the sixth states

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In 1957 the American Bar Association acknowledged the debt American law and constitutionalism had to Magna Carta and English common law by erecting a monument at Runnymede. Yet, as close as Magna Carta and American concepts of liberty are, they remain distinct. Magna Carta is a charter of ancient liberties guaranteed by a king to his subjects; the Constitution of the United States is the establishment of a government by and for "We the People."

The Mayflower Compact

IN The Name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honor of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first colony in the northern Parts of Virginia; Do by these Presents, solemnly and mutually in the Presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid; And by Virtue hereof do enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions, and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general Good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due Submission and Obedience. In WITNESS whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King James of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth and of Scotland, the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini, 1620


The above interpretation © 1995 on the HTML-version by Dep. Alfa-Informatica University of Groningen. Copying for non-commercial purposes allowed, if proper citation is given.Declaration of Independence

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

U.S. Constitution Amendment XIV

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.


The Emancipation Proclamation
January 1, 1863
A Transcription

By the President of the United States of America:

A Proclamation.

Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit:

"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free;

Neonatal children are neither the slaves nor the property of their parents and deserve the full protection of our country and its laws as guaranteed by the above.

I didn't know that only conservatives believed in these ideas and laws.

The Gospel of Life Pope John Paul II

The incomparable worth of the human person

2. Man is called to a fullness of life which far exceeds the dimensions of his earthly existence, because it consists in sharing the very life of God. The loftiness of this supernatural vocation reveals the greatness and the inestimable value of human life even in its temporal phase. Life in time, in fact, is the fundamental condition, the initial stage and an integral part of the entire unified process of human existence. It is a process which, unexpectedly and undeservedly, is enlightened by the promise and renewed by the gift of divine life, which will reach its full realization in eternity (cf. 1 Jn 3:1-2). At the same time, it is precisely this supernatural calling which highlights the relative character of each individual's earthly life. After all, life on earth is not an "ultimate" but a "penultimate" reality; even so, it remains a sacred reality entrusted to us, to be preserved with a sense of responsibility and brought to perfection in love and in the gift of ourselves to God and to our brothers and sisters.

The Church knows that this Gospel of life, which she has received from her Lord,(1) has a profound and persuasive echo in the heart of every person—believer and non-believer alike—because it marvellously fulfils all the heart's expectations while infinitely surpassing them. Even in the midst of difficulties and uncertainties, every person sincerely open to truth and goodness can, by the light of reason and the hidden action of grace, come to recognize in the natural law written in the heart (cf. Rom 2:14-15) the sacred value of human life from its very beginning until its end, and can affirm the right of every human being to have this primary good respected to the highest degree. Upon the recognition of this right, every human community and the political community itself are founded.

In a special way, believers in Christ must defend and promote this right, aware as they are of the wonderful truth recalled by the Second Vatican Council: "By his incarnation the Son of God has united himself in some fashion with every human being".(2) This saving event reveals to humanity not only the boundless love of God who "so loved the world that he gave his only Son" (Jn 3:16), but also the incomparable value of every human person.

26 posted on 04/13/2003 7:14:33 PM PDT by victim soul
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To: MHGinTN
bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzztttttttt straw man, try again!
27 posted on 04/13/2003 9:55:42 PM PDT by dion
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To: Coleus
AB 930 in California FYI - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/890198/posts
We try!!!!!!!!!!!
28 posted on 04/14/2003 9:21:33 AM PDT by Saundra Duffy
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To: dion
I wouldn't hire someone to kill an innocent individual human being, but I don't think the government should be in the business of preventing others from having that 'right'. /irony

There is nothing 'straw' about putting your vacuous assertion in the proper context. The issue is one of life or death, the protection of innocent individual human beings waiting to be born. The order in which unalienable rights were affrimed in the Declaration of Independence shows the proper imperative ... LIFE, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

29 posted on 04/14/2003 9:29:43 AM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
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To: dion
making abortion illegal will not stop abortion, just force people to break the law.

Making it illegal to murder born people hasn't eliminated that, either; is that another bad law?

30 posted on 04/14/2003 10:58:42 AM PDT by MrLeRoy ("That government is best which governs least.")
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What? You STILL haven't donated to the best site in the world?


32 posted on 04/14/2003 9:20:04 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Become a Monthly Donor to Free Republic. Please?)
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To: Coleus
The trouble with doing research on guidestar on PP is that the donors (who donate in the tens of thousands) get to be anonymous. The alternative is doing a tedious foundation-by-foundation review of the 990s. Slow, but steady. Just did a long reading of the Michael Dell (Dell Computer guy) and I like the way his org donates. Too much United Way, but otherwise pretty decent.

If conservatives could get together and divvy up the research on nonprofits, we could generate our own PP spreadsheet. At the end of the day, we'd have a comprehensive analysis and donor exposure that would curdle the blood of the PP elites. One by one--that's how we'd have to do it. This is a research project worthy of the name.

Pew Charitable really loves the deaths of the unborn.

33 posted on 12/03/2003 2:48:49 PM PST by Mamzelle
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To: Mamzelle

I wonder if Teresa Heinz Kerry and her Heinz foundation contributes to planned parenthood. I understand she is also affiliated with the Tides Foundation.


34 posted on 09/08/2004 6:39:33 PM PDT by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
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To: dion

Hey buddy, get ready to duck. The fanactic who are in a rampage to control every aspect of one's personal affairs, what we can read, what movie we can see, what ABC can broadcast, the saying of "dirty" words (as though words had an inherent quality apart from the context of their uttering), and the reproductive conduct of an otherwise free person, are gonna be all over you like white on rice.


37 posted on 11/26/2004 6:20:51 PM PST by middie
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To: middie
There's been a lot of posts like that, lately.

It is true that few people REALLY like freedom and liberty, if someone uses it in ways they do not like.

38 posted on 11/26/2004 6:40:32 PM PST by Long Cut (The Constitution...the NATOPS of America!)
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To: dion; litany_of_lies
I wish I could understand why conservatives continue to pursue the abortion issue.

Are you a neocon?

Neocons strike me as people who are conservative about only one thing:

money.

And that the neocon definition of freedom is the ability to spend their money on whatever sick and perveted and immoral vice they feel like.

39 posted on 01/03/2005 5:00:09 PM PST by Age of Reason
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To: Long Cut; middie
It is true that few people REALLY like freedom and liberty, if someone uses it in ways they do not like.

Yeah.

People should be free to do whatever they feel like.

For example, is someone wants to improve their neighborhood by decorating fences and buildings with graffiti, busybodies should not be permitted to make laws preventing that.

And if someone wants the freedom to blast his car stereo and horn under other peoples' windows, he should be free to do so.

Freedom means anything goes, man. And if someone else doesn't like it, he should mind his own business.

40 posted on 01/03/2005 5:05:30 PM PST by Age of Reason
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