Posted on 08/24/2015 7:10:50 PM PDT by markomalley
The backlash against reproductive rights across North America is hitting Planned Parenthood Ottawa, says its president Lauren Dobson-Hughes.
Dobson-Hughes recently took to Twitter to ask for support in the face of attacks she said are being levelled at donors to the organization, which that provides counselling, sex education and other services, to intimidate them.
Planned Parenthood Ottawa does not provide any clinical services, including abortions.
“An environment that has been created over the last year or more where health care for women, youth or trans people is stigmatized and a small group of people create fear around it in order to dissuade funders,” she said.
Planned Parenthood is under attack in the United States, where anti-abortion activists are trying to get its funding cut in Republican-controlled states. In the U.S., Planned Parenthood is the largest provider of reproductive health services, with 97 per cent of its clinical work being breast and cervical screening, HIV screening, counselling and contraception. Three per cent of its clinical visits are for abortions.
Dobson-Hughes said that because of funding cuts, Planned Parenthood Ottawa was recently forced to turn away a woman seeking counselling “whose abusive partner was trying to force her to have an abortion.” It was the first time, Dobson-Hughes said, that the non-profit organization was unable to provide services to a client when asked.
Funding from Ottawa Public Health has been cut by 10 per cent in each of the past two years, said Dobson-Hughes. The non-profit organization receives funding from numerous other organizations, she said, some of which have been targeted by groups that oppose Planned Parenthood.
“A small group who oppose health care for women and trans people have put unacceptable pressure on Planned Parenthood Ottawa’s funders … harassing them and threatening to expose them in the media.”
She said callers have asked some funders to “stop funding sex ed, contraception or counselling. It’s not about abortion. They oppose our health care.”
Dobson-Hughes said the organization is reaching a crisis point with funding cuts.
She went on Twitter to ask people to express their support for the work the organization does and fight back against those opposing it.
“When funders get 20 to 30 phone calls from an organized group, it creates an atmosphere of fear and makes them wary. We risk them not wanting to fund us and to put their money somewhere safer,” she said.
“Part of the reason for us going public is we want people to push back and say we are not controversial. This is mainstream, evidence-based support. I want funders or potential funders to hear this.”
She said there has been an “incredible” response to the public plea, with support and donations from individuals.
“People were horrified by what is going on,” she said. “The backlash is real, it’s here, and it’s hurting us.”
Ottawa-area anti-abortion blogger Patricia Maloney posted an item from a friend earlier this month questioning funding to Planned Parenthood Ottawa.
“To the best of my knowledge, they do not operate abortion clinics, but they do offer abortion information and referrals and a whole lot more of what Planned Parenthood Ottawa proudly calls ‘inclusive pro-choice sexual health education’ that is pretty awful,” said the blog post, which Maloney said was “from my friend Anastasia”.
She noted the Canadian War Museum and National Arts Centre and other public and private organizations and businesses, including restaurants and hotels, are among Planned Parenthood Ottawa event sponsors.
“I might just send their management a note letting them know just what I think of Planned Parenthood and their kind and why I might not want to frequent any establishment that supports them,” the blog said.
Maloney, in a telephone interview, said the post was written by someone else and that she was not involved in any way in contacting Planned Parenthood sponsors.
Hyphenated liberals.
Pure evil.
Hmm... what services would they provide to a woman who didn't want an abortion?
Merchants of Baby flesh
started by a racist
Amazingly - they still will not stop selling baby parts for profit or even acknowledge that evil it is...
Well circle the wagons you honky morons!
Tough. When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas!
I don’t think PP does offer abortions in Canada. Unfortunately, we had the evil ‘Doctor’ Henry Morgentaler, who is now roasting in pieces in hell. Morgentaler was a Polish Jew, a survivor of Dachau, who never learned the value of human life. Instead, he wanted women not to ‘suffer’ with unwanted pregnancies. AFA the baby? Too bad, so sad! Hope he has some long and heart(less)-felt chats with Hitler and Mengele about holocausts, both against the unborn and against those of certain religious groups!
According to Wikipedia, “He opened his first abortion clinic in 1969 in Montreal, challenging what he saw as an unjust law placing burdensome restrictions on women seeking abortions. He was the first doctor in North America to use vacuum aspiration and went on to open twenty clinics and train more than one hundred doctors. Morgentaler challenged the constitutionality of the federal abortion law, winning R. v. Morgentaler in 1988.”
PP does not need to do abortions in Canada because such murder is funded by Provincial Health Care and the murders are committed at all local hospitals. In addition, there are many abortion clinics in major cities including MANY Morgentaler Clinics.
Good!.. Now you know how fetuses feel.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OTTAWA is a part of a fundraising collective on Bank Street in Ottawa; Offices for various government services unions and across from a well-known dildo shop and peep-show that also offers videos of various kinds. Planned Parenthood Ottawa’s executives comprise the office. They review studies, make fundraising appeals, and refer scared girls to their business partners at 65 BanK street, known on the internet as “ottawa abortionist” or “abortions in Ottawa Canada.” Planned parenthood Ottawa functions primarily as a “figurehead” office, promoting abortion and referring business to the clinic at 65 bank street. They are very professional and this is a big business: one of the things they do is encourage AGAINST adoption. Young women are carefully instructed not to seek ultrasounds and guided through the mental process of seeing the baby with a beating heart, movement, etc., as a “piece of tissue,” a “non-viable group of cells, etc.” Then they are sent to 65 Bank Street (over “CURVES,”) for the procedure. That’s how things work at Ottawa Planned Parenthood, or “Planned Parenthood Ottawa.” Anyway, some young ladies DO see through the big money BS (harvesting of organs by Planned Parenthood) and make the call to “Adoption Ottawa...” Where it’s pretty much all about love, support, money for the process, and making the right choice. (Did I mention LOVE?) LOL. There are SO MANY AMAZING FAMILIES who want to adopt and are willing to let the MOM decide IF and WHEN to make contact, if ever...
This is Abortion and Adoption in Ottawa.
Anyway there’s my more than two cents on the scene in Ottawa...
Yes - you are 100% right. Henry Morgentaler was a sad man who craved the attention he got from women when he told them their babies were worthless... Annd that a simple procedure would cure them of the “infection.” As a Jew I cannot understand this madness... I am sorry for people like this. I am sorry they are “my” people.
I bet they still promote sex to kids and stuff
“The backlash against reproductive rights”
Yeah, that’s it.
Jackass liberal media.
“Dobson-Hughes said that because of funding cuts, Planned Parenthood Ottawa was recently forced to turn away a woman seeking counselling “whose abusive partner was trying to force her to have an abortion.”
How about having the “abusive partner” arrested.
If the name fits, they can wear it.
That's the "choice" they want you to make, though.
I'm sure that if someone wants an abortion, the fine folks at PP are more than happy to refer them to the local Morgentaler clinic, which is conveniently situated downtown, over a McDonald's.
Dobson-Hughes said that because of funding cuts, Planned Parenthood Ottawa was recently forced to turn away a woman seeking counselling “whose abusive partner was trying to force her to have an abortion.” It was the first time, Dobson-Hughes said, that the non-profit organization was unable to provide services to a client when asked.
Oh, the poor dears!
A few years ago, the local crisis pregnancy centre would have been among the beneficiaries of a fundraising campaign by the wives of the local NHL team. PP would have none of that, since the CPC will not give referrals for abortions. They raised such a big stink the CPC withdrew from the event. However, they sued PP for defamation, and won.
PPO receives public funding. I can't refuse to allow my tax dollars to go to them. CPCs don't; they rely on donations. What PPO did was purely predatory. For political reasons they wanted the CPC shut down.
The non-profit organization receives funding from numerous other organizations, she said, some of which have been targeted by groups that oppose Planned Parenthood.
The illiberal left loves to punitively boycott organizations whose politics don't conform to their orthodoxy. Try doing that to them, though. Screech! Rage!
Ottawa-area anti-abortion blogger Patricia Maloney posted an item from a friend earlier this month questioning funding to Planned Parenthood Ottawa.
Hurrah, a local hero! Added to my aggregator.
She noted the Canadian War Museum and National Arts Centre and other public and private organizations and businesses, including restaurants and hotels, are among Planned Parenthood Ottawa event sponsors.
The War Museum and NAC are two more publicly funded institutions—in other words, another vector by which Canadian taxpayers' money gets funnelled into PP.
Good. Hope they all go under.
Good...the soulless, murderous ghouls need to be stopped.
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