Planned Parenthood wants a steady supply of customers. Abstinence would reduce their income.
Evil is Live spelled backwards.
Evil is Anti-Life.
Ironically, PP received a monumental boost with the development of the pill. Society, as we knew it, changed forever.
Some of us remember when we were told we had to allow “Sex Education” in public schools to prevent teenage pregnancy. How has that worked out? Seems to me just another “unintended consequence” that wasn’t unintended at all.
In other news, water is wet.
Sex Ed has two purposes - sell abortions to the girls and sell homosexual behavior to the boys.
A Planned Parenthood representative came to my high school when I was about 15, in 1975, to teach sex ed. She was basically selling abortion. She stressed the dangers of various birth control methods, while assuring us that abortion is “perfectly safe.” She insisted that birth control is highly likely to fail, thereby implying that we might as well not bother with it. She discussed the rhythm method, which she (correctly) said is not reliable—but she made sure to give info that makes it even less reliable by telling us that what I know now are signs of ovulation are the times when it is safe to have sex.
She also scoffed at the idea that a fetus is alive—“well, some people can believe it’s alive (snicker), some people even believe that a sperm or egg is alive (guffaws)!” And then she proceeded to tell us that if we have menstrual cramps, we can get rid of them by having a late abortion because it stretches the uterus, which would eliminate the cramps. I know now that cramps are a result of hormone flux during the cycle, and have nothing to do with whether one has been pregnant.
Lastly, she discussed what happens when a young pregnant girl comes to PP. She said that the girl often comes in wanting to have a baby, but once they counsel her on how much trouble and effort a baby is, she’ll have an abortion. Of course, what she was describing was high-pressure sales tactics to sell abortions.
This was over 40 years ago, when abortion was newly legal. At the time, I was puzzled at the presentation—I still believed that PP had good intentions, so it made no sense that they were promoting abortion and discouraging birth control. As an adult, I understand exactly what the PP saleswoman was doing. PP has remained very active since that time.
The reported efficacy of birth control methods is much lower now than it was then, e.g. going from 99.9% efficacy for the pill to maybe 95% effective now. This is not because birth control methods are worse, but because women who do not have much incentive to avoid pregnancy (they count on abortion to eliminate “mistakes”) are less likely to use the methods correctly.
I am not surprised that PP prioritized its abortion industry over receiving federal health care funds. Abortion profits dwarf the federal funds, and they do not provide healthcare anyway.
Surely this is a mistake that this article was posted in chit/chat
Time was sex toys couldn’t be sold to a minor and now adults are encouraging minors to use them with demonstrations of technique and cleaning in class?
PP assumes that EVERYONE is sexually active from age 10. This false premise is so sad for the young women and young men in the Junior Highs and High Schools. I am a child of the 60’s. I was flabbergasted that some of my schoolmates were actually pregnant while we were still in High School.
Even if you are taught to wait for ‘the right one’, there is great peer pressure to succumb to having sex too young. PP pushes our youth to think it is important to succumb and there is an answer to unwanted pregnancy. Some states even discourage telling young pregnant women that they can always opt for an adoption. Very sad for our youth, starting over 50 years ago.
V.D.s and abortion are so empowering! Getting that hookup feeling is all that matters to the modern sluts.Equality means being more of a pig than the scumbag guy.Women need to wake up but maybe womankind is so socially and sexually re-engineered that they are done for. It’s sad.