Posted on 12/21/2004 1:54:49 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Tuesday, December 21, 2004
By Hans Zeiger
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
I returned to my old high school Friday for its annual Alumni Assembly. It was my first visit to Puyallup High School since pledging in a letter to the editor of the school newspaper last March that, "should the Vanguard continue offering [advertising] space to Planned Parenthood in its pages, this alumn[us] will seek recourse at the administrative and district levels." Handed a copy of the student newspaper, I opened it to find not one, but two advertisements for "family planning" services that are notorious promoters of abortion.
"Need Free Birth Control?" asked the first ad for the Federal Way Public Health Center. "FREE ... Condoms! Morning After Pill! Pregnancy tests! STD tests! Public Health Teen Clinic can help! Wednesday Walk-In Only for Teens, 2:30-5."
The next ad was for "Free Birth Control for 1 Year at Planned Parenthood." The Seattle and King County Public Health Department (taxpayers) funded the first ad, and taxpayers offset the funding for the second ad.
I suppose that similar advertisements appeared in American newspapers of the 18th and 19th century to promote the slave trade. Their modern counterparts are worse, for not only do these family planning advertisements propose the very abolition of life and character beneath their friendly invitations to the clinic, they are funded – directly or indirectly – by you and me.
The reason why Planned Parenthood was able to make a net profit of $35.2 million in 2004, according to its new annual report, is because of a record $265.2 million in taxpayer funds. By far, the general public gave more money to Planned Parenthood this year than did private contributors.
Taxpayers generously provided one third of the $302.6 million Planned Parenthood budget for 2004. This spoiled-profitable "non-profit" organization uses part of its lavish endowments to fund advertisements like the one that has appeared in every issue of my high-school's newspaper since I was a sophomore at Puyallup High School half a decade ago.
Certainly, my old high school isn't the only one with student newspaper exposure to Planned Parenthood advertising. I was once invited to speak on a panel for a high-school journalism workshop hosted by the Seattle Times and, in a breakout session, I was assigned to critique the student newspaper for Vashon Island High School. Seeing the familiar Planned Parenthood ad, I registered my moral objections to an unsympathetic group of high schoolers. "What's wrong with that?" asked one student as if he had never known that there are people who oppose premarital sex and abortion. "They provide necessary services."
As far as I can tell, it seems that Planned Parenthood is the most loyal advertiser in America's high-school newspapers, period. And it goes without saying that many college newspapers also have Planned Parenthood ads. The ads are slick works of propaganda. "Planned Parenthood has been running ads in newspapers around the country that adopt a lesson from George Orwell and engage in a heavy dose of "newspeak," writes pro-life author Kerby Anderson. Few school districts have the prudence to formulate advertising policies to keep inappropriate propagandizing out of official student publications.
But in some places, school administrators and student newspaper editors are taking action. At Edmonds-Woodway High School near Seattle, school administrators heard complaints from parents last month and decided to pull Planned Parenthood advertising. Similar parent complaints at Pequannock High School in New Jersey prompted a new advertising policy there several years ago. And last year, administrators at Parkway Central High School in St. Louis pulled a controversial ad for Pregnancy Resource Center.
That's not a repression of free speech – Planned Parenthood is neither a private nor a life-affirming organization. It advocates and causes death – the death of innocent life and the death of innocence – and it uses public money to do so.
So let me address this to every pro-life American who is either a parent of a child in a public school, a taxpayer, an administrator or a student: It is time to declare war on Planned Parenthood and "family planning" advertisements in our public school newspapers. These works of propaganda made possible by public funding are aimed directly toward the annihilation of the founding principle that all are created equal. If our public schools are allowing the promotion of this deadly agenda, how can we remain silent?
Find out whether your local public school newspaper is a forum for Planned Parenthood. If it is, contact the newspaper and the school principal. More communities must join Edmonds-Woodway High School in rejecting the rancid dollars of anti-life family planning agencies.
The Puyallup School District will continue to hear from me until abortion agency advertisements are banned. Furthermore, let me suggest that pro-life Americans e-mail letters to the editor of the Puyallup High School newspaper. Tell the faculty advisers and student staff that it is time to take a stand for human life and moral character.
Since birth control is not 100% effective, I wonder if the school can be sued when its students fall prey to the false advertising?
Pro-Choice: Will Kill For Sex
It's interesting to me that Planned Parenthood, i.e., Murder Inc. is advertising in a HIGH SCHOOL newspaper. It seems to be going unnoticed that most High School students are legally "minor children". Therefore the school, PP et al, are offering services that aid and abet statutory rape. And it is tax-funded no less!
Planned Parenthood is a misnomer isn't it. Funny name for a group that makes Hitler look like a saint. They advocate killing more babies in one year than Hitler killed during his years at the helm of the German government. Murder Inc. is a more fitting name. Organizations such as these tear down family values and spawn the problems that they want to blame the government for. Between PP and the ACLU they've taken discipline out of the home and force the courts to do what use to be the parents responsibility. It is criminal to bring children into this world and then basically abandon their upbringing to the whims of the courts and organizations such as PP. I use to think that movies dealing with the future always portrayed the future as bleak to the point of apocalyptic but they are probably accurate when you see organizations like PP advertising (or maybe advocating sexual promiscuity) in school newspapers. Children do not have the tools necessary to provide for children that they may have. To provide contraceptives is a farce. They're trying to say when a child is going to engage in sexual relations they're going to take the time to use prophalatics. I think not. The next thing you get is unwanted babies, abortions (who knows what kind of psychological damage it causes to the mother), and the spread of STDs (some of which are not curable). If I was a parent with children in a school that allowed this kind of advertising I would be taking the school and school district to task. As you said they are "minor children" and the actions of organizations like this and the schools that allow it are criminal. They need to be brought to task.
Most high school girls get knocked-up by high school boys.
Given that a large percentage of these kids are going to have sex, I don't see a problem with offering condoms and free STD/Pregnancy testing.
Perhaps the answer is to offer a realistic pro-life alternative to PP?
I knew I heard that town name before. It's not the kind you forget (Puyallup)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/196371_spookban22.html
The liberals can't yet mold society the way they want to, so they practice where they have control - on our children.
For x dollars we will contact a doctor of death and he will murder your inocent baby. Problem solved.
That's part of the problem ~ girls who drop out of highschool have a much higher risk of pregnancy than girls who stay in school.
Planned Parenthood knows this. So, what is it they are advertising when they direct their message at kids still in school? Is it sex, or is it birth control?
Clue ~ not everybody has that problem.
bttt
snip...It seems to be going unnoticed that most High School students are legally "minor children".
Thanks to the quiet machinations of the 'sex is the road to happiness' cabal, sex between school kids is no longer illegal.
Unreported by the msm (meaning only reported in blogs, etc) are the increasing incidents of sexual molestation being perpetrated by kids against other kids (most recent I saw was the report of a boy less than 10 yrs old who sexually molested {penetrated} a 6 yr old boy in the school bathroom; parents told nothing much could be done because the boys were only doing what 'comes natural'). And because our kids have been sexualized and objectified, there are increasing incidents of teachers & other school personnel having sex with school kids. And why not? Aren't all of our cultural messages saying it's "ok if it feels good"? And aren't kids doing it anyway? And haven't we been told by the twisted Kinseyites that children are 'sexual beings from birth"? Just recently, in my local area, a high school teacher (male) was arrested for having sex with a male student Right In The Hall.
And why not?
The teacher is a male who likes sex with other males (homosexual), and aren't these kinds of people supposed to be "normal", a type of "gender and/or race" and don't they have the 'right' to seek their 'unique' type of love which they express through teir sexual practices? The ACLU, NEA, etc have been going to enormous lengths to convince us that this is so, so why should we be surprised when these people act out on the messages and 'rights' they're being given?
Look for more and more of this sort of thing to occur.
ping
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