Posted on 03/30/2006 3:46:27 PM PST by rhema
San Francisco, CA -- Teenagers in the United States are having abortions in fewer numbers than at any time since Roe v. Wade and are more pro-life than older Americans. That means fewer customers for Planned Parenthood, but the abortion business has come up with a corporate marketing plan to lure teens with free iPods and movie tickets. Planned Parenthood Golden Gate, the center that gave teenager Holly Patterson the dangerous abortion drug that killed her, is leading the way with the new marketing scheme.
Anyone who makes an appointment at one of the eight PPGG centers before April 30, 2006, can enter to win an iPod.
A poster announcing another Planned Parenthood program, called “Tell-A-Friend,” includes a photograph of a teenage girl whispering into the ear of another teen and telling. The text of the ad reads: "Get free movie tickets? Yes. When you tell a friend about Planned Parenthood."
"These are some of the schemes Planned Parenthood is using to lure teenagers into its deadly facilities,” said Douglas Scott, president of Life Decisions International, a group that organizes boycotts of companies that contribute to the abortion business.
“Now which age group is most likely to be swayed by this kind of gimmick?” Scott asked. “This incentive is clearly aimed at young people.”
“Planned Parenthood has resorted to common corporate tactics in an effort to get young people to encourage their peers to voluntarily become the pro-abortion group's new victims," he said.
In the tell a friend campaign, teens are asked to obtain a special card at a Planned Parenthood center or download one from their web site. The promoter gets two free movie passes redeemable at any United Artist theater and the friend receives $10 off her first visit.
Other Planned Parenthood abortion businesses other than PPGG are using the campaign as well, including the Planned Parenthood ffiliate network in Colorado.
Scott said the cards are also offensive because they include graphics from a cartoon video PPGG produced calling for violence against pro-life advocates. A superhero in the cartoon asks abortion advocates to participate in the "elimination" of pro-life people and shoots them with a ray gun.
"Just like any other business, a key target group for Planned Parenthood is young people,” Scott said. "And once a teenager is hooked, he or she can prove to be a good source of income for many years to come.”
LDI is currently investigating to determine if United Artists donated the tickets to Planned Parenthood or if they were purchased by the group. The pro-life group has not yet called for a boycott of the movie theater company.
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Life Decisions International
I'll post the response from Apple if I get one. I totally agree. If I were running a business I would do everything I could to avoid something like this.
Sure thing, goomba. I see people who encourage and defend murder as wrong even if they hand out suckers afterwards. That is a position. If it's narrow I'll accept that.
The vast majority of people waiting to adopt want only a healthy white newborn. And as a second choice they'll take a healthy Asian or South American newborn -- at least they can be sure they'll get to keep those, unlike U.S. babies. There is not a single fit parent in this country who can't adopt a child right now -- there are huge numbers of older and "special needs" children who come with a monthly check attached, even after adoption. But still, thousands and thousands of them languish in group homes and sketchy foster homes, until they "age out" of the system at 18, and their track record after that is dismal.
And you should come visit NYC, and check out the public housing projects, where there are babies and young children everywhere, and every cent of the cost of the miserable upbringing they're getting is being paid for by the taxpayers -- the government brainwashing/warehousing centers which we euphemistically call "schools" run about $20,000 per year per child; then there's the Medicaid, the housing, the AFDC, the drug rehab, the "job training", the prisons . . . . But in spite of the huge sums being shelled out on their behalf, many will not reach adulthood without reproducing and perpetuating the cycle, and if weren't for easy availability of contraceptives and abortions, almost none would. Every baby that pops out is a few hundred thousand more dollars of taxpayers' money. And the more taxpayers have to shell out, the less they can afford to care that many of these babies and children are being neglected and abused. Things are moving in the same direction in a lot of areas of the country outside of big cities, where more and more babies are being born to parents who are strung out on meth most of the time.
If this isn't stopped, things are going to get very, very ugly. There's a limit to how much working people will tolerate having their money confiscated to fund all this, and the problem has been allowed to get so big, that working people and the politicians who represent them are already rightly scared of what would happen if we simply cut them off -- it's unthinkable (for now), because we know they'd start rioting and killing at a never before seen rate, and we know that we'd have to start killing back pretty indiscriminately just to survive. But at some point, they'll start rioting and killing anyway, because the growth of their entitlements is simply unsustainable. I'd like to avoid that scenario, and limiting the births of babies who are not wanted by their own parents who are willing to and capable of raising them, is an essential element in avoiding it.
"Anyone who wants their baby to come to term will find every effort "
Well duh ... I meant slip away from YOU, the one who seems to have taken it upon themselves to deny their help to those who desperatly would need it, while forcing it on those who don't want it.
These and other contraceptives HAVE virtually ended unwanted pregnancies among responsible women and girls.
If it's going to cost that much money then just kill 'em.
That doesn't make any sense at all. It is not at all what you said.
Well, unless you think all can be saved, the choice is to save the ones where the parents want them saved and let the unwanted ones slip away, or save the ones that the parents don't want to be saved and let the wanted ones be lost.
It says there "save the ones where the parents want thems saved..." As I said; everything will be done to make that happen. And you said "let the unwanted ones slip away." What that has to do with me I don't know. I would never want a baby to slip away from me. The real kicker is saying that you see a choice in "the ones that the parents don't want." Pretty clear you approve of abortion. That's your POV, so be it. My POV is that there is never a justification for killing an innocent intentionally.
What a sick excuse..........explain yourself governmentshrinker.
OK, you jumped in at 67 so I understand if you couldn't follow my thoughts.
No, I read every post on the thread first. Your POV is plain enough.
So sad, yet so true. Young people so often become the victims of abuse and manipulation.
Thanks for posting that info.
Do you have (easy) access to info on what percent of PP's business is from performing abortions? I'm noting from some link the apparent drop in demand for other PP services.
Or is it that they just aren't doing iPod promotions for midlife counseling? ... Or whatever the promo would be for that demographic (now that would be a rip-roaring discussion, wouldn't it?!).
As I recall (but am frankly too tired to look up now), it is also interesting to note incidence of child abuse cases since abortion was legalized, that abortion does not necessarily ensure that every child is a "planned and wanted child".
Crisis pregnancy centers need to be mentioned here as source of info for post-abortion counseling. They do tremendous work for the communities, and are worth our support for the POSITIVES they bring to this sad situation. I am so sorry to read of your ex's experience and the long term life-changing damage done.
So why is it you don't understand that the point I was making is that there are many more wanted children in this world that saving would take much less effort then forcing your help on someone who dosen't want it ?
Might be able to save a dozen or so for the time and effort involved in saving one.
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hottest-places-in-hell alert.
I'm afraid I don't have any more info on PP. They often don't do the abortions they just arrange them and counsel girls and women to get them. They do the propaganda. I'm not sure how many actually provide the 'service.'
I guess it's because that's the most illogical and idiotic thing I've ever heard. Or close. It's not a zero-sum proposition. There is no lack of resources to help bring wanted children into the world. No one is forcing anyone to get pregnant either. (rape excepted. but that is rare to the fraction of one percent. there are something like 3-4 pregnancies due to rape per year.)
Using your logic; prosecuting murderers is wasting resources that could be used to send non-murderers to college. Either way it's a recommendation for socialist government.
How do you know the murdered babies don't want help? Cairvoyant?
I would like to see legislation to the effect of: (1) Once a child has been held in good faith by adoptive parents for more than half its life or one year, whichever is greater, without contest by the biological parents, all claims to the child by its biological parents shall be absolutely forfeit regardless of the reason for such lack of claim. (2) If, after the enactment of this section, a judge removes a child from its adoptive parents in violation thereof, and said judge is shot by the adoptive parents or someone acting on their behalf, such death or injury shall be deemed justifiable homicide or justifiable battery. (3) Subsections (2) and (3) of this section shall not be subject to declaratory judgement.
Maybe going a teensy weensy bit overboard, but there have been enough horrible court precedents set (doesn't take many) that many prospective adoptive parents are unwilling to risk having a child stolen from them after they've raised it for several years.
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