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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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The discussion was about newborns, and every one of them is adoptable. Although many potential adopters want healthy white babies, every newborn (including black, preemie, Down's Syndrome, crack-addicted, etc.) is absolutely wanted and can be adopted. No newborn will lack willing adoptive parents in the United States, and that's a fact.
It is true that older children and sibling groups are hard to place. Most of the reason for that is that the courts are very slow in terminating parental rights, even when the parents are guilty of abuse and neglect or otherwise criminal. Most of the kids in foster care and group homes are not legally available for adoption; and to adopt one who is legally available requires going through an incredible amount of government red tape and regulation. (I know. My husband and I tried.)
People who favor killing these kids, whether before or after birth, can hardly be considered advocates for the children themselves and in fact display a shockingly demeaning attitude toward the babies in question.
Kids are not disposable, even if, disgracefully, the Supreme Court will allow you to crush the littler ones.
Your comments were about someone who had been raped. In that case, only she alone can make that decision.
But yes, I am pretty strongly against abortion, though there was a monkey wrench several years back about some baby born with her stomach on the OUTSIDE. That would be a pretty hefty decision for me to make in that case. However, in the case of having a baby with downs' syndrome and the like, I would definitely choose to have the kid.
Prosecuting murderers can save the lives of non-murderers -- a very good trade-off IMO. But the money spent to imprison them for a number of years, and then maintain the parole system (since the vast majority don't stay in prison, at least for their first murder), and the court system which will invariably be handling their subsequent crimes, most certainly WOULD be better spent sending non-murderers to college. And it doesn't have to be via socialism either; the money could just never be collected in taxes in the first place, and instead left in the hands of non-murderers and their parents.
Money doesn't just materialize out of thin air. It must be consficated from people who work. It is chunks of working people's lives. It is fathers working two jobs and barely even seeing their children on weekends. It is mothers having to stick their young children in daycare centers no matter how sketchy the staff, to go off to work to make ends meet after the huge tax bite. It is people who don't have time to participate in the political process, and whose rights are chipped away bit by bit by the growing monster of government, while they're too busy working to make ends meet to bother with fighting back. What percentage of working people's money do think it's okay for the government to confiscate, in order to raise the children of non-working people who didn't really want the children in the first place? 70%? 80%? 90%? Where does it end?
I happen to think that heading off our country's slide into full-blown socialism is a much higher priority than protecting embryos and early-stage fetuses that have no awareness and no capacity to feel pain. I don't think it's worth it to sacrifice freedom for the whole country, just because irresponsible impulsive people by definition don't use contraceptives reliably. In the final analysis, it makes no difference whether a baby who never should have been born is stopped shortly before conception (even by abstinence, which is heavily promoted by anti-abortion campaigners, but still boils down to artificial interference with the natural reproductive processes of the human species) or shortly after. Either way, it doesn't get born. I don't see any ethical difference. If I hadn’t been born, it certainly wouldn’t make any difference to me whether I’d never been conceived or had been aborted; it gets exactly the same result.
See my post #125
If awareness and capacity to feel pain are the criteria for having a right to life, then beef is murder. Do you believe that beef is murder?
Which wanted children may legally be killed? And why should we not assume (unless shown otherwise) that a human being doesn't want to be killed?
At that point, I don't think there is a consciousness that understands enough to make that decision -
... life, where there's a chance you might wind up spending eternity in Hell or a " Go directly to heaven" free pass
... do you ?
So it's OK to murder the temporarily comatose?
... life, where there's a chance you might wind up spending eternity in Hell or a " Go directly to heaven" free pass ... do you ?
Under what circumstances would a person go to Hell for requesting a third party to nonfatally prevent their murder?
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"Under what circumstances would a person go to Hell for requesting a third party to nonfatally prevent their murder?
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Obviously you must think that everyone who ever lived goes to heaven ? No ?
But lets make it interesting - YOU are temporarily comatose, God offers the the choice of Life as it was with the possibility you may wind up in Hell for eternity, or the free pass directly to heaven ... Deal or No Deal ?
Don't know where you got that; I think nothing of the sort.
But lets make it interesting - YOU are temporarily comatose, God offers the the choice of Life as it was with the possibility you may wind up in Hell for eternity, or the free pass directly to heaven ... Deal or No Deal ?
Irrelevant, as neither the mother nor the abortionist are God.
"Irrelevant, as neither the mother nor the abortionist are God."
Absolutely relevant, according to your post a few back -
#129 " And why should we not assume (unless shown otherwise) that a human being doesn't want to be killed ? "
God is making the promise of heaven, you propose to force a path which may wind up in an eternity of hell.
By this "logic" it's equally wrong to prevent the murder of newborns. Do you support legalizing the murder of newborns?
Nope, didn't say I "support" abortions either.
But you seem to think my "logic" is flawed - please explain.
You didn't say you opposed them, and you did spout some blather about "forcing your help on someone who dosen't want it" ... when we have no more reason to think that a newborn baby "wants" to be defended from murder than that an unborn baby does.
... and the flaw in my logic is ?
Lets just say that your opposition did have some effect -
Does it give you some sense of satisfaction knowing that YOU were the root cause of a certain percentage of those new souls winding up in Hell for eternity ?
That it leads to the self-evidently absurd conclusion that it's wrong to prevent the murder of newborn babies.
YOU were the root cause of a certain percentage of those new souls winding up in Hell for eternity ?
Nonsense ... I didn't force them to sin and not repent.
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