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Planned Parenthood Abortion Centers Lure Teens With iPods, Movie Tickets
LifeNews ^ | March 30, 2006 | Steven Ertelt

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.

Related web sites:
Life Decisions International


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; US: California
KEYWORDS: abortion; gabzisharbanero; getemwhiletheyrehot; marketinggimmicks; moralabsolutes; plannedparenthood; prolife
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To: Gabz; cyborg
...the compassionate people at Planned Parenthood.

Good Lord you're an idiot. Next you'll be telling us about the warm hospitality at Auschwitz.

181 posted on 04/02/2006 5:54:15 PM PDT by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: RS
Since they were never in a position to make the correct "choice"

Says who?

"Defective only if it was possible to create beings that would never choose Hell yet be fit for Heaven."

Are you saying that it would be impossible for God to do that ?

I suspect so; can you argue the contrary?

182 posted on 04/02/2006 6:07:38 PM PDT by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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To: Know your rights

"Since they were never in a position to make the correct "choice"
Says who?"

Soory, I might have made a wrong assumption that you were a Christian. If so, the "word" was not available ( according to traditional theory), so a correct choice could not have been made.



"Are you saying that it would be impossible for God to do that ?

I suspect so; can you argue the contrary?"

You appear to have a very different concept of God then an all-powerfull being, normally God is not given any limitations.


183 posted on 04/02/2006 6:45:55 PM PDT by RS ("I took the drugs because I liked them and I found excuses to take them, so I'm not weaseling.")
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To: RS
Soory, I might have made a wrong assumption that you were a Christian. If so, the "word" was not available ( according to traditional theory), so a correct choice could not have been made.

I am a Christian, and consciously choosing to believe in Christ is not necessary for salvation (although consciously choosing to disbelieve in Christ is sufficient for damnation).

"Are you saying that it would be impossible for God to do that ?

I suspect so; can you argue the contrary?"

You appear to have a very different concept of God then an all-powerfull being, normally God is not given any limitations.

You need to broaden your knowledge of Christianity; I recommend C. S. Lewis' Mere Christianity as a start.

184 posted on 04/02/2006 6:53:26 PM PDT by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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To: Know your rights

"I am a Christian, and consciously choosing to believe in Christ is not necessary for salvation (although consciously choosing to disbelieve in Christ is sufficient for damnation). "

Curious, how does that tally with -
“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me.” John 14:6-7"

"You need to broaden your knowledge..."

No I don't think so, if C.S. convinced you that God was not all-powerfull, the entire concept changes.


185 posted on 04/02/2006 7:04:02 PM PDT by RS ("I took the drugs because I liked them and I found excuses to take them, so I'm not weaseling.")
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To: RS
Curious, how does that tally with - “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me.” John 14:6-7"

It is not necessary to consciously believe in Christ in order to go through Him.

if C.S. convinced you that God was not all-powerfull, the entire concept changes.

No, it doesn't; to say that God can't do that which is logically impossible to do is no limitation on His power.

186 posted on 04/02/2006 7:11:24 PM PDT by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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To: Know your rights

"No, it doesn't; to say that God can't do that which is logically impossible to do is no limitation on His power."

Of course it is, once you say "can't" there is a big stumbling block. Logically, you have placed a limitation on His power.


187 posted on 04/03/2006 6:13:17 AM PDT by RS ("I took the drugs because I liked them and I found excuses to take them, so I'm not weaseling.")
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To: RS
Actually, the first is a wrong conclusion on your part- going to hell is only the root cause IF they wind up there.

'Going to hell' is not a cause at all it's a result. Isn't it?

your second one was KYR

I have racked my brain and cannot figure out the acronym KYR. I'm usually good with acronyms.

RS: and in the third one "And here you say God knew before hand who chooses hell and who doesn't. " Are you presuming that HE dosen't ? That we could surprise HIM ?

I'm not presuming about it one way or the other. I was restating one of your positions to contrast it with the two others that it can't possibly fit with.

.... Hhmmm, an interesting concept though - ... Kind of a George Burnsy type of God ...

If you believe that some external God designed each of us individually it would expain the existence of John Denver.

188 posted on 04/03/2006 9:19:38 AM PDT by TigersEye (Everywhere I look all I see are my own desires.)
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To: Petronski
Next you'll be telling us about the warm hospitality at Auschwitz.

"Put a relative on a boxcar, get a chance to win a volkswagen."

(I'll be spending some time in hell for that one.)

189 posted on 04/03/2006 9:29:44 AM PDT by TigersEye (Everywhere I look all I see are my own desires.)
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To: TigersEye

Her logic might fly in a posse of clowns, but it is not conservative. "...[T]he compassionate people at Planned Parenthood?" It's positively Goebbelsian.


190 posted on 04/03/2006 9:57:55 AM PDT by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: GovernmentShrinker
They are using them to try to get teens into the clinics and onto contraceptives BEFORE they get pregnant

Right, because nobody on contraceptives ever got pregnant. And the condoms they give out at Planned Parenthood didn't rank dead last in the Consumer Reports' study.

Face it: they're pushing kids to have sex, pushing to normalize sex outside marriage*, pushing to put kids on unreliable contraception (and there is no perfectly reliable contraception except abstinence), and ultimately pushing them to have abortions.

Because that's how they make their money, off the broken bodies and ruined souls of our daughters and our children. Greedy bastards.

*The university I graduated from invited a PP speaker on campus for "Women's Health Week". The PP speaker told the women to always use condoms and get on the Pill, because that's the safest they could be "except for abstinence, which is no fun".

191 posted on 04/03/2006 10:10:17 AM PDT by Campion ("I am so tired of you, liberal church in America" -- Mother Angelica, 1993)
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To: TigersEye

"'Going to hell' is not a cause at all it's a result. Isn't it?"

Yep, can't type as fast as I think at times...

Our thread friend - KnowYourRights


192 posted on 04/03/2006 12:30:25 PM PDT by RS ("I took the drugs because I liked them and I found excuses to take them, so I'm not weaseling.")
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To: Petronski

It's plenty weird that's for sure. One might suspect ignorance but how is that possible on a thread like this? PP is definitely the 'American Council for the Final Solution.'


193 posted on 04/03/2006 1:05:46 PM PDT by TigersEye (Everywhere I look all I see are my own desires.)
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To: RS
Our thread friend - KnowYourRights

Duh! (slaps forehead) I'm guilty of PWEC. (posting without enough coffee) OK. Yes, Know your rights originally posted the second postulate. But you agreed that it was true so I am not in error for asking how you can hold it as true while holding as true two antithetical postulates.

194 posted on 04/03/2006 1:13:20 PM PDT by TigersEye (Everywhere I look all I see are my own desires.)
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To: rhema; 4lifeandliberty; AbsoluteGrace; afraidfortherepublic; Alamo-Girl; anniegetyourgun; applex; ..

Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping!

Please FReepmail me if you would like to be added to, or removed from, the Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping list...

195 posted on 04/04/2006 8:58:16 AM PDT by cgk (I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
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To: RS

and we WANT them to become mothers ?


As opposed to killing their own babies?
Ummmm....yeah!


196 posted on 04/05/2006 1:49:52 PM PDT by confederate_infidel (Freepers: a group of people in their PJ's translating Saddam's war tactics on their PC's.)
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To: Gabz

Get over your evil self.

Hmmmm.....she's evil....
yet YOU are the one who supports the organization who kills so many innocent babies a year!!!!!!


197 posted on 04/05/2006 2:05:39 PM PDT by confederate_infidel (Freepers: a group of people in their PJ's translating Saddam's war tactics on their PC's.)
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To: GovernmentShrinker

It is mothers having to stick their young children in daycare centers no matter how sketchy the staff.



According to you, that child would probably be better off dead. Better that than be cared for by 'sketchy' staff, right?


198 posted on 04/05/2006 2:18:38 PM PDT by confederate_infidel (Freepers: a group of people in their PJ's translating Saddam's war tactics on their PC's.)
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To: RS

life, where there's a chance you might wind up spending eternity in Hell or a " Go directly to heaven" free pass
... do you ?

Probably not a three month old baby either. So it is okay to kill them and let them get a free pass to heaven?


199 posted on 04/05/2006 2:21:55 PM PDT by confederate_infidel (Freepers: a group of people in their PJ's translating Saddam's war tactics on their PC's.)
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To: rhema

I have been repeating his for a decade--- abortion and birth control will be the death of western civilization. Does anyone honestly believe that if 43 million abortions had not been performed by these monsters that we would have such a flood of illegal aliens?


200 posted on 04/07/2006 10:54:16 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot
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