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
What in bloody blue blazes are you talking about? I've never been a teacher, public school or otherwise in my life............something you obviously need to get one of.
I know, my friend and I am so sorry if my comments in any way have hurt or offended you - please know they were not my intention.
I've been beat up here before regarding my stance on PP and other clinics and I am sure I will continue to be - I don't give a hoot.
All I did was ask you a question. What happened?
Some people are emotional, ...
I guess so. Who's the idiot now?
I forgot to say that the abortion my ex was talked into by PP caused her to have an ectopic pregnancy later which almost killed her and left her sterile.
What part of that did you not understand?
My friend has a beautiful child BECAUSE of the people at PP.
I have no problem with being against providing abortion services.........my problem is with condemning with a broad brush.
C'mon now, Coleus. Not eveybody who defends infanticide mills is an NEA commie. Some are just mentally ill without any affiliations.
I forgot to say that my friend with the beautiful 8 year old will be 24 next month and also has a beautiful 18 month old.........with many thanks to PP because unlike the state, they helped her during her first pregnancy. The pregnancy the STATE practically demanded her to terminate.
All PP centers push abortion. Just because they don't do it 100% of the time means nothing.
"Yup. Some kids are just better off dead."
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.
Odds are you'll get more bang for your buck saving the ones whose parents care about them.
Just the way life is, go ask the guy who designed it.
You're both ignorANUSES.
There is no talking to the likes of you.
Have a good night.
It makes me think of all the suffering Stalin prevented by killing 60 million citizens. Think of the over population they would have now. Oh, the suffering!
I don't give a hoot. Go away and sulk about it.
You're both ignorANUSES. >>>
see the type of language people learn in baby-killing abortion mills.
Anyone who wants their baby to come to term will find every effort is made by their health care providers to see that it does. "Letting the unwanted ones slip away" is nothing more than a euphemism for "kill it." Abortion is an intentional act.
Looks like you posted your experience with PP and TigersEye posted his. Not sure why that makes him the enemy.
I guess when your position is utterly bankrupt morally and intellectually you fall back to grade school ad-hominem.
As an Apple Mac user, I am appalled to learn that
the nation's largest baby killing enterprise is giving
away your I-pod products as an enticement to
teens to enter the blood stained world of Planned Parenthood. PP's founder, Margaret Sanger, was a racist who sought to eradicate the black race.
This marriage of your product with an org who kills
off future customers can't be good for business!
Leslie Hanks
V.P. Colorado Right to Life
Why does it make ME the enemy?
You're not the enemy. PP is.
Sorry, pal - you are the one with no position here other than tunnel vision.
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