Posted on 07/10/2007 4:00:51 PM PDT by Zack Nguyen
What’s so bad about Planned Parenthood? It’s a question Americans must wonder about as they see pro-lifers protesting or praying outside clinics. And it deserves an answer because it gets to the heart of some key and contentious questions we face as a society, one that is ever creeping toward a brave new world (in many respects already living in it) as biotechnological choices propagate.
Consider that Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton has been endorsed by Planned Parenthood in her Senate runs. Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Republican, has given money to them in the past. Ann Romney, wife of the former governor of Massachusetts, another Republican, who is a fairly recent pro-life convert, once gave money to Planned Parenthood too.
Democrats’ associations with Planned Parenthood are no real surprise. Close ties and the support of, and for, the nation’s largest abortion provider is not really a shock. On the Republican side, it’s a different story. The GOP’s platform is pro-life, as the party’s presidential nominees tend to be. While it’s no secret that Giuliani is pro-choice and Mrs. Romney is not actually a candidate herself, the recent revelations about their donations do feed into a sense that Planned Parenthood is as American as apple pie.
So what’s so bad about Planned Parenthood? What is it about the organization that makes pro-lifers go wild with outrage and concern? After all, Planned Parenthood does do things other than abortion. Along with providing abortion, they provide contraception. As Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani recently explained, he gave the group money “Because Planned Parenthood makes information available. It’s consistent with my position.”
To anyone who does not follow Planned Parenthood headlines, that makes some sense. The rest of his answer, though, begged for further interrogating: “I disagree with (abortion), I think it is wrong.” He has also said that he hates abortion. But it’s not believable that someone who truly hates abortion could ever have anything nice to say about Planned Parenthood.
Browse on over to their web magazine for minors, www.teenwire.com, and you’ll find, among the question-and-answer, a question from a teen who says she had an abortion “a little over a month ago,” is pregnant again, and wondering if a second abortion is safe. Not only does the teenwire.com staff cavalierly tell the girl (who, I remind you, got pregnant again a month after her first abortion) that abortion is “very safe” the first or second time around, but that abortion “is much safer than giving birth.” While they do throw in a line about preventing pregnancy by using birth control, there’s no talk about adoption or other alternatives — such as raising the child, and getting help to do so — that a desperate girl could afford to hear.
Of course in an America where abortion is legal, that Planned Parenthood steers women who don’t want their kids toward abortion, is not wholly unexpected. But what about kids who are wanted? In the wake of the Laci Peterson trial in which Scott Peterson was eventually convicted of killing his wife and unborn son (Connor), then-Planned Parenthood President Gloria Feldt argued against federal legislation that would protect the legal rights of both the mother and child in such a horrific double-homicide. Feldt insisted that there was but one victim in the Peterson case, Laci, the mother. So radical is Planned Parenthood that they cannot concede that a wanted unborn child is also a victim when his life is taken.
While it’s questionable that donations that total less than $1,000 indicate enthusiastic support for the work of Planned Parenthood, as Mayor Giuliani’s did, any honest executive at Planned Parenthood has got to be a bit excited by the prospect of Rudy Giuliani as the nominee of the Republican party. Here’s a Republican guy who is essentially on their side. His willingness to buck them up as he aims for the White House is an opportunity to confront this front for a culture of death ironically hiding “Parenthood.”
At least that is what I’ve read.
Pro-life bump.
I called PP a while back and told them that my wife and I needed their help. They were very anxious for me to continue.
I told them that I understood that they provided family planning information and help. Again they were very anxious to help.
I then told them that my wife and I want to have twelve children and would like to have them put together a plan for us. They were dumbfounded and the woman started to babble, explaining that they didn’t do that sort of planning.
I then just acted confused, “I thought you did family planning?” and so on.
It was fun. Recommend you all give it a spin.
I don't know that she wanted them dead, but she certainly wanted fewer of them. Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist.
Lot's of abortions going on,they must be making big $'s,anybody know?
I have no problem with the concept of providing help to those planning on parenthood. The problem with Planned Parenthood the organization is that they tend to push abortion as a major tenent of their ideology.
I don’t believe or trust either Romney.
Both are phony.
Fred is the way to go!
[Snicker] Family planning, as you demonstrated, is always about having fewer children, and killing the ones that are conceived.
They push it because abortion is a major MONEY MAKER directly for them.
Well, let’s just put it this way.
Planned Parenthood is behind most of the sex ed courses in the public schools, where the last couple of generations of children have been taught that any kind of sex at all is fine, as long as they wear condoms.
Planned Parenthood gets a lot of tax dollars for doing this.
Then Planned Parenthood sells the kids condoms, and makes more money that way.
Then the condoms fail, and planned parenthood takes many of these minor children and gives them abortions, without informing their parents. Nor do they inform the police that someone has committed statutory rape against these kids. Often the rapist takes the kid to Planned Parenthood and pretends—but not too hard—to be a parent or a brother.
Planned Parenthood says there should be no children but wanted children, and that if they sell kids condoms they will have fewer abortions. Yet after years of this kind of miseducation, there are more abortions and more abused children than ever. Planned Parenthood is at the root of the problem.
And our tax dollars go to pay the salaries of these murderers, child abusers, and accomplices of rapists.
I’m not sure that makes a whole lot of sense. You can only abort a fetus once. If you provide ongoing service to young couples, or single mothers (paid for with either fees, donations, or government funding) you will have a client for many years potentially.
which kind? the planned parenthood of waiting till you are both working and married for a year or two with maybe some jing in the bank??
or the Quickie Abortion for the third time while not even knowing who the father is, let alone married to him, will fix everything kind???
oh... i see its the latter.
Browse on over to their web magazine for minors, www.teenwire.com, and you’ll find, among the question-and-answer, a question from a teen who says she had an abortion “a little over a month ago,” is pregnant again, and wondering if a second abortion is safe.True, you can only abort a single fetus once but that doesn't mean you can't have repeat 'customers'.
I rarely “laugh out loud” over things but I did over this - thanks!
Yes, but not nearly as much repeat business as when the parent(s) keep the child.
a government funded baby killing money making enterprise.
"The minister's work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members [emphasis added].39"
39. Sanger to Gamble, 10 December 1939.
Sanger was also a source of inspiration for Hitler as well.
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