Posted on 06/29/2008 11:09:15 AM PDT by wagglebee
Planned Parenthood is in search of a makeover. For years, the organization has been the biggest abortionist in the business, but as abortion is losing its cachet, Planned Parenthood is trying to reinvent itself. It seems that killing children for cash is just not as fashionable as it used to be.
According to Stephanie Simon of the Wall Street Journal, Planned Parenthood wants to "[open] new avenues for boosting revenue and, they hope, political clout." The first step in the organization's redo involves marketing itself to customers in a higher income bracket. Planned Parenthood is building new centers with larger waiting areas, wooden floors, nice lighting and other amenities which create a more inviting environment and, presumably, make clients feel less shameful about the act they are contemplating. A new "green" clinic is going up in Massachusetts, made of recycled and earth-friendly materials. "Express centers" are being located in malls so that young women can have quick and easy access to birth control, tests for sexually transmitted diseases and counseling. Gift shops make the centers more appealing to their young clientele.
In its early years Planned Parenthood was directed by Margaret Sanger who advocated for a "right" for women to choose to kill their unborn children. She also promoted a Congressional plan which would, in part, "apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring."
Sanger wanted to use reproductive controls to halt the "vicious cycle" of poverty and ignorance. She argued, "There is only one cure for both, and that is to stop breeding these things. Stop bringing to birth children whose inheritance cannot be one of health or intelligence. Stop bringing into the world children whose parents cannot provide for them. Herein lies the key of civilization."
Sanger advocated "choice" as a tool for eugenics. "Only upon a free, self-determining motherhood can rest any unshakable structure of racial betterment." Yet she did not believe that this exalted idea of choice should apply to "the undeniably feeble-minded." In other words, Sanger thought the mentally handicapped should be sterilized by force, people should be sterilized to remove unwanted traits from the populace, and the country should seek racial perfection.
Planned Parenthood's modern advocacy of "choice" is rooted in Sanger's lack of regard for the rights of the unborn. Sanger saw "choice" as a means of perfecting America through the destruction of millions of unborn children. Planned Parenthood perpetuates Sanger's legacy by presenting "choice" as a means of improving the lives of individuals and communities by eliminating unwanted, "inconvenient" children. Its clinics dispose of over 200,000 such children per year. The number of abortions provided by Planned Parenthood hit an all-time high in the 2005-2006 fiscal year.
This high body count, no doubt, is part of the reason Planned Parenthood wants to change its abortion-centered public image. Nevertheless, the organization will not quit providing abortions or discourage them. Rather, it is hoping to hide its assault on human life behind nice new amenities. Apparently it believes that comfortable furniture, soft lighting and convenient locations will help people forget what goes on behind the closed doors of the surgical ward.
The new "green" Planned Parenthood building is, perhaps, the most ironic element of its remodeling plan. The organization proudly proclaims its concern for the environment even as it destroys more human beings than any other group in America. Planned Parenthood is the most infamous organization in an industry which kills more than twice as many Americans per year as cancer. By "going green," Planned Parenthood is attempting to hide its true color, red—the color of the blood produced by its daily death toll.
Worthy of note is the fact that federal and state grants make up about a third of Planned Parenthood's funding. Another third is provided by private donors. By remolding its image, the merchants of death are, no doubt, hoping to increase the share that comes from both. Branding is, after all, key to the success of any fundraising campaign.
This is one makeover, however, that just won't work. Putting lipstick on a pig doesn't make you want to kiss it. No matter how hard Planned Parenthood tries to dress it up, abortion still kills children and hurts women.
MyTake on this years Presidential race
Something to consider this election year. That Barack Hussein Obama is even ahead of John McCain at all and has been at least since Obama wrapped up his race with Hillary Clinton should say more about the Republican presidential candidate than it does about the Democrat presidential candidate. Considering that if this were any other election year it would be completely understandable if these two men were most any other typical party candidates. But with Obama apparently being the most extreme left wing tax and spend liberally Marxist/communist/socialist and least inexperienced candidate in our nations history that I'm aware of for any major office and that McCain is trailing Obama in most national polls by anywhere from 1 to 6 points and is only marginally (3-5 points - statistically tied) behind McCain here in Texas gives us a critical clue as to just how bad this Republican candidate really is in comparison.
If it weren't for John McCain and his effort to move the party to the center-left and stiffing the Christian conservatives most any other typical Republican candidate in the race would be out front by 15-20 points or more. If this doesn't reveal just how bad and weak McCain and the RNC is I don't know what else would. This also says a lot as well about those pushing his candidacy with so much at stake. I don't even think Texas, where everyone knows everything is bigger, makes clothespins big enough to block out the stench emanating from this candidate this year. Texas for sure is also risking losing its majority share of statewide elected Republican officials due to the typical coat-tail effect. It appears that the Democrats will be in control of both the White House and Congress as well come November. Can anyone say shades of the 'Whig Party'?!
Well said.
Let's not, all this is doing is accepting the premise that genetic infanticide would be optimal with the right parameters.
This is simply not true, it is not acceptable to kill any human being because they don't meet some arbitrary standard.
Who are yall supporting for President?
Please don’t compare yourself to the Founders while you help Obama seat a couple more whackjobs on the SCOTUS who will rubberstamp Roe vs. Wade for another generation.
Please don’t compare yourself to the Founders while you promote a tax plan that will involve establishing the largest government entitlement program in world history.
Please don’t compare yourself to the men who put George Washington at the head of the Continental Army while you prepare to help a clueless neophyte become commander-in-chief in a time of war.
I wish your party well...beginning on the first Wednesday in November. Until then, you’re part of the problem, not part of the solution. Until then, you’re not only thinking Nineveh will get better by electing Jonah to Mayoral office, you’re thinking Nineveh will get better if we have Ahab run Nineveh for four years and then elect Jonah.
Sure. It's happened so many times in American history.
Excellent analysis.
If they’re true to their principles, they’ll write in George Washington.
We are working to put Alan Keyes on as many state ballots as possible as an Independent. Some states will be able to run him as their party nominee right out of the gate.
Unfair and untrue. Please be accurate. I never compared myself to the Founders. I simply pointed out that our goal is to follow the example of their leader. Big difference. I'm really disappointed in you.
I truly wish you could see the slippery slope that John McCain is leading you on to.
Q. Does Alan Keyes have more of a chance of taking office than George Washington?
A. No.
Note that I say that even though I like Keyes, voted for Keyes, have met Keyes and spoke at a Keyes rally in 2004.
I say the following to you as real advice, meant to help: Step one for your party to succeed is to never, ever run Alan Keyes for anything in any locale significantly bluer than Utah. He has a very bad habit of mistaking bluntness for persuasiveness, and he shoots himself in the foot with belt-fed weapons from start to finish when campaigning.
I know from personal experience this is pure ignorance, at best. So did someone else whose opinion I trust more highly than yours.
‘Alan, you stood tall’
"Alan, I should be the one thanking you, because you did such an extraordinary job in the first seven years of our administration: working with Jeane Kirkpatrick at the United Nations, serving as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, defending our country against the forces of anti-Americanism.
I think particularly of your work at a conference in Nairobi where you and my daughter Maureen worked to eliminate the disgusting “Zionism is racism’’ resolution from that conference’s final report and earned the gratitude of all Americans.
And there was your performance as my Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, where you pursued successful reforms of the United Nations and opposed with every ounce of strength in your body all those who have served to foster and legitimize state-sponsored terrorism.
Alan, I should be thanking you – and I am – because every time I asked you to do your best, you did that and better. Every time I asked you to stand for America, you stood tall, and you deserve not only my thanks but the thanks of every citizen of this great country."
President Ronald Reagan gave these remarks at a luncheon for Alan Keyes in Baltimore, Maryland, on Oct. 26, 1988
You will follow the example of their leadership by helping the SCOTUS gain a couple of Ginsberg clones? By sending every American a government check each month? By putting a blithering idiot in charge of our troops in the field while they fight a war?
I'm disappointed in you as well, for the reasons I listed above. I'm disappointed that conservatives have become utopians, and then call themselves the only real conservatives.
I was referring to Barack Obama when I described the “clueless neophyte.” Here in the real world, that is the consequence of a McCain loss, an incompetent commanding our armed forces.
Fine. Support John Judas McCain. That’s your business.
Just pay heed to where he’s leading you. It isn’t anywhere good. That’s already clear from the moral contortions his supporters are already having to perform to try to campaign for him.
No. You’ve got it wrong. Unlike you, I don’t support those who are destroying our country just because they have an “R” by their name.
Moral contortions? I’m given a choice between (at worst) FDR vs. (at best) Jimmy Carter and I pick FDR, and that’s a moral contortion?
Please, I ask you this in all seriousness, please get over yourself. You’re not qualified to be someone’s moral teacher because you have made one political stratgy choice or another.
Aw, that's a cute accusation, but it means bupkis. Primaries are about principle, generals are about allocation of power. You will not allocate a single power to Alan Keyes this fall, you will allocate power to Barack Obama. That is the moral reality, as surely as it's a reality that turning on a light switch will send electricity to the bulb.
IMO it’s the name recognition. Run a conservative that people know, that has the right personality to draw people in and it can happen.
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