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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.
Ironically, I just thought of a service PP could provide, if it wasn’t so tainted, that could actually do some good.
Fortunately, it could be provided elsewhere and better by someone else.
That is, somebody, Wal-Mart maybe, providing comprehensive while-you-wait low cost STD and other communicable disease tests.
Bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa and parasites.
Herpes, HPV, KSVH, HIV, hepatitis, chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, trichomoniasis, chancroid, Donovanosis, non-gonococcal urethritis, staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), cytomegalovirus, molluscum, mononucleosis, giardiasis, ameobic infection, Candida albicans, toxoplasma gondii, and I’m sure there are a bunch more.
By regularly testing for all of these, whatever company could start a “cleaning” campaign to eliminate as much as possible these diseases from our population.
In turn, this would prevent endless prenatal problems and personal damage to individuals, most of whom would never know they had one or more of these problems, unwillingly spreading them to others.
Stop The Hurt and Pain!
Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets
Roth, Alvin E. “Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets”, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 21:3, Summer, 2007, pp. 37-58.
http://kuznets.fas.harvard.edu/~aroth/alroth.html#Repugnant
PDF file can be downloaded from the page.
Quite a list of items and interesting how desensitized a Godless society can become...
Are you for real? Are you just teasing us with that prattle and going to tell us you are joking? C'mon, let us know.
Is the latter part of your phrase a way to rid the earth of atheists?
Pro-Life PING
Please FreepMail me if you want on or off my Pro-Life Ping List.
Of course the inherent flaw in all of this is what to do when an intelligent woman, with an intelligent husband, gives birth to a child with low intelligence or other disabilities. The Utopian eugenicists need to insure that there are safeguards to counteract such cases.
Additionally, there must be devices in place addressing those who become disabled after birth. After all, what parent would want to be burdened with a Helen Keller when they could have a Hillary Rodham?
You know, I’ve been trying to coin a word to describe people like you. something like “necrophile” but without the sexual connotation.
Genocide and babykilling as they way to civilization...yeah, your moral compass is certainly in working order. Sieg heil.
You know, I’ve been trying to coin a word to describe people like you. something like “necrophile” but without the sexual connotation.
Genocide and babykilling as the way to civilization...yeah, your moral compass is certainly in working order. Sieg heil.
EV, will you write in George Washington? If not, why not?
No. In case you hadn’t heard, he passed on to his reward some time back.
That’s true, but George Washington has as much chance of taking office as any write-in or third party candidate. So, if you’re not voting for someone who will take office, what is the point of voting?
MIL - big abortion supporter, I won’t voice my opinion as to why -
made the same claim, that taxpayer money was only going towards non-abortion expenses. I asked her what she would think if I were to request that she pay our utilities, mortgage, and food, and I went out and bought a new sports car. Got the point across fast.
She told my wife - I wish you didn’t hate PP so much, they do so much good in the world.
Wife - Really? Like what?
MIL - [silence, not even the women’s health BS]
If you’re only voting for people the Left tells you are acceptable, what is “the point of voting”?
And how is that going to save the republic?
And so, since the old vehicle is obviously worn out and useless, we're building a new one. That's what free Americans do.
From now on, we'll only support candidates based on America's founding principles, and any prospective leader's record of adherence to them, NOT obviously meaningless party labels.
Our attitude? The same as our last Independent President, George Washington:
"Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God."
My understanding of history is that it is those who take this attitude who end up winning in the end, no matter the odds.
Thank God they didn't waste their lives calculating outcomes. They were too busy simply doing the right thing, and trusting in God's Providence to carry the day.
. With all the 3rd parties taking off...one will sooner or later soar.
But those who wait on the LORD
Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint.
- Isaiah 40:31
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