Posted on 02/16/2009 12:04:22 PM PST by narses
When I became a board member at Planned Parenthood of the Inland Northwest a few months ago, I was trained in my calling; but nothing could have prepared me for the letter to the editor by Hans Neumann of Spirit Lake that appeared on Tuesday, Jan. 27.
Mr. Neumann, whom I have not met, began with a rant, "Elections have consequences. We lost; they won, so they can do what they want for now."
As a clergyman for most of my adult life, I do not accept "them and us" divisions among and between people with differing views. Planned Parenthood supports keeping abortion legal because it protects women's health and lives. However, we never try to convince someone who opposes abortion they are wrong. Instead, we trust people and seek the middle ground. We understand that the only way to reduce the need for abortion is to ensure people have the family planning information and services they need to apply their own moral compasses and make their own decisions.
Hans Neumann may want to focus on abortion, but at Planned Parenthood our focus is on health care and prevention. Is there really anyone out there who is against the breast and cervical cancer screening we do, the testing for and treatment of sexually transmitted infections, the testicular cancer screening, the annual exams for women who are often too financially disadvantaged to afford anything but the sliding scales we offer to both Washington and Idaho residents? I trust not.
It is pretty clear that the voters of this nation are tired of vitriol being passed off as truth. I will say, however, that from my point of view there is no "we" or "they." And I have seen no indication that "we" have any intention of trying to run over our opposition on any issues.
FATHER PAT BELL
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment
Obama: If they make a mistake, I dont want them punished with a baby.
Strawman arguments are all the abortion lobby has left in their repertoire, it would appear.
“However, we never try to convince someone who opposes abortion they are wrong. Instead, we trust people and seek the middle ground.”
What kind of “middle ground” can there be? Isn’t this kind of like saying, “We never try to convince someone who is opposed to genocide that they are wrong. Instead, we trust people and seek the middle ground”?
Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God.
SMOKE SCREEN ALERT!!!!!!!!!
I can envision this guy saying something like this whilst pressing the button for the gas chambers at some “Anti-Human Being Concentration Camp” run by the DNC.
“Father Pat Bell” is an Episcopalian, if anyone was wondering.
Planned Parenthood supports keeping abortion legal because it protects women’s health and lives.
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DUH...
Half the lives that are lost in abortions are women’s lives...
HELLOOOOO
Where’s the barf alert for this article?
PP is the biggest abortion provider in the country. That’s how they make the bulk of their money. So stop with the cervical screening crapola, they can go other places for that stuff, and to doctors and midwives who do NOT do abortions.
Unfortunately, many churches and members of the “religious” community have rationalized their support of PP. The fact that our taxpayer dollars are going toward the murder of innocents is something that should eat at every American with a conscience.
In my area, PP was one of the lowest cost womens health clinics in the area and a help to those broke and/or without insurance.
I did go there when I was fresh out of college and without insurance and they provided a ton of cheap health care and birth control to a lot of people I know (including myself), so this guys argument is not entirely without merit.
They caught and treated my friends cervical cancer - she couldn’t afford a regular doc and would have been in deep doodoo without treatment.
In no way do I approve of the abortion side of their business, but at least in my AO they’ve likely prevented more unwanted pregnancies than they’ve ended (from the local stats I’ve seen re: # of abortions vs # of women treated and provided w/BC).
I’m no more a fan of abortion than you guys are but PP does have some value in its non-abortion services and discounting those ends up undermining the cause and makes people discount your arguments.
And some of those non-abortion services prevent the unwanted pregnancies that would be in danger of being terminated if they happened.
LQ
And the Third Reich inspired and built the autobahn and the VW. Evil is still evil.
So the fact that they provide services that prevents the evil from occurring in the first place means nothing to you, then.
Talk about throwing the baby out with the bath water.
I’d rather see them just shut down the abortion side and keep the other side of the business open.
The common sense solution to abortion is to prevent the unwanted pregnancies from happening in the first place.
LQ
So the fact that they provide services that prevents the evil from occurring in the first place means nothing to you, then.You talk about "services that prevents the evil from occurring in the first place" - meaning conception is evil?
Amen!
No, the abortion is evil. But if someone who would have an abortion if they got pregnant avoided getting pregnant in the first place, how is that a bad thing?
LQ
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