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STOPP subscribes to the truth that the sexual drive in human beings was created by God to fulfill two interrelated purposes – to bring a close union between a married man and woman engaging in intimate sexual behavior (the “unitive” purpose of sex) and to provide a means to propagate the race (the “procreative” purpose of sex). We further understand that, to be true to the Natural Law that guides all human action, any act of sexual intercourse must be done within marriage and be open to both the unitive and procreative purposes. Thus, we object to Planned Parenthood facilitating sexual intercourse outside of marriage. We also object to Planned Parenthood distributing products, such as those listed above, which artificially attempt to render procreation impossible.

By all means, STOPP, you should keep Planned Parenthood from being in the abortion and contaceptive businesses, as long as they receive a penny of government money.

But for crying out loud, why did you have to bring in the Natural Law argument (which, BTW, I totally agree with)? You just handed PP the ability to label you extremists, and to marginalize you. Many Americans don't buy into "sex-only-in-marriage" (they're wrong but that's not the point), and VERY FEW buy into the "Natural Law procreative-unitive argument" against contraception (again I AGREE with the argument, but again that not the point).

Is STOPP really advocating an ultimate LEGISLATIVE MANDATE of Natural Law? If I were PP, I'd sure say so, and most Americans would automatically view STOPP as a bunch of busybody religious zealots bent on enforcing their view of the world (which again I think is correct) on everyone else.

STOPP should limit its agenda to:

- Defunding all government money to PP (if individuals are nutty enough to contribute to them, you have to let them do so).
- Overturning Roe v. Wade.

I wish I could understand why conservatives continue to pursue the abortion issue. Ironically, it is the republican version of the gun control argument and suffers from the same disregard for reality. If you make guns illegal, you will not stop people from having guns, it will just force people to break the law, by the same token, making abortion illegal will not stop abortion, just force people to break the law. Yet conservatives continue to hold on to this ludicrous ideal, just as liberals continue to hold on to the ideal of gun control, regardless of its unreasonableness.

I have always considered conservatives to be the more rational party, yet their clinging to this issue makes me wonder if they won't end up becoming as disassociated with reality as the liberals. I realize there is a "religious" basis for this stance, but God gave humans free will, why can't the conservatives?

The party's extremist stance on this issue is what keeps the moderates away from the Republican party and the only people who benefit are the Democrats.

Judy Brown is a practicing Catholic and will not deviate from her faith. And since it's her organization, that is the way she runs it, in concert with the Holy See. I know some of her employees who are evangelical Christians and have no problem with that and knew what the organization was about before they started employment. The primary goal of the organization is to stop Abortion and with the STOPP, a sub organization, is to stop America's biggest abortion provider. Let's face it, their (PP) target group is primaily young High School and College-aged women, not the ordinary American housewife.