US Largest Poinsettia Farmers among Planned Parenthood's Biggest Donors

LifeSiteNews ^ | 1/16/06 | Hilary White

[wagglebee]

ENCINITAS, January 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Many pro-life organizations use Christmas season sales of poinsettias to raise funds, but according to a US-based researcher, so do Planned Parenthood and other abortionists in the US. James Hartline, a Christian activist in California wrote to LifeSiteNews.com warning that the poinsettias decorating the churches and homes of Christians in the US could easily originate from a family-owned business that has been supporting abortion for decades.

The Ecke Ranch in Encinitas, California, supplies 70% of all of the poinsettias sold in the United States and the Ecke family is among the most generous supporters of Planned Parenthood and long-time political activists for the abortion movement. The Ecke family features prominently in the major donors list in the fall 2005 edition of the San Diego/Riverside County Planned Parenthood Newsletter.

In November 2005, the Ecke family were present at the dedication of the new Carlsbad California Planned Parenthood facility renovation for which they had donated $250,000. In gratitude for their life-long support, the facility’s directors gave the Ecke family a catered dinner to honour them for their support of abortion.

Paul Ecke, the heir to the three-generation poinsettia empire, said of his siblings' upbringing as political abortion activists, "As children, we licked a lot of envelopes, we made a lot of phone calls, we walked door-to-door to encourage people to vote.” Among those causes, he said was promoting Planned Parenthood.

In an interview today, Hartline called for a boycott of the Ecke family’s poinsettias. Hartline told LifeSiteNews.com that acting on this information could “take millions of dollars away” from Planned Parenthood in short order.

[cpforlife.org]

"US Largest Poinsettia Farmers among Planned Parenthood’s Biggest Donors"

Good grief what a week.

SPECIAL - Good grief what a week Pro-Life PING, er thing.

Please FreepMail me if you want on or off my Pro-Life Ping List.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

What a strange and grotesque obsession for a family business - funding the culture of death.

[napscoordinator]

I didn't realize that you posted it 10 months ago. Thanks. I understand why they took it off now. No more poinsettias.

[Lexinom]

Grow your own coleus instead. It looks like poinsettia but has more colors. It can be grown from seed and looks good in 6-8 weeks. Keep warm, moist, and in bright light (full sun).

[unspun]

So that's why the leaves turn red.

[wagglebee]

Looks like you need to go bury yourself in some dirt!

[Coleus]

Paul Ecke, the heir to the three-generation poinsettia empire, said of his siblings' upbringing as political abortion activists, "As children, we licked a lot of envelopes, we made a lot of phone calls, we walked door-to-door to encourage people to vote.” Among those causes, he said was promoting Planned Parenthood. >>>


this is sad, his parents involving the whole family in the culture of death.

[Coleus]

lol, please make sure to water me frequently. I don't want to whither away.

[Lexinom]

I have a beautiful overflowing pot of coleus in a garden window in a bathroom, about two feet wide and plants about 2 feet at the tallest. It gets the heat and humidity it needs from our daily showers. It is a beautiful easy-to-grow plant, and a nice substitute for poinsettia.

[sappy]

Planned Death-hood. Now in power in the House and Senate.

[SuziQ]

No poinsettias for us this Christmas.

NO need to deprive yourself of a lovely plant. Just check out your local nursery and ask the grower if he grew them from seed or got tiny plants from somewhere else, THEN you could ask if this family supplied them.

[Coleus]

Where is the proof of this. >>

the proof is in the pudding and on google. Life site usually keeps their threads on their website. I'm not too sure why they took this one down.

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&q=%22Ecke+Ranch++%22++%22planned+parenthood%22

[geopyg]

"As children, we licked a lot of envelopes...."

Lucky kid - compared to the million a year that will never get that chance.

[eleni121]

Thanks for letting us know.

Ecke = Icky

[Coleus]

oh, the irony of it all.

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/poinsettia/history.html

Poinsettia's are from Mexico, they are red for a period of time, Montezuma the Aztec king, used poinsettias for medicinal purposes and was a ruthless killer who shed blood (red) while sacrificing humans to his gods. The plant was introduced to the USA by ambassador Poinnsett and now the plant is associated with Christmas because of this story. http://www.ecke.com/html/h_corp/corp_legend.html


Montezuma, the last of the Aztec kings, would have poinsettias brought into what now is Mexico City by caravans because poinsettias could not be grown in the high altitude.

Montezuma was a conquering king, who frequently waged war against his neighbors in a pretty successful effort to expand his empire. He kept the gods on his side with a regular regimen of human sacrifice. While the Aztecs had a long history of ritualistic human sacrifice, the art had never known a patron like Montezuma.

At the time, such sacrifices were performed with ritual daggers atop the Aztec pyramids. Montezuma sacrificed tens of thousands of prisoners at a time.

A 1590 account detailed the procedure: "The usual method of sacrifice was to open the victim's chest, pull out his heart while he was still alive, and then knock the man down, rolling him down the temple steps, which were awash with blood."

Apparently the gods were appreciative of all this bloodshed, because Montezuma apparently had a pretty good run, annexing several nearby kingdoms and allegedly running a virtual police state with an iron fist.

[cpforlife.org]

"lol, please make sure to water me frequently. I don't want to whither away."


Ok OK Wait. Coleus, am I to understand that you Freep from Lexinom's bathroom, in a pot?

Well this is an amazing developement. Does Jim Robinson know about this.

[Lexinom]

That's not logistically possible - the wireless router is too far from that bathroom LOL!

[cpforlife.org]

Plus, wouldn't the humidity be a menace to all the components?

[It's me]

I'm from San Diego. This is where they grow the poinsettias. 99% (my guess) of the plants sold here are from the Ecke Ranch.
I seem to remember now, last year there was a concern about the family losing money because the plants were coming up from Mexico.

Apparently that is a good thing!

[Lexinom]

After five minutes with the shower and the heater on, it is like a jungle climatewise. Nope, no FReeping in that bathroom :-)