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In the rapidly growing catalogue of Planned Parenthood scandals, thanks in great part to the ingenuity and persistence of Live Action President Lila Rose, the latest black mark is Planned Parenthood’s willingness to perform sex-selective abortions.
Live Action has discovered that Planned Parenthood will help a pregnant women who wants a boy, for instance, to get an ultrasound, and if she finds out the baby is a girl, they’re perfectly willing to abort the baby merely for being the “wrong” sex.
Added to Planned Parenthood’s willingness to cover up the sexual abuse of minor girls, arrange abortions for underage prostitutes, and accept donations specifically for aborting black babies, they now add sex-selective abortions.
What will Lila Rose discover next?
If you can’t believe it’s true, watch Live Action’s latest video, just released today. [Continue reading ...]
Flyer promoting Six Rivers Planned Parenthood's "40 Days of Prayer: Supporting Women Everywhere"
Imitation may be the highest form of flattery, but sometimes it’s also rather bizarre and macabre.
Since 2007, the 40 Days for Life prayer campaign has resulted in over 5,800 babies saved from abortion, 69 abortion clinic workers quitting their jobs, and 22 abortion clinics shutting down altogether following local 40 Days for Life campaigns.
In response, Six Rivers Planned Parenthood (SRPP) in Eureka, California has decided to launch their own campaign [PDF] calling for “40 Days of Prayer: Supporting Women Everywhere.”
It’s being spearheaded by the Humboldt County Clergy for Choice, an official committee of SRPP. The Clergy for Choice page on the SRPP website begins with this explanation of who they are:
We are religious leaders who value all human life. We accept that religions differ about when life begins. We are here to help.
We believe that human life is holy. That’s why we believe in your right to choose to be a parent or not.
How to even begin unpacking that? [Continue reading ...]
Sidewalk counselor Dick Retta, 80, stands outside a Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Washington, DC. Retta has been sued by the Justice Department under the FACE Act.
Since taking office in 2009, President Barack Obama has lost the support of a lot of people, but one constituency he has never upset is the radical pro-choice movement.
That’s why no one should be surprised when, for example, Obama makes a promotional video for Planned Parenthood Action Fund from inside the White House.
And neither should we be surprised that Obama, through his Department of Justice, continues to wage a low-grade war on the First Amendment rights of pro-life activists across the U.S.
Consider, for example, the case of Mary Susan Pine.
Pine, who herself had an abortion years ago, has been a sidewalk counselor in West Palm Beach, Florida for over a decade.
In 2010, Attorney General Eric Holder filed a lawsuit against Pine, claiming she had violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.
What did Pine do to warrant the lawsuit? Physically restrain women on their way into an abortion clinic? Chain herself to the door? [Continue reading ...]
The ever insightful Dr. Michael New made some interesting observations recently in response to Slate‘s William Saletan, who continues to beat the drum for the idea that increased funding for contraception programs will surely reduce abortion rates.
Saletan’s approach is, of course, wholly unoriginal, and has proven repeatedly to be an abject failure.
Dr. New writes:
Interestingly, if one examines Planned Parenthood’s annual reports dating back until the year 2002, there is a consistent increase in both the number of individuals receiving contraceptives from Planned Parenthood and the number of abortions they have performed. This is probably not a coincidence. All contraceptive measures have a failure rate. As such, by giving out more and more contraceptives, Planned Parenthood has successfully created an ever growing clientele for its most lucrative service — providing abortions.
Read the whole thing here.
Warning: The video linked to in this post contains graphic illustrations that are not suitable for children or teens. While the information the video contains is critical for parents and educators to know, readers are strongly cautioned that some of the material is disturbing.
Update, Feb. 17: American Life League’s exposé on Planned Parenthood’s sex ed propaganda was removed from YouTube because of a copyright infringement claim over one of the pictures used in the video. ALL believes the video complies with YouTube’s fair use policies and is fighting the claim.
In anticipation of National Condom Week, last week American Life League (ALL) posted a disturbing video entitled “Hooking Kids on Sex” that shines a light on Planned Parenthood’s sex education materials aimed at school-age children.
“Disturbing” is the word ALL used in its press release announcing the release of the video — and indeed it is.
Not to put too fine a point on it, ALL’s Jim Sedlak plainly states, “Any parent that sees the video of Planned Parenthood’s material for school children will be horrified.”
Over-the-top prudish rhetoric? No way. It really is that bad. [Continue reading ...]
It was a devilishly clever idea.
On February 2, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin called Paul’s Pantry — part of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, a well-respected Catholic charity — and asked if a truck could be sent over to pick up a donation of food.
Regardless of Paul’s Pantry’s response, Planned Parenthood wins. Either Paul’s Pantry sends a truck, which gives Planned Parenthood an astonishingly self-serving photo op, or else Paul’s Pantry refuses, which gives Planned Parenthood the opportunity to unload on them with both barrels and claim that Planned Parenthood is a genuine humanitarian service agency, while this Catholic charity is “extremist” or something and doesn’t really care about feeding hungry people.
Paul’s Pantry smelt a rat from the beginning. [Continue reading ...]
Having grown up in the pro-life movement, I know better than to take anything the mainstream media says at face value, especially when it comes to abortion. As kids, my siblings and I used to get a kick out of how badly the press would butcher the spelling of our family name—let alone the details of pickets and protests we attended.
So when I saw Friday’s Associated Press headline declaring “Komen drops plan to cut Planned Parenthood grants,” I knew I had to see for myself what Komen was really saying. Not surprisingly, the reality is rather far from what that AP and other news outlets were reporting. [Continue reading ...]
Susan G. Komen for the Cure has been taking a beating from Planned Parenthood’s powerful friends in the media and even in Congress in the wake of their decision not to fund Planned Parenthood anymore. They’ve just released a statement setting the record straight on why they’re no longer giving these grants:
Statement from Susan G. Komen for the Cure
February 1, 2012We are dismayed and extremely disappointed that actions we have taken to strengthen our granting process have been widely mischaracterized. It is necessary to set the record straight.
Starting in 2010, Komen began an initiative to help us do a better job of measuring the impact of community grants. This is important because we invest significant dollars in our local community programs—$93 million in 2011, which provided for 700,000 breast health screenings and diagnostic procedures.
Following this review, we made the decision to implement stronger performance criteria for our grantees to minimize duplication and free up dollars for direct services to help vulnerable women. To support this new granting strategy, Komen has also implemented more stringent eligibility standards to safeguard donor dollars. Consequently, some organizations are no longer eligible to receive Komen grants.
Some might argue that our standards are too exacting, but over the past three decades people have given us more than just their money. They have given us their trust and we take that responsibility very seriously.
We regret that these new policies have impacted some longstanding grantees, such as Planned Parenthood, but want to be absolutely clear that our grant-making decisions are not about politics. Throughout our 30 year history, our priority has always been and will continue to be the women we serve. As we move forward, we are working to ensure that there is no interruption or gaps in services for the women who need our support most in the fight against breast cancer.
Planned Parenthood is trying to bully Komen into giving them those grants again. But they’ve brought this on themselves, with all their lies about doing mammograms and all the other dishonesty and deception that marks how they do business.
Late yesterday evening, news broke that the breast cancer education and research organization Susan G. Komen for the Cure would no longer be donating to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion chain.
Pro-life groups across the country—including the Pro-Life Action League are applauding Komen for this decision.
Komen had been making large grants to Planned Parenthood since 2005—over $625,000 in 2010, for example—which were supposed to be earmarked for breast cancer screening and education.
Pro-lifers objected to these grants not only because any support for Planned Parenthood ultimately means contributing to their abortion business, but because of the mounting evidence that abortion actually increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer. [Continue reading ...]
Planned Parenthood of Illinois CEO Carole Brite at a rally in downtown Chicago in February 2011 [Photo by Sam Scheidler]
In a Daily Herald article on this past weekend’s Speakout Illinois Conference, Planned Parenthood’s Carole Brite claims the organization “adheres to the highest standards of medical care for all of our reproductive health care services.”
To that, I respond, “Prove it.”
Unfortunately, there’s no way to verify Brite’s claim. We’ll have to take Brite’s word for it, because Planned Parenthood’s Illinois abortion clinics are not subject to state inspection.
In fact, only 13 of the state’s 22 surgical abortion facilities are subject to inspection—the 9 classified as “pregnancy termination specialty centers” (PTSCs) that do abortions up to 18 weeks, and the 4 classified as “ambulatory surgical treatment centers” (ASTCs) that do abortions up to 24 weeks. [Continue reading ...]