Facts about Planned Parenthood, the organization at the center of the potential government shutdown:
1. They crush and dismember innocent human beings for a living. That is their primary revenue source. Abortion is not health care.
2. They have been caught countless times, both on audio and on video, hiding statutory rape,. That alone should result in them being not only being de-funded but put out of business. Businesses who commit serial felonies don’t get to point to other (alleged) good things they do to avoid responsibility.
3. They have been caught many times hiding sex trafficking, which includes victims of human trafficking.
4. Their CEO falsely claimed that Planned Parenthood provides mammograms and that a loss of Federal funding would end these. How many CEOs don’t know what services their organization provides? Was this incompetence or a deliberate lie about a highly emotional, most-favored-disease issue to sustain public funding for her organization? Why hasn’t she or the mainstream media highlighted and corrected this error?
5. Planned Parenthood is not the only provider of these non-abortion services. If taxpayer funding of PP ended these services could easily be provided elsewhere – preferably somewhere that doesn’t kill humans beings, hide statutory rape, hide sex traffickers / human traffickers, etc.
6. According to PP’s research arm, 54% of abortions are performed on women who were on birth control. Their business model is not working to prevent pregnancies, it is working to generate abortions. That statistic exposes the lie that more birth control distribution will reduce abortions. PP wants to reduce abortions in the same way McDonald’s fights to sell less hamburgers.
7. Margaret Sanger, PP’s founder, was a racist eugenicist.
8. Planned Parenthood targets minorities and is the largest provider of abortions in the U.S. Abortion rates for blacks are 3x that of whites and the rate for HIspanics is 2x that of whites. Margaret’s dream lives on.
9. They aggressively promote their worldview to teens, encouraging them to ignore their parents and their religion, via their public school lessons and their youth website, Teenwire. They discourage parents from viewing it, of course. You can find lots of valuable advice [sarcasm intended], like the tidbit from a 14-year-old girl who said that kids shouldn’t have sex until they are mature enough to know how to use a condom and their official advice that, “Hooking up is only one way to get close to someone.” They regularly promote anal sex as a good way to avoid pregnancy (technically true, though it won’t prevent disease transmission and is not advice most people want their kids to hear).
It follows the same philosophy they use in the classroom, which is to steer kids away from parental authority and to make decisions about sexuality on their own. They don’t offer any limits to children, other than telling them that the kids should decide when they are “ready.” They encourage them to experiment with sex and their sexual orientation.
Most of the offenses are too perverse to list on this blog, but here is a sample of how they encourage kids to ignore their parents and their religion (from the Canada site; the link to the original post from Dawn Eden’s site is broken):
Maybe your religion or parents are influencing your decision. Take control. Remind yourself that what you do is always a choice. You choose whether to follow the values if your religion. You choose whether to be honest with your parents. They may not be easy choices, and others may not agree with the choices you make. But they are still YOUR choices and they should be based on what’s important to you.
10. Planned Parent used to claim that “An abortion kills the life of a baby after it has begun.” At least that was their view in this 1964 advertisement. Did they learn anything about science in the few years after that when they changed their minds? Of course not. Science couldn’t be more clear: A new human being is created at conception. Planned Parenthood is about making money off abortions and about advancing their perverse ideology with your money.
Do not miss this video, but don’t let your kids watch it, either:
11. PP has not accounted for millions of dollars given to them.
12. If PP’s supporters care so much for these non-abortion services, why don’t they open their own wallets and give? There are more crisis pregnancy centers than abortion clinics, and nearly all run with no government funding (the center where I’m a volunteer and board member refuses any government funds). It doesn’t seem very pro-choice to force people to fund the array of perversions, immorality and broken laws we see with Planned Parenthood.
13. PP doesn’t pay these salaries based on how many condoms they give away, they get it from performing 329,455 abortions. (P.S. they are the 1%)
President Cecile Richards $353,819
Chief Operating Officer Maryana Iskander $288,886
Chief Financial Officer Maria Acosta $263,443
VP of Medical Affairs Vanessa Cullins $257,115
VP of General Counsel Barbara Otten $251,379
VP of Public Policy Laurie Rubiner $248,438
VP of Operations Karen Ruffatto $247,932
VP of Affiliates Lisa David $245,322
It would be cool to have a running list of organizations that support PP like UnitedWay and March of Dimes.
I have been preaching this history of PP for decades and it seems that fewer and fewer people really care. Apathy is a major problem in America, and when it is demonstrated by Christians it gets my dander up.
I agree Neil. I think very few people care very much at all. But why should they? How do people even know about this? Very few people make the effort to inform themselves. There was a time, not an awful long time ago, when the Church would have risen to the occasion because the pulpits would have risen to the occasion. That only a few really care, especially in light of the thousands of churches across America, is more of a testimony to the lousy condition of our churches than it is of the more lousy (and I’m not even sure about that) condition of our society.
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Planned Parenthood is not the only provider of these non-abortion services. If taxpayer funding of PP ended these services could easily be provided elsewhere –
It would probably be wise to withdraw funds in stages, making sure every health service is definitely available through another provider before shutting PP clinics down.
I personally think it would in fact be a good idea to completely separate birth control and health services provision from any association with abortion providers. That way you make sure that those who feel strongly against abortion won’t have even the hint of feeling they indirectly support what they oppose if they go to a clinic to get their pills or condoms. There should be a wide and clear distinction between the one service and the other, and that’s one thing I think is a problem with PP. They’re just so associated with abortion in many minds.
Once the change occurs sensibly, I can’t see any reason why pregnancy prevention and women’s health services shouldn’t be taken out from under the PP umbrella. At the moment the abortion services are run completely separately, in separate buildings. Could it be that making a change could come down to just changing the name boards on the existing birth control/women’s health clinics, reprinting information leaflets with a different name at the top? If it’s already separate, surely that shouldn’t be as much of a problem as opening completely new clinics in different places?
Either way, as I said, I think it would be good if the two are completely separated. It’s not fair on pro-life supporters to feel they associate with an abortion provider when they go for a pap smear.
Hi Nadia — I agree with your points. I used to have this conversation with an acquaintance who was an escort (aka Deathscort) at PP (believe it or not we actually had a very cordial relationship). He trotted out their sound bites, but at the core it couldn’t be more obvious. PP knows that would settle the funding debate but they have no desire to split them. One side of the business supports the other. They have too much to lose if it is split.
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The most bizarre thing is all the pro-PP comments along the lines of, “But what about the good things they do . . .” Just state the whole sentence: “When PP isn’t busy hiding statutory rape and sex trafficking, killing the unborn and perverting the minds of your teens, they do some (allegedly) helpful things for women.” Gee, when you put it like that . . .
No matter what services PP provides outside of abortion and their support of illegal activities, there is no Constitutional support for federal funding. There is nothing they provide that can’t be had elsewhere, and that is the issue. The Republicans folded like a cheap suit.
Yep. I think they knew they’d lose but used it to get some other benefits. Hope they don’t give up. Elections matter. Let’s take back the Senate then get rid of PP, NPR, etc.
get rid of NPR? do you really hate “click and clack” that much?
I don’t know what you mean by “click and clack,” but yes, I do hate them that much.
Seriously, I never said to get rid of NPR. I said to remove its funding. Two things seem obvious:
1. We don’t need the gov’t funding the media.
2. If you love them and I can’t stand them, it is pretty obvious that they are biased.
they don’t give out Peabody Awards (recognizing the most outstanding achievements radio and television) for bias reporting, NPR won 3 this year and 56 total. but who’s counting?
and if the greeks, romans and every government since the dawn of time has funded arts and culture, why not the good old USA?
I’ve never understood that argument. That’s a rebuttal to criticism of a group whose wrongdoing is not evil – it’s a statement of the fact that we all screw up – but when you’re dealing with something that’s evil, then all it does is to justify that evil.
That’s like saying, “Who cares if that person raped a kid – he donated a lot of money to charity”. Obviously absurd, but the same thing.
Neil,
I can empathize with your enthusiastic zeal on the issue of abortion and Planned Parenthood’s involvement. It is my belief that your arguments would carry more weight if they were based on facts and not other blog or personal views.
1. “They crush and dismember innocent human beings for a living”. It would be more accurate to say that they scrape, vacuum, crush and dismember innocent zygotes, embryos and fetuses as part of their income.
2. Give me links to reputable journals to support your clams. “caught countless times” how many? Give me a number.
3. If even one of your claims is false or misleading, all of your claims by association become false, weather it is or not. (ie. Politfact debunked the money issue = pant on fire).
If you truly are in the right then it becomes unnecessary to use inflammatory, false or misleading statements to support your views.
I am not debating your views or ideology, just your style.
“1. “They crush and dismember innocent human beings for a living”. It would be more accurate to say that they scrape, vacuum, crush and dismember innocent zygotes, embryos and fetuses as part of their income.”
Wrong. Scientific fact: The unborn are human beings. Check out any mainstream embryology textbook — http://tinyurl.com/yfje8lq . Yes, they are fetuses. What kind? Human.
Crush and dismember are highly accurate terms: http://tinyurl.com/yzjq4lv http://tinyurl.com/66csro9
“2. Give me links to reputable journals to support your clams. “caught countless times” how many? Give me a number.”
Cute. Click the links and count yourself. Listen to all the audios and all the videos. PP never denied that it was their employees, they just tried to act like they were rogues. I believe the audios covered 90% of PP clinics.
“3. If even one of your claims is false or misleading, all of your claims by association become false, weather it is or not. (ie. Politfact debunked the money issue = pant on fire). ”
Do you use the same standards for your lefty sources? And I trust my sources more than yours, for good reasons. Yours have convinced you that abortions don’t kill innocent human beings. That is an epic FAIL both scientifically and logically. Species reproduce after their own kind. Did you think those were canine fetuses being destroyed? (Too bad they aren’t, because lefties would go insane if you aborted a dog.)
“4. If you truly are in the right then it becomes unnecessary to use inflammatory, false or misleading statements to support your views.”
John, your moral compass may be permanently destroyed. It is amazing the lengths you will go to in propping up evil organizations like PP.
10 min. to write a response. That is quick.
OK.
1. A human being is not a human fetus.
2. Watched the same video three times and then gave up.
3. GAO is my “lefty” source.
4. ” I am not debating your views or ideology, just your style.”
1. You are in conflict with mainstream science and basic logic. And you misstated it: the claim is that a human fetus is a human being — that is, a human being at a particular stage of development. Your view would be like saying, “That isn’t a human being, it is a human toddler.”. It is both.
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The word fetus merely means child. Latin if I recall.
A fetus (pronounced /ˈfiːtəs/; also spelled foetus, fœtus, faetus, or fætus, see below) is a developing mammal or other viviparous vertebrate after the embryonic stage and before birth.
Are you a human being or are you a human fetus?
This is fun but it is off topic (my topic anyway). ” I am not debating your views or ideology, just your style.” Reread my original comment and call me… if your not afraid of constructive criticism.
fetus – meaning offspring, bringing forth, hatching of young – is now used for any critter besides human. But, since our discussion is about the human fetus and not any other type, context says that a human fetus is a baby in early stages. The stage of life does not determine its value.
“Are you a human being or are you a human fetus?”
I am a human adult, which is a human being. I used to be a human fetus, and was also a human being at that time. Try looking up “being.”
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John, per our phone call, I officially agreed with your points about style and sources. Your turn: Here’s the Bible reading link you wanted to sign up for: http://www.bibleplan.org/ . They have lots of options. I recommend trying the “New Testament in a year.” That’s about a chapter a day. I’ll take a shot at whatever questions you have.
I am been following the recent activites concerning Penn State staff who failed to report Child abuse to the authorities. The media really stepped up to the plate to mention this awful tradgedy against young boys. Ironically they didn’t mention all the good Joe Paterno has done for the University and for young men all these years, Just on how he didn’t care about these young boys.
What if the media used the same logic against Planned Parenthood. They keep mentioning about all the good they are doing, but like Penn State they should keep aware of the offenses against young girls, especially when it involves statutory rape.