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Planned Parenthood Airlines
by Jim Sedlak
Released January 11, 2008
Commentary by Jim Sedlak
“On behalf of
Planned Parenthood airlines, you are now free to make sweet, sweet
love.”
That is the closing
line in a new commercial put together by Planned Parenthood Golden Gate and
expected to run in the San Francisco area on such venues as MTV, VH-1, Comedy
Central and TLC and on KMEL-FM, a San Francisco Clear Channel radio
station.
The Planned
Parenthood ad is set on an airplane and narrated by Steven, a flashy flight
attendant that also plays the role of sexual health educator. The ads push the
use of condoms and other birth control methods. The theme of the “Mile High
Club,” which is a term referring to having sex on an airplane a mile up in the
air, makes the ads an outright promotion of sex. During the commercial, the
flight attendant, Steven, plays the role of a Planned Parenthood sex educator,
asks a couple if they have the pill, patch, or condoms and then condoms and
other contraceptives fall from the emergency compartment into the laps of the
man and woman. According to Planned Parenthood, this commercial will “inspire
and motivate young adults to take care of themselves and... to help them make
safe, healthy, and responsible choices.”
It is yet another tactic Planned Parenthood has come up with to advertise
its sex products.
Planned Parenthood
Golden Gate explains the purpose of this advertisement in a statement from its
president:
PPGG created this
campaign to stress the importance of sexual health in a creative way and one
that breaks free from the old ineffective paradigm of relying on fear-mongering
tactics to inspire desired behavior changes,” said Dian J. Harrison, PPGG’s
President and CEO. “We want young people to take control of their sexual health
and well-being by using prevention every time they have sex. This ad's message
normalizes pregnancy prevention and safer sex in a healthy, cool, and humorous
way.
Thus, Harrison
begins by saying this advertisement is part of a campaign to “stress the
importance of sexual health.” Sounds like a good thing, but what does PPGG mean
by the term “sexual health.” Well, Peter Greenhouse, a sexual health consultant
in the United Kingdom coined the generally accepted definition of sexual health
as: “Sexual health is the enjoyment of sexual activity of one's
choice, without causing or suffering physical or mental
harm.”
It is clear, then,
that this is but another campaign by Planned Parenthood to glorify
indiscriminate sexual activity between unmarried persons ? what earlier
generations referred to as fornication. In fact, Harrison admits that the ad is
all about “normalizing” sex using birth control.
The problem with all
of this, of course, is that it is a complete corruption of the sexual faculties
as created by God. “God created man in his image; in the divine image he created
him; male and female he created them. God blessed them, saying: ‘Be fertile and
multiply; fill the earth ...’” (Genesis 1:27-28). “That is why a man leaves his
father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body.”
(Genesis 2:24).
In the world as
ordained by the Creator, sexual intimacy is an expression of spousal love
between a man and woman. Intercourse is the total giving of a man to his wife
and a woman to her husband. When given freely, with full understanding and
respect, it forms a bond so strong that the two will become as one. Sex, as it
was designed by God, is awesome and right.
But Planned
Parenthood takes this awesome gift and debases it. Planned Parenthood sells
products designed to inhibit the total giving of one spouse to another for
self-gratification. Planned Parenthood preaches a philosophy that enables
fornication. Planned Parenthood produces television advertisements featuring
super-sexed flight attendants throwing Planned Parenthood products at unmarried
couples encouraging them to treat the ultimate gift as nothing more than an
entry price to some mythical mile high club. And then has the audacity to refer
to the subsequent sexual activity as making love.
If Planned
Parenthood were doing all this as an overtly anti-God group, it would be
distasteful, but expected. But, Planned Parenthood continually portrays itself
as being pro-Faith. It has a national chaplain, a national clergy committee and
even has a prayer breakfast at its annual conferences ? all the while doing
everything in its power to convince people to use the great gift of sex in a
manner totally opposed to the purpose created by
God.
If Planned
Parenthood was a private corporation doing all of this with its own money, we
would still oppose it. But, in actuality, Planned Parenthood is an organization
that relies on the United States taxpayers for one-third of its income.
Nationally, it received 305 million taxpayer dollars last year and paid no taxes
on its $55 million in profits. The affiliate that produced this outrageous “Mile
High” advertisement, Planned Parenthood Golden Gate, received over $12 million
from the taxpayer in 2006, representing 57 percent of its total
income.
This “Mile High”
advertisement is not the first outrageous video produced by Planned Parenthood.
It joins the ranks of the “Guardian Angel of Sex,” the “Safer Sex Tool Box,” and
the “Superhero for Choice,” just to name a few. But it is more evidence that
Planned Parenthood is in the sex business ? making millions in profits, leading
young people into broken lives and normalizing a view of sex that is completely
at odds with God’s intent.
It is time for
Planned Parenthood Airlines to be grounded ? for
good.
Release issued: 11 Jan 08
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