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Wednesday STOPP Report - November 4, 2009
by Rita Diller
Released November 4, 2009
In this issue:
Could PP use the health care plan to enforce ‘sexual freedom’ for children?
PPNYC: Dress as a frozen embryo for Halloween
PP sues Missouri over personhood initiative
El Paso PP violated state health department contracts
PP harasses pregnancy help centers
PP guest speaker: ‘Abstinence argument is a silly waste of time’
Bryan, Texas PP director moves to the pro-life side of the fence
Could PP use the health care plan to enforce ‘sexual freedom’ for children?
International Planned Parenthood Federation’s new document Sexual Rights: An IPPF Declaration, exposed in American Life League’s latest ALL Report, could have a significant impact on health care policy under the presidential administration’s plans for so-called health care reform.
In “A Declaration of Debauchery,” ALL’s Michael Hichborn analyzes the IPPF declaration released in June. Goals of the declaration include a universal right to tax-funded abortion on demand, granting children autonomous rights to sexual pleasure according to their “capacity” and allowing child predators to conceal past criminal sexual history.
As we reported in June, the declaration is completely consistent with PP’s record of sexualizing children. But what is historic about this is that, for the first time, PP has completely divorced sexual rights from reproductive rights. PP is demanding uninhibited sex for everyone – including children.
And as the nation debates the pending pro-abortion, pro-PP “health care reform” agenda, the IPPF declaration could have significant meaning.
It seems the wording of the section of the health care bill setting up a National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Resource Center was framed with PP in mind. If this provision remains, and PP is granted control of that program, PP’s declaration of sexual rights could well be the cornerstone for prohibiting restrictions on the sexual activity of children.
PPNYC: Dress as a frozen embryo for Halloween
Before Halloween, Planned Parenthood of New York City directed people from its web site to its blog on unratedandunfiltered.com, where PP employees and friends mocked chastity and the sanctity of life by suggesting horribly wicked Halloween costumes. One of the more shocking comments reveals the hardness of heart inherent in those who embrace the culture of death: “Wear all your winter gear and curl into the fetal position whenever possible: You’re a frozen embryo.” Another says, “Walk around with a bunch of babies: You’re ‘abstinence-only’ sex education.”
Meanwhile, ALL’s Michael Hichborn promoted pro-life jack-o-lanterns, and his family’s contribution is a real award winner.
PP sues Missouri over personhood initiative
Who has the most to lose when all human beings are protected by law from the beginning of their biological development? Planned Parenthood, of course.
And to show how just the thought of such laws makes PP squirm, we have only to look to Missouri, where PP has sued the state government in an overt attempt to squelch the right of pro-life citizens to pursue personhood initiatives, complaining that a proposed personhood amendment fails to warn voters of “legal and constitutional fallout if the ballot measure passes.”
Keith Mason, of Personhood USA, responded, “The legal and constitutional ‘fallout’ of a Missouri personhood amendment is that all humans in the state of Missouri have human rights. All humans are people and must be protected.”
“Our amendment is easy to understand and simply protects all humans from their biological beginning,” Dr. Gregory Thompson, an initiative cosponsor, explained. “The PP lawsuit was quoted in several newspapers as incorrectly using the term ‘fertilized egg.’ In fact, at the moment of biological beginning, the newly formed human being is not an egg at all, but a unique individual person.”
El Paso PP violated state health department contracts
KFOX 14 El Paso, Texas, is reporting that PP violated state contracts by mishandling money and was probably more than a million dollars in debt at the time it closed its seven facilities earlier this year.
The disclosure comes as the result of a recent audit, which shows that PPCEP was requesting reimbursement for funds it never paid. “It is unclear,” the news report says, “where the money went.”
PP harasses pregnancy help centers
Backed by Planned Parenthood, members of the Baltimore city council are pushing to require pro-life pregnancy help centers to post a sign saying they don’t provide abortion or contraceptives. Failure to do so would result in a fine of $500 per day.
The Catholic Review, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, reported that in his October 16 letter to the city council president, Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien pointed out that “the bill targets non-profit organizations whose mission is to help women carry pregnancies to term. He said it is ‘well-known’ that pregnancy support centers are exclusively focused on assisting women in their choice for childbirth, and do not provide abortions or contraception.
“To fine a center $500 for not posting a sign that states as much is nothing short of harassment,” Archbishop O’Brien said, “especially when nothing in a pregnancy support center’s yellow page advertisements or [w]eb pages would lead a woman to believe these centers provide abortions or abortion-related services.”
PP guest speaker: ‘Abstinence argument is a silly waste of time’
Carol Cassell, author of Beyond Knocked Up, was the featured speaker at a recent fundraiser for Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida. She took the opportunity to bash abstinence education.
Claiming that 90 percent of people have sex before marriage, Cassell said, “The abstinence argument is a silly waste of time.”
Bryan, Texas PP director moves to the pro-life side of the fence
Abby Johnson, who worked and volunteered at Planned Parenthood in Bryan, Texas, for eight years, has left her employment with PP and now joins the Coalition for Life in praying outside the PP facility that she ran for the past two years.
Johnson resigned from PP on October 6. She said in September she witnessed, via sonogram images, a preborn baby “crumple” as it was vacuumed from its mother’s womb. “When I was working at Planned Parenthood I was extremely pro-choice,” Johnson told FoxNews.com. But after seeing the internal workings of the procedure for the first time on an ultrasound monitor, “I would say there was a definite conversion in my heart ... a spiritual conversion.”
Johnson said she became more and more uncomfortable that she was being continually pressured to bring in more abortion business, because abortion is an extremely lucrative source of income for PP. “Every meeting that we had was, ‘We don’t have enough money, we don’t have enough money — we’ve got to keep these abortions coming,’“ she said. She said that there is not as much money for PP in education or family planning as there is in abortion.
“Ideally, my goal as the facility’s director is that your abortion numbers don’t increase,” because “you’re providing so much family planning and so much education that there is not a demand for abortion services. “But that was not [Planned Parenthood’s] goal,” she said.
She said the Bryan facility committed abortions two days per month, but each day’s business would amount to 30 or 40 abortions. She estimated that each abortion could net the facility about $350, or more than $10,000 per month. “The majority of the money was going to the facility,” she said.
In an interview with KBTX news, Johnson said, ““I feel so pure in heart (since leaving). I don’t have this guilt; I don’t have this burden on me anymore. That’s how I know this conversion was a spiritual conversion.”
PP has filed a motion for a restraining order against Johnson and the Coalition for Life. They fear that Johnson will disclose information that they say will irreparably harm the abortion business.
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