Posted on 02/17/2014 6:05:03 PM PST by Morgana
During the last two weeks, LifeNews has brought international attention to the link between the Girl Scouts and the Planned Parenthood abortion business and the national boycott of Girl Scouts cookies sponsored by pro-life groups.
The pro-life movement has been concerned for a number of years about the ties between the Girl Scouts and the Planned Parenthood abortion business. Although the Girl Scout organization maintains that it takes “no position” on the issue of abortion, parents, churches, and pro-life activists have long complained of the pro-abortion slant of the Girl Scouts’ resources, role models, and affiliations.
girlscouts5After a series of articles on the boycott and the Girl Scouts-Planned Parenthood link, that featured the Girl Scouts logo to identify the organization, Brian Crawford, an executive with Girl Scouts USA, wrote LifeNews a scathing letter attempting to intimidate us into stopping our reporting on their link and to no longer use their logo or image to identify them as we bring attention to their support for the nation’s biggest abortion business.
In his letter Crawford again denied any connection to Planned Parenthood and he complained about LifeNews.com “articles that outline alleged ties to Planned Parenthood,” saying “GSUSA has an obligation to protect the Girl Scout name.”
“Girl Scouts of the USA does not have a partnership or any relationship with Planned Parenthood and does not plan to initiate one,” he claimed.
The letter “demands” that LifeNews no longer identify the Girl Scouts using Girl Scout logos as we report on its link to the abortion company that does approximately one-third of the abortions in the United States. The GSUSA letter lists a date by which LifeNews must guarantee the Girl Scouts it “will comply with our demand.”
However, the links between the Girl Scouts and Planned Parenthood are longstanding, with a Girl Scouts CEO and individual troops admitting as much.
Fresh on the heels of Girl Scouts USA (GSUSA) sharing a recommendation for pro-abortion Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis as a 2013 Woman of the Year via their official Twitter account, the organization suggested pro-abortion HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius as a woman “with courage, confidence, and character.”
Meanwhile, the new national spokeswoman for the Girl Scouts, Kelly Parisi, is the former spokeswoman for a pro-abortion organization — one founded by Gloria Steinem.
The Girl Scouts have been criticized for their involvement in the May, 2013 Women Deliver Conference, an international event that included “safe and legal abortion” among its overarching themes. It documents its role in the planning and facilitating of the December, 2012 Bali Global Youth Forum and the outcome declaration, which demands youth access to abortion.
The ties between the two groups have been questioned ever since former Girl Scouts CEO Kathy Cloninger admitted on NBC’s The Today Show: “We partner with many organizations. We have relationships with…Planned Parenthood organizations across the country.” See the video here.
Then, in a national survey, seventeen Girl Scouts councils admit to partnering with Planned Parenthood; many other councils refuse to answer the survey question. Of the 315 Girl Scout councils in the U.S., 17 councils reported having a relationship with Planned Parenthood and its affiliates, and 49 reported they do not. The other 249 refused to disclose any relationship.
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In 2010-2011 Girls Scouts in New York partnered with Planned Parenthood for a sex-ed program, “Real Life. Real Talk.” The program website touts their partners (link has since been removed): “Real Life. Real Talk. is proud to count the following organizations, faith communities and companies as partners: …Girl Scouts of NYPENN Pathways.”
For fourteen years, the Girls Scouts in Waco, TX co-sponsored a sex ed conference with Planned Parenthood. “It’s Perfectly Normal” a book written by a Planned Parenthood executive was given to all children in attendance says abortion can be “a positive experience.” And in January 2012, Girl Scouts employee Renise Rodriguez wore a “Pray to End Abortion” t-shirt during off-duty visit to her Tucson Girl Scout office and was ordered to her to turn the shirt inside out or leave.
As LifeNews reported in 2012, the Girl Scouts joined with Planned Parenthood to head a UN conference and LifeNews reported on the investigation the Catholic Church is undertaking into the ties between the Girl Scouts and Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion groups.
I agree that the girls selling the cookies are innocents in this boycott.
I would suggest telling the girls to tell their scout leader that you read Life News. I imagine the scout leaders know about them.
You can just gently say “There’s another side to this story.” They bring their children out in public, with a message, so you are perfectly justified in politely giving voice to your view as well.
Of the 249 who wouldn’t answer: that would be a yes.
Abortion Cookies…from Abortion Barbie
Consider that when one does something like that, you can provide the substance (via “witnesses” and digital recording media) for some douchebag to file a temporary restraining order on you and subsequently spend a LOT of time and money not getting screwed out of your Second Amendment rights...
See my post #17. It’s going to be done the same way it was done by Denny Crain. No matter what the question, the response was always “Denny Crain”. Now it will be “Wendy Davis”.
I like your idea. I’ll use it the next time I’m accosted to buy cookies.
What do I tell the Boy Scouts?
It’s enough to make you want to “Toss Your Cookies”!
THAT should be the “TEA PARTY’S” MOTTO!!!
Your grandmother sounds like a HUGE LEFTY!!
My Tagline.
This is what happens when adults try to use kids organizations for their own political purposes.
No, she was not a lefty at all. She was more like the original libertarian.
Here’s another story about her, and bear in mind that once her children were older she would go to Mass every morning.
Grandma once took me aside (she often did this out of the blue) and said “Jocon, there are 2 groups of people you should try and avoid as much as possible, and the reason is the same for both groups. They are Priests and the Police, and the reason is they are never around when you need them, but if you don’t want them there, for sure they are breathing down your neck.”
A little shocking to hear that from a very religious, very pro law and order woman in 1968, but there you have it.
Hmmmm. That it should be.
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I did that about three weeks ago. Moms were shocked to hear GSA supports abortion Barbie. I told them "Tough choice" and walked away.
I stopped giving to United Way when I learned that Planed Parenthood got a part of the donations. After I learned that United Way shared with Planned Parenthood, I walked into the office and told the secretary that I wised payroll deduction to United Way. She asked why and I told her.
She would have, she’d probably be leading the crowd!
I’m going to make a point of eating at that very Denny’s (Harbor Blvd, Fullerton) the next time I am in Southern California.
OMG!! I know she’s your grandma, but she’s a LEFTY, pure and pure!! PRIESTS??? POLICE???? Stay away from them??? OMG!!! You are misreading her if she really said that.
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