Posted on 06/29/2008 11:09:15 AM PDT by wagglebee
Planned Parenthood is in search of a makeover. For years, the organization has been the biggest abortionist in the business, but as abortion is losing its cachet, Planned Parenthood is trying to reinvent itself. It seems that killing children for cash is just not as fashionable as it used to be.
According to Stephanie Simon of the Wall Street Journal, Planned Parenthood wants to "[open] new avenues for boosting revenue and, they hope, political clout." The first step in the organization's redo involves marketing itself to customers in a higher income bracket. Planned Parenthood is building new centers with larger waiting areas, wooden floors, nice lighting and other amenities which create a more inviting environment and, presumably, make clients feel less shameful about the act they are contemplating. A new "green" clinic is going up in Massachusetts, made of recycled and earth-friendly materials. "Express centers" are being located in malls so that young women can have quick and easy access to birth control, tests for sexually transmitted diseases and counseling. Gift shops make the centers more appealing to their young clientele.
In its early years Planned Parenthood was directed by Margaret Sanger who advocated for a "right" for women to choose to kill their unborn children. She also promoted a Congressional plan which would, in part, "apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring."
Sanger wanted to use reproductive controls to halt the "vicious cycle" of poverty and ignorance. She argued, "There is only one cure for both, and that is to stop breeding these things. Stop bringing to birth children whose inheritance cannot be one of health or intelligence. Stop bringing into the world children whose parents cannot provide for them. Herein lies the key of civilization."
Sanger advocated "choice" as a tool for eugenics. "Only upon a free, self-determining motherhood can rest any unshakable structure of racial betterment." Yet she did not believe that this exalted idea of choice should apply to "the undeniably feeble-minded." In other words, Sanger thought the mentally handicapped should be sterilized by force, people should be sterilized to remove unwanted traits from the populace, and the country should seek racial perfection.
Planned Parenthood's modern advocacy of "choice" is rooted in Sanger's lack of regard for the rights of the unborn. Sanger saw "choice" as a means of perfecting America through the destruction of millions of unborn children. Planned Parenthood perpetuates Sanger's legacy by presenting "choice" as a means of improving the lives of individuals and communities by eliminating unwanted, "inconvenient" children. Its clinics dispose of over 200,000 such children per year. The number of abortions provided by Planned Parenthood hit an all-time high in the 2005-2006 fiscal year.
This high body count, no doubt, is part of the reason Planned Parenthood wants to change its abortion-centered public image. Nevertheless, the organization will not quit providing abortions or discourage them. Rather, it is hoping to hide its assault on human life behind nice new amenities. Apparently it believes that comfortable furniture, soft lighting and convenient locations will help people forget what goes on behind the closed doors of the surgical ward.
The new "green" Planned Parenthood building is, perhaps, the most ironic element of its remodeling plan. The organization proudly proclaims its concern for the environment even as it destroys more human beings than any other group in America. Planned Parenthood is the most infamous organization in an industry which kills more than twice as many Americans per year as cancer. By "going green," Planned Parenthood is attempting to hide its true color, red—the color of the blood produced by its daily death toll.
Worthy of note is the fact that federal and state grants make up about a third of Planned Parenthood's funding. Another third is provided by private donors. By remolding its image, the merchants of death are, no doubt, hoping to increase the share that comes from both. Branding is, after all, key to the success of any fundraising campaign.
This is one makeover, however, that just won't work. Putting lipstick on a pig doesn't make you want to kiss it. No matter how hard Planned Parenthood tries to dress it up, abortion still kills children and hurts women.
You’ll have to wait and see.
LOL, you calumnize and lie about the one man who can avoid the Obamanation and then play coy. Ru-Paul, right?
It depends on the people, doesn't it? What sort of posibilities does Johnny Moron offer? Stupid people don't offer much. Bright people do. The Bright, and easy energy, have kept hunger at bay for large numbers of people.
Still Malthus has been proven correct -- for certain populations.
There are parts of the world where people reproduce to the point that their children routinely starve. And when those children die, they go off to make more.
And there's no surplus. No surplus for infrastructure. No surplus for thought. No surplus for anything.
Out of curiosity, two questions - what faith do you practice and who are you voting for in the Presidential race and why?
By many definitions, Atheist.
And I'm voting McCain.
The entire Democratic party seems committed to allowing the intelligent to kill their offspring while allowing the world to be filled with more mouth-breathers sucking the life from the productive.
Abortion should be illegal for any intelligent person over 18 and mandatory for any idiot with with an IQ below 90.
You responded (but did not answer):
Save your emotional outrage for those moved only by their hearts and not their heads. It won't work on me.
I'm still curious, do you and your intelligentsia comrades fail to realize that I posted verifiable FACTS about the frequency of abortion?
So, I can't help but notice that it is YOU who is "moved only by your heart and not your head." Is the "sacrament" of infanticide that precious to you?
I can also conclude that your REFUSAL to answer my question is indicative of the fact that you do, in fact, support the entire eugenics agenda. After all, it is extraordinarily rare for a person who claims to be a conservative to refuse to deny support for leftism on Free Republic.
Does it escape your attention the lack of support you find for your position? This is, after all, a CONSERVATIVE, PRO-LIFE FORUM, most of your ilk left about a year ago -- some voluntarily, others a little more forcefully.
You are truly disgusting.
“By many definitions, Atheist.”
Instead of ‘many definitions’, how about yours?
Is worship of Moloch considered atheism?
>> And the average American doesn’t have a clue about this.
The average person doesn’t care to know about this. I hope, however, the average American would care to have a clue.
Which is why pro-life groups really need to put more money into advertising (i.e. billboards).
I heard Dr. Alveda King speak about this problem on the Laura Ingraham Show. She is eloquent and passionate.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200804/CUL20080417a.html
I have not heard such a fervent black pro-life speaker since Dr. Mildred Jefferson, who spoke out against this form of black genocide 40 years ago.
I am now a BIG Dr. Alveda fan!
Dr. Alveda King is the RIGHTFUL and LEGITIMATE HEIR to her uncle’s civil rights crusade. Civil rights for Black Americans is WORTHLESS if ONE-THIRD of them are MURDERED before they are even born.
Despicable. Who made you God?
The very purpose of our Constitution, according to our Constitution, is to secure the Blessings of Liberty, not just to ourselves, but to our Posterity...in other words those who have not yet been born. The Founders gave the rights of those who were yet to come equal standing with their own.
And the Fifth and the Fourteenth Amendments protect the unlienable right to life of all Persons. That includes babies, from the point of fertilization.
Any other position has you somewhere on the slippery slope to personal and national destruction.
Having seen for may years how well eugenicists fare here, I think I smell ozone in your case.
You’ve taken leave of your senses.
When young women believe there is but one ‘choice’ for unwanted pregnancies, that choice gets executed.
You will see in post 63 that mc6809e not only supports the “right” to abortion, but also supports MANDATORY abortion. This is way beyond the “slippery slope,” this is the pits of hell.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2038211/posts?page=63#63
I don’t seem to recall where the baby has EVER been given a choice.
This is not news to this conservative but I can imagine there will be those around here who will say it ain't so, that you speak heresy.
I hear ya.
McCain spent the last the ten years handing the power conservatives spent decades building over to Ted Kennedy and Company. And I don’t mind saying so.
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