Planned Parenthood chooses censorship
Posted by Matt Yonke on Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Planned Parenthood has an irrational fear of “rabid anti-choicers” who are out to take their rights away. I can’t think of a way to explain it other than guilt over what they do. Here's a quote from a recent post on PP Aurora's blog:
I was reading the other day about the 1916 police raid on Margaret Sanger’s family planning clinic in Brooklyn where she and her sister were arrested for disseminating information to patients about contraception. It’s amazing to me that almost 100 years later, it seems like little has changed.
As laughable as PP’s myopic view of their victim status is, one thing that has changed in the last century: Instead of being censored, Planned Parenthood has become the censor! Yesterday we learned that our pamphlets of information about how babies develop and where women can get help if they don’t want an abortion are on Planned Parenthood’s banned books list!
Sidewalk counselor Karen Koller reports she was speaking with a young lady who was going to Planned Parenthood for birth control but was very interested in the literature Karen gave her.
On her way out of Planned Parenthood, she stopped to ask Karen for some more literature. She needed more because Planned Parenthood employees had taken it away from her! They forced her to give them the literature she had received from our sidewalk counselors.
Karen said employees told the girl, "We need to take these" and when she said she wanted to keep them she was told the pamphlets were "not allowed in here". The young lady was livid and, after getting more literature from Karen, told her she was never coming back to Planned Parenthood after their rudeness and, let's call a spade a spade, theft of her materials.
Pro-choice indeed! Time and again we hear that all Planned Parenthood wants to do is help women make informed choices. No bias, no agenda, just the facts. Incidents like this make the truth clear. They exist to sell a product and a lifestyle: abortion and birth control, and the promiscuous lifestyle those products support. Anything that gets in their way has got to be removed, even if they have to resort to bully tactics like censorship, coercion, and theft.
And your pamphlets spread misinformation and half truths.
June 5th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Well the first and most obvious question, Student, is what sort of misinformation and half truths we are supposedly spreading? Examples?
And if that is the case, why couldn't PP employees calmly and rationally explain the correct information to their clients instead of confiscating materials that spread opposing viewpoints? If they have the truth they have nothing to fear from lies.
God bless,
Matt
June 5th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Two quotes come to mind when I think about Planned Parenthood and the state of our country:
"The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong."
Antiphanes, ancient Greek dramatist
"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act!"
George Orwell
June 5th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
"We need to take these"
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A very accurate statement of what PP does…
They take:
blood money,
pre-born baby's life,
Mother's love for her child-to-be,
Father's chance to be real man,
girls' sense of self-worth,
boy's respect for women,
kids' innocence
and the value of raising a family…
For what?
For so-called "CHOICE", not even a true one at that…
June 6th, 2008 at 8:32 am
STUDENTS AGAINST MARGARET SANGER:
HOW SFLA IS EXPOSING BIG ABORTION'S RACISM
by Colin Mason
Margaret Sanger is one of the pro-choice movement's iconic figures. She is extolled as a pioneering feminist, health worker, and woman's activist. Her quotes on these subject are treated as scripture. But she was also an outspoken supporter of eugenics, who wanted more children from the fit and sterilization, even segregation, for the unfit. The infamous Negro Project, which targeted Blacks for contraception and sterilization, was one outcome of this.
Planned Parenthood, of course, does not want you know these facts. So the organization works hard to burnish Sanger's reputation, and goes into damage control mode whenever questions are raised about her more unsavory views. At the same time, however, they continue to quietly practice what she preached.
Although Planned Parenthood denies it, it continues to be obsessed with race, deliberately targeting minorities in their propaganda, methods, and even choice of building sites.
Consider the recent investigation of Planned Parenthood by UCLA pro-lifers working with Students for Life of America (SFLA). Their goal was to see if Planned Parenthood would accept donations specifically for the abortion of black babies. The students first determined where it was legal to secretly record telephone conversations, and then made arrangements to call Planned Parenthood abortuaries in those states. An actor was hired, and the calls were made from the Students for Life offices in Arlington. The results of the calls were published in The Advocate, UCLA's pro-life student magazine, but the story attracted the attention of the major media.
In the recorded conversations, the actor made it clear that he was a racist, saying things like "there are too many black babies being born." He also insisted that his donations be specifically earmarked for the abortion of black babies. Most organizations would want nothing to do with an openly racist proposition of this kind, but Planned Parenthood personnel were only too happy to accept them.
"The Idaho Planned Parenthood development director expressed excitement," Kristan Hawkins, the executive director of Students for Life, said to PRI. "She said she wanted to make sure she was getting everything down because this was the first time this had happened to her and she was very excited. She also laughed when the actor said 'the less black babies out there, the better,' and said 'understandable, understandable.' And in Ohio, the administrative assistant contacted said 'we'll take your money for whatever reason.'"
The investigation was part of SFLA's larger push against Planned Parenthood. Not only does Planned Parenthood accept racist donations, it has a propensity for building clinics in minority neighborhoods. Students for Life's push against Planned Parenthood is to be admired not only for its courage, but for its ability to mobilize the black community against the outrages that are being committed against it.
Margaret Sanger, outspoken proponent of eugenics and founder of Planned Parenthood
On April 24th, Students for Life organized a demonstration at the 16th Street Planned Parenthood abortuary in Washington DC. Prominent black leaders and pastors stood up and demanded that Congress cease funding this transparently racist organization. These included back leaders like Day Gardner (National Black Pro-Life Union), Jesse Lee Peterson (Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny), Dr. Lillie Epps (Preserving Life and Legacy), Rev. Clenard Childress (LEARN), and others.
"The pastors and leaders emphasized the recent allegations that have been brought against Planned Parenthood," said Hawkins. These included other inquiries and accusations being brought to bear against Planned Parenthood across the nation by other groups and organizations, like the ongoing fight against Planned Parenthood's fraud in Aurora, Illinois, the battle against their unethical practices by Kansas attorney Phill Kline, and the charges made earlier by the same UCLA students that Planned Parenthood covers up instances of statutory rape.
Planned Parenthood, predictably, insists that it is not a racist organization, but refuses to address the substance of the allegations. It does admit that its development directors showed a "a serious lack of judgment," saying that "had the employees been properly prepared for this kind of attack, they would have figured out that the calls were nothing short of a cruel hoax, designed to portray Planned Parenthood as money-grubbing racists." In other words, Planned Parenthood is claiming that the student investigators (mean and spiteful right-wingers) somehow tricked its sophisticated fundraisers into sounding like "money-grubbing racists." To which we say "If they sounded like money-grubbing racists," this is because they probably are money-grubbing racists. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck ..
More and more instances are cropping up all over the nation where Planned Parenthood has been guilty of overt or implicit racial profiling. Recent research by PRI shows that even Alaska natives and Native Americans are being targeted as well, even though they are the tiniest of tiny minorities. PRI hopes that the pioneering research being done by groups like Students for Life and The Advocate will join the fast-expanding body of evidence that will indict Planned Parenthood, and the genocidal legacy of Margaret Sanger, once and for all.
Colin Mason is Director of Media Production at Population Research Institute.
June 23rd, 2008 at 10:49 pm
To Student:
The Truth will set you free. Your comment reminds me of Pontius Pilate, who did not recognize Truth when it was staring him in the face. May the Mother of the Most High grant you the grace to recognize Truth.
June 24th, 2008 at 10:10 am