Tony Perkins, Family Research Council president, calls pro-lifers to action:
Ever since last November's elections, which resulted in a pro-abortion leadership in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, national abortion groups have boldly pushed an agenda of death - forcing taxpayers to pay for it! In 2005 Planned Parenthood got $272 million in our taxes, twice the money it made from its 255,000 abortions that year. Since 1987 Planned Parenthood has taken in $3.2 billion in taxpayer funds for its deadly agenda.Click here access the FRC's email form.Now these groups want even more taxpayer funding for their death march. Just last Friday, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) sent a letter to her Senate colleagues asking for a boost of $100 million, specifically for Planned Parenthood clinics!
Even more reprehensible are the attacks on legitimate women's clinics, pregnancy care centers (PCCs), which protect the health of both the mother and the unborn child. Planned Parenthood and NARAL want to close these pregnancy care centers down. Currently, legislation in Oregon blatantly lists NARAL and Planned Parenthood as co-sponsors of a bill that targets pregnancy care centers for closure. We must send a message to these abortion profiteers that we've had enough!
Please e-mail the Oregon legislature and ask them to stop this taxpayer-funded, pro-abortion vendetta against legitimate clinics that help women in a time of need.
Fed Up With Melodramatic Feminists for "Choice"
March 28th, 2007
The Family Research Council's plea to contact Oregon legislators about their state Senate Bill 776, legislation that if passed would examine the credibility of pregnancy resource centers "at the request of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon, NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon," raised a recurring thought. https://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=AL07C08&track=0, http://landru.leg.state.or.us/07reg/measures/sb0700.dir/sb0776.intro.html
Whom do melodramatic feminists, who bully for abortion rights while claiming to fight for "choice," think they are kidding?
Oregon's Senate Bill 776 dictates that "alternative-to-abortion-organizations" be studied in order to determine if these pregnancy centers: "misinform and mislead women to deter or to delay them from having abortions," and "intentionally choose their names to mislead women into believing that the centers offer a wide range of family planning and abortion care," and "whereas to confuse their clients and capitalize on their patients' confusion, crisis pregnancy centers design their facilities to look like health care facilities and locate the facilities near clinics that offer family planning and abortion care" and "whether alternative-to-abortion organizations are providing ultrasound examinations and, if so, how they disclose the results of those examinations to patients."
If abortion advocacy forces behind this bill were truly about "choice," they would not be in such an adamant rush to discredit alternatives to their "abortion care" facilities. Not only that, they would view a neighboring pregnancy resource center as an option, rather than a threat.
If accuracy in organization naming is abortion advocacy's concern, then the largest abortion provider in the United States, Planned Parenthood, should adopt a more authentic title, i.e. Planned Unparenthood. Plus, NARAL Pro-Choice America should return to the most accurate of its three previous monikers, the National Abortion Rights Action League. (Since 1968 NARAL has been known as: the National Association for Abortion Laws, the National Abortion Rights Action League, the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League and now NARAL Pro-Choice America.)
If "choice" truly drove abortion advocacy's agenda, then pro-choicers would welcome utrasound examinations as tools to educate women so that their decisions whether or not to abort would be informed ones. Instead, advocates from Planned Parenthood and NARAL appear to be paranoid about sonograms.
These ladies "doth protest too much, methinks." http://www.bartleby.com/100/138.32.139.html
(c) 2007 Marybeth T. Hagan http://www.mothermayibeborn.com