- The Social Footprints of Contraception
The Church's teaching on sexuality that lies behind its teaching that contraception is intrinsically immoral is dazzlingly beautiful.
Many people whose understanding has been clouded by the corruption of our culture have difficulty understanding it.
09/ 04/08 - Teen Sex? Please Do! - Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood, the billion dollar corporate abortion mill, has taken indecency to a whole new level and is using your taxpayer dollars to do so.
09/ 03/08 - Johnny's Got a New Girl
The risk John McCain took last Friday is comparable to the 72-year-old ex-fighter pilot knocking back two shots and flying his A-4 under the Golden Gate Bridge.
McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his co-pilot was the biggest gamble in presidential history. As of now, it is paying off, big-time.
09/ 03/08 - A Chicken in Every Pot and the Pill on Every Nightstand
During my last pregnancy, I qualified for excellent, free state medical insurance because of our lower income. My husband is in graduate school for a while. This insurance coverage is part of the state's healthy start program for pregnant women and young kids.
09/ 02/08 - Who is Govenor Sarah Palin?
Women and Men across America are cheering the VP pick of John McCain. Here a look at who she is...
08/ 31/08 - PELOSI DENIES CATHOLICISM OPPOSES ABORTION
When asked about when life begins Pelosi answered "...what I know is, over the centuries, the doctors of the Church have not been able to make that definition.”
08/ 26/08 - Planned Parenthood Abortion Center Closes Instead of Following New Law
Monday was the first day that Planned Parenthood, which operates the only abortion business in South Dakota, had to comply with a new state law telling women the truth about abortion. Rather than tell women abortion kills children and has numerous risks, Planned Parenthood closed its doors.
07/ 22/08 - Planned Parenthood Needs More Scrutiny
Last year, Planned Parenthood performed more than 250,000 abortions, which account for about 1 in 5 of our country's total. Of all abortions, those performed for black women accounted for about a third of the procedures. It's also worth noting that a majority of Planned Parenthood's clinics are in minority neighborhoods.
07/ 15/08 - Black pro-lifers to ask NAACP to oppose taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood
Day Gardner: Planned Parenthood has basically bought off Barack Obama
07/ 15/08 - Black Pro-Lifers Demand Parties Refuse Planned Parenthood Funding
Democratic and Republican candidates must reject donations from Planned Parenthood this election year, and Congress should end all federal funding for the abortion provider, according to black pro-life leaders who held two press conferences last week in Washington, D.C., at Democratic and Republican Party Committee headquarters.
07/ 03/08 - Your Tax Money at Work Funding Abortions
For the last few decades, evangelicals repeatedly have mobilized and demonstrated to oppose the operation of abortion clinics. Over the years, many have believed that being anti-abortion had become a litmus test for their support of politicians and policies, which vie for evangelical votes.
07/ 03/08 - Inconvenient Truth for MSM: Black Ministers March Against Planned Parenthood
Exit poll after exit poll in election after election shows the Democratic Party is staunchly supported by an overwhelming majority of African-American voters, many of whom are much more socially conservative on issues like abortion than their party leadership.
07/ 03/08 - Candidates warned against Planned Parenthood money
Corporation's willingness to accept race-based contributions cited
07/ 02/08 - From our friends at KFL
Press release from Kansas for Life
06/ 27/08 - Planned Parenthood: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing?
During the last few years, everyone in the nation has come to understand that things are not always the way they appear with individuals or organizations. While all of us struggle to live up to our ideals, some groups live permanently in the land of personal or professional compromise.
06/ 23/08
Candidates warned against Planned Parenthood money
Black pastors led by Alveda King, the niece of Martin Luther King Jr., and Day Gardner of the National Black Pro-Life Union will stage a march in Washington tomorrow to demand that candidates for public office refuse money from Planned Parenthood.
Marchers are urging political candidates not to accept any of the $10 million that Planned Parenthood has pledged to contribute to elections this year because the organization, the largest provider of abortions in American, targets minorities for its abortion services.
ABC News has reported the $10 million primarily will go to congressional races.
The group will begin its protest at the Democratic National Convention headquarters at 10 a.m. where members will hold a press conference and then march to the Republican National Convention headquarters where a second press conference will be held.
The group originally banded together after videos were released earlier this year that showed Planned Parenthood officials eagerly accepting money from a racist donor who only wanted the money to be used to abort black babies.
Its procedures have been documented on YouTube:
The second video documenting the report:
The pastors have reported that 62.5 percent of all Planned Parenthood's clinics are in African-American communities, and the number rises to 70 percent when Hispanic communities are included.
The pastors have demanded Planned Parenthood stop targeting residents of those communities.
Last year, about $350 million, or nearly one-third of Planned Parenthood's budget, was from taxpayer funds.
This is not the first time controversy has surrounded Planned Parenthood. A Kansas clinic is under criminal investigation for performing illegal late-term abortions and falsifying documents. Also, the former vice president of finance and administration for the Los Angeles Planned Parenthood has accused the clinic of defrauding taxpayers as much as $180 million.
WND has reported previously on the work of Lila Rose, editor of the Los Angeles-based Advocate, who conducted the undercover investigations of Planned Parenthood. It was her work that unveiled the race-biased comments from several Planned Parenthood officials.
In one taped interview, an Idaho official for Planned Parenthood said it was "understandable" that a donor would want to contribute to abortions targeting blacks so that his own, presumably white, child would have less competition in college.
In an Ohio case, a wire report has characterized those recorded interviews as "prank phone calls." The report also quotes a spokeswoman for the "health care provider" saying they were just an "attempt to portray Planned Parenthood as racist."
The Associated Press report said the caller to a Columbus, Ohio, clinic "asks a receptionist if he can make a donation that will be used to underwrite abortions on minorities because there are 'definitely way too many black people in Ohio.'"
The response from Planned Parenthood's employee? "OK, whatever."
Columbus Planned Parenthood spokeswoman Stephanie Tresso later told the AP the conversation took place, but accused the callers of "just another attempt … to discredit the organization."
Rose told AP the conversations simply reflected Planned Parenthood's agreement with racist requests.
Shortly after the audio recordings by the Advocate were released, the coalition of black leaders called on Congress to defund Planned Parenthood.
"African-Americans are having abortions at a hugely disproportionate rate according to their population, and Planned Parenthood has no shame whatsoever in accepting money that specifically targets our community," Gardner said at the time.
The Advocate's Idaho investigation recorded an actor wanting to make a donation and a woman identified as Autumn Kersey, vice president of marketing for Planned Parenthood of Idaho.
Actor: I want to specify that abortion to help a minority group, would that be possible?Planned Parenthood: Absolutely.
Actor: Like the black community for example?
Planned Parenthood: Certainly.
Actor: The abortion – I can give money specifically for a black baby, that would be the purpose?
Planned Parenthood: Absolutely. If you wanted to designate that your gift be used to help an African-American woman in need, then we would certainly make sure that the gift was earmarked for that purpose.
Actor: Great, because I really faced trouble with affirmative action, and I don't want my kids to be disadvantaged against black kids. I just had a baby; I want to put it in his name.
Planned Parenthood: Yes, absolutely.
Actor: And we don't, you know we just think, the less black kids out there the better.
Planned Parenthood: (Laughs) Understandable, understandable.
Actor: Right. I want to protect my son, so he can get into college.
Planned Parenthood: All right. Excuse my hesitation, this is the first time I've had a donor call and make this kind of request, so I'm excited, and want to make sure I don't leave anything out.
WND earlier reported on another investigation in which Rose posed as a 15-year-old seeking an abortion at a Planned Parenthood center in Santa Monica, Calif. A Planned Parenthood staffer suggested Rose could say she was 16 and avoid complications.
"Well, just figure out a birth date that works. And I don't know anything," the staffer said.
The Texas-based pro-life group Life Dynamics previously conducted an extensive undercover project in which an adult volunteer posing as a 13-year-old called every Planned Parenthood clinic in the U.S., saying she was pregnant by a 22-year-old boyfriend. Almost without exception, the clinics advised her to obtain an abortion without her parents' knowledge and told her how to protect her boyfriend, who would be guilty in any state of statutory rape.
Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger supported eugenics through birth control to cull people she considered unfit from the population. In 1921, she said eugenics is "the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems."
At one point, Sanger lamented "the ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all." Another time, Sanger wrote, "We do not want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population."