- 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
February 1, 2008
By Wendy Wright, Andrea Lafferty and Jennifer Giroux -
This should have been a banner week for women with a woman governor (and potential vice-presidential
candidate by many accounts) giving the Democratic Party's response to President Bush's State of the Union address. But Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has been a
disappointment when it comes to representing women's interests, with unfortunate shades of deja vu of a feminist standing behind a man accused of sexual
harassment.
The story begins with Mrs. Sebelius persuading a local district attorney, Paul Morrison, to leave the Republican Party to run as a Democrat for Kansas attorney general in
2006. With a massive influx of out-of-state abortion industry money and support from organizations such as Planned Parenthood, Mr. Morrison was elected attorney
general. He defeated Phill Kline, the incumbent who was investigating alleged illegal activity at late-term abortion clinics, including a Planned Parenthood clinic in
Johnson County, a suburb of Kansas City. Once Mr. Morrison replaced Mr. Kline as attorney general, he publicly dropped the investigations. In a twist worthy of a movie,
Mr. Kline replaced Mr. Morrison as district attorney of Johnson County.
Mr. Kline doggedly pursued his suspicions and late last year a district judge found probable cause on 107 felony and misdemeanor counts against Planned Parenthood,
which included performing illegal late-term abortions and falsifying abortion records.A grand jury in Kansas is currently investigating these allegations, as well as charges
against Planned Parenthood for covering up statutory rapes of underage girls.In early December, Mr. Morrison, who is married, found himself embroiled in a sex and
criminal scandal involving a former employee, Linda Carter. She had filed an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sexual-harassment claim against him with
sordid details of sex in courthouses and threats to destroy her career. And, her claim alleges, Mr. Morrison tried to use her position as office manager in Mr. Kline's
office to obtain inside information about Mr. Kline's prosecution of Planned Parenthood.
Mrs. Sebelius' hand-picked attorney general admitted the sexual indiscretions were true and resigned — but the resignation was not effective until yesterday. The
governor has remained curiously silent about the criminal scandal involving Mr. Morrison. Instead of immediately removing him from office she has permitted him to
stay — just as she takes the national stage as the Democratic Party's representative, a coming out many believe will heighten her stature as a potential
vice-presidential candidate and future runs for national office.
What does this say to the women of Kansas and the rest of the country? Women who aspire to high office have no less an obligation than their male counterparts to be
people of integrity and character. Mrs. Sebelius may not have known at the time that the man she recruited to be her top law enforcement officer had serious baggage.
But she did know Mr. Morrison would drop the investigations against politically and financially powerful late-term abortion providers that faced serious allegations of
covering up statutory rape of girls. He based his campaign on that.
The Democratic Party's choice to elevate Mrs. Sebelius to national stature in the midst of a scandal within her administration is both curious and brazen. Either party
leaders believe the national media will ignore the story because, after all, it's just Kansas. Or they believe the media are so fixed on a Democratic victory in November
that they just don't care.
These same party leaders have wrongly believed over the years that women vote as a monolithic bloc, and they would never reject one of their own gender no matter how
tainted. Once again, they underestimate the very women for whom they claim to be champions.
Now that both Mr. Morrison and Planned Parenthood face criminal allegations, Mrs. Sebelius' silence betrays her tacit support for both of them. With confessions now
made public and court proceedings going forward, she cannot blame their troubles on a vast right-wing conspiracy. Her focus may be on her future ambitions but people
across the country now begin to take the measure of Mrs. Sebelius they should also be aware of her recent and present judgment. Forgoing the safety of women in
exchange for powerful political allegiances is the last thing women are looking for in a national leader. Women, and all of us, deserve better.
Wendy Wright is president of Concerned Women for America. Andrea Lafferty is executive director of Traditional Values Coalition. Jennifer Giroux is president of Women Influencing the Nation.