- 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
Planned Parenthood Timeline
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1916: Margaret Sanger opens America's first birth control clinic, in Brooklyn, N.Y., at a time when contraceptive information and materials are illegal on grounds of obscenity. Today's Planned Parenthood traces its roots to that clinic.
1948: Planned Parenthood awards a grant to research biologist Gregory Pincus to investigate the contraceptive value of steroids. His work leads to the development of the birth-control pill, which is approved by the FDA in 1960.
1965: The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down state laws banning the use of contraceptives by married couples in a case instigated by Planned Parenthood.
1970: After a handful of states legalize abortion, Planned Parenthood of Syracuse N.Y. begins offering abortion services.
1971: Planned Parenthood establishes an international family planning arm, which remains active today as a $7 million program working in nearly two dozen countries, including India, Sudan, Guatemala and Peru.
1973: On January 22, the U.S. Supreme Court legalizes abortion with Roe v. Wade. More Planned parenthood affiliates begin offering abortion.
1976: In a case involving a Planned Parenthood affiliate in Missouri, the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down state requirements that a woman get her spouse's consent before an abortion.
1986: Planned Parenthood clinics in several states are targeted with bombs and arson fires as anti-abortion violence flares.
1989: Planned Parenthood establishes the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, its political advocacy arm.
1992: The U.S. Supreme Court upholds some state restrictions on abortion, including a 24-hour waiting period and parental consent for minors. Planned Parenthood had challenged those laws in Pennsylvania.
1994: Capping years of escalating violence, an abortion opponent storms two Massachusetts clinics – one of them a Planned Parenthood facility – and fatally shoots the two receptionists.
1999: Planned Parenthood launches www.teenwire.com, a Web site that aims to provide frank, medically accurate information about sex, contraception and abortion. The site now receives 6 million visits a year.
2006: Planned Parenthood leads a successful ballot campaign to overturn a near-total ban on abortion passed by the South Dakota legislature. Another ban, with limited exceptions, will be back on the ballot in the state this fall.
2007: Planned Parenthood -- which now has 882 health centers across the country -- reports a record $1 billion in revenue.
2008: The Planned Parenthood Action Fund announces a $10 million campaign to engage voters about women's health issues for the fall election. The Action Fund recently launched its first initiatives opposing presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain.