- 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
The Greening of Planned Parenthood
By Kathryn Jean Lopez
National Review Online
Dianne Luby,
president of the Bay State branch tells the Wall Street Journal: “we’re trying to
reposition ourselves as caring about their health, about prevention, about a
sustainable planet.” She wants the abortion provider to be “much more
mainstream.”
The inconvenient truth, of course, is it’s going to take
nothing short of an abortion of history to change what Planned Parenthood is all
about. Conceived at the turn of the last century by the leader of the eugenics
movement, Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood performed about one in every five
abortions in America in 2005 (the latest figures available).
Further,
Planned Parenthood is a booming business. The Journal article this morning reports that
PP took in $1 billion in its last financial report. According to the piece,
about a third of that revenue comes from federal and state grants for low-income
women. “The nonprofit ended the year with a surplus of $115 million, or about
11% of its revenue, and net assets of $952 million.”
Why is Planned
Parenthood receiving federal funds, you ask? Excellent question. Planned
Parenthood received
some $305.3 million in government funds in the 2005-06 fiscal year.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain may not be comfortable
talking about or be particularly interested in abortion — waging a crusade
against so-called “women’s reproductive health” isn’t exactly his cup of tea —
but he has voted against funding Planned Parenthood and he should run with that
record. His campaign should highlight the first paragraph of today’s
Journal piece while doing
so:
Flush with cash, Planned Parenthood affiliates nationwide are aggressively expanding their reach, seeking to woo more affluent patients with a network of suburban clinics and huge new health centers that project a decidedly upscale image.
Even if you believe that abortion should be legal and
the federal government should be involved in contraceptive dispensation, surely,
the upscale, flush Planned Parenthood can fund itself.
Regardless of
where the issue rates in his priority list, Planned
Parenthood has already taken aim at McCain, and they will continue to do so;
its political-action committee is planning to spend some $10 million this
cycle. Barack Obama is their dream candidate — he is the most radically
pro-abortion candidate ever to run for the Oval Office; Obama even has opposed
prohibiting clear-cut infanticide, because, in
his mind, a just-born child should not be afforded the same rights as a
nine-month old.
John McCain has an opportunity to legitimately use his
record to differentiate between himself and Senator Obama in a way that will
both help social and fiscal conservatives support him. Opposing Planned
Parenthood funding meshes with McCain’s contention that abortion is a
human-rights issue and his continuing campaign against wasteful government
spending. Planned Parenthood doesn’t need or deserve
federal funding. As Planned Parenthood continues to make news for lax
practices harming children while raking in huge revenues, now is way past
time to cut it off. John McCain has opposed taxpayer funding of Planned
Parenthood — most recently this spring, inexcusably but unsuccessfully tacked
onto the war supplemental. He should make that known and make it mean something
as he runs for president.
— Kathryn
Jean Lopez is the editor of National Review
Online.