The gift of death? Planned Parenthood offers abortion gift cards for Christmas
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by Lita Cosner
Published: 16 December 2008(GMT+10)
This Christmas, residents of the US State of Indiana can give their friends and
loved ones the gift of contraception with Planned Parenthood gift certificates.
These vouchers could be used towards abortion, various contraceptive devices, or
any of Planned Parenthood’s other ‘family planning’ services (a
misnomer, since the goal of family planning is to not end up with a family).
This is not the first time that Planned Parenthood has tried to link the slaughtering
of unborn children to the Christian celebration of our Lord’s birth. For several
years, Planned Parenthood offered sacrilegious
Christmas cards reading ‘Choice on Earth’, which thankfully
show no sign of reappearing this year. It is difficult to see how such marketing
ploys could be anything but the deliberate attempt to offend pro-life Christians.
Family planning is somewhat of a misnomer, because the whole point of most family
planning is to not end up with a family.
One is puzzled as to who the nation’s largest abortion provider is targeting
with these abortion birth certificates. Perhaps they think that loving ‘John
dear’ will forgo diamonds this year and give the gift of contraception—how
romantic! Or maybe Mom can show just how much she cares, giving her daughter the
means to destroy her grandchild.
Mike Fitcher, the President and CEO of
Indiana Right to Life,
said, ‘The tragedy is that almost 6,000 fewer children will be
celebrating a first Christmas this year because they were aborted in Planned Parenthood’s
Indiana clinics.’ However, Indiana Health Commissioner Dr Judy Monroe praised
the abortion vouchers, calling them ‘really a meaningful gift’. One
can imagine how ‘meaningful’ it is for the baby to have its limbs torn
off as he is dismembered in the womb, or to be burned by saline until she dies.
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Unborn babies, 4D ultrasound, still shot
Planned Parenthood defended the vouchers, saying that only around 5,000 of the 92,000
people who receive Planned Parenthood’s services get abortions. However, a
great deal of the other 87,000 would also result in the end of a human life, because
Planned Parenthood lumps the ‘morning after’ pill and other contraceptive
pills in with the non-abortive treatments. But the ‘morning after’ pill
prevents the implantation of the blastocyst into the lining of the uterus, and all
other contraceptive pills, if they fail to prevent conception,
may act in the same way.
The fact that Planned Parenthood is offering contraception and abortion as a possible
gift makes their philosophy about abortion very clear, as well as how they
want the American people to view it. This isn’t the action of a group of people
who want abortion to be ‘safe, legal, and rare,’ as the popular phrase
goes. They want the death of the unborn child to be seen as a positive
thing, not a regrettable but sometimes necessary procedure as they claim. Of course,
this is not surprising, since Planned Parenthood makes its profits from abortions;
they are just another company trying to push their main product.
If Planned Parenthood really cared about women, they would not be covering up abuse
and sending girls back to their abusers.
This concern to promote abortion at all costs leads Planned Parenthood to engage
in behavior that is demonstrably illegal. Recently,
a video surfaced of a college student posing as a 13-year-old girl who claimed
to be impregnated by a 31-year-old, who went to an Indiana Planned Parenthood clinic
to obtain the ‘morning after’ pill. By law, medical personnel are required
to report such instances of statutory rape, of which this would be a clear example.
However, the nurse told the girl she would not report the crime, and even gave the
girl advice on how to avoid Indiana’s parental consent laws by going across
state lines, and told her to lie about the father’s age, telling her to say
that he was 14, not 31. If Planned Parenthood really cared about women, they would
not be covering up abuse and sending girls back to their abusers.
The contraceptive certificates also reveal the way they want the average person
to view new life. Instead of being a gift, the unborn child should be seen as a
nuisance at best, a parasitic invader of a woman’s body at worst, according
to their evil worldview. While this view is evil, at least the adherents of this
view acknowledge that the child constitutes a separate life from the mother. Even
more evil are the people who deny that the blastocyst, embryo, or fetus is even
a human child, and who exploit the ignorance of teenage girls and women who lack
all the facts.
The evolutionist and racist roots of Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger was an ardent evolutionist who promoted
‘race hygiene’ and getting rid of ‘human weeds’.
One of the papers in the current
issue of Journal of Creation concerns one of Planned Parenthood’s
founders: Birth control leader Margaret Sanger: Darwinist, racist and eugenicist
by Jerry Bergman. It is a fact that Sanger, an ardent evolutionist, promoted ‘race hygiene’ and getting rid of ‘human weeds’.
Yet the current President-elect Barack Obama, although half African-American,
is good friends with Planned Parenthood, promising to support abortion rights (see also Obama’s Abortion Socialism. It is no accident that Obama is also an ardent evolutionist who voted against
the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, a vote that would allow babies born alive—from
a botched abortion—to
die by withholding treatment (see
Bioethicists and Obama agree: infanticide should be legal). It is especially
bizarre that he reportedly gained 95% of the African-American vote despite his support
for a historical enemy of African-Americans (see also Margaret Sanger Would
Have Loved Barack Obama from blackgenocide.org).
Anti-Christian
Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed
is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame …—Psalm
127:4–5.
This view of life could not be more opposed to the biblical worldview. In the biblical
world, children were unequivocally seen as gifts from God, and to be barren was
something to be mourned and was thought to be a curse. Rachel, Rebekah, Sarah, Hannah,
and Elizabeth are only some of the women in Scripture who God blessed by removing
their barrenness and granting them children. Psalm 127:4–5:
‘Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth.
Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame
… ’
At Christmas time, we celebrate the greatest gift of life to mankind in the birth
of the Messiah, Jesus Christ (see
Christmas and Genesis). To associate abortion in any way with the Christmas
celebration is absolutely antithetical to the entire meaning of Christmas and to
the Christian faith.
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