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Palin disinvited

September 27, 2008 by Tanya Zaleski 1 Comment

Organizers disinvite Sarah Palin, who was originally scheduled to speak along with Hillary Clinton at a rally. The New York Sun published the full speech.

In the words of one Jewish journalist, the rally was “against Iran’s plan to destroy Israel.”

It was a remarkable speech, prepared by a remarkable woman. But it was not heard…because the Democratic Party and Jewish Democrats believe that their partisan interest in demonizing Palin and making Americans…hate and fear her to secure their votes for Obama…is more important than allowing Palin to elevate the necessity of preventing a second Holocaust to the top of the US’s national security agenda…

The moment that Clinton found out that she was to share a stage with Palin, she cancelled her appearance. By cancelling, she signaled to Jewish Democrats – and Democrats in general – that opposing Palin and the Republican Party is more important than opposing Ahmadinejad and the genocidal regime he represents.

THE JEWISH Democrats on the rally’s organizing committee got the message loud and clear. Two of the rally’s co-sponsors…disinvited Palin…

[Liberals]…uphold themselves as champions of human rights… They care about the environment. They care about securing American women’s unfettered access to abortions. They care about keeping Christianity and God out of the public sphere. They care about offering peace to those who are actively seeking their destruction so that they can applaud themselves for their open-mindedness and tell themselves how much better they are than savage conservatives.

Those horrible, war-mongering, Bambi killing, unborn baby defending, God-believing conservatives, who think that there are things worth going to war to protect, must be defeated at all costs. They must intimidate, attack, demonize and defeat those conservatives who think that the free women of the West should be standing shoulder to shoulder not with Planned Parenthood, but with the women of the Islamic world who are enslaved by a misogynist Shari’a legal code that treats them as slaves and deprives them of control not simply of their wombs, but of their faces, their hair, their arms, their legs, their minds and their hearts.

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: Clinton, Iran, Islam, Israel, Palin, Planned Parenthood

More evidence that sex and pregnancy are indeed related

September 12, 2008 by Andrea Mrozek 2 Comments

This study from the Guttmacher, says:  

Half of respondents had experienced at least one unintended pregnancy. Respondents described three categories of pleasure related to pregnancy ambivalence: active eroticization of risk, in which pregnancy fantasies heightened the charge of the sexual encounter; passive romanticization of pregnancy, in which people neither actively sought nor prevented conception; and an escapist pleasure in imagining that a pregnancy would sweep one away from hardship. All three categories were associated with misuse or nonuse of coitus-dependent methods.

Now I have not read the Guttmacher study in full. But my translation on the “scientificese” above is this: Pregnancy is linked–strongly–to sex and sometimes women get pregnant the result of having sex. Furthermore, oftentimes unintended pregnancies are not unintended at all.

You know, I don’t like the idea that everything we do, including pregnancy, ought to be fully and completely planned. All it nurtures is a sense of failure if you can’t get pregnant the very moment you so desire, and a sense of failure if you get pregnant when you did not so desire. (If life is aaaaaalllll about planning, I might add that I’m way off track as per the official Andrea Mrozek 1995 high school graduation power point. See graph four, slide 15 for more information…)

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: babies, contraception, fertility, Guttmacher Institute, Planned Parenthood, planning pregnancy, Sarah Palin

We are not all on the same page

July 25, 2008 by Tanya Zaleski Leave a Comment

South Dakota has no more abortion providers. Why?

Starting Friday, doctors in South Dakota must tell women seeking abortions …”that the abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being.” Women also would have to be told they have a right to continue a pregnancy and that abortion may cause them psychological harm, including thoughts of suicide.

So the only abortion doctor left in the state up and quit. Why? Because he thinks none of that is true. As we’ve covered in the past, medical textbooks assert that a new life begins at the moment of conception. Peer reviewed journals and respected studies teach us that there are infact serious psychological risks associated with abortion.

Don’t know about you, but I don’t want a doctor to come near me if he hasn’t kept up on his reading. I like my doctors smart.

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: Planned Parenthood, South Dakota

One thing leads to another

June 26, 2008 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

Today, a group of African-American pastors will march in Washington demanding that both the Democrats and the Republicans reject campaign funds from Planned Parenthood. Why? Because they believe they are racist, something we discussed here. 

In other (related?) web meanderings I stumbled across this YouTube video–Nick Cannon thanks his mom for life. (No judgment, he says, he’s just telling his story. Hard to argue with that. He speaks, in a way, for those who don’t live, and never get to argue their case. Too bad, that.)

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AqPRcF7ZC0]

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Brigitte wonders: Am I the only one in tears after watching this?

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Andrea adds: No, you’re not. It started out kind of so-so for me, and if I had not watched the whole thing, I would not have posted it. But by the end, I found the story he tells very moving, indeed. Especially when his real-life mom shows up.

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: Nick Cannon, Planned Parenthood, racism

Meet the founder of Planned Parenthood

June 24, 2008 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

Meet Margeret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood. Ask yourself if you’d like to have her over for tea.

She advocated for abortions and birth control for blacks, for the “feeble-minded,” for the poor.

‘More children from the fit, less from the unfit — that is the chief issue of birth control,” she frankly wrote in her 1922 book The Pivot of Civilization.’ –Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood

That’s their past, you say, and as such we should not judge them for it. But they refuse to disassociate themselves from it. Margaret Sanger, author of quotes far, far worse than that cited above–remains a hero of their movement.

Now they are aiming to rebrand, green clinics–move into more upscale neighbourhoods, the Wall Street Journal reports here. The rebranding doesn’t appear to include a wholesale condemnation of their past.

It should. It’s disquieting to realize that a government-funded entity has fascist roots they refuse to condemn. But is not “every child a wanted child” a derivative of this sort of thinking?

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood: Not so much emphasis on the parent

June 2, 2008 by Tanya Zaleski Leave a Comment

Planned Parenthood tirelessly opposes every parental involvement law now in effect and works diligently to prevent new laws from passing.

In states like Pennsylvania, teens need parental consent to have a legal abortion. To get around involving their parents, teens may apply for a judicial bypass. Philadelphia lawyer, Barbara Bailey, has “shepherded more than a thousand teens through judicial bypass since the early 1990’s.” Watch the full video.

I don’t see teens who have good, healthy relationships with their parents coming for a bypass. They tell their parents.

In other words, this translates into more parents hearing about what’s going on in their teenage daughters’ lives. Where this type of parental involvement law doesn’t exist, any girl the least bit squeamish about telling her parents she is pregnant (thus admitting she is sexually active) can bypass that whole awkward conversation. That teen can march right into a Planned Parenthood clinic and have herself an abortion, go home and cry for 2 days, having now increased six fold her risk of attempting suicide. She’s also twice as likely as her peers to start abusing drugs or alcohol.

35 states have parental involvement laws. According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, 40 percent of teen abortions take place with no parental involvement. I’d be curious to know the stats. How many girls who have fair to excellent relationships with their parents offer up their intention to have an abortion when they are not legally required to do so? As a parent, wouldn’t you want to know?

Some argue parental involvement laws create more problems than they solve.

Really?

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: parent, parental consent, Parental involvement, parental notification, Planned Parenthood

Just legal, not safe or rare

May 28, 2008 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

Seems like there are a lot of law suits against Planned Parenthood these days. This one is particularly sad. But what’s a woman to make of this statement from Planned Parenthood?

Planned Parenthood Metropolitan has denied the injuries suffered and the infertility of Shantese Butler. In addition, they state in their answer that Butler’s claims are barred by the doctrines of informed consent and assumption of risk.

The average Canadian woman’s response will, with all seriousness be this: What? There are risks to having an abortion?

This and this imply all legal abortions are safe. This makes it clear that childbirth is more dangerous. (And certainly bearing children has its risks, but is it fair to weigh bringing life into the world against killing?) Cautionary information is so rare on so-called pro-choice sites as to be imaginary. In this notion called being pro-choice, there seem to be strong elements that encourage women to have abortions. I think this is because it’s hard for women to abort their children–it better be physically risk-free, otherwise women wouldn’t so easily choose it. 

Informed consent is not the friend of the pro-abortion movement.

h/t Michelle Malkin

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: Planned Parenthood

What Planned Parenthood Ottawa just doesn’t (appear to) do

May 21, 2008 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

Say you are facing a crisis pregnancy and you need crisis pregnancy counseling. Where do you go?

 

If charitable agency filings with Canadian Revenue Agency are correct, not Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood Edmonton and Waterloo devote 30 per cent of the budget to crisis counselling, and though it’s not clear, Planned Parenthood Toronto may do the same. Planned Parenthood Ottawa—only 5 per cent.

 

The others? None.

 

How Planned Parenthood spends its resources is copied below. But check the Canada Revenue Agency to see for yourself. 

 

Could be that I’m missing something. Maybe they offer counseling and don’t itemize it that way for Revenue Canada. But right now it sure does look hypocritical that Planned Parenthood Ottawa would complain about places like First Place Pregnancy Centre. First Place is just doing what Planned Parenthood appears not to: Ongoing crisis counseling and long-term support.

 

 

The following is taken from the Revenue Canada website:  

Program areas: The three primary areas in which the charity is now carrying on programs to achieve its charitable purposes are listed below. The program areas are ranked according to the percentage of time and resources devoted to each program area.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD OTTAWA-CARLETON/PLANNING DES NAISSANCES D’OTTAWA-CARLETON, 2005

1          Promotion and protection of health (see guide)          F8                  50%

2          Public education, other study programs                      C10               45%

3          Family and crisis counselling, financial counselling   A11                5%

 

 

Planned Parenthood Toronto 2006

Rank   Description                                                                  Field Code   % of
Emphasis

1           Promotion and protection of health (see guide)        F8                   30%

2           Specialized health organizations (see guide)            F9                   30%

3           Clinics                                                                      F3                   30%

 

 

Planned Parenthood Edmonton 2006

1          Family and crisis counselling, financial counselling          A11     34%

2          Public education, other study programs                            C10      33%

3          Promotion and protection of health (see guide)                 F8        33%

 

Planned Parenthood Fredericton 2005

1           Promotion and protection of health (see guide)        F8                   100%

 

PLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF NOVA SCOTIA 2006

1           Promotion and protection of health (see guide)          F8                   85%

2           Public education, other study programs                     C10                 15%

 

Planned Parenthood Regina 2006

1           Promotion and protection of health (see guide)        F8                   100%

 

Planned Parenthood Saskatoon 2006

1           Promotion and protection of health (see guide)        F8                   100%

 

Planned Parenthood Hamilton 2006

1           Clinics                                                                       F3                   80%

2           Promotion and protection of health (see guide)        F8                   20%

 

Planned Parenthood Waterloo 2007

1          Family and crisis counselling, financial counselling          A11     30%

2          Public education, other study programs                            C10     30%

3          Promotion and protection of health (see guide)                        F8        20%

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: counselling, First Place Pregnancy Centre, Planned Parenthood

Having fun with image databases

May 6, 2008 by Véronique Bergeron Leave a Comment

Been browsing the History of Medicine Division of the U.S. National Library of Medicine image database in preparation for a presentation on c-sections. Of course, when you type “birth” in the keyword field, you get images about — no, not birth — birth control. This ad from Planned Parenthood was too good to pass. So giving out information about the physical and emotional complications of abortion is a scare tactic but this isn’t, eh? Still, pro-life kudos to PPH for recognizing (for once?) that women don’t get pregnant on their own.

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Andrea adds: I find this ad fascinating–what year is it from? If the feathered hair is any indication, I’m going to guess the 80s. The thrust of pro-choicers today is very different from the spirit of this ad. Today, abortion is private. A woman’s matter. Men don’t matter. The pro-choicers of yesterday, then, were more sensible–if I don’t get pregnant on my own, how come the whole thing is so very private in the end?

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Véronique searches but: I couldn’t find the year. It said Utah Planned Parenthood, 19– 

My guess would be the 80s too.

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Tanya objects: Let’s not knock this ad too much.  It may be what inspired maternity-wear designers to bring out jeans for pregnant women.  Seeing this, they surely said to themselves: “If a man can pull off something other than a mu-mu or overalls while pregnant, surely a woman can, too!”

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: Birth control, image, Planned Parenthood

I’d like to be sure my money goes to a black baby, please

April 23, 2008 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

That was one donation Planned Parenthood has to regret. Don’t know how much it was for, but will it cover the cost of legal defence in a congressional audit?  

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: allegations of racism, Planned Parenthood

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