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The real Planned Parenthood chooses profits over truth
March 3, 2010 | The Catholic Sun
Eventually the truth always reveals itself — thank God!
That’s exactly the case when it comes to Planned Parenthood, exposing themselves recently as shameless profiteers willing to sacrifice the well-being of society for the gold and silver they collect extinguishing life as quickly as possible before any expectant mother has a chance to reconsider her options.
They say they are about choice when in reality they are all about silencing choice.
Why else would they so vehemently oppose the Tim Tebow ads that ran during the Super Bowl last month? Isn’t that a testament to a mother making a choice? Isn’t that what the pro-choice movement is supposed to be about?
Apparently not!
But you can’t judge them by that one absurd reaction. They also consistently oppose any and all legislation aimed simply at requiring those who desire an abortion to have a cooling off period to think about it so they can “make a choice.”
That’s all the Arizona State Legislature asked recently when it passed laws not even aimed at preventing women from obtaining abortions — just slowing down the process so that women can consider their options.
Isn’t that what any humanitarian would want — even those who might ultimately support the legal right to have an abortion?
That’s even what President Obama (admittedly pro-choice) voiced in his address to the University of Notre Dame last year when he said, “Let’s work together to reduce the number of women seeking abortions by reducing unintended pregnancies, and making adoption more available, and providing care and support for women who do carry their child to term.”
Profiteering
It sure seems like what the American people want when a consistent majority call for restrictions on how and when abortions are performed.
But it’s not what Planned Parenthood wants. They are challenging the enactment of Arizona House Bill 2564 and Senate Bill 1175 which simply create a 24-hour waiting period to get an abortion, require physicians to perform the procedure, and require that parents provide notarized consent for their minor children to get abortions.
How many people out there could really think that any of that is a bad idea? Why would Planned Parenthood oppose legislation that might help a woman’s right to choose life?
Maybe their opposition has something to do with Planned Parenthood raking in record profits by performing a record number of abortions across America, and they really don’t want anything to cut into those profits.
They performed 305,310 abortions in 2007 — that’s a two-fold increase in the last 10 years even as the number of abortions in the nation decreases. Today, Planned Parenthood performs more than a quarter of all abortions performed annually in the United States.
Though the Catholic stand on abortion is clear, many Catholics reading this article as well as many well-intentioned moral people undoubtedly will continue to debate the complexities of the issue. Insisting otherwise would be obtuse.
But at the very least, anybody with a beating heart (like the child in question) should acknowledge that the decision to obtain an abortion would be an elementally difficult and undesirable one to choose. Let’s make sure we don’t become misled into thinking that greedy opportunists like Planned Parenthood, and any insensitive psychopath who doesn’t realize that, is credible and not downright evil.
So please, even if you are not completely sure on how abortion should be legislated, don’t lend your support to the inhuman idea that such an act should ever be easy, desirable or taken lightly. Because once you do, that’s when our society will disappear down the rabbit hole of embracing wholesale infanticide — and eventually genocide.
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