Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest provider of surgical abortions, has triggered protests and outcry from pro-life groups recently over a series of emails that were sent out soliciting donations "in honor” of Mother's Day.
"Dear Friend, Join us! Make a Mother's Day gift!” the email states.
Janet Morana and Georgette Forney, joint founders of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign (SNMAC), an organization dedicated to bringing to public the horrors of abortion, said the emails sent by Planned Parenthood were a slap in the face to the millions of men and women who continue to suffer from the personal trauma of past abortions. Moreover, they added, Planned Parenthood’s use of Mother’s Day as a platform to further their abortion agenda was “appalling.”
"The irony of Planned Parenthood asking for Mother's Day donations in honor of mothers and daughters hardly needs pointing out. Planned Parenthood already took our money when they aborted our children; I guess now they want money for the ones they missed,” Georgette Forney said incredulously in a statement.
“This is an organization that has turned Mother's Day into a painful reminder of terminated children for millions and millions of women. To ask for money on this day so that it can traumatize even more women is the ultimate in insensitivity,” cried Janet Morana.
The American Life League, although expressing disbelief, said that the recent move by Planned Parenthood was not at all surprising given the sinister nature of the organization.
“Planned Parenthood, the organization that has slaughtered 4,358,499 babies, is trying to raise money in conjunction with the national holiday on which we celebrate our very own mothers,” the group said in a statement.
“PP kills 5,572 innocent human beings every week. This means that every week Planned Parenthood kills twice as many innocent human beings as died in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001,” the group continued.
“This same organization is asking for donations to celebrate Mother's Day? Of course! You wouldn't expect anything less from a baby-killing, pornography-pushing, rapist-protecting, $1-billion-in-assets business,” the group concluded.
According to a report released by Planned Parenthood this year, the organization raked in record profits and recorded the highest number of abortions on record. During the 2006-2007 period, 289,570 abortions were performed throughout its 860 locations, an increase of nearly 25,000 from the previous year.
Founded in 1916 by Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood operates in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, describing itself as "the nation's leading sexual and reproductive health care advocate and provider."
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iraneus: I've stated all along that I don't take the Bible literally. Anyway, you quoted Genesis, we are under a new covenant now. . . . is this a literal new covenant or just a figuratively new one?
“The Bible is not literal, there is wiggle room in the Bible in this issue, you yourself admitted that the issue isn't mentioned anywhere in the Bible. So stop treating it as such.”
“…but I want you to admit that the issue isn't as black and white as some would have you believe.…but I want you to admit that the issue isn't as black and white as some would have you believe."
Ifeelfine, the Bible is not an exhaustive examination of every single issue in our world. This does not mean that it does not speak to us in every issue. The two great commandments are love God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength and love your neighbor as yourself. Is torture listed in there? What about mental torture that does not cause bodily injury? What about self-imposed torture? Can we include forcing ourselves to go punch in from 9 to 5? While it may be fun to speculate about some things more than others, I don’t think that there is much one can speculate about being drowned with a mill stone tied around the neck. This was Christ’s measurement of the sin of harming a child. Even agentorange condemns abortion and he is an atheist. Do you not think that Christians ought to exhibit proper conduct in holy fear and trembling? For it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God? (1 Peter 4:17). Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. (James 1:27).
ifeelfine,
I would be perfectly willing to see it as gray if I thought it was. I have no reason to believe it is as gray as you say it is. The only possible point of "grayness" is in what constitutes a real human life. I refuse to say that a smaller human is less human. The fertilized egg is well on its way to becoming a full human adult.
iraneus said: "This is not my logic. It's your logic, for you are the one trying to compare the similarities between abortion and birth control. You are the one who stated, "Birth control is used to prevent conception and birth. Abortion is taking a conception and preventing birth - the outcome is the exact same for both." So this is YOUR logic. So using your same logic, I can demonstrate that sexual abstinance is actually closer in similarity to birth control than abortion because birth control is used to prevent conception and birth JUST as sexual abstinance - the outcome is the exact same for both. Now if you want to back pedal and say they are not similar, I would agree, just as birth control and abortion are not."
There is no "closer in similarity" about it, abstinence by definition is birth control - they are one in the same.
I'm not a Catholic anymore and actually believe that more people should practice birth control but my point is that the abortion is issue is not black and white - there are shades of gray to it and no one here seems willing to admit that.
iraneus: I've stated all along that I don't take the Bible literally. Anyway, you quoted Genesis, we are under a new covenant now.
ifeelfine72,
"Exodus 20:13 You shall not murder.
End of story. No other verses needed. . . . Unless of course you want to admit that you don't take the Bible literally."
Gen 9:6 "If anyone sheds the blood of man, BY MAN shall his blood be shed." End of story. No other verses needed. . . . Unless of course you want to admit that you don't take the Bible literally.
ifeelfine72,
"Nice try on the logic but abstinence isn't the same at all because there is no sex involved."
This is not my logic. It's your logic, for you are the one trying to compare the similarities between abortion and birth control. You are the one who stated, "Birth control is used to prevent conception and birth. Abortion is taking a conception and preventing birth - the outcome is the exact same for both." So this is YOUR logic. So using your same logic, I can demonstrate that sexual abstinance is actually closer in similarity to birth control than abortion because birth control is used to prevent conception and birth JUST as sexual abstinance - the outcome is the exact same for both. Now if you want to back pedal and say they are not similar, I would agree, just as birth control and abortion are not.
ifeelfine72,
"Exodus 20:13 You shall not murder.
End of story. No other verses needed. . . . Unless of course you want to admit that you don't take the Bible literally."
You do realize the difference between executing the death penalty and murder; the Bible certainly does.
also ifeelfine,
The word "murder" and "kill" are clearly separated in the Bible. It is absolutely forbidden to take a human life, EXCEPT, in cases where that person has committed some gross violation against another (murder etc.) As Christians, we live under Grace thus we must be merciful in our judgments of others, but that does not mean that the criminal does not deserve death, only that we should not exact such a punishment.
The main point here is that "murder" and "kill" are not equal.
ifeelfine,
"You do realize that this was the prevalent belief amongst Christians up until a couple hundred years ago? The story of Onan was interpreted this way."
This was not the prevalent belief, Christians have never said that each time the woman menstruates without bearing a child it is murder. There is no comparison here. As to the situation with Onan, this was only within the Catholic and some Protestant circles. Nonetheless, the sperm inside our bodies does die and become replaced, one way or the other. We are not murdering every child that could have been produced by each sperm You are making this extremely unclear and absurd by pushing this position, everyone agrees that life only happens after conception. At conception the fertilized egg has the full potential to become a complete human child, and all things being equal it will become one.
In all reality you do not believe what you are saying, and I dare say that absolutely no one does, the issue is about conception, not what happens to an unfertilized egg. You are running into the absurdities which I talked about.
Nice try on the logic but abstinence isn't the same at all because there is no sex involved.
Exodus 20:13 You shall not murder.
End of story. No other verses needed. . . . Unless of course you want to admit that you don't take the Bible literally.
ifeelfine72,
“But those same things put forth in scripture also show why God is against the death penalty.”
Please cite chapter and verse specifying what 'same things,' and I will cite chapter and verse where God sanctions the death penalty. This will be easy for me, but quite difficult for you.
“And they are gray areas - if they aren't specifically mentioned in scripture then we are using reason and logic and . . . get ready for this . . . interpretation to make it so. I'm agreeing that they are wrong, but I want you to admit that the issue isn't as black and white as some would have you believe.”
Now… get ready for this… capital punishment is specifically mentioned in many instances as a disciplinary measure, which is precisely why you CANNOT say that God is against it.
“Philosophically, the potential is about the same. Birth control is used to prevent conception and birth. Abortion is taking a conception and preventing birth - the outcome is the exact same for both. I guess I don't even know why we are talking about this - all three of us are against abortion. I just see nuance and shades of gray whereas the two of you see it as a black and white issue.”
The reason you see it as gray is because your reasoning is not logical. If you examine what you just stated above, you would realize that conception makes all the difference between your two scenarios. Otherwise you are in the predicament of equating artificial birth control with sexual abstinence; after all, both prevent conception and birth; therefore, abstinance and abortion are equivalent since the outcome is the same result.
Chris said: "You must accept this or run into absurdities such as, "We must preserve every single sperm and egg and make every single one fertilized, or else we are committing murder".
You do realize that this was the prevalent belief amongst Christians up until a couple hundred years ago? The story of Onan was interpreted this way.
ifeelfine,
Everyone, and I mean everyone, agrees that without conception there is no human life. NOBODY disagrees with this. At conception there is the actual (I don't know what you mean by philosophical) potential for a full human life. You must accept this or run into absurdities such as, "We must preserve every single sperm and egg and make every single one fertilized, or else we are committing murder".
In all reality, a human life only begins and has potential at conception. You are forcing this to be gray, and it is not.