For those that don't want to read the full article, I propose an alternate percentage. Planned Parenthood says it services 2.7 million people in 2013. In the same year, it provided 327,653 abortions. Simply put, 12% of the people that walk in that door, get an abortion. The goal of this simple math is not to say that PP needs to be de-funded, or close its doors, or is a horrendous monster. The goal is to just simply say that at a minimum 12% of what it does is abortion related.
Let's move on to talk about the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger. Again, there are a variety of articles that paint her as, both, a saint on one side and Satan himself on the other. Many of her quotes are taken out of context on both sides so I intend to list 2 quotes that give a window into her mind regardless of the context in which they are given. "(Our objective is) unlimited sexual gratification without the burden of unwanted children... (Women must have the right) to live...to love...to be lazy...to be an unmarried mother...to create...to destroy. The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order."
Regardless of the context, it's clear that Margaret Sanger wants to sever the link between sex and love. Sex has nothing to do with children and even less to do with a marriage. The saddest thing about this quote is the fact that every TV show, movie, book, liberal arts college, public high school, mainstream newspaper, etc. endorses this concept. Let's move on to quote number 2.
"The fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty stricken classes should not be held up for emulation. On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective..."
Couple that with her saying, "Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying..demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism..."
In the first quote, Sanger implies that not only should sex rarely lead to children. In the second, she goes so far as to say it should never lead to one who is mentally or physically disabled. (Nazis anyone?)
One doesn't have to take too much of a leap to suggest that PP was not founded to "help women be healthy." It was founded to decrease the amount of undesirable people either by contraception or abortion.
Finally, I want to close with a quote from the current CEO of Planned Parenthood. In a recent YouTube video responding to the chargers that PP profits from selling fetal tissue, the CEO made the comment about pro-life activists: "They have never been concerned with the health and safety of women. Their mission is to ban abortion completely and cut women off from care at Planned Parenthood and other health centers."
I don't think I have ever heard a pro-life activist say a woman should not have access to a pregnancy test or cervical cancer exams. If that's all that PP did, then pro-life activists wouldn't have a problem with them. But, PP is the country's largest provider of abortions. I hope the CEO is just misspoken and not feeble-minded. Otherwise, the founder of the company would not think too highly of her.
In conclusion, people are against PP because of the large number of murders that they commit. It has nothing to do with women's healthcare. PP continues to claim that it is only protecting a woman's health. According to Ms. Sanger, PP is also protecting a woman's right to "unlimited sexual gratification without the burden of unwanted children." This is the disconnect. News flash... SEX LEADS TO CHILDREN. If you don't want kids, don't have sex. No woman, regardless of her desire to remain childless should have the right to murder an innocent person. I have always been in favor of abstinence over murder.
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