Letter to the editor:
Planned Parenthood of RI, after nearly twenty years of operating rather discreetly behind the Charles E Potter Memorial facade in Providence, has brazenly adorned itself with innocent blue banners that proclaim its identity and creed. That PPRI's new clothes have been accompanied by advertisements for a Social Change Manager should surprise no one, given the absurdity of their belief statements:
• I believe in a woman’s right to choose not to feel alone.
• I believe health care is a human right.
• I believe that fear shouldn’t stop anyone from feeling better.
• I believe in access without intimidation.
• I?believe my reproduction doesn’t need your permission.
Taken at face value, most of these convictions contain sensible, if obvious, ideas. Loneliness, fear, and intimidation are evils; health care, reproduction, human rights and individual feelings should be respected. What defies reason, however, is that a seemingly compassionate code covers blatant disrespect for individual persons and for the whole of humanity.
If PPRI believes in “a woman's right to choose not to feel alone”, why did it profit from influencing 1,825 of the 3,054 women to whom it administered pregnancy tests to abort their children in 2007? A mother who needs support is surely less lonely than a grieving mother whose womb has been stripped of life. What human bond is sweeter and stronger than that of a mother and her child? Moreover, Planned Parenthood's obstruction of help and friendship from crisis pregnancy volunteers increases her loneliness.
Regarding choice, pregnant women who have viewed the ultrasound image of their child choose, overwhelmingly, to give birth, and yet most of PP's pregnant clients abort their babies. Former clients have stated that they were never shown their ultrasounds. It is not a woman's choice, apparently, but her acceptance of their service that Planned Parenthood desires.
Does Planned Parenthood believe in health care as a human right? They have been tearing that right from enwombed children in RI since 1975. They can view lethal procedures as health care methods only inasmuch as they can discount the death of the “unwanted” child on whose loss of life their industry depends. The organization whose eugenicist founder, Margaret Sanger, promoted birth control "to create a race of thoroughbreds” seeded instead a new, legally disposable race, that of the “unwanted”, by exalting the planned child as the gift of competent contraception, by treating the unexpected child as burdensome waste, and by advertising “safe” promiscuity as a healthy lifestyle.
As to fear and intimidation, I can't think of a more fearsome organization than one that disguises its baby-killing service in benign shades of pink and blue and labels it “good”. If, however, a pregnant client feels intimidated when faced with the fundamental truth of the inherent value of each and every human person, then her conscience has read the writing in her heart. A woman's awakened conscience threatens Planned Parenthood's facade.
Finally, the rebel yell “My reproduction doesn't need your permission!” may be the rallying theme of the upcoming Social Change Initiative. I hope that no degree of social marketing can convince Rhode Island that reproduction means contraception, abortion, and sterilization. Instead, during Planned Parenthood's spring of death, we should remember that our newly expectant and newly conceived neighbors will need extra support in defense of their lives. Also vulnerable are our teen-aged sons and daughters. PP's published marketing strategy includes intensified indoctrination of young people, as well as their enlistment as peer mentors and abortion escorts.
Planned Parenthood, a worldwide body of non-profits, receives donations and tax dollars to further their founder's mission to “reduce the birthrate among the diseased, the sickly, the poverty stricken and anti-social classes, elements unable to provide for themselves, and the burden of which we are all forced to carry.” Ironically, Margaret Sanger considered charitable organizations a symptom of societal disease. “Those vast, complex, interrelated organizations aiming to control and to diminish the spread of misery and destitution and all the menacing evils that spring out of this sinisterly fertile soil, are the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and dependents”.
It is neither charity nor accident that prompts Planned Parenthood to locate its facilities in urban areas and pitch population control to disadvantaged minorities. An employee stated their policy clearly in a recorded phone call recently, “Planned Parenthood has no shame in accepting donations intended to purposely abort minority populations.” Statistics back up that statement. The abortion rate for black women, for instance, is 3.1 times higher than that of white women.
We have been paying for Ms. Sanger's offspring, Planned Parenthood, to spread ideological sickness in our world. Worse, we have invested in the death of millions of children who were victims of that sickness. Most perversely, in today's economic distress we are expected to fund Planned Parenthood's fatal extended reach-- blue bannered creed, cheek-pink vests, and all.
As the earth and the Church bear flowering witness to God's fertile design, I am reminded to praise Him for the faith by which we see His goodness and the true Creed by which we profess that faith. How blessed we are! We are filled to bursting with the Holy Spirit, the Giver of Life! Who is better equipped, then, to spread by prayer, word, and deed, the truth of God's merciful love for each and all His children? We must do our best as stewards to choose and celebrate life, and to defend every blossom, petal, leaf, and stem from the deceit that uproots love and destroys its fruits.
Joanne Ciocys
Rumford
