February 2, 2006 8:50 AM
Planned Parenthood, propaganda and RU-486
Got this in the mail from Planned Parenthood yesterday. You may be wondering why I get mail from PPFA. I'm wondering too. I also get mail from the ACLU.
I always read it to see what's going on with them, then write my answers to their points with a Sharpie and put it in the postage paid envelope to send it back to them. I figure that way they'll lose a little extra money each time they send me something.
Then it occurred to me that you all might like to know what they're up to too.
This particular mailing is for the "Fill My Pills Now" campaign. The enclosed letter, claiming some pharmacists will not fill prescriptions for birth control pills, states:
Wives, mothers, and single women are seeking the advice of their doctors, making private medical decisions, and then encountering pharmacists at their local drugstore who think they know better - and who deny women their prescription medicines..Also enclosed are Letters of Objection to the CEOs of Wal-mart, Winn-Dixie, and Target demanding an end to what they call “pharmacist refusals†to be signed and returned to Planned Parenthood with a donation. Amazingly, below the signature line on my three letters is printedThese pharmacists – emboldened by religious extremists and empowered by arch-conservatives in Washington, D.C. and around the nation – are no longer content to live their own lives as they choose.
Now they are trying to tell you and me how to live our lives. And too often they succeed. This has got to stop.
(my religious extremist emphasis)
Barbara Curtis, Member – Planned Parenthood Federation of America (!!!!!!!!!!!)
Although I was an abortion rights crusader in the 60’s and 70’s, I don’t remember joining PPFA. But of course I was also a crazy drug addict at the time, so that explains why I can’t remember ever joining. On March 21, 1987 I became a believer and having understood that I was special in God’s eyes, immediately understood the sanctity of life.
So I’m wondering: if someone who’s been ardently, outspokenly pro-life for 19 years and who’s moved six times since then is still considered a member of PPFA – how could we possibly take seriously their membership claims?
But the larger issue here is the propaganda technique known as Card Stacking or Selective Omission – in which to achieve the desired result an important piece of information is left out.
One might ask why – since birth control pill prescriptions have been being faithfully filled by pharmacists for over 40 years – why, all of a sudden, have they become such an earthshaking problem?
I can imagine many women getting this inflammatory mailing and indignantly and obediently signing their Letters of Objection without ever understanding the real issue and the true intent of Planned Parenthood.
Because the issue here is not about birth control pills, but a certain pill Planned Parenthood lumps together with “normal†birth control pills – just as they lump partial birth abortions with “normal†abortions (and please understand where I’m coming from, which is that none of these things are “normal.â€)
What they are raising money for here is to strong-arm all pharmacies and pharmacists into dispensing what is known as the morning-after pill – which is taken up to 72 hours after intercourse "just in case" - and prevents the implantation of a fertilized egg. Some pharmacists have ethical problems with dispensing abortifacients, but Planned Parenthood thinks they should be forced to. Pharmacists are concerned that this is just the beginning of the incremental process which will eventually have them also dispensing RU-486, mifepristone, which even the neutral Wikipedia defines as being used “for the termination of pregnancies less than sixty-four days from conception.†(Wikipedia’s full description, here – outlining history, deaths, and controversy.)
Sixty-four days! That’s just over nine weeks. But even with the morning-after pill currently in dispute, we’re not talking about a birth-control pill, but a drug that induces abortion.
So my take is this: Hooray for Wal-Mart, Winn-Dixie, and Target for refusing to be party to abortions (and some of that may just be good business sense since they could eventaully be sued in event of deaths, which are documented here)
And shame on Planned Parenthood for using cheap propaganda tricks to accomplish their pro-death agenda!
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Comments
Barbara, did you ever use any of PP's services? I only ask because I think I may have the answer as to why they are sending you mail. I went to PP ONCE when I was 16 to get birth control pills (of which I only used 4 before my guilty conscience took over). They swore to me that they would never send me anything in the mail which had PP anywhere on the mailing or envelope. Well, many many years later, I got something from them- with their murderous propoganda all over the mailing. I believe I was married at the time and the address was made out with my maiden name. I can only assume that they got my info from my one visit.
Oh, don't get me started on PP! I have never seen a more dangerous group of liars out there then this organization.
Posted by: Jennifer | February 2, 2006 9:56 AM
"Normal" birth control pills are abortive too. It's a shame that the abortive-only type had to come out before pharmacists learned and stopped filling them.
Posted by: Jacqueline | February 2, 2006 3:00 PM
PP disturbs and angers me. Their tactics are frustrating, but not surprising. When people are given the facts about these matters, the majority will disagree with PP. So they have to use tricks.
Posted by: jessica | February 2, 2006 3:38 PM
And they don't even mention that ru486 is DEADLY.
Posted by: paigeu | February 2, 2006 4:20 PM
You, my dear, are a breath of fresh air. I came here via Rocks in my Dryer...I've been spending too much time reading liberal commie blogs...and getting quite tired of having to defend myself every time I say abortion is murder!
I'll be reading you! ;)
And 12 kids...how do you NOT worry? I have 1 and I worry like crazy!
Rachel
Posted by: Rach | February 2, 2006 7:04 PM
what is the abortive quality of normal birth control pills?????
Posted by: Rach | February 2, 2006 7:07 PM
Rach,
If you want to read about the abortifacient qualities of birth control pills you can read this article by Randy Alcorn: http://www.epm.org/articles/bcp5400.html
It covers the issue at some length.
If you don't want to read I can sum up a bit - birth control pills are supposed to prevent ovulation, but there are cases where it does not and an egg can become fertilized. Another part of the work of birth control pills is to thin out the endometrium lining to prevent a fertilized (baby) egg from implanting in the mother's uterus. Thus, if you believe life begins at *conception* and not *implantation* then you must recognize that this is an abortion of a human life due to the hostile environment of the mother's uterus.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Posted by: mrs.s. | February 3, 2006 9:37 AM
Mrs. S: you have just provided a very valuable resource. Thank you for bringing this info to the fore. I highly value Mr. Alcorn's minsitry and ability to research what I can't.
Posted by: floorplan | February 3, 2006 10:05 AM
Thanks, Mrs. S for answering when I haven't had time to. There is more information at http://mommylife.net/archives/2005/10/question_about.html where I asked readers for the answer.
Jennifer- I honestly don't remember but if I had used PP services, it would have been a couple name changes ago (I once changed my name for five years just because I liked the wasy it sounded: Barbara St. Germaine - then got married to Mr. Curtis and after a couple years of a feminist hyphenated St. Germaine-Curtis, finally gave it up - and now you know the rest of the story :)
Posted by: barbaracurtis | February 3, 2006 3:25 PM
Barbara,
I just got the identical thing in the mail today--with my name pre-printed at the bottom of each letter, and Member--Planned Parenthood Federation of America beside it.
I have NEVER had any affiliation with PP--never. How in the heck they got my name, and address is beyond me. I'm not even in the local phone book!!
Posted by: chewymom | February 3, 2006 3:29 PM
here's a horrid thought: Maybe they're targeting families with DS children. How would they get that kind of info?
Posted by: floorplan | February 3, 2006 5:52 PM
