Your Tax Dollars At Work—
Supporting Planned Parenthood's Anti-Catholic Campaign
First they came for the Catholics.
Last week, Planned Parenthood's condom key chains mocking Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel masterwork made the news after I exposed them.
Well, guess what? Planned Parenthood is still gunning for Catholics—with the help of Presbyterian Church (USA) Rev. Mark Pawlowski, who's part of the organization's Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice and is CEO of Planned Parenthood of South Central Michigan. Pawlowski, you may recall, read the Pro-Choice Credo at Planned Parenthood's 2004 March for Women's Lives, reciting, " I believe God stands with women as they end pregnancies..."
This being a free country, the Rev. Pawlowski has the right to say what he wishes in a public speech. I do, however, object when his chapter of Planned Parenthood—whose national organization received over a quarter-billion in tax dollars in fiscal 2004, according to its annual report—pushes hate-filled bumper stickers in its online store. (Your tax money indirectly supports Planned Parenthood's promotional efforts by enabling it to spend less donor money on abortion and other "medical services." Planned Parenthood's annual report also shows that the nonprofit organization made a $35.2 million profit.)
Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Michigan's Web site presents the organization as pro-faith, advertising a "Spirituality and Sexuality Weekend for high-schoolers from pro-choice religious youth groups. But the Rev. Pawlowski's sympathies for Christians living out their beliefs apparently don't extend to Roman Catholics. Witness this offering from PPSM's online store:
Your and my tax dollars at work—funding anti-Catholic hatred.
Since
abortion runs contrary to Islamic teaching, I fully expect to see Planned Parenthood hawk a bumper sticker stating, "My karma ran over your fatwa."
Not.I'm also not holding my breath waiting for them to sell one directed at Orthodox Jews, also
traditionally pro-life: "Keep your Deuteronomy off my physiognomy." Or maybe just, "Keep your Torah—I'm a whore-ah."
Here's another little gem enabled by your tax dollars and mine:
If the message sounds familiar, that's because it's a variation on a Planned Parenthood evergreen:
See, babies are disgusting little poopy things that cry like monsters and drain your wallet. If your condom breaks, the unborn child's not a human being—as Planned Parenthood of New York City puts it, it's only an "accident," one that can be easily undone:
Fortunately for Planned Parenthood,
your and my tax dollars pay for the human accident's undoing as well.
Planned Parenthood also gives out taxpayer-subsidized condoms—presumably because they're cheaper than diapers. For free Pampers, you'll have to go to
a place where there are no accidents.
FURTHER READING: NARAL co-founder Dr. Bernard Nathanson told of how anti-Catholicism was a key part of the abortion movement's strategy from the late 1960s onward, according to
a National Right to Life newsletter article: "As Dr. Nathanson reported in his book
Aborting America, instead of just fighting for the repeal of laws prohibiting abortion on demand, pro-abortionists decided in the late 1960s to 'identify those unjust laws witha group of people," namely the Catholic hierarchy. It was a brilliant tactic that exploited widespread anti-Catholic bias. Opposition to abortion was now a "Catholic thing.' People might not know much about laws prohibiting abortion but they sure were opposed to Catholic "doctrine" having the force of law. (They did not draw the logical conclusion that laws against murder, theft, etc. should then be repealed for the same reasons.)"
TAKE ACTION: If you do not wish to see your tax dollars enable hate-filled antireligious speech and messages that demean the value of human life, contact
your senators or
your representative, as well as your local politicians.
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Note to DP regulars: Book is done; I'm back!
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