Congratulations! You Just Bought Your Teen an Oral-Sex Video!
Did you just pay your state and federal taxes? Good for you! Thanks to taxpayers' generous funding, Planned Parenthood Golden Gate can afford to make an MTV commercial depicting a young girl going down on her boyfriend under the sheets.
Perhaps this is PPGG President Dian Harrison's revenge against those bloggers and news organizations who exposed her organization's notorious animated video, "A Superhero for Choice," last August. In the face of public outrage over the cartoon, which portrayed a pro-choice "superhero" blowing up peaceful pro-lifers, PPGG removed "A Superhero for Choice" from its Web site.
Below are details of the new commercial, straight from PPGG's Web site, which also enables readers to view the ad online. Note Harrison's use of Planned Parenthood code words and phrases like "safety," "prevention," and wanting to "reduce the need for abortion." In other words, it's perfectly OK to encourage teenagers to dive into bed with one another, as long as the goal is to prevent their getting pregnant. Never mind that, by the Planned Parenthood-affiliated Alan Guttmacher Institute's own statistics, 54% of all abortions are performed on women who used contraception in the month when they conceived.
From PPGG's site:
In order to connect as many youth as possible with reproductive health services and information, PPGG has designed an outreach campaign that includes advertising on MySpace.com, KMEL radio and MTV. It is PPGG’s goal to help teens and young adults make educated, responsible decisions when it comes to their sexuality and reproductive health.
“Our goal at Planned Parenthood is to reach as many teens and young adults as possible with our safe is sexy message,” said Dian Harrison, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Golden Gate. “We encourage everyone, including elected officials, to support access to family planning and comprehensive, medically accurate sexuality education in order to reduce the need for abortion. Prevention is what this campaign is all about.”
Our youth friendly ads focus on safety and prevention. The MTV spot, which starts airing April 15, depicts a responsible, young couple that practices safe sex. It begins with a young woman working with power tools in a hard-hat zone. A female voice-over states, "My father always told me to use the right tool for the right job." At the end of the day she returns home to find her hard-hat wearing boyfriend already under the covers. She tosses her own hard-hat aside and pulls off her coveralls, stripping down to a "Safe is Sexy" tank top, shorts style underpants and a tool belt. She dives across the bed for her safe sex toolbox, which is well stocked with colorful condoms, courtesy of Planned Parenthood. The ad closes with a shot of the safe sex toolbox and the same female voice-over saying, "Nice tool!"
Actually, she says, "Ooh, nice tool!"
As for diving across the bed, she dives all right ...
She crouches . . . she leaps . . .
And down she goes — with her giggling face right where her boyfriend's penis would be.
Somehow, she manages to stretch her arm all the way over to the toolbox and open it . . .
...where she finds a candy-colored assortment of condoms, fur handcuffs, oral contraceptives, a rubber glove (perhaps left over from her construction job), and one of those squeezy things used by office workers to stave off carpal-tunnel syndrome.
That'll give the
12-year-olds who watch MTV something to think about.
And just think, you enabled Planned Parenthood Golden Gate to produce this ad and put it on the air. After all, by the organization's own 2004 annual report, 53% of its annual income comes from government funds and contracts. The report's no longer online, but the data may be verified via the organization's IRS form at
Guidestar.org, plus it's laid out neatly in this graphic that I copied from the annual report when I exposed "A Superhero for Choice":
That taxpayer money is fungible — having it frees PPGG to spend more money on advertising than it would be able to otherwise.
If you don't want to see the money you just sent to Uncle Sam go to exposing young children to this trash, go to
StopPlannedParenthoodTaxFunding.com and add your name to the petition. Then write or call
your senators, your
representatives, and local officials to make sure they get the message.
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