If you thought Planned Parenthood couldn't go any lower, think again.
The latest "public service announcement" by Planned Parenthood Golden Gate, which the organization's Web site boasts is aimed at 18-24-year-olds and set to air on MTV, features a ridiculously stereotyped homosexual flight attendant showering condoms, patches, and pills on members of his "Mile High Club" before coming on to the jet's male pilot.
Planned Parenthood Golden Gate's press release for the video gushes:
SAN FRANCISCO – Planned Parenthood Golden Gate (PPGG) will launch a new, edgy radio and television campaign that focuses on the importance of practicing pregnancy prevention and safer sex. The “Mile High” campaign draws in viewers and listeners with lively characters that provide pregnancy prevention and safer sex education in a fun and entertaining way. The target audience for the campaign is young adults, ages 18-24.
“PPGG created this campaign to stress the importance of sexual health in a creative way and one that breaks free from the old ineffective paradigm of relying on fear-mongering tactics to inspire desired behavior changes,” said Dian J. Harrison, PPGG’s President and CEO. “We want young people to take control of their sexual health and well-being by using prevention every time they have sex. This ad's message normalizes pregnancy prevention and safer sex in a healthy, cool, and humorous way.” ,,,
The “Mile High” campaign will run from the end of December 2007 though February 2008 on cable television networks: MTV, VH-1, Comedy Central and TLC and on KMEL-FM, a San Francisco Clear Channel radio station.
What the press release doesn't mention is that the ads were made possible by taxpayer funds.
In 2006, according to Planned Parenthood Golden Gate's tax return (accessed through Guidestar.org, $12.2 million out of its $22.1 million budget was paid by taxpayers, via fees and contracts from government agencies. Even assuming those dollars went directly to services, that freed up donor money for making porny "public service announcements" for teens.
But using taxpayers' money to free up dollars for grotesquely offensive commercials is nothing new for Planned Parenthood Golden Gate. This is, after all, the same Planned Parenthood chapter that brought us "Safe Sex Angels,""Safe Sex Toolbox," and, most notoriously, "A Superhero for Choice," the highly expensive animation that Planned Parenthood removed from its site after the public outcry when I exposed it in 2005.
In "A Superhero for Choice," title character "Dianysis," modeled on Planned Parenthood Golden Gate President Dian Harrison, blows peaceful pro-life demonstrators to bits with her condom gun and boils a pro-life politician in a stewpot. See for yourself:
This is the same chapter of Planned Parenthood whose treatment led to the death of 18-year-old abortion client Holly Patterson. It also boasted that it covered up the rape of an 11-year-old girl.
