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Wednesday STOPP Report - August 26, 2009
by Marie Hahnenberg
Released August 26, 2009
In this issue:
Naples, Florida PP: Plan to kill preborn babies is ‘a service to the community’
Judie Brown: Obamacare would put PP firmly in the driver’s seat
The Trojan horse in the ‘health care reform’ bill
PP increases its presence in Florida
Denver school gives in to PP
South Texas STOPPers ask hospital district to cut PP funding
PP loses: South Dakota abortionists must inform women that abortion kills a human being
Naples, Florida PP: Plan to kill preborn babies is ‘a service to the community’
On September 14, Planned Parenthood of Collier County, located at 1425 Creech Road in Naples, Florida, will begin committing surgical abortions and will add medical abortions (the “abortion pill”) in October.
Naples Daily News reports that the organization has been laying the groundwork for a year to expand into surgical abortions. Surgical and medical abortion have not been available in Naples since 1996, when the local abortionist stopped his grisly trade because of protests outside the abortion mill and his home.
Abortionist Philip Waterman of Cape Coral, who travels throughout Florida snuffing out the lives of preborn babies, has been hired by the Collier County facility.
Paul Kardon, a retired OB/GYN and current chairman of the PPCC board of directors, characterized abortion as “a service to the community that has been missing for a long time.”
According to the same news report, Char Wendel, Planned Parenthood of Collier County’s president and CEO, said that all Florida PP facilities will be committing abortions “by the end of 2010.”
Naples Pro-Life Council leads the opposition to PPCC with regular prayer vigils outside the PP facility.
Judie Brown: Obamacare would put PP firmly in the driver’s seat
In her August 25 commentary, American Life League president Judie Brown examines Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards’ recent diatribe against the U.S. bishops for opposing abortion coverage as a part of health care reform, and explains the windfall that Obamacare would create for PP. She renews her appeal to the U.S. bishops to “make it clear for one and all that genuine health care reform will not promote, provide nor include coverage for abortion, contraception, sterilization, human embryonic stem cell therapy, euthanasia, assisted suicide or health care rationing.”
“Richards’ diatribe against the Catholic bishops,” Brown said, “is obviously designed to deflect attention away from the fact that, according to recent news reports, America could face a ‘health care reform’ law that not only mandates funding for child killing by abortion, but also forces it to subsidize PP in ways few could now imagine. Yes, PP could be in classrooms across this nation, peddling its lies and its products at taxpayers’ expense!”
Read the full column here.
The Trojan horse in the ‘health care reform’ bill
Planned Parenthood, Catholic Charities USA, the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul and the Catholic Health Association have all thrown their weight behind President Obama’s push for “health care reform.” In response, the latest ALL Report exposes the bill’s Trojan horse hidden in the bill that would open the way for a huge expansion of abortion, calling on all people of good will to demand that the bill be scrapped!
View ALL’s video report here. Then pass it along to all of your family and friends!
PP increases its presence in Florida
In July 2008, we reported that Planned Parenthood Federation of America disaffiliated from PP of South Palm Beach and Broward Counties in Florida. This action affected five Planned Parenthood facilities: Boca Raton, Oakland Park, Tamarac, Pembroke Pines and Deerfield Beach. It was reported that PPFA ended its ties with the affiliate because of reported employee harassment complaints, plagiarism and possible mismanagement of nearly $450,000.
Now, Planned Parenthood has reopened the facility in Pembroke Pines which it closed last year and also reopened a facility that was temporarily closed in Fort Lauderdale. These two facilities are now affiliated with Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast.
Earlier this summer, PP moved its clinic location in Saint Petersburg from 15 Martin Luther King Jr. Street South to 10051 5th Street North, #109. The facility continues to kill preborn children through surgical abortions.
Currently, there are 25 PP facilities in the state of Florida. Sixteen commit chemical abortions, four facilities commit medical and chemical abortions, and five facilities commit surgical, medical and chemical abortions. So far this year, PP has increased its total number of Florida facilities by two.
Denver school gives in to PP
West High School in Denver, Colorado, has given in to Planned Parenthood. The Denver Post reports that in early July, the new principal, Jorge Loera, informed Planned Parenthood that the school would begin working “with another organization around preventing sexual activity among teenagers. I like this program because it is faith-based and its priority is promoting abstinence until marriage.” On August 24, however, the school district announced that PP’s program will continue.
According to the Denver Post, in 2007, the average birthrate for 15- to 17-year-olds in Denver was 49.1 births per 1,000 girls, more than double the Colorado average of 22 births per 1,000 females. It also noted that Denver Public Schools’ sex education program dates back to the 1970s, and is introduced to the students in the fourth grade and fifth grades.
Those wanting to voice their concern about continuing a program that has obviously failed may contact West High School at 720-423-5300.
South Texas STOPPers ask hospital district to cut PP funding
Members of South Texas Stop Planned Parenthood have asked the Nueces County Hospital District to cut $70,000 in funding to Planned Parenthood for its failed school sex education program. The program is funded through the hospital district.
At the August 18 hospital district meeting, South Texas STOPP spokesperson Therese Perez said that the rate of teen pregnancies has remained relatively unchanged in Nueces County since 2001, demonstrating that PP’s sex education program is a failure.
The hospital district approved the budget, but did not address which groups will receive the $135,000 set aside for combating teen pregnancy. That determination will be made later in the year.
As we reported in our July 8, 2009 Wednesday STOPP Report, by following STOPP’s plan to research PP funding, South Texas STOPPers discovered a long list of schools in which Planned Parenthood is active.
We have described the procedure for obtaining this information in Part 2 of “STOPP International’s plan for defeating Planned Parenthood.”
We encourage all pro-life groups to carry out this simple process to discover the channels of funding for local PP affiliates, and to take action to get PP out of local schools and away from children.
PP loses: South Dakota abortionists must inform women that abortion kills a human being
Women seeking abortions in South Dakota must be told that abortion “will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being.”
Despite Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit claiming that it is unconstitutional to require women to receive such a disclosure, the constitutionality of that portion of the 2005 law requiring that complete information be given before an abortion was affirmed by a federal judge on August 20.
However, according to LifeSiteNews.com, U.S. District Judge Karen Schreier also “overturned a requirement that women be informed that abortion increases the risk of suicide and suicidal thoughts. Schreier called these disclosure provisions ‘untruthful and misleading.’”
Schreier further ruled that doctors are not required to inform a woman “that she has an existing legally protected relationship with her unborn child.” She said that “in the legal context, a pregnant mother cannot have a ‘relationship’ with a ‘human being,’ as that word is defined in the statute.”
The affirmation that abortion terminates the life of a human being was described as a “huge, fatal blow” for abortion promoters and “a step forward in the ‘unraveling’ of Roe v. Wade” by Leslee Unruh, founder of the Alpha Center pregnancy counseling center, an intervening party in the lawsuit. She announced that she intends to appeal the portions of the ruling that were contradictory to the pro-life position.
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