Wednesday STOPP Report - October 21, 2009

In this issue:

PP official to youth: Get sexually active and get your STDs
“The Condom King” accepts PPFA award
PP on the prowl in pro-life Dominican Republic
Chicago pro-lifers persist despite PP attempt at gagging them via bubble zone
PP bites the dust again in Indiana: More doors closed to protect profits


 

PP official to youth:  Get sexually active and get your STDs

The vice president of medical affairs for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Dr. Vanessa Cullins, let the cat out of the bag on a YouTube video column, when she told young people to just accept the fact that they are going to be sexually active and will get STDs. 

The video is entitled “Let’s Talk about Sex.” She introduces herself as an obstetrician/gynecologist who is “a sexually active individual.” (More information than we wanted to know!)  “The purpose of this column is for us to become more explicit…in talking about sex,” she says.  “Conversation is necessary whether you’re thinking this is going to be a relationship that is going to end up in marriage or one that is going to end up as a one night stand,” she advises young people.

“Expect to have HPV once you become sexually intimate,” she says. “All of us get it.” The best young women can do for themselves is to get a Gardasil shot, according to Cullins, and cervical cancer screening.

“But my best advice for staying healthy is to admit that you are a sexually active individual like most of us, and that you are going to have sex and that you need to take precautions in order to stay healthy.” 

Of course, the implication is that if you are not sexually active, you are not “like most of us,” and therefore a freak – exerting even more pressure on young people to become sexually active. Indoctrinating youth to follow this advice will undoubtedly continue to feed PP’s lucrative sex-oriented business which last year grossed over $1 billion, with a profit of $85 million for the abortion giant.


 

“The Condom King” accepts PPFA award

A young man who says his parents call him “The Condom King” accepted the 2009 Planned Parenthood Federation of America Young Volunteer of the Year award this year in Houston, Texas, at the PP national conference. The crowd reacted with laughter when the young man spoke of the nickname his parents coined for him.

Zak Kirwood says he felt it was “an accident” that he was there (at the awards ceremony). He volunteered with PP during his senior year of high school because he was bored, and PP had “tons of opportunities” for him.

He spent the school year carrying a backpack with the side mesh pockets stuffed with condoms and a sign that said, “Ask me.” Kirwood says he became infamous on his high school campus, giving out hundreds of condoms over the course of the year, along with sexual advice.

Kirwood is now working to set up a “pro-choice” club on campus at Wesleyan University, where he is a campus action intern. He says he credits the staff at PP for inducting him into the movement and filling him with passion for the cause.


 

PP on the prowl in pro-life Dominican Republic

Dominica News Online reports that PP “is on a drive to stamp out crime and violence in Dominica, while educating the youth on their sexuality.” 

In cooperation with the United Nations Development Program, the PP organization is setting up workshops for students ages 14 to 19 addressing such issues as “gender-based violence,” and purports to teach young people about “healthy relationships.”

The Dominican Republic, in September of this year, gave final approval to an amendment to its constitution stating, "The right to life is inviolable from conception until death. In no case can the death penalty be established, pronounced, nor applied.” The amendment passed by an overwhelming majority, despite pressure from the United States, UNICEF and Amnesty International to strike down the amendment.

Clearly, the people of the Dominican Republic are not complicit with PP’s philosophy. The news of PP setting up workshops for youth to begin indoctrination into its philosophies on human life and sexuality, albeit under the guise of eliminating violence, is a call to action for those defending life in the Dominican Republic. STOPP has a proven program for defeating the programs of PP, the world’s largest purveyor of violence in the womb. The STOPP plan is available at http://www.stopp.org/plan.htm.


 

Chicago pro-lifers persist despite PP attempt at gagging them via bubble zone

While PP has succeeded in getting the city council to approve a 50-foot bubble zone in place around its Chicago abortion business, Chicago pro-life counselors remain on the streets, ready to help women in need. PP went to the city council with the much-repeated story, heard whenever and wherever PP wants to restrict the rights of pro-life advocates near its facilities: that the pro-lifers have increased in number, become increasingly aggressive and PP fears violence.

The ordinance is such a gross infringement on civil rights that even the pro-abortion group Amnesty International joined in objecting to its enactment. Violation of the ordinance carries a $500 penalty.


 

PP bites the dust again in Indiana: More doors closed to protect profits

Still brushing the dust from its face after the last round of closures, PP of Indiana announced yet another closure of one of its facilities, this time in Marion. That brings the number of Indiana PP closure announcements for 2009 up to seven.

PP officials cited cuts in Title XX family planning funding for the closure. They say they lost $1.4 million in federal funding and that the combined closures will save $1.35 million.

But wait! If you look at PP of Indiana’s 2007-2008 federal form 990, you will see that it made $2,158,861 in profit!

PP says that it costs $200 per year to provide family planning to an impoverished woman. So let’s do the math: $2,158,861 in profit, divided by the $200 per woman for family planning – that means that PP could have provided family planning for 10,794 women with its profits from last year alone. Instead, it closed seven facilities.

It just goes to show that PP is interested in the bottom line — protecting profits — not in providing so-called “health care” for women.

The head of the Indiana Family Health Council, which administers the funds, said PP is still the top recipient of the $2 million in Title XX money that is distributed in Indiana.

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