February, 2000
Pataki invites PP to signing
Alexander C. Sanger, president of Planned Parenthood of New York City, was an invited guest of N.Y. Governor George Pataki at the signing of the Clinic Access and Anti-Stalking Act of 1999.
According to a PP press release, Sanger said, "With the stroke of Governor Pataki's pen, the Clinic Access and Anti-Stalking Act of 1999 becomes the most significant piece of pro-choice legislation signed into law since 1970 when abortion was made legal in New York State. With today's action, New York has re-affirmed its commitment to a woman's right to safe and legal abortion.
"This legislation will now empower agencies, such as local police forces and local district attorneys, with the authority to act quickly to prevent violent anti-choice acts and disruptive anti-choice protests.
"Planned Parenthood of New York City thanks the leadership of New York-Governor Pataki, Speaker Sheldon Silver and Majority Leader Joseph Bruno-for coming together to reaffirm New York's commitment to safe and legal access to reproductive health care."
Illinois honors PP CEO
The Morton Courier newspaper reports that, on November 22, 1999, the Illinois legislature honored Joyce Harant, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Heart of Illinois. They did this by presenting Harant a Certificate of Recognition which read, "The State of Illinois, House of Represen-tatives, 91st General Assembly, acknowledges Joyce Harant, in recognition of 20 years of service with Planned Parenthood Heart of Illinois and joins in the commemoration of the efforts, dedication and hard work that led to success and further expresses its best wishes for personal happiness and professional achievement."
According to published reports the certificate was initiated by Representative Ricca Stone and passed by the legislators.
PP abortionist tied to selling baby parts
Indiana Citizens for Life issued an e-mail Lifeline on December 8, 1999, stating, "LeRoy Carhart, the abortionist who was instrumental in opening Planned Parenthood's Bloomington abortion clinic in 1992, is now embroiled in controversy over the trafficking of fetal body parts harvested from aborted babies. Nebraska newspapers report that Carhart has been providing brain tissue from aborted babies to the University of Nebraska for experimentation and research. Carhart likens it to organ donation and claims he has been involved in the practice since President Bill Clinton voiced his support for such activity in 1993.
"Julie Schmit-Albin, executive director of Nebraska Right to Life, has issued a letter to the University of Nebraska Board of Regents asking for a full investigation into the practice, including any compensation Carhart receives for providing the brain tissue.
"In a phone conversation with Schmit-Albin last week, she confirmed that Carhart has been a vocal opponent of Nebraska's partial-birth abortion ban, leading many to believe that Carhart is using the gruesome procedure as a means of extracting the brain tissue being supplied to the University of Nebraska. Albin-Schmit also reported that there is speculation that Carhart may be travelling to Indiana to do abortions one day per week."
PP opens in Bettendorf
Planned Parenthood has been desperately trying to open an abortion facility in Bettendorf, Iowa, for a number of years. In early December, the facility finally opened.
Bettendorf is part of a four-city group known as the Quad Cities. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch did a story on the opening, which highlighted many of the facts concerning the history of this new PP facility. Among the things pointed out in the Post article were:
- Planned Parenthood opened its clinic as about 70 anti-abortion activists stood on the sidewalk outside, in the driving rain, praying and singing hymns and telling anyone who would listen that the clinic is unnecessary.
- The battle to build the 8,000 square-foot clinic has taken nearly five years. PP of Greater Iowa announced in January 1995 that it wanted to build a clinic in the Quad Cities, but it had to go to federal court three times before obtaining a building permit in September 1998.
- Planned Parenthood successfully challenged the state health department's requirement that it obtain a certificate of need. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in PP's favor in 1997.
- U.S. District Judge Charles Wolle ruled twice against the city of Bettendorf's attempts to block the clinic, first by striking down a 90-day moratorium on any rezoning or siting request and then overturning the City Council's zoning decision.
- "The road to this clinic has been long and arduous,'' said Jill June, president of PP of Greater Iowa.
- Clinic manager Donna Holland said, "We are absolutely thrilled beyond belief that we got open. We're excited to provide services for the women in the community.''
- Many of the protesters are members of Life & Family Coalition, which recently bought the lot across the street from the clinic with plans to build a counseling center. On Thursday the lot was covered with 4,000 white crosses, said to represent the number of abortions performed daily in the United States.
Here is a report on the opening sent to STOPP by the Life and Family Coalition of Bettendorf:
It was a dark and dreary day today as the PP clinic opened its doors. Pastor Karl, from Bettendorf Christian Church said it so well. "The Lord is crying today; He just can't help it."
We had a wonderful turnout. We prayed and sang praise songs continually throughout the day. There was a prayerful presence for life there from 6:45am-6:00pm. Thank you to all of you who were faithful and came out.
Thank you also to all of you who were unable to come, but prayed. God has heard our prayers. He is still on the throne, and I believe He will work all this for good. I am convinced this issue is calling Christians of all faiths to draw together and pray. Revival comes from unity and corporate prayer.
This is my prayer:
"Lord, flow through our Quad Cities like a mighty rushing river. Let Your anointing break every yoke. Bind us together in unity like a three-stranded cord that can not be broken. Pierce our hearts with Your Word, that we will be broken and humble before You, seeing every person through your eyes. Lord, place a deep love within us that we would love our city into Your precious arms. Father, put a hedge of protection around our city keeping the evil out. We claim that no weapon that the enemy would form against this city would prosper, but that Your perfect plan would come to pass. We claim this city for the Kingdom of God and for Your righteousness sake. In Jesus' Name We pray. Amen."
Clinton to go out giving millions to PP
Bill Clinton has been Planned Parent-hood's biggest supporter, and we already have indications that he will try to use this last year of his presidency to give PP a major boost in income. In December, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright pledged that Clinton's next budget proposal would sharply increase U.S. funding of international family planning.
It has been reported that, for fiscal 2001, Clinton will ask Congress for $541.6 million for those programs, up from $385 million this year. If the request is approved, it will return family planning funds to their record 1995 levels and give PP a major increase in government funds.
Planned Parenthood targeting Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania is one of the nation's staunchest pro-life states, with many Democrats and Republicans in the state sharing a respect for all human life.
It was recently announced that, for the eighth consecutive year, the number of abortions in Pennsylvania dropped. Abortion ended the lives of 35,617 unborn children in Pennsylvania in 1998, the lowest number of abortions on record. That is down 4.1% from 1997 and down 45.9% from Pennsylvania's all-time high of 65,777 abortions in 1980. "This consistent downturn in the number of abortions is heartening," said Pennsylvania Catholic Conference (PCC) Executive Director Robert O'Hara, Jr. "Still, the loss of more than 35,000 innocent lives and the many women who felt they had no choice but to end their baby's life is tragic."
As the number of abortions continues to decline, PP is stepping up its activities in the state with seven affiliates operating 42 facilities. A number of these facilities perform surgical abortions and PP has, in the past, announced plans to perform abortions in Erie and Lancaster.
PP claims RU-486 will be sold in Pennsylvania by February
On December 14, 1999, The Philadelphia Daily News reported that the head of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania expects RU-486 to be sold by PP by February, 2000.
"We have well-placed sources that tell us mifepristone will be approved in January," said Joan Coombs, president & CEO of PPSEP.
Mifepristone is effective about 95 percent of the time, said Dr. Paul Copit, medical director of PP.
Gloria Feldt, president of PPFA has said for years that she can't wait for the day RU-486 is available at every PP facility.
PP to do abortions in Bucks County, Pa.
In a December 15, 1999, story, The Morning Call reported, "the Planned Parenthood Association of Bucks County will begin performing abortions at its Warminster Township clinic in early 2000, according to Executive Director Linda Hahn. Once it begins, first-trimester abortions will be offered several hours a week.
"'Task forces organized by the Bucks Planned Parenthood Association have been discussing the issue for 10 years,' Hahn said."
Planned Parenthood, which recently celebrated its 35th anniversary, reportedly now refers women seeking abortions to other abortion facilities, including the Northeast Women's Center in Philadelphia, the Allentown Women's Center and Planned Parenthood abortion facilities in Philadelphia, Chester and Trenton.
The paper reported that, "No hospitals in Bucks County will take abortion referrals, according to Hahn. Many don't do abortions at all, including St. Luke's Quakertown Hospital and Grand View Hospital in West Rockhill Township."
A similar story appeared in The Philadelphia Daily News on December 17, 1999. This story confirmed that, according to Hahn, PP now refers patients seeking abortions to clinics and hospitals elsewhere in the region, including the Northeast Women's Center in Philadelphia, the Allentown Women's Center and
Planned Parenthood clinics in Philadelphia, Chester and Trenton.
As has happened elsewhere in Pennsylvania, PP can expect stiff opposition to its plans. Pro-life leaders in Lancaster have been carrying on a spirited struggle against PP's plans to do abortions in that community. You can read about their latest success on page seven of this report.
Pro-life leaders in Bucks County, including Gail Pedrick, founder and co-chairwoman of the Bucks County Christian Coalition and William J. Miller, president of the Bucks County Pro-Life Coalition, have already announced that they plan to oppose the killing of children in the county.
In fact, they have already invited STOPP's director, Jim Sedlak, to travel to Bucks County to give a talk and conduct strategy sessions with local pro-lifers. As we were going to press with this edition, details of the talk, which will take place before you read this, were being worked out.
God is working in Lancaster, PA
Lancaster, Pennsylvania has been the site of an ongoing struggle between good and evil. Ever since 1998 when PP announced that it planned to do abortions in Lancaster, the forces of life have been working tirelessly to head off this tragedy.
Three recent newspaper articles give a good example of how persistent
pro-life activity, including picketing outside the PP facility, have delayed
PP's abortion plans.
The first article ran on November 22 in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal. The thrust of the story was: "Whether abortions are performed in Lancaster may hinge on a state Department of Health requirement that providers have a written agreement with a nearby hospital in case of an emergency."
The article said, "A report based on an inspection held at the city's Planned Parenthood facility on Monday is due out later this month and will likely include the lack of such an agreement with any Lancaster County hospital."
Every hospital in Lancaster has refused to sign the necessary agreement with PP. A frustrated local PP director, Nancy Osgood, was quoted in the paper saying, "There's really nothing we can do on our end. All five hospitals have distanced themselves from us. Now, we'll wait to see how the (health) department can find a way to assure themselves that emergency services are available, which is the intent. We cannot meet that requirement."
The paper reported that Osgood said the clinic has received notification from all the hospitals in Lancaster County that their written patient-transfer agreements were either being discontinued or not renewed.
The Pennsylvania health department press secretary, George Yanoshik, said, "The regulations spell out what free-standing clinics must have-transfer agreements. The reason that's important is to protect the health and safety of the folks involved. If a procedure is happening and something goes wrong, a patient might need immediate care."
As the issue heated up, a local pro-life group, Lancaster United for Life, held
a press conference to ask the state to deny PP certification to provide abortions in its Lancaster clinic. At the press conference, LUFL presented petitions with nearly 24,000 signatures of people opposed to abortion being done in Lancaster.
The second story ran in the Lancaster New Era newspaper on December 4.
It reported that 30 ministers from the Lancaster area had walked single-file through Lancaster to the site of the Planned Parenthood facility. At the PP facility, the group "ringed" the front of the building, raised their right hands and prayed against "the powers of darkness," said Frank Testa, pastor of Alpha and Omega Ministries of Christiana, who led the prayers. "We come against you, Satan, and your seat here on Lime Street in Lancaster," Testa said. "In the name of Jesus, we evict you."
Other pastors made similar remarks to New Era reporters.
Jim Eikenberry, pastor of ACTS Covenant Fellowship in Lancaster, said he came to the vigil today to pray for "our whole community and a greater valuing of life at all its stages."
Ray Randolph, pastor of Lancaster Covenant Church, said he came to pray that "people's eyes are open to see God's command, 'Thou shalt not kill,' applies to people, whether born or unborn."
"We're representatives of thousands of people in Lancaster County," said Doug Winne, pastor of Lancaster Evangelical Free Church in Lititz. "The way of death is not the way of God's plan."
The paper reported that PP spokeswoman Pat Brogan declined to comment on the gathering at the clinic.
The ministers were joined at the PP site by members of Catholics Defending Life (CDL), who carried signs reading "Planned Parenthood Kills Babies" and "Abortion Kills Children."
CDL was organized by Rosalie Gross and had STOPP director Jim Sedlak as the featured speaker at their prayer breakfast last September.
The third story ran on December 7 in the Lancaster New Era and the first paragraph told it all: "The state Department of Health will not allow Planned Parenthood to perform abortions in Lancaster because the clinic does not have a written agreement with any of the county's hospitals for emergency treatment." (Praise God!)
PP is reportedly "scrambling to renew its transfer agreement with Lancaster General Hospital, St. Joseph Hospital, Community Hospital of Lancaster or Ephrata Community Hospital."
PP has also threatened a lawsuit challenging the state requirement. But, for now, there will be no surgical abortions at Planned Parenthood of Lancaster.
STOPP encourages all our supporters in Pennsylvania to actively get involved in one of the many struggles against PP in the state.
Dangers of Depo-ProveraĻ
The following letter was printed in the July 1999 edition of The John R. Lee, M.D., Medical Letter. It is reprinted here with the permission of Dr. Lee. Readers who want more information on this topic or on the Lee Medical Letter can call (800) 528-0559 or visit his web site (www.johnleemd.com).
Planned Parenthood pushes Depo-Provera to young people-particularly to college students. We believe the information in this letter will be of value to all those who fight PP on a regular basis.
Dear Dr. Lee,
I'm writing this to tell you about my experiences of the last year and a half on Depo-Provera injectable birth control. Before using Depo-Provera, I was a 26-year-old, extremely physically fit woman with no history of medical problems of any sort.
In January of 1998, I was looking for a reliable means of birth control. Being unable to handle any type of birth control pill, I began taking injections of Depo-Provera. My doctor told me it would work for me, since it doesn't contain any estrogen, and that I wouldn't have any periods. Having been competing at an elite level in bicycle racing for many years, I didn't really have a menstrual cycle anyway, and decided that not having periods at all wouldn't be such a bad thing.
That was about all the information I was given about the stuff. I thought, no problem. It won't be much different from what is already going on with me.
Everything seemed fine for a number of months. I didn't notice any crazy emotional effects like I had experienced when I tried to take the Pill. My moods seemed totally unaffected. I thought, "Gee, this is great stuff. I don't even go through mood swings around the time of a period because I don't have any periods at all. How convenient."
Unexplained back pain
In midsummer, I began to notice that my lower back felt very tired all the time, which I had never experienced before. I'm on my feet and moving around a great deal at work, and by the time I got home and stood in the kitchen to make dinner, I would feel like there was just no comfortable position for my pelvis. My lower back just felt so tired. I just tried to ignore it.
Unexplained skin problems
At the same time, I also developed eczema-like skin rashes. I finally
went to the doctor because I couldn't restrain myself from scratching. I was scratching myself bloody every night. The sores covered my scalp, neck, and arms, and the worst part was the rash on both my eyelids and on and above my lips. I felt like a monster. The doctor gave me cortisone cream and
a prescription moisturizer. I tried these things for a couple weeks, and they didn't put even a dent in the itching or the red, scaly appearance of all the spots.
All this time, I was continuing to take Depo-Provera injections every 13 weeks without ever having any suspicion that it might be related in any way to my troubles.
In early November, I got a "cricky" feeling in my lower back. It felt as though it needed to pop. Usually in the past when I had felt something like that in my lower back, thirty minutes or so of Yoga for my legs and back would take care of the problem. This time I stretched every day and tried everything I knew to get my back to move into a comfortable position. It was all to no avail. After 10 days or so, I thought maybe some weight-bearing exercise would mobilize it back into place, so I went for a run. My back didn't feel so good toward the end of my run, and by the time I cooled off, I knew that I was in big trouble. I couldn't even stand up straight. I got an adjustment from a chiropractor that gave me quite a bit of relief, but I was so sore and weak from the incident that I was flat on my back for nearly a week after that.
My life falls apart
After that it was just a haze of doctor visits and chiropractor visits and physical therapy visits. The upshot was that my back just wasn't healing. It kept on going out of place without even the slightest provocation. I was continuing to have adjustments, and it just wasn't holding. Throughout this time, I had been missing days of work here and there, and going home early almost every day because my back would be so exhausted by midday that I had to lie down for the rest of the day. Eventually, I was unable to sit at all.
I had to rig up a standing workstation for myself.
I was pretty much debilitated. I couldn't lift anything over about five pounds. I couldn't bend over. I couldn't even lie on the couch. I had a permanent nest laid out on the floor, because that was where I spent most of my time. My athletic endeavors had come to a screeching halt. I had been used to riding my bicycle about 40 miles a day, or running six or seven miles. I couldn't even look at my bike without wincing in pain. I was pretty much handicapped. I couldn't cook or clean and I couldn't even walk for exercise my back hurt so badly.
I took enormous doses of ibuprofen trying to get the inflammation to go down. I used ice. I used glucosamine sulfate. I avoided wheat, dairy and corn products. Nothing helped for long. As time went on, my back pain was not even ameliorated when I would lay down. It ached all the time no matter what, and any type of bending, standing, or moving would bring on much more severe pain.
An astute chiropractor finds the culprit
I finally went to see a chiropractor who told me it was absolutely essential for me to get off the Depo-Provera.
He made no bones about it. He was very stern and came on very strong about the topic. I was astounded. I couldn't understand how birth control could have anything at all to do with my back.
He said that the hormones in the Depo are not the forms naturally made by the body. They are synthetically altered progestins so that the pharmaceutical companies can patent these molecules and thus make a great deal more money from them, since they can't patent a substance found in nature. The problem is that even though these synthetic molecules do bind to the hormone receptors, the body simultaneously recognizes them as foreign substances that need to be eradicated.
So the immune system works overtime around the clock trying to get rid of this nasty foreign substance. The adrenal glands think it's emergency time all the time, so they pump out the hormone cortisol. Pretty soon, the adrenals are completely exhausted. When the adrenals are over-tired, it inhibits the muscles of the lower back. The chiropractor told me that the reason my back wasn't getting any better was because those muscles simply were not firing appropriately. Essentially, there was nothing holding my lower back together, and that's exactly what it felt like.
I finally understand what has happened
Well, this was quite a shock to me, and quite a bit to chew on. He did, however tell me not to simply take his word for it, but to do a little reading on my own. He recommended your book, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Premenopause. I devoured the book in a couple of days, and thought it was a very plausible explanation. It also explained my skin problems, my low blood pressure and dizziness problems, as well as the two teeth that had gotten loose in the last year.
I called the pharmacist to find out how long the Depo was going to take to wear off. She told me that it has a half-life of 50 days. It takes about four half-lives after one injection for it to be undetectable in the body. She told me it reaches its peak concentration in the blood 30 days after an injection and drops from there. That bit of information caught my attention. As I thought back to my major incidents of back problems, they were within about 30 days after an injection. Well, that sealed it for me. I had no more doubt that the Depo-Provera was at the root of my problems.
The healing begins and I start to get my life back
I am now about 20 weeks out from my last (ever!) injection of Depo-Provera.
I am off the anti-inflammatories, I began to be able to sit again about three weeks ago. I am slowly and gently beginning to ride my bike again. My skin is back to normal. I will be doing abdominal exercises for the rest of my life to help stabilize the permanent damage done to my back, and I'm using a progesterone cream to help get my own hormones back online.
I deeply regret that in my ignorance I poisoned myself. I would like to add that in speaking with other women during this time, there have been three other very young women who have suffered problems like mine, or even worse after only a single injection of the Depo. I would like to emphasize as well that all of these women, including myself, are way too young to be suffering back trouble like this without a major traumatic injury.
If, in writing this account, I can help just one other person avoid the suffering caused to me by Depo-Provera, I will consider it time very well spent.
Sincerely,
Julie Barter
Planned Parenthood targets youth in '99
(The following report was compiled by Mark DeYoung, STOPP's researcher)
Planned Parenthood understands the value of educating young people. They spread their pro-death message to our youth far and wide. In 1999 PP affected the lives of teens and young adults in many different ways-by getting into the schools, lobbying politicians, hosting youth web sites, "servicing" our youth with abortion and contraceptives, and reaching out to parents.
Here are some of the ways that Planned Parenthood went after America's youth.
- In February, PP launched a new youth web site called Teenwire.com. Denoted by PP as "the safe place in Cyberspace about sexual health and relationships," this web site contains detailed and sometimes perverse information about abortion, contraceptives, sexual relationships, and issues concerning youth culture.
- In Arizona, PP teamed up with 50 other organizations for a month of sex education geared towards parents. The classes are designed to help parents talk to their kids about sex, providing them with information to help their kids make "smart decisions and stay safe during the dating years." During these classes, birth control is presented and defined, but is supposedly not discussed.
- In New Jersey, PP was one of the co-plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging a law that requires doctors to notify a parent or caregiver before performing an abortion on a minor.
- PP led the way in pushing emergency contraception to teens and young adults with various national and local ad campaigns, and a continued push to the media.
- PP created the curriculum for a program in northern New Jersey called HiTops, where teen educators teach their peers about puberty, contraception, teenage pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, homosexuality, sexual harassment, and sexual abstinence.
- PP's Responsible Choices Action Network announced its Agenda 2000 effort to mobilize people to pressure their representatives to support legislation that increases reproductive freedom. Their efforts have had, and will have a profoundly negative effect on America's youth as their focus is to "mobilize people committed to defending and increasing access to family planning services, abortion, and sexuality education."
- PP of New York City is instituting a subway ad campaign that poses this question to young women: "Is Your Body Y2K Compliant?" According to the president of PPNYC, the advertising is "a humorous reminder for young women to be in control-by taking a more proactive and preventative approach to their reproductive health care." These ads are dangerously effective. Their last subway campaign drew a 96 percent increase in phone calls and a 60 percent increase in clinic visits.
These are just a few examples of Planned Parenthood's commitment to control the hearts and minds of today's impressionable youth. PP's educational programs in public and private schools, their abortion mills, their school-based and community "health" clinics, and their powerful media, advertising, Internet and political lobbying efforts all contribute to the corruption of mind, body and spirit of our precious young people.
We must be diligent in 2000 to counter PP with life-affirming programs and step up our efforts to eradicate their far-reaching and damaging programs.
As part of STOPP's efforts to counter Planned Parenthood wherever it tries to operate, the members of American Life League's youth division are prepared to deliver a counter-Planned Parenthood message at youth rallies (big and small) all over the country.
If you have a group of young people who need to get the real truth about Planned Parenthood, STOPP can arrange for someone to talk with them. It doesn't matter if your group looks like they stepped right from the set of The Brady Bunch or have spiked hair, tatoos and piercings, we have someone in the youth division who is the right person to talk with your group.
Let's make 2000 the year Planned Parenthood loses its influence on our young people. Call Youth Division Director Andrew Daub at 540-659-4171 and let him know what you need. Andrew will put you in touch with the right speaker and you will have a presentation your young people will be talking about all year.
Victory in Texas
Since the arrival of Bishop John Yanta, pro-life advocates in the panhandle of Texas have been actively fighting PP. When Bishop Yanta arrived, Planned Parenthood of Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle was operating a total of 18 facilities in his diocese.
Bishop Yanta's Respect Life coordinator, Rita Diller, recently told STOPP, "Respect Life Ministries has been praying at Planned Parenthood centers throughout the Diocese for about two years now and Bishop Yanta has taken every possible opportunity to speak out against their agenda. The Dimmitt office was a full-time clinic that closed after the director walked out one morning into the midst of those praying the Rosary exclaiming ardently that she would never come back. Some weeks later it re-opened part-time, and now it is closed permanently.
"Bishop Yanta has instructed all Catholics in our Diocese that they are not to work at Planned Parenthood, not to serve on their boards and not to use their services."
Now, word comes from the panhandle that PP is closing down four of its 18 offices! Praise God!
The Amarillo Globe-News reported this event and said that PP is blaming the closings on "federal funding cuts."
According to published reports, the Memphis (Texas) office closed Nov. 24, as did offices in Canadian, Wellington and Dimmitt.
Claudia Stravato, chief executive of Planned Parenthood of Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle, said the remaining 14 offices would continue to operate.
PP has been hard at work trying to minimize the impact of the closings and to cast them all in an economic light. But STOPP supporters know that there is much more to these closings. As Rita's account of the Dimmitt closing demonstrates, God is at work in the Texas panhandle and we look forward to the day when the Amarillo diocese is truly Planned Parenthood free!
Congratulations to all the faithful pro-lifers in Texas-you are an inspiration to all of us.
Important notice
STOPP supporters have come to expect that the February issue of The Ryan Report will be an analysis of PPFA's latest Annual Report. We need to tell you that PPFA is very late in releasing its report this year. It normally comes out the first week of December. However, we are writing this on January 3 and the report is not yet available.
We will bring you the details of PPFA's Annual Report as soon as it becomes available. In the meantime, we will continue to keep you up to date on what PP is doing around the country.
This month's action items
- Congress is currently investigating the selling of baby parts. Let your members of Congress know they should look closely at Planned Parenthood's connection to this grisly trade.
- All STOPP supporters throughout Pennsylvania should gear up to fight the efforts of Planned Parenthood to spread its abortion business in the state. If you live in or near Lancaster, Allentown, Bucks County, Erie or anywhere PP is already performing, or trying to perform abortions, join with your local efforts to fight the organization. If you live in other areas, now is the time to begin an effort against PP. If you don't know where to start, contact the Pro-Life Union of Southeast PA at 215-885-8150 or visit www.chooselifepa.org.
- Educate everyone, especially college students, on the dangers of Depo-Provera.
- Organize a youth rally on the truth about Planned Parenthood and invite a speaker from the ALL Youth Division. Call Andrew Daub at 540-659-4171.
- Invite Jim Sedlak to speak in your town in 2000. Call 540-659-4171, and ask for Rozann.
- Send a tax-deductible donation today to help us keep fighting Planned Parenthood.
- Pray that God will lead us in our work, and that we will always have the courage to do His will.
