Mother's Day e-card another example
of Planned Parenthood's hypocrisy

"Over 3 million children will not be able to send their mothers a card this Mother's Day because they were aborted at Planned Parenthood clinics over the past 25 years," said Ed Szymkowiak, national director of STOPP International, a project of American Life League. "Yet Planned Parenthood is running a hypocritical Mother's Day e-card campaign that includes the option of making a donation to Planned Parenthood in someone's honor. Planned Parenthood will exploit anything for a buck."

The Planned Parenthood web page for the Mother's Day e-card says, in part, that "every child should be wanted and loved."

"In 2000, Planned Parenthood killed 197,070 children whose mothers obviously neither wanted nor loved them," said Szymkowiak. "At an average cost of $350 that is almost $69 million of income from abortion alone in one year. That an organization such as this would try to exploit Mother's Day for donations is revolting."

In addition to performing post-implantation abortion procedures, Planned Parenthood also distributes so-called contraceptive drugs and devices that often kill children by preventing them from implanting in their mothers' wombs. "Planned Parenthood has done more to deprive children of their mothers than perhaps any other organization on earth, thus making its very existence an affront to what Mother's Day represents," Szymkowiak said.

Release issued: 8 May 02