Behold the Lord, Jesus Christ, who tries so hard to get our attention
In this issue:
- Planned Parenthood promotes sex with "Mile High Club" theme
- More companies are added to the Boycott List
- Washington Times votes PP as Knave
- Illinois seminar on how to defeat Planned Parenthood
- Letter to the editor: Speaking up for the children
Planned Parenthood promotes sex with "Mile High Club" theme
As part of another campaign to raise money and sexualize our children and young adults, Planned Parenthood is promoting its "Mile High" campaign. Planned Parenthood Golden Gate sent out a press release promoting this new television commercial which is running now until February on cable stations such as MTV, VH-1, Comedy Central and The Learning Channel. It also will run on local California radio stations.
Planned Parenthood is pushing its sex onto our children and young adults by using an idea of "Planned Parenthood Airlines" and carries the theme of the "Mile High Club" which is a term referring to having sex on an airplane a mile up in the air. During the commercial, the flight attendant, Steven, plays the role of a Planned Parenthood sex educator, asks a couple if they have the pill, patch, or condoms and then condoms and other contraception fall from the emergency compartment into the laps of the man and woman. According to Planned Parenthood, this commercial will "inspire and motivate young adults to take care of themselves and ... to help them make safe, healthy, and responsible choices." It is yet another tactic Planned Parenthood has come up with to advertise its sex products.
Our tax dollars are funding commercials such as this! We must get Planned Parenthood out of our pockets and prevent future commercials like this from taking place. Sign the petition at www.stopplannedparenthoodtaxfunding.com.
To view this tasteless commercial, click here.
More companies are added to the Boycott List
Twice a year Life Decisions International comes out with an updated list of companies and businesses that donate to Planned Parenthood. LDI begins the New Year with a new and updated list to boycott Planned Parenthood.
Life Decisions International's President Douglas R. Scott, Jr. stated that the boycott has cost Planned Parenthood more than $40 million since the Corporate Funding Project began the list 16 years ago. Mr. Scott also added that there have been at least 160 corporations that have stopped funding Planned Parenthood because of all the hard work pro-lifers have committed to this project.
Some of the corporations that now appear on the list are BBJ Linen home products; Carlson Companies (travel agencies and hotels including Country Inns & Suites, Park Inn, Park Plaza, Radisson and Regent; restaurants including Thank God It's Friday (TGIF) and Pick Up Stix); FastSigns, Midas and InterContinental Hotels including Candlewood, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn, Indigo, InterContinental and Staybridge; Paul Ecke Ranch. There are still many other organizations that are still on the Boycott List including Nike, Time Warner, Walt Disney, Johnson & Johnson, and much more.
To receive your updated Boycott List, contact Life Decisions International at www.fightpp.org. You can also call 540-631-0380 or write to them at P.O. Box 75161, Washington D.C. 20013-0161.
Washington Times votes PP as Knave
An editorial in the Washington Times entitled, "Noble and Knave of 2007" puts Planned Parenthood as one of the eight Knave winners of 2007. Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles placed fourth as the title of Knave because of its actions after it was caught doing something illegal.
On May 23, 2007, we reported to you in our WSR that Lila Rose, an 18-year-old student from UCLA secretly taped her conversation with a Planned Parenthood clinic worker. Ms. Rose posed as a 15-year-old minor who brought in her "23-year-old boyfriend." On tape, Rose captured Planned Parenthood counselor advising against the mandatory reporting of statuary rape. The Planned Parenthood employee said, "If you're 15, we have to report it. If you're not, if you're older than that, then we don't need to… You could say 16… well, just figure out a birth date that works. And I don't know anything." Ms. Rose then posted the video on the internet. In response, Planned Parenthood threatened a lawsuit against Lila Rose.
The Washington Times gave Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles this title because it did something illegal and then sued the person that exposed the truth. As the newspaper put it, "Not only were the employees breaking the law, but they were jeopardizing the safety of young girls and trying to deflect their own culpability."
If you'd like to see Lila Rose's discussion with Bill O'Reilly on The O'Reilly Factor, click here. If you'd like to see the undercover footage, click here.
Illinois seminar on how to defeat Planned Parenthood
Our Lady of Mercy Right to Life in Aurora, Illinois is holding a pro-life seminar titled Action Speaks Louder Than Words. The seminar will be held Saturday, January 19 from 11a.m. to 5 p.m. and it only costs $25 to attend (includes lunch).
It is very important to understand how to be an effective pro-life witness. Being a witness in front of a Planned Parenthood takes much courage and inspiration; but we must also remember that you want to be an effective pro-life witness.
This seminar will be covering topics such as how to communicate effectively while being a witness in front of a PP clinic, how to counsel the young women coming to the clinics, how to defend your rights by being a protester and how to keep Planned Parenthood out of your schools. Any extra steps you can take to be further educated on how to tackle this war against Planned Parenthood is worth it.
If you cannot attend this seminar, please read through the information on our web site at www.ALL.org/stopp and hold your own seminars with friends and discuss how you can become a better and more effective pro-life witness. Also, feel free to call us at 540-659-7900 or e-mail us at stopp@ALL.org and ask us any questions about how you can be more effective. We have speakers available to present at any seminars you decide to hold.
To read more information about this seminar in Aurora, click here.
Letter to the editor: Speaking up for the children
The following was submitted by Dr. James Powell of Ellensburg, Washington and he gets right to the point with speaking up for our kids on the sex education that is going on in our schools.
Saturday, January 5, 2008
Time to speak up about sex education in the schools
As you know, euphemisms are sweet-sounding words or phrases used to gloss over a less pleasing act, name or phrase.
"Planned Parenthood" is such a euphemism. It covers up the real purpose of the organization. The recent spate of radio advertising indicates a push to mainstream and regularize Planned Parenthood in our society. One ad opens with "Planned Parenthood is more than you think."
Consider the following questions:
What single conglomerate commits the largest number of abortions? What "charity" has filed lawsuits against parental rights more than 20 times in the past 10 years?
What group teamed up with the ACLU to ensure the legality of widespread pornography on the Internet? What "nonprofit" group has funneled some $400 million into a savings account, and continues to receive more than $300 million from taxpayers annually, yet claims to need still more public and private funding?
With "Planned Parenthood" as the single answer to each of these questions, they truly are about "more than you think."
And yet, our private businesses and public institutions continue to honor this organization by inviting them to give presentations, and to help prepare laws and regulations. Even now, our local school system is targeted for "new and improved" sex education guidelines.
Some of the legislators and policy makers in our state are Planned Parenthood advocates. At a Rotary meeting this past month, Planned Parenthood advocate Amy Clausen seemed to proudly declare that she helped write material for legislative guidelines which could appear in our sex education material.
On Friday, Dec. 14, your paper had a front page article stating that the school "board also discussed the sex education instruction" and quoted Superintendent Glenewinkel as saying the sex ed "must be medically accurate and can’t rely on an abstinence-only course." The article then stated that "the middle school program is an abstinence-only course." There is apparently an opt out provision for parents who don't wish their children in these classes.
If these sex ed programs are modeled after other curricula such as Seattle's atrocious KNOW program, we've been had! Mere lip service is given to abstinence-only, but the state mandate that most of the material is "
comprehensive" and discusses all options for sexual expression, including what many of us deem deviant behavior.
Let's call, email, and talk to our board. Their next meeting is Jan. 9. Let them know how we feel.
Letters-to-the-editor are the second most widely read part of the paper. We encourage all of you to reveal the truth about Planned Parenthood through letters in your local papers.
