Planned Parenthood op-ed
Peter J. Durkin, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas Inc., has an op-ed in today's Chronicle headlined, "A world where every child is loved, cared for, wanted." The column is focused mainly on birth control, but we all know what is Planned Parenthood's favorite "solution" to the problem of unwanted children:
Despite the societal advances made since granting access to birth control, 40 years later we find ourselves still fighting to protect the fundamental right to decide when and if to bear children. We hear of pharmacists who refuse to fill doctors' prescriptions for birth control and emergency contraception, health insurance companies that don't cover birth control but do cover drugs such as Viagra, and state legislatures, including our own, that misguidedly focus on the more politically and morally charged debates over abortion rather than striving for common ground on preventing unintended pregnancies.
Yes, well, the one SURE way to prevent an unintended pregnancy is by abstaining from sex, but Planned Parenthood is against abstinence being taught in schools. And some of us don't consider killing babies on-demand, to be a societal advance.
Durkin is the same compassionate person who celebrated the fact that abortion procedures have risen dramatically over the past twenty years:
Abortion procedures: 2,882 vs. 6,876. This growth in clients is thanks to our Fannin and Bryan staff, our medical director and other staff physicians.
That is so offensive.
KEVIN WHITED ADDS: It IS offensive that the newspaper that advocates for every leftover to be a wanted leftover can't make the connection that for every child to be a wanted child, it would help if said child weren't "aborted" in the mother's womb.
Posted by Anne Linehan @ 06/07/05 09:21 AM | Houston Miscellany | Technorati | Sphere | Comments (2)
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