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It’s always bizarre to me that the Business whose solemn duty it is to a) get the world to like them and b) chant the mantra, “keep the government out of our bedrooms!” seems to be all about getting into our bedrooms, and being disliked by just about everyone.
Right, Planned Parenthood, because that’s not entirely creepy or anything. Now, I know, I know: You’d like to imagine every couple is yelling “Planned Parenthood!” in the throes of their passionate sex, but in this case — as in the case of your use of statistics — what you’d like to imagine is ridiculous. Believe it or not, there are those of us who resent your ever constant insertion of self into the intimate marital act. There are those of us who resent the fact that you make continuous cash off of people’s sex lives, what with your bad sex-education and intentionally crappy contraception that leads to the big money maker — Abortion. There are those of us who resent the role you’ve played in cheapening our culture’s view of sex — your inhuman attempt to make that particular joy particularly boring. Luckily, with your new ad campaign, everyone gets the chance to resent you, if only for the fact that you’ve managed to isolate your demographic to creepers, and made everyone’s metro ride more depressing than it already is:
Evil never looked so stupid. Seriously, do you imagine that this will improve your rapidly decaying image amidst the residents of Northern New England, where there have already been attempts to defund you? I am offended, not as a pro-lifer, but as a human being with a basic conception of the utterly tactless. May you fail as swiftly as you seem set out to. Oh, and before I forget:
No you’re not.
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For three days now I have seen the complaints that the mainstream media didn’t cover the March for Life. As a journalist, that sentiment bothers me because it is not exactly true. Type ‘March for Life’ into Google News this morning and you will be able to read 1,428 related articles. Some of those articles are from small-town publications, but a large amount are from the mainstream media. (Besides the New York Times, which is a whole different thing.)
The thing we are really disappointed about is the type of coverage the event gets. You know the type; pictures pitting the pro-life and pro-abortion protestors against each other or articles that only pull actual quotes from the abortion advocates. I’m tired of seeing pictures of people kneeling in a nearly catatonic state or yelling in a vulgar unbecoming way. What happened to the crowd shots? And what about the pictures of the peaceful attendees carrying banners with creative slogans?
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Doonby is not your typical anti-abortion movie. I don’t think the word “abortion” is used in the film, and it’s not even alluded to until the final scenes. Unlike recent documentaries such as 180 and Blood Money, wonderful though they are, Doonby uses narrative — storytelling — to approach the issue obliquely. In fact, for the first 95% of the film, you think you’re watching a well-meaning low-budget thriller about a mysterious guy who shows up in a town and causes a bit of a stir. You wonder where it’s going, but even if you know it’s a pro-life movie, you’re surprised, delighted, and moved by the way it ends.
Doonby stars John Schneider, of “Dukes of Hazzard” and “Smallville” fame, as Sam Doonby, a Southern drifter who arrives in Smithville, TX, with nothing but a backpack and a charming smile. He quickly lands a job at a bar owned by a blues man named Leroy (played by Ernie Hudson, who is known to the world forever, whether he likes it or not, as the black Ghostbuster), and almost as quickly takes up with Laura (Jenn Gotzon), spoiled daughter of the town’s prominent gynecologist (Joe Estevez). Pro-life activist Jennifer O’Neill plays the doctor’s wife.
Throughout the rest of the film Doonby manages to continually be in the right place at the right time when crises occur, to the point that he has a major impact on the lives of many of the town’s residents, including Laura and her family, and attracts the attention of the sheriff (Robert Davi, who you may remember as one of the bad guys in The Goonies).
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The following paragraph appeared in the Chicago Sun Times. The most significant part is emphasized.
Tom Schafer, deputy director of the state’s Office of Health Promotion, said Guttmacher has more time and leeway when an abortion provider is unresponsive. “I don’t want to question the accuracy of their numbers, but we don’t have the ability to estimate,” Schafer said. “We count actual procedures as reported to us.” He said the state counts abortions performed at about 26 facilities, in addition to those performed by between 95 and 140 individual physicians. He acknowledged that providers don’t always report all of their numbers.
This should be a reminder to all of us that often the controls and requirements for abortion reporting in the United States and elsewhere in the world ranges from mediocre to very poor.
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This is my attempt to shut up for a minute and let pictures do the talking. It goes against my every natural instinct to run my mouth, but I will try. Here we go!
Curtain up: The Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Dallas, Texas, broods under a cloudy sky. Except it was actually not very broody but kind of festive. And it wasn’t really cloudy either. It was, however, so cold my hands could barely work my iPhone.
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Rebecca Kiessling who was conceived in rape shared her story with Governor Mike Huckabee on his Fox News program last weekend. Here is the video:
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Why is Planned Parenthood losing public support and funding? Well, instead of making a logical case for their receipt of taxpayer money, they are choosing to engage in a despicable attack on right-to-life advocates. Just four days ago Planned Parenthood affiliate chairman Richard Solomon wrote a piece filled with false stereotypes and accusations:
“The fight, then, isn’t really about abortion. It’s about controlling the sexuality of poor and middle-class women by punishing them if they dare to be sexually active and find themselves with an unintended pregnancy.”
How bizarre is that?
The reason why we speak up for the unborn children and want to defund Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion chain in the U.S. is because we want to control the sexuality of poor people? Are you kidding me? If this is the great argument that they choose to wield against us then they are in a lot of trouble.
Planned Parenthood refuses to debate the justification of the actual act of abortion because they know they would lose. Instead they try to win with underhanded attacks on the motives and character of their opponents. It is despicable and dishonest tactic.
NOTE: Richard Solomon is chairman of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund of Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo Counties, Inc.
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Photo used via license from Demion.
To mark the 39th anniversary of Roe v Wade, some pro-abortion activists took to the streets to celebrate. One sign that caught my eye depicted a bent coat hanger with the words “Never Again” underneath. This sign was obviously in reference to the oft argued idea that if abortion was ever made illegal, thousands of women would die from unsafe abortions. Here is the response to this argument:
1) Dr. Bernard Nathanson, a former abortion doctor and one of the founders of the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws, said that these statistics were made up.
“In NARAL, we generally emphasized the frame of the individual case, not the mass statistics, but when we spoke of the latter it was always 5,000 to 10,000 deaths a year. I confess that I knew that the figures were totally false and I suppose that others did too if they stopped to think of it. But in the ‘morality’ of our revolution, it was a useful figure, widely accepted, so why go out of our way to correct it with honest statistics? The overriding concern was to get the laws eliminated, and anything within reason that had to be done was permissible.”
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Ultrasound at 14 weeks.
In an email sent earlier this week, by NARAL President Nancy Keenan wrote that one of her top fears was this:
More and more women seeking abortion care could be forced to view an ultrasound image – even if they don’t want to or if their doctor doesn’t recommend it.
This is funny because Planned Parenthood in many places REQUIRES an ultrasound before they will perform an abortion so that they have an idea about what size child they will be terminating. Will we soon see Keenan protesting this Planned Parenthood policy as a monstrous attack on women? I doubt it. In the various states with ultrasound requirements, women must be given an option to view, hardly the “forced” viewing that Keenan decries.
Keenan’s statement of “more and more women” implies that women right now are already forced to look at ultrasound images which is not the case in any state. So once again this shows how the pro-abortion lobby is willing to jump to extreme scare tactics all in an attempt to protect abortion and ensure that unborn children never get a chance to be seen by their mothers.
Planned Parenthood’s New Attempt to Make People Like Them!
March for Life and the Media – what we can do
Pro-Life Movie “Doonby” Is Big On Heart, Low On Preaching
Illinois Health Dept. Says Abortion Clinics Don’t Always Report All of Their Numbers
VIDEO: Live Action President Lila Rose with Michael Coren on Canadian TV
March For Life Dallas 2012: Inside Kristen’s iPhone
Rebecca Kiessling Speaks Out for Life with Governor Huckabee
