From an article on Planned Parenthood Quick-Service Clinic [Via Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex]
…Planned Parenthood wants to expand its services to more areas, and the organization’s leaders hope a plush fast-service clinic coming to this well-heeled St. Paul suburb next month will attract a new group of women who value convenience and can afford to pay full price.
…The Woodbury clinic is designed to be a cut above even the nicest Planned Parenthood express clinics _ like the one in Somerville, Mass., near Boston and Harvard University. That one sits in a storefront across a plaza from a Starbucks, amid a shopping area near a major transit line.
Well not surprising since they see sex like a fast food commodity that they want to now move into the malls. I thought that the following comment from the president of PP in Minnesota, North and South Dakota to be enlightening.
"We’re going to the women where they spend their lives, to help them solve some of the problems in their lives."
Yes the mall is where women "spend their lives." How’s that for an enlightened view of women.
…The clinic will not perform abortions. Instead, lotions, essential oils and decorative carrying cases for pills and condoms will beckon shoppers inside, where they can also get oral contraceptives, pregnancy tests and screening for HIV, chlamydia and gonorrhea _ all in about 20 minutes. If customers are interested, the clinic may add massages and other spa services later, spokeswoman Marta Coursey said.
Get your coffee and contraceptives as you stroll through the mall. Though why not also offer abortions since they keep saying that this is so mainstream? Why be defensive on that "service." They could offer latte term abortions.
…"I think it’s a good idea. For one, since our public health system has really gone downhill, we certainly have a need for that education, provision of birth control and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases," Kelley said. "It’s certainly worth a try."
Obviously 24/7 messages from the media on the subject and sex education classes hasn’t yet done the trick, there just couldn’t be any connection between this public health going "downhill" and the contraceptive culture. We don’t need no stinkin’ casual effects.
Jokingly I would almost like to see Planned Parenthood move into Whole Foods and other organic stores. Though unfortunately the irony of people looking for chemical free foods and then pumping their bodies with hormones nad chemicals will be lost on most.
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Whole Foods actually has a LOT of baby and kid products, so I don’t see any connection there. There is a significant overlap between the organic and health(y) food communities and the pro-life, pro-kids communities.
I think a more appropriate mall context would be between a video-game store (virtual reality all the way), and junk food (maybe In-n-Out Burgers). In between disconnecting from your body with a video game, and killing your body with junk food, you can deny the fruitfulness of your body, and the meaning of your sexuality.
I also bristled a bit when I read you connecting organic food and PP, Jeff. My husband and I haven’t been able to conceive and our doctor has recommended we change our diet – including a lot of food I get from Whole Foods. Whole grains, hormone-free animal products, and lots of produce! Why wouldn’t healthy be (truly) pro-life?
Um, folks, I THINK Jeff meant that last paragraph to be…ironic….
(Another pro-life organic food lover, although we grow our own. Tomatoes and babies. 🙂 )
well, they’ll certainly be “spending lives” there… ugh how horrid.
What is funny about that story is that the Somerville, MA clinic described as near Harvard and Boston sits in the shadow of Tufts University on the Medford/Somerville line. (Not a pro-life university by any stretch of the imagination.) It is no where as close to Boston nor Harvard as it is to Tufts. I think Tufts has been dissed.
The Planned Parenthood/Whole Foods connection makes more sense than one would think. That corporation, along with Disney and Johnson and Johnson, donate regularly to PP. You can check it here: http://www.fightpp.org
Disney contribute to Planned Parenthood? I thought that they would have a vested interest in people having children.
You mean an interest like Johnson and Johnson?
So first they push casual sex and then they test for venereal diseases. And the customers don’t notice any connection?
I think Jeff is referring to the disconnect in the liberal crowd between only buying organic food and then being pro-abortion and pro-contraceptive. I see this a lot in Maine where it is very liberal and no one has more than 2 children. I get nasty looks and comments most often when I take my 4 (soon to be 5) pleasant children into the Whole Foods Coop. I just don’t get the same reaction when I take them to Kroger (or anywhere else).
Interesting. I live in the upper midwest, and the left is more often than not the religious left….
Aside from the lack of morality — 20 minutes to hormonal birth control? It’s impossible to take a full medical history, examine the woman and provide accurate, personal consultation that determines what level of risk she’ll experience!
They SAY they care about women, but their actions prove otherwise.
Have they considered a strategic bombing campaign over high fertility areas?
I think Jeff is referring to the disconnect in the liberal crowd between only buying organic food and then being pro-abortion and pro-contraceptive.
Yes, I agree. I used to work at my health food coop, and everyone there (except me) had sometype of pro-choice bumper sticker.
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