Pro-life

Dawn Eden posts a YoutTube video of an new San Francicso Planned Parenthood ad that takes place in a airplane with a flagrantly homosexual flight attendant showering condoms, pills, and patches on couples for getting ready for the mile high club.

I do find it highly ironic for a company named Planned Parenthood directing their ad in parts to homosexuals. Talk about naturally contraceptive sex. I guess this is just the altruistic part of their everybody have sex with anyone anytime message since they don’t get their mark ups from abortion, pills and patches from this group.

I do think their was something missing from Planned Parenthood airlines. For example their was no cart going down the aisle with a portable suction device for when contraception fails. No message from the pilot calling "Is their an abortion doctor onboard?" Besides the pills, patches, and condoms falling from the ceiling compartment they forgot such necessities as drugs to treat STDs and the three-drug HIV cocktail. Also missing were the flight attendant counselors for women who later regret their abortions or the men who suffer from this "choice." Though there is one accurate thing about their airline was that there were not children. This is surely evidence of a PP airline.

We want young people to take control of their sexual health and well-being by using prevention every time they have sex.

Yes promoting promiscuous sex is really talking about control. As G.K. Chesteton said "Normal and real birth control is called self control."

As Dawn Eden mentions Planned Parenthood Golden Gate budget is 50 percent payed for by taxpayers which is mostly true for all of PP’s branches. Go to her site for information on backing Sen. Brownback’s effort to defund Planned Parenthood.

Teresa Polk reports on the pro-family demonstration in Madrid that had a crowd of perhaps 2 million people.
As is usual in the media this is described as tens of thousands of people, though even the NYT mentioned an estimate of 1.5 million people.
The protest was organized in response to new Spanish laws recognizing homosexual unions and making divorce more readily available and included speeches on pro-life.

Interestingly Pope Benedict XVI spoke via a video screen to the people at the demonstration.

“Founded in the indissoluble union between man and woman, it is the place in which human life is sheltered and protected from its beginning until its natural end,” Pope Benedict said.

I was glad to find that the above picture was not the Pope’s speech to the Lilliputians.

Deal Hudson wonders if pro-life leaders here in the United States have ever asked the Pope to do the same thing for the March of Life? That would be great if he did since surely the March of Life contains a lot of Catholics and other churches and groups surely recognize the role the Pope’s have played in the pro-life cause.

Recently in the news has been the story of the 69 year old pro-life man who was assaulted outside of an abortion clinic and knocked unconscious. Pro-lifers are not surprised that this is not getting reported on knowing the media bias. Though I am surprised to find out that the police interviewed the assailant and then let him leave.

Reading the Liturgy of the Hours this morning it reminded me of what the International Theological Commission said in their document this year "The Hope of salvation for infants who die without being baptised."

5. Secondly, taking account of the principle lex orandi lex credendi, the Christian community notes that there is no mention of Limbo in the liturgy. In fact, the liturgy contains a feast of the Holy Innocents, who are venerated as martyrs, even though they were not baptised, because they were killed on account of Christ. There has even been an important liturgical development through the introduction of funerals for infants who died without Baptism. We do not pray for those who are damned. The Roman Missal of 1970 introduced a Funeral Mass for unbaptised infants whose parents intended to present them for Baptism. The Church entrusts to Gods mercy those infants who die unbaptised. In its 1980 Instruction on Childrens Baptism, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith reaffirmed that: with regard to children who die without having received Baptism, the Church can only entrust them to the mercy of God, as indeed she does in the funeral rite established for them. The Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992) adds that: the great mercy of God who desires that all men should be saved [1Tim 2:4], and Jesus tenderness toward children which caused him to say: Let the children come to me, do not hinder them (Mk 10:14), allow us to hope that there is a way of salvation for children who have died without Baptism

Dawn Eden continues her series on international Planned Parenthood ads with items such as "Quality not Quantity" and "Two is better that too many."

For the last several years Planned Parenthood has been selling their "Choice on Earth" Holiday cards and the ones to the left are this years products. This is one occasion where I am totally fine with them using holiday cards vice Christmas cards.

The images used on their cards once again give absolutely no indication of the reality of "choice". Two images are of a mother with a child, yet Planned Parenthood offers zero services for those who want to keep their child.

Mark Steyn wrote quite accurately recently "What’s the "pro-choice" line? "Every child should be wanted"? Not anymore. The progressive position has subtly evolved: Every child should be unwanted." But in some ways for PP every child is a wanted child, at least wanted by their abortionists so that they might get their bounty. But this view towards families is not just a recent development, but one with a steady message since at least the seventies. Anybody with a large family can attest to the questions they get about them being "all theirs" and the glances turned their way for making a societal faux pas. Though I once had the same attitude in my enlightened liberal days.

Considering the recent news of environmental activists saying having a child is selfish and damaging to the environment and the recent books as Mark Steyn notes such as ""Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence." Planned Parenthood and radical environmentalist are natural allies except the part about the pill damaging the ecosystem with hormones. But Planned Parenthood and radical environmentalist have always had their convenient blind spots when it suits their purposes.

The card with the doves though is obviously the most annoying. Whether the dove is seen as a symbol for the Holy Spirit or as a symbol for peace it is still inappropriate. Blessed Mother Teresa said "I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion"

But I guess the reality of babies ripped apart and removed by suction is not the best image even for a "holiday card." Even contraception doesn’t lend itself to the comfy holiday image they are trying to portray. A tree decked out with condoms and pill packages just doesn’t hit it out of the park.

Though the question is exactly what holiday are these cards for in the first place? Christmas with the celebration of the birth of our savior is obviously not it. They see a pregnant young mother as a target and not something to rejoice in. The miracle related during Hanukkah with the traditional Jews defeating secularist Jews when Judaism had been outlawed by Antiochus IV Epiphanes does not really fit into a holiday they would be happy about. The made-up of holiday of Kwanzaa doesn’t fit the bill considering the historic roots of Planned Parenthood and their view on blacks that extends to the present day with a concentration of their clinics being in poorer black neighborhoods. Well how about the secular holiday of Christmas where the overriding message is "Family is important." Somehow abortion and contraception is not really family friendly. If only they would start making those dime-a-dozen holiday TV movies with the message "Preventing family is important" then PP would have a match.

In years past I have responded with Planned Parenthood cards of my own since I am always willing to help get out the real message of Planned Barrenhood.

2003

2005

So I guess I will continue this bi-annual holiday tradition.

Dawn Eden orignally sent me a link to PP’s latest message.

Planned Parenthood supporters, as I reflect upon the past year and consider the next, I can’t help but feel a sense of good will. Good will toward the women, men, and families that we serve. Good will toward you, my Planned Parenthood family. And good, determined will to accomplish the work that lies ahead in the new year.

Well I agree that they have work that lies ahead – "lies ahead" is pretty much a forecast of their business model.

Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Although there has been no change in the law on interruption of pregnancy, since the fall of Communism the number of abortions in Croatia has dropped by 88,5% (2005). Fruit of the local Catholic Church’s efforts to educate and form.

I recently had a parody post with suggestions for a Planned Parenthood motto competition. I think though that Planned Parenthood has accidentally outdone me in parody of them. Dawn Eden has once again done the web footwork and found a selection of "health communications materials" from around the world.

Yes the following materials are real.

This one was from Planned Parenthood Federation of Nigeria. Wouldn’t Margaret Sanger be proud of this modern effort since she warned supporters in 1939 that they did not want "word to get out that we want to exterminate the Negro population." Children should be seen and not heard and be low in number.

Update: A commenter says I missed the obvious pun – “The Fuhrer – the Merrier.” which of course is a perfect match considering that a member of her Birth Control Review was an adviser to Hitler for eugenics polices. When Hitler needed to outsource for evil he knew just where to go.

Update: Ryan from Catholic Audio contributed this:

Back to the real ones.

This is another Nigerian ad. Though maybe Planned Parenthood is just doing their part to reduce Nigerian 419 Scams by eliminating future Nigerian numbers. The odd thing about the ad is that if you are planning your family exactly why do you need protection against STDs? Or is to to plan families while at the same time having one or both member of the couple be unfaithful. That is one way to plan a family, or really to lose your family.

Once again for those "human weeds" the Nigerians.

"How far along are you with your burden" or "Have you named your burden yet" are not questions you normally hear asked of women who are pregnant. "Do you know the sex of your burden" just doesn’t have the right ring to it. This though is exactly how Planned Parenthood and the Culture of Death sees children in the first place. They are burdens that rob you of your freedom and reduce your available capital. They are alright if you want to have one at the specific time you want to have one just as long as you don’t have too many of them. Planned parenthood doesn’t really want you to space your children, they want you to deep space your children.

This one is actually from Planned Parenthood of Utah.

Don’t "Kid" yourself has to be the most ironic Banned Parenthood title ever. Though with the largest abortion provider it probably is an intentional pun. Once again this poster shows Planned Parenthood’s true stripes. Children change your life for the worst is the constant drumbeat of their advertisements. They are just plain inconvenient and should be avoided at all cost. If you want a family get a dog.

Dawn Eden also has several other examples.

Once again Commonweal is trying to have it both ways. The recent statement by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) concerning the morality of removing feeding tubes from patients in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) is being attacked for not fitting the traditional criteria in their opinion. Yes now Commonweal want to appeal to tradition and this time their can be no doctrinal development. Someone how they are able to take in developments by Pope John Paul II on the death penalty, but can’t take in his view on artificial nutrition.

But mainly their whole argument is false in saying that "appears to contradict the traditional criteria used to determine whether a particular medical treatment is ordinary and proportionate and therefore obligatory, or extraordinary and disproportionate and therefore optional." The statement by the CDF does no such thing. The CDF is not contradicting or eliminating these terms, they are simply saying that artificial nutrition and hydration for those diagnosed as PVS should can not be denied.

Somehow also progressives who can get totally behind moral relativity can’t seem to understand that due to medical progress that what once was extraordinary and disproportionate can become ordinary and proportionate. Yes progressives can’t get a handle on progress. They have no problem with artificial birth control, but draw the line at artificial nutrition.

Whether patients who are incapable of feeding themselves and will never regain consciousness can be said to be dying is part of the moral conundrum surrounding PVS.

Though of course they don’t mention that the mistaken diagnosis of PVS is quite high and the there has even been progress with some medicines to bring people back to consciousness. Regardless though someone’s current state of consciousness does not remove their human dignity or the duty of those who care for them to give them food and water.

As Sulmasy notes, most people’s reaction to the prospect of being kept alive in a condition like Terri Schiavo’s is one of horror. That moral instinct has long been recognized in Catholic teaching, as has the distinction between removing feeding tubes from someone in PVS, thus allowing him to die, and intending his death.

So I guess peoples reactions is much more important than a moral imperative to feed those who are sick. Peoples reaction to the thought of quadriplegic is also one of horror – so lets kill them to. So much for "For I was hungry, and you gave me not to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me not to drink." and "Amen I say to you, as long as you did it not to one of these least, neither did you do it to me." Amen I say to the editors of Commonweal by pulling the proverbial plug from the least of them you are doing it to Him.

Dawn
Eden tipped me off to a new contest by Planned Parenthood
Golden
Gate.

We’re looking for hot new t-shirt
designs ! Whether you’re a diva
fashionista, a graphic designer, or just like to doodle, we want to see
what you’ve got!

    Create a design with one of the
following themes:

    * Prevention
    * Safe is Sexy
    * Planned Parenthood is for Everyone

    * T-shirt design submission deadline is
December 31, 2007.

    Encourage your friends and family to
rate your design!

    * Designs wil be posted on www.ppgg.org
and rating will begin January 3, 2008.

    * The highest rated designer will win an
iPhone and have the opportunity to get his/her
      design produced on a
t-shirt!

Now how could I resist an offer like this.
Especially since I am always willing to help them out in my own
fashion.  Five years ago they had a poster competition in
which I submitted.

   
* Making womb and tomb synonymous
    * Depopulating the world one person at a
time.
    * Life without consequences
    * Keeping minorities minorities
    * Reach out and abort someone
    * Betcha can’t kill just one
    * Giving breath to the culture of death
    * Where is everyone?
    * Doing our best to reduce class size
    * 30 years of providing incest and
statutory rape protection
    * Support your local Abortuary
    * Keeping predatory males happy
    * Have you plunged forceps into your kid
today?

Along with some full
poster designs.  Not only did I not win their
competition they never even sent me an email back thanking me for my
submissions. But hope springs eternal (unless it is a child entering
one of their clinics) and so here are some my my designs based on the
contest criteria.