A reader passes along an e-mail he got from a liberal friend, asking people upset by Sarah Palin's elevation to donate money to Planned Parenthood in Palin's name. I've included the letter on the jump. It's tactically brilliant, I think, though of course wicked. You may wish to donate to your local pro-life crisis pregnancy center to offset any contribution to the abortionists. If you don't know how to find one, you can always give to CareNet, a national organization that runs a network of crisis pregnancy centers.
Dear Friends: We may have thought we wanted a woman on a national political ticket, but the joke has really been on us, hasn't it? Are you as sick in your stomach as I am at the thought of Sarah Palin as Vice President of the United States ? Since Palin gave her speech accepting the Republican nomination for the Vice Presidency, Barack Obama's campaign has raised over $10 million dollars. Some of you may already be supporting the Obama campaign financially; others of you may still be a little over the primaries. None of you, however, can be happy with Palin's selection, especially on her positions on women's issues. So, if you feel you can't support the Obama campaign financially, may I suggest the following fiendishly brilliant alternative? Make a donation to Planned Parenthood. In Sarah Palin's name. And here's the good part: when you make a donation to PP in her name, they'll send her a card telling her that the donation has been made in her honor. Here's the link to the Planned Parenthood website: [which Your Pro-Life Working Boy has deleted]You'll need to fill in the address to let PP know where to send the "in
Sarah Palin's honor" card. I suggest you use the address for the McCain
campaign headquarters, which is:
McCain for President
1235 S. Clark Street
1st Floor
Arlington , VA 22202
Feel free to send this along to all your women friends and urge them to
do the same.Note: if you want to send it to Sarah Palin % Republican National
Committee the address is 310 First St. SE , Washington , DC 20003
I suggest any readers who donate to a pro-life cause to counter that do so in Trig Palin's name, and send notification to the above addresses.
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These are exactly the kind of nasty, childish tactics by Planned Parenthood, and exactly the kind of rageful, childish response by some of the above commenters, that we don't need in our country right now.
There are a lot of people out there like me who are pro-choice but who believe that "culture of life" issues are really important ethical and moral issues that we should be discussing like adults, not like squabbling children. Can't we please stop acting like bulls and charging every time somebody on the opposite side waves a red flag?
How about refusing to play that game and actually trying to have a civil and respectful discussion about our beliefs?
Perhaps it is easier to revert to Left Wing-Right Wing role-playing than to try and set aside our preconceived notions about each other, but it is a variation on "engaging in the same dysfunctional behavior and expecting a different result."
Planned Parenthood is not pro abortion. Both sides of the issue are pro life. Abortion should be the last resort, the first should be not getting pregnant. It boggles my mind that the anti-abortion people are also anti sex education in schools. Shhh let's not tell the kids about sex and then they won't know sex exists. Sarah Palin's daughter should be enough proof that abstinence teaching only doesn't work. I don't condemn her for getting pregnant. With well educated parents she must have known about contraception and chose to have unprotected sex anyhow. That's her choice. If a leader in our country can't get her own child to practice the very thing she is preaching (abstinence), how do you expect poorer less educated teenagers to do it. it is time to wake up and address the problem like the adults we are, not stick our heads in the sand and hope it goes away. We owe it to our kids to talk straight. Don't have sex if you are too young. If you end up having sex, use protection, not just to prevent an unwanted baby but for health as well.
I highly recommend the movie "Citizen Ruth," starring Laura Dern. Both sides of the abortion debate are skewered in a way that I found insightful and dead-on, and reminiscent of the old British Ealing Studios comedies (the ones that used to show the failings of both Capital and Labor, for instance).
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
John Stuart Mill
DGM, you are either a liar, ignorant, or just plain full of HU-HA. Planned Parenthood is absolutely pro-abortion. If that organization completely ruled the country, there would be abortion on demand up to the point when the baby was half-way out of the vagina.
Abortion is Planned Parenthood's number one revenue. An abortion costs between 600-900 dollars depending on the stage of the baby, oops I mean "fetus", oops I mean the "bundle of cells". Millions of abortions are done per year in USA alone. To calculate the overall revenue of abortion, one would just have to find out the exact cost of the "medical procedures" and get access to Planned Parenthood's total "surgery" stats. I'll double check whether abortion revenue is greater than the mass donations they receive.
It seems that pro-choice people list a list of problems from forcing people to be single mothers to having a lot of unwanted children in the world. I hardly ever see the pro-choice people engage the other side on the premise that the unborn child is a person. Perhaps it might interest you that most pregnant mothers determine that the unborn child is a person when they see a sonogram, and thus do not have the abortion.
Of course I am sure that there are some people that believe that the unborn are not people even though they do have their own DNA. I guess it's because they are not independent of the mother. That is to say they rely on the mother to get oxygen and nutrition. I suppose we should use the "dependence" explanation to justify infanticide since they are dependent on the Mother's Breast and just about everything else except for breathing. Moreover, I should be able to punch a pregnant women and not be charged for infanticide since it is not get a person. Or do my fellow opponents wish to tell me that the fetus is a person and not a person?
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