Pro-Life Congressmen Want Planned Parenthood De-Funded Over Web Site Porn
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
February 28, 2008
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Pro-life members of Congress say the federal government should stop funding Planned Parenthood through national family programs because its teen-oriented web site features pornography. Planned Parenthood's online venture TeenWire features content so graphic that some Internet filters are preventing access to it.
The site is supposed to be a compendium of "medically accurate" information for teenagers on sexual issues.
Though Planned Parenthood is careful to say the information is intended for people 18 years and older, the web site is clearly geared to teens.
The web site's "advice columnists" tell kids viewing the web site that many people use pornography as part of sex play." A columnist tells one viewer that viewing pornography won't lead to getting bad grades in school.
The web site encourages kids to play sexual games or explore bisexuality and it gives teens advice on how to avoid telling their parents about a possible abortion.
Three leading members of Congress told the Cybercast News Service that the content of the web site is another reason to yank the $300 million in federal funds the abortion business gets for family planning services.
"There should be no money that goes to any Internet site that promotes promiscuity or sexual license in any way," Rep. Steve King of Iowa said.
"We should shut off all federal dollars to any organization that provides abortion services or counseling," King added. "If there is going to be sexual license promoted, let that happen some place else. But the federal government should not be subsidizing it."
Rep. Joseph Pitts of Pennsylvania added, "I don't believe taxpayer funding should be going to groups that put sexually explicit material on the Internet targeted at minors."
Leading pro-life groups agreed and say Planned Parenthood doesn't need one-third of its income coming from the federal government.
"With over $300 million in taxpayer funds, the organization has the U.S. government to thank for helping to promote these messages," Family Research Council president Tony Perkins told LifeNews.com.
He urged pro-life advocates to contact Congress and urge support for a bill Rep. Mike Pence and Sen. David Vitter have sponsored to axe that funding.
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40 days for Life
On Thursday evening Feb.14 Marci and Carol held their solemn vigil in the cold parking lot of Problem Pregnancy, 623 Lincoln St. in Worcester. As they gazed into the Planned Parenthood parking lot next door, they noticed a young, well-dressed and earnest women go in and out of the door to Planned Parenthood. Finally the woman came out of Planned Parenthood walked over to Marci and Carol, leaned forward and asked if they were also against birth control. The young woman spouted statistics that claimed artificial birth control had no relation to the cheapening of human sexual relations over the last 50 years, and insisted that all that was needed to make abortions rare was more education, and more birth control.
Marci and Carol explained that the dignity of human persons is maintained and the beauty of the marital act in its proper moral context, marriage, is preserved by monogamous marriage. Contraception contributes to the idea that children are not a by-product of the marital act, and therefore contraception contributes to abortion because children are seen not as gifts from God but an unplanned consequence of selfishness.
The United States Supreme Court decision that confirmed Roe vs. Wade made clear this link when it stated,
"in some critical respects abortion is of the same character as the decision to use contraception ... for two decades of economic and social developments, people have organized intimate relationships and made choices that define their views of themselves and their place in society, in reliance on the availability of abortion in the event that contraception should fail."
~ Planned Parenthood vs. Casey
I commented on the track record of Planned Parenthood, whose own statistics show abortion is done for convenience. Then Marci said we should get back to praying, the real work. This woman was a "true believer" in the Planned Parenthood Propaganda, and prayer will be much more effective in this debate. Please pray for her conversion.
Marci and Carol explained that the dignity of human persons is maintained and the beauty of the marital act in its proper moral context, marriage, is preserved by monogamous marriage. Contraception contributes to the idea that children are not a by-product of the marital act, and therefore contraception contributes to abortion because children are seen not as gifts from God but an unplanned consequence of selfishness.
The United States Supreme Court decision that confirmed Roe vs. Wade made clear this link when it stated,
"in some critical respects abortion is of the same character as the decision to use contraception ... for two decades of economic and social developments, people have organized intimate relationships and made choices that define their views of themselves and their place in society, in reliance on the availability of abortion in the event that contraception should fail."
~ Planned Parenthood vs. Casey
I commented on the track record of Planned Parenthood, whose own statistics show abortion is done for convenience. Then Marci said we should get back to praying, the real work. This woman was a "true believer" in the Planned Parenthood Propaganda, and prayer will be much more effective in this debate. Please pray for her conversion.
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