Indiana residents in need of a quick stocking stuffer this holiday season have an unusual option: Planned Parenthood gift certificates.

The group's Hoosier State chapter on Wednesday began selling gift certificates redeemable at any of its 35 facilities for any service provided -- from basic health screenings to birth control to abortions.

Originally posted by wheresthetruth
reply to post by Frankidealist35

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I do respect the original meaning of Christmas as it applies to the faith. As well, to me this is a season of growth, family, friends, and joy.

Originally posted by Jkd Up
There are alot of reasons a woman might go to Planned Parenthood. Yes, mostly associated with abortion, but NOT the only thing they offer!

For the sake of accuracy, You couldn't be more wrong.

Abortions Procedures 227,375
Contraception, Women 2,208,483
Contraception, Men 60,476
Emergency Contraception Kits 633,756
Male Sterilizations 2,522
Female Sterilizations 680
Infertility 325
Colposcopy Procedures 31,248
Cryotherapy Procedures 3,913
HIV Testing, Women 126,477
HIV Testing, Men 48,991
Primary care 24,483
Midlife clients 10,575
Breast Exams/Breast Care 1,062,727
Pregnancy tests 1,081,772
Prenatal clients 15,860
LOOP/LEEP Procedures 1,529
STI Procedures, Women & Men 1,255,036
Other Services, Women 58,626
Other Services, Men 17,905

Originally posted by wheresthetruth


This is just sickening. For Christmas, you get to kill your unborn child. Not only that, but you get to do it at a discount. This is an absolute perversion of choice.

Not only that, but the group is also known to be a non-profit that is able to, surprisingly, rake in an enormous profit. As well, they have been noted for their ability to look away when the legal ramifications dont lend themselves to their "bottom line".

www.washingtontimes.com
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Betty Cockrum, president and chief executive of Planned Parenthood of Indiana, said the program was initiated in response to the state's ailing economy.

"Our patients are principally low-income women, and so, needless to say, those patients are more challenged now than ever," Ms. Cockrum said. "We find that when women are [financially] strapped, they're more worried about putting food on the table and gas in their car, and their health care is often put by the wayside."

Ms. Cockrum said that while the certificates may be redeemed for abortions, "I can't imagine that could happen."

"An abortion is a tragic and urgent situation in a women's life, and gift certificates don't lend themselves to that," she said.

Ms. Cockrum added that the vast majority of services provided by Planned Parenthood are for basic health care, such as Pap tests, which cost $58 at the group's centers.

"Even a gift certificate for $25 goes a long way toward what's potentially a life-saving but certainly just essential, basic health care for a loved one," she said.

At a March 1925 international birth control gathering in New York City, a speaker warned of the menace posed by the "black" and "yellow" peril. The man was not a Nazi or Klansman; he was Dr. S. Adolphus Knopf, a member of Margaret Sanger's American Birth Control League (ABCL), which along with other groups eventually became known as Planned Parenthood.

Sanger's other colleagues included avowed and sophisticated racists. One, Lothrop Stoddard, was a Harvard graduate and the author of The Rising Tide of Color against White Supremacy. Stoddard was something of a Nazi enthusiast who described the eugenic practices of the Third Reich as "scientific" and "humanitarian." And Dr. Harry Laughlin, another Sanger associate and board member for her group, spoke of purifying America's human "breeding stock" and purging America's "bad strains." These "strains" included the "shiftless, ignorant, and worthless class of antisocial whites of the South."