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From: mn@dscvax2.UUCP (Matt Noah)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Planned Parenthood
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Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 12:35:39 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 12 12:35:39 1985
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It is a sad FACT that Planned Parenthood not only encourages abortions
but also PERFORMS them at many/some of their clinics.  Abortion IS in
keeping with their national charter/philosophy.  The PP philosophy is
basically that every child should be a "wanted child" - no one on either
side of the abortion issue would desire otherwise.  To that end, they
encourage birth control and education.  It is unfortunate that they are
basically unwilling to educate women and men in the area of fetal 
development.  They also advocate, yes ADVOCATE, abortion as a means of
birth control.  When a women enters PP pregnant and distraught they
encourage an abortion.  Why?  The longer a woman waits, the more
difficult and costly an abortion can be.  How can a business like PP
ADVOCATE abortion and at the same time counsel a woman by telling her
that the typically 8-week-old fetus in her body has a heartbeat, has an
operative central nervous system and feels pain as a result?  They can't
so they don't!  I'm sorry folks, but this is the truth!  Aside from the
purely humanistic arguements, there are people in this country who 
believe in God and practice a particular religion.  Some religious
beliefs hold human life as sacred.  Do you think PP considers a woman's
particular religous affiliation before "counseling"?  Just because a
person belongs to a particular church, doesn't mean they don't
consternate over decisions which are difficult in light of church
teaching.  Pressures from different directions affect almost all of our
moral decisions.  The woman that walks in to PP is pushed in one direction -
abortion.  

Matt Noah