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From: ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Planned Parenthood posting
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Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 11:10:03 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  8 11:10:03 1985
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> >Abortion as a birth control method is very much an issue in the discussions
> >I have seen on this net.
> 
> >The Planned Parenthood office in our area encourages this form of birth
> >control and has discontinued counseling for other methods of control.
> 
Planned Parenthood has a new slogan, "Say 'NO' to pregnancy, Say 'YES' to your
future.  This was reveled to 2000 teen-agers in Washington D C recently.
Upon reading the slogan, one realizes that Planned Parenthood and their 
many abortion establishments is not actually telling kids to say NO to sex,
only NO to getting pregnant.  Thus abortion is used as birth control.

Planned Parenthood has a $204 million budget of which more than half comes from
the taxpayers.  They have become a rich organization.  Sort of like the
tobacco industry.  The tobacco industry does not acknowlege the health hazards
of tobacco, this would hurt revenues.  Similarly, PP does not acknowlege the
health hazards of 10, 11, 12, etc year olds ingaging in sexual relations, this
would hurt revenues and put them out of business where they belong.  Oh I 
know, they usually counsel the children first, usually for about 5 or 10
minutes before giving them pills and later an abortion when the child naturally
forgets to take one daily, ever try to get a child to remember to take their
vitimins daily.

Why do I keep refering to children.  A few years ago I had a conversation with
the head of PP here in Rochester.  I said "If a 10 year old came to you for
an abortion would you give her one?", he said "Yes, definitely."  And he
said that in no way would he feel obligated to tell her parents.

Any responsible parent would definitely tell their children not to have sex.
But here is a respectible organization (on the outside) full of ADULTS who
a child would naturally look up to like they would a teacher or counselor
telling them "Well if you must have sex, here, have some pills."  This to
the mind of a child must make it seem really OK to go ahead and have sex.
How would you feel if someone was secretly giving your child cigarettes and
drugs or alchohol.  Suppose there exists Planned Cigarette Habit.  OK here we
go, a child walks into their office: "My parents said I was not aloud to smoke
but some of my friend do, they told me I could come here and you would help me.""Well little (boy or girl) you shouldn't really smoke but if you must we have
some very low tar ones that are fairly safe.  And if you don't tell your parentswe won't either."  "By the way, if you get sick from smoking these, we'll give
you a secret operation that only you and I will know about."

What the hell makes PP think that an adolescent is mentally responsible for
making decision about sex and abortions, young minds can be broken for life
by trumatic experiences.  The standard argument of PP is that kids are going
to have sex so why not help them not to get pregnant.  What PP must realize
is that they are in no way dealing with the problem of teen sex, they are only
fooling around with the symtoms.  Unfortunately the morals of society filter
down to our children and the buck stops there.  We must educate children about
the harms of early sex, not give them the right to do.  PP must stop putting
kids in the drivers seat, they just are not old enough, PP might respond; "well,
kids are going to drive anyway, we're just giving them the cars."