Is it time to investigate Planned Parenthood?
posted at 11:47 am on April 23, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Maggie Gallagher says yes, and so do a group of activists who will protest in front of Planned Parenthood’s Washington DC’s offices tomorrow. The group of black pastors and pro-life activists will demand a probe into PP’s fundraising and operational practices after a series of undercover investigations discovered purposeful evasion of child-abuse reporting regulations — and a disgusting acquiescence to the worst kind of race-baiting in order to secure donations:
Planned Parenthood likes to think of itself as above all reproach — a champion of women’s rights and also (as its annual report claims) the nation’s “social justice movement.”
But this week, in front of Planned Parenthood offices at 1108 16th St. NW in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, a group of black pastors and pro-life activists (joined by two GOP congressmen) will demand a congressional audit of what the group alleges are a pattern of racist practices, funded by taxpayers, at Planned Parenthood abortion clinics.
Planned Parenthood’s latest trouble began when a feisty pro-life student magazine called Planned Parenthood offices in seven states, posing as an openly racist donor seeking to make sure his check could be earmarked to abort “a black baby.” The resulting phone conversations are horrifying listening.
Take a listen for yourself:
Maybe the organizers at PP can live with themselves by redirecting the money elsewhere. For instance, Planned Parenthood has a goal to spend $10 million this year through its PAC, influencing voter decisions to keep their favored candidates in office. After listening to this, which candidate wants to accept that kind of support? In fact, opponents of such favored candidates should demand that they answer for this kind of despicable, conscienceless fundraising.
And it wasn’t just some part-time telephone operator at one office enabling racists to reduce the black population. This happened at four different offices, and these calls involved management. It recalls the original mission of the founder of PP, Margaret Sanger, who encouraged birth control of “dysgenic” populations and “racial hygiene”. (Interestingly, though, Sanger believed that abortion killed life and opposed it, preferring contraception.)
Planned Parenthood receives millions in federal funding. In 2006, various PP groups received over $13 million in federal grants; in 2005, the amount went over $16 million. Why does the federal government send grant money to groups exploiting racist appeals to cull donations for abortions in minority communities? Perhaps Congress should ask itself that question.
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Margaret Mead was a founder, and firm believer in eugenics. It is more than a feeling that they are in the eugenics business. This is not a freedom issue, it is a human rights issue. The republican party was founded on human rights (slavery) and this is no different. Innocent children are being killed every day in this country. They need to stand up at every opportunity and denounce PP and especially federal funding of this barbaric practice.
Think_b4_speaking on April 24, 2008 at 9:56 AM
Oops, meant Margaret Sanger.
Think_b4_speaking on April 24, 2008 at 9:58 AM
I think most posters believe that the baby is a gift from God. And if the biological mother of that baby chooses to accept that gift herself or pass that gift on to someone else, it is her choice. That’s what I would consider “Pro-Choice”.
Let the baby live and let the biological mother have her choice of whether or not to be involved in raising that child.
And if you aren’t grown up enough to handle going through 9 months of pregnancy so that another person may live instead of die, then you shouldn’t be having sex. PERIOD.
Every one to two days, more people are murdered by their own mother than all of the service men and women who have died in Iraq in FIVE YEARS.
I’d like to see some liberals care about how millions of babies have been killed in America rather than focusing on how many people have died in Iraq.
We have aborted one-third of an entire generation.
Face reality. There is no excuse for abortion in this country.
Red Pill on April 24, 2008 at 10:07 AM
Thank you. Excellent post. The Republican party is the party of Lincoln and Eisenhower, yet the Democratic Socialists have historically received 90% of the votes of dark-skinned people by acting like Plantation owners. Some people seem to prefer being mentally enslaved rather than set free. That’s not surprising, since even Harriet Tubman encountered slaves who preferred to stay slaves rather than follow her to freedom. It’s the Matrix mentality. It’s the plantation mentality. It’s OK to leave the Matrix. It’s OK to Leave the Plantation.
Red Pill on April 24, 2008 at 10:19 AM
And I say “dark-skinned” very intentionally. “Black” is a misnomer. “African-American” is a misnomer.
“Black” people aren’t black.
“White” people aren’t white.
“Yellow” people aren’t yellow.
We are all one human race, with different variations of skin color.
Anyone who is a citizen of the USA is an “American”. PERIOD. There is no need to make that word hyphenated. Anyone who does so is trying to divide us, not unite us. Do not be deceived.
Red Pill on April 24, 2008 at 10:24 AM
This already went mainstream. FNC is covering it live now…
blankminde on April 24, 2008 at 12:04 PM
I second everything Red Pill said up above. I applaud the conscientious pro-choice advocates who are standing up and being heard.
That guy, that joker who “punked” PP by calling up and asking if his donations could be applied to kill black babies so that his white kids could have a chance to get into good colleges-this today might have come about simply because one guy recorded some phone calls. I daresay that the pro-choice advocates have been fighting the good fight for years, but now it’s News.
Doug on April 24, 2008 at 2:04 PM
PP was being discussed this morning on the Laura Ingraham Show, it getting the highest amount of Title 10 tax dollars, even though it finances abortion, effectively directing all contributions into abortion, and using tax dollars toward its other services. The dialogue noted the “Mexico City” Clause, evidently our tax dollars can not be spent on any international charity that may also offer abortions, but within our own borders we do so, hypocritically.
Jonah Goldberg scrutinizes all of the implications of the entire movement (personalities and organizations and philosophies) in Liberal Fascism.
maverick muse on April 24, 2008 at 3:31 PM
I guess the NEA could fund part of PP so Aliza Shvarts can continue her art.
m1a1usmc on April 24, 2008 at 6:57 PM
Let’s see: Planned Parenthood, a nation-wide organization, by POLICY chooses NOT to report pregnancies in underage girls that they learn to have been started by ADULT men. Government Response: Huge Federal subsidies.
The FLDS at Yearning for Zion Ranch, a small, delimited, voluntary association, is reported via one anonymous (and fraudulent) phone call to have on its grounds underage pregnant girls impregnated by overage men. Government response: Visited by armed authorities backed by fully automatic weapons and an armored vehicle — authorities who proceed to snatch up over 400 well cared-for children and to confiscate documents.
Hmmmm. No disconnect here. None at all. Gotta love Governor Rick Perry. /sarc
sanantonian on April 24, 2008 at 7:59 PM
Agreed. That raid reminded me of Waco. While I don’t hold the same religious views as the FLDS or the Branch Davidians, I don’t think what the government did was appropriate in either raid.
I want to tread lightly on this next part, because it is such a sensitive topic, but I got the impression from the news reports that not only were these FLDS children separated from their parents, they were medically examined in a strange location by strange people looking for evidence of sexual abuse. I have to believe that was horrifying to these young girls, and I don’t see any governmental justification for doing it against their will.
Red Pill on April 24, 2008 at 11:37 PM
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