Pathetic: Abortion proponents can’t get volunteers, must pay activists
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One huge difference between the pro-life and pro-abortion movements is our side has a powerful volunteer grassroots lobby, and theirs does not.
I’ve seen pro-life groups assemble hundreds of volunteer supporters in every nook and corner of the country. Pro-aborts, meanwhile, have a hard time assembling boots on the ground anywhere. Ask at any of their anemic rallies for paid staff to raise a hand, such as Planned Parenthood employees, and most would.
One explanation is that it’s difficult to muster exuberant support to kill babies.
Another is that pro-aborts have been killing off their future volunteers for 38 years, and it is undoubtedly catching up with them.
Now the abortion lobby is reduced to paying supporters, as Catholic-Mom discovered on Craig’s List.
If you as a young pro-choicer are reading this, you survived the industry’s best attempt to kill you. Now you can take a little of the money it made from killing your contemporaries to help it kill the next generation. Hey, make $335 to $535 a week, about the price of one abortion.
How inviting. How pathetic.
[HT: Creative Minority Report]
Do they promise we can wear pink shirts? And pink balloons?
Those yellow Life balloons need some competition, you know.
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why do they need tax-payer money if they have enough to pay people to be activists?
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I live in Philly and have run into several of these Planned Parenthood pushers the past two weeks. Each time I explain how PP has been twisting the facts surrounding the Pence Amendment, how they’ve developed a pro-abortion mentality, and how pro-lifers have uncovered rampant corruption. I spoke to one of the more senior canvassers, and he explained that Planned Parenthood was (as of two weeks ago) the sole organization that ALL ‘Grassroots Campaigns’ (the canvassing company) offices nationwide were focusing entirely on the Planned Parenthood campaign, which he said “shows Planned Parenthood really needs our help.”
The weekly Philadelphia City Paper did a cover story last year about the two major firms that do this paid canvassing. The one that Planned Parenthood is using is a for-profit endeavor called Grassroots Campaigns, so not only is Planned Parenthood having to hire others to promote them, but a large percentage of the money being raised is going to the GC company itself (regardless of the org, never donate through them, go directly to the source). The canvassers are treated horribly by management, and the article notes that Planned Parenthood has been used before:
“As a result, the cause can change for the canvassers promoting it. “I went from Save the Children to Planned Parenthood,” says Snyder. “Which was funny, because Save the Children attracted these Christian canvassers and for them it was terrible. They were canvassing for things they didn’t believe in.””
http://archives.citypaper.net/articles/2010/08/12/fundraising-canvassing
The good news about Planned Parenthood utilizing paid canvassers from Grassroots Campaigns is that while it will bring in money, it also turns many people off. I get hit up by these canvassers on an almost daily basis, and it can easily sour one to the organization as a whole.
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Jennie – I was just thinking that! And is that OUR money they are using to pay the activists? I thought $ was supposed to go for helping women with services?
If they have $1000-$2000 a month to pay for one activist (and they want to hire more), doesn’t that say that they have enough money? After all if they can create more abortion centers, and pay for a large bus for their campaigns, and fly Cecile everywhere, then they are not hurting for money?
Gosh – what is the story? I thought their main purpose, by their own talking points, was that they were all bout service and providing the highest quality of response.
If they were really an efficient organization, their outreach legislatively would already be in place and every PP would have their own PR and outreach people. Maybe they are not as organized and professional as they portray themselves.
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Make $335 to $535 per week! A little extra money for community organizers during the downtime between presidential elections. Sweet. Will they (Grassroots Campaigns) be doing background checks?
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If they were really an efficient organization, their outreach legislatively would already be in place and every PP would have their own PR and outreach people. Maybe they are not as organized and professional as they portray themselves.
joyfromillinois,
I don’t think the words ”professional” and “PP” are generally found in the same sentence except maybe in their own boardroom.
Jill’s right, it’s difficult to muster exuberant support to kill babies.
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Sorry duplicate!
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You mean there aren’t thousands of women who rally excitedly to volunteer for choice and freedom?! You mean all those happy volunteers are actually for the pro-life side? People who advocate killing babies have to … to pay people?!
Wow who knew? I thought women would be willing to volunteer for something as important as “choice” and “freedom.” Hmmm.
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At the Good Friday Prayer Vigil in St. Paul, MN I have heard tell that the college students that come to scream for PP all get a free Subway sub!!! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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It isn’t really “grassroots” if they’re having to find professional lobbyists, is it? But then, I suppose “Astroturf Campaigns” doesn’t have the same ring to it.
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Their website doesn’t list the Planned Parenthood campaign. Aren’t they proud of their baby-killing-“choice” advocacy?
I wish I lived near Boston. I’d go protest outside of their office. My sign would say “I’m not getting paid to be here.” :-)
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Wait a minute, is my mammogram money paying for this? LOL!!
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This company is everywhere. My college campus is covered with their signs. I was intrigued by the idea of helping others over the summer, so I set up an interview. I was pissed when I discovered they work with the abortion lobby. When I think of helping people I think of clothing and feeding them, not killing them. I was also told that if you do not raise enough money each week, they fire you. The interview was such a waste of my time.
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I wonder how they screen for employees. I wonder if I should apply being noticeably pregnant and all. Imagine how that would look, a 5 month pregnant woman shouting in support for “choice.” I’d look great in that pink shirt with my belly! (sarcastic)
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RCH – I think you should apply! I am going to call tomorrow and see if they won’t hire me…I need some extra cash.
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“why do they need tax-payer money if they have enough to pay people to be activists?”
Seriously, here is the answer. It is all a money-laundering deal. We democrats work lock-step, despite our supposed support for the downtrodden and defenseless, and despite our “hope,” for the abortion providers to continue receiving money from entrenched federal programs, and they in turn provide entrenched election campaign funding.
I worked as an activist for one of these groups a long time ago. Door-to-door fundraising/canvassing. I was around to attend a conference/convention of the various similar “progressive” affiliated programs across the US. The most active near our locale was an anti-nuke group, largely Quakers. No one had religiously-oriented principles except these pacifist Quakers.
Metzenbaum of Ohio was the keynote speaker. But it was not democratic politics like I had known for nearly 20 yrs up to that point. It was something else.
These people call themselves democrats, but are marxists. Hear me now, believe me later.
And they are more than excited to hire “astroturf,” a term they accuse the tea partyers of practicing to have decent numbers. All it takes to prove “astroturf” is to browse Craigslist. Pathetic.
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/5/planned-parenthoods-millions-still-missing/
Where did all the money go? Into the election coffers.
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Harvey Milk used to hire Jim Jones’ followers to pad out his rallies, by the busload.
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This just made my day.
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