Planned Parenthood’s “cheeky” new ad campaign
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England is running a “cheeky and irreverent” new ad campaign online, on buses, and in local newspapers…
I’d call the ads tacky and tawdry, but I’m just a dowdy pro-lifer.
I do wonder about the cheekiness, coming at a time when Planned Parenthood is trying to repair its shattered brand. But who am I to get in the way of Planned Parenthood’s gutter double entendres?
What I do find most interesting is the money PPNNE apparently has to blow on marketing.
According to PPNNE’s Fall/Winter 2011 newsletter it hired “design powerhouse” Jager Di Paola Kemp in 2010 to “revolutionize” its architecture, signage, equipment (?), and signage “to convey the nervy, confident, and intrepid nature of PPNNE and its next generation of patients.”
PPNNE followed by creating an “equally bold ad campaign” with the help of Spike Advertising.
Don’t forget PPNNE’s Steve Trombley is the 5th highest paid Planned Parenthood affiliate CEO in the U.S. at ~$300K.
Which brings me to a flashback, when the New Hampshire Executive Council attempted to defund PPNNE to the tune of $1.8 million seven months ago, pretty much when it was spending all this marketing money. Sky-Is-Falling Trombley was quoted as saying:
We will not be able to continue to see the more than 15,000 patients we see every year in our New Hampshire locations. In terms of where we would not continue services, we do not know the answer to that yet. But we do know that this will have a devastating and significant effect on a number of women and families in this state.
Thank goodness President Barack Obama, a friend of Planned Parenthood as well as Trombley’s, reinstated funding!
Otherwise PPNNE might have had to trim Trombley’s salary and cancel the new art.
[HT: Mary of the Vermont Right to Life Committee]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Again, classy.
Obviously PP has no morals whatsover. Poor people. Must continue to pray for them.
Despicable! How do the blood thirty promoters of Planned (Un-) Parenthood sleep at night?!
I see nothing wrong with this campaign. its sound advertising. it grabs people’s attention and causes them to read the smaller part that says what the company is.
“We’re your morning after” You got that right.
Well, at least now children can die in a bold, modern environment. Can you imagine the outrage if any other agency received so much federal money and yet hired a designer like this?
Tacky ads, too.
This is like McDonald’s newly renovated and furnished restaurants. It looks very pretty from the outside for sure. Yet it doesn’t change the fact that most, if not all, services PP has to offer are unhealthy for you. :(
Hmmm…I guess PP’s going for other colors now, huh?
Maybe they should try blood red for truth in advertising instead of the neon-pastel colors.
yep…classy.
How about WE ARE YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE?
Jill,
Perhaps we should come up with our own campaign ads to counter these.
Here’s one:
We’re Your Breast Cancer
(Our pills will increase your risk of the worst form of BC 540% if you start before age 18.)
We can add the scientific reference in even smaller print.
Here’s another:
We’re Your HPV and Herpes Infection
About our condoms…
(FDA says: “Genital ulcer diseases and HPV infections can occur in both male and female genital areas that are covered or protected by a latex condom, as well as in areas that are not covered.”)
Here’s another:
We’re Your Premature Birth
(Abortions often damage the cervix, leading to inability to hold babies in for a full term in future pregnancies .)
Here’s another:
We’re Your Sterility
(Abortions often badly scar the uterus, leading to future sterility.)
Another One:
We’re Your PID
(Performing gynecologic surgery on women with untreated Chlamydia infection leads to Pelvic Inflammatory Disease in up to 25% of these women within a month. Hey, ask us if we test you for Chlamydia before aborting your baby!)
{Wanna guess the answer to that one?}
Last one for now:
We’re Your Ectopic Pregnancy
(Progestin-only contraceptive use is associated with a five-fold increase in ectopic pregnancies among progestin-only users)
desperation has an ugly, ugly face.
Dr. Nadal,
That’s great! : ) Your ads are both truthful and more tasteful.
Here’s some more:
We’re Your Regret and Depression…for life
And:
We’re Your Ruined Relationships
Or what about this?
We’re That Empty Place in Your Heart
It breaks my heart that so many women are lulled by the crafty lies spread by the abortion industry. Such a beautiful facility! Lovely colors! Everything is clean and happy…. except that it’s not. It’s like a white-washed tombs.
Also… Psssh non-profit my foot!!!
“Be as shrewd as snakes and innocent as doves.” Matthew 10:16
I have been doing PL work for over 25 years and they can still leave me speechless….
Gerard, I was thinking of that exactly…
We’re your destroyer of babies and dreams….
a BIG UGH!
Hopefully it will backfire big time….
Well. At least they are not hiding the real reasons they want to continue killing kids. Sexual immorality. Up front and center.
We are going to put all of these people out of work.
Abolish HUMAN Abortion,
IJP
Hey Jill lets run a contest to see who can come up with the best counter ads!
Good idea Theresa! A lifetime supply of Italian pastries to the winner!!! ;-)
Considering PP’s racist past and present, a more honest ad for them would be “We’re your Auschwitz… Exterminating the inferior races and defective children”.
I have to disagree with the vast majority of comments here. My GUESS is that most in opposition to the CAMPAIGN and SIGNAGE are under the age of 32…..that of which is PP’s general demographic. While others over the age of 32 have usually made “family birthing decisions” The new advertising is edgy and grabs the attention of the reader (which I’m guessing was the designers intention)
As a “poor person that needs to be prayed for” I use planned parenthood to help me in the cost of my birth control because I cannot afford the doctors that charging horrific pricing and offer no financial assistance. PP does bring around moral value questions but if you strip away the controversies you are left with one thing that our unemployed, underpaid, financially burdened economy of people need…….. affordable healthcare.
That’s what county health clinics are for, APP.
The adds are great! And I know the designers are proud of their work. Also proud to do work for Planned Parenthood. I have and will support the Planned Parenthood organization. The most important services that Planned Parenthood Provides is education! How is education a bad thing? I’ve called planned parenthood just for information and there is always a friendly knowledgable person willing to give me information that I am inquiring about. I started going to Planned Parenthood when I was 21 and first sexually active young and poor they helped with discounted services and birth control that I would not have been able to get otherwise I worked full time and went to school full time at a community college with no insurance…. I’m now a 32 year old mother of 2 beautiful boys and would not hesitate to go to a planned parent hood for an annual exam… My first pregnancy was actually confirmed at a Planned Parenthood!
Go you!! Living happily ever after!!
Perhaps Tony the Tiger could be the new PP spokes animal.
THEY’RE GGGRRREEEAAATTT!!
Dear poor person,
You are guessing as to the age of commenters on this thread?
Good luck with that.
It is oh so “edgy” to dress up child killing in vibrant colors and catchy slogans!!! And yet….it’s still child killing.
Gerard and LibertyBelle… Great ideas. And absolutely true.
@ Pamela…..while you make an excellent point not all are available……. PP is local but the nearest county health clinic is over 100 miles away
PP, you have a misspelling on this one:
“We’re your morning after”
It should be spelled “m o u r n i n g”
Make sure you abort it.
Great point GPP! The main focus is education and affordable care.
“Child-killing” is not the only “service” offered at PP.
PP assisted me with fertility issues and medications that I would never have been able to afford at my regular OBGYN. Services that are not offered by my local county clinic. PP is directly responsible for helping to CREATE my happy family. I will continue to support them and recommend the to others with similar problems.
Finally I’ve seen an abortion advocate use “vast majority” correctly!! Hooray. Usually, commenters like ‘reality’ use the phrase to indicate their own wishful thinking on statistics that don’t exist.
It’s swell that “poor” doesn’t hold a grudge against Margaret Sanger for referring to the poor as “human weeds.” Some of us think that “the poor” should have every chance at life as all other human beings. And abortion advocates think that “the poor” should simply be killed before birth, cuz y’know, that’s like so compassionate. You could safely say that Planned Parenthood loves the poor to death.
“PP assisted me with fertility issues and medications that I would never have been able to afford at my regular OBGYN.”
Wow, you were too poor to learn about fertility issues and get medications anywhere other than PP but you started a family. How did you ever afford kids?
You either scammer of the system or you are liar. I guess you could be both.
How arrogant and in your face. they are applaing.
They went to an ad agency for these? Do all PP’s use the same marketing people? Because I saw these ads and instantly thought “Planned Parenthood.” I mean, score one for branding, I suppose, but given that my other instant reaction is “They’re trying to sell abortions. Don’t trust a word they say.” then I would’ve thought they’d ask the ad-peoples to make these a bit different from their usual advertisement offerings. Considering they’re trying to “rebrand” as the improved, trustworthy, we’re-really-not-helping-to-hide-pedophiles-and-child-abusers-honest people that they aren’t and all.
@ praxedes
I learned of my fertility issues from my regularly high paid OBGYN, who then informed me of the options and cost involved. I wanted a second opinion and was referred by a friend to PP. They were somehow able to not reach into my pocketbook and take everything in order for me to have a family. I’m talking about a cost difference of $300 on medications and $50 less per shot for the same percriptions that my OBGYN recommended….I don’t “scam the system”. My husband and I both work full time jobs and my child has never gone without anything he needed. Obviously you’ve never had to face any infertility issues or have more money than you know what to do with.
I’m actually amazed that PP gets involved in infertility treatment. Learn something new every day.
I wish prenatal care was a larger percentage of the services they provide to pregnant women. Last year only 9% of the pregnant women PP saw were given prenatal care. The other 91% were given abortions. :(
Don’t forget:
“We’re your mamm- …oh, well, we don’t actually own any mammogram equipment…”
The main focus is abortion. You know it, I know it and PP sure as he** knows it!!
So many happy PP folks here today. Gleefully cheering on the abortion industry and how “helpful” and “compassionate” they are while killing babies and wounding women.
Roses and rainbows and unicorns at the Happy Killing Clinic. But pay no attention to that. LOOK AT OUR NEATO SIGNAGE!!
How about:
“We are your secret that will make a wedge between you and those you love.”
“We are happy to take your money, but won’t be there when you have trouble with your abortion…”
“We think you should make your own decisions, but if a man is forcing you to have an abortion, we side with him.” (true story)
“We think you should have your abortion, and we will try to make your driver give our nurses the keys to the car.” (true story)
“We care for you, and want your abortion to be at home, so we don’t have as much overhead.”
“We care so much for you, that we bring an abortion doctor from over 3 hours away, and you will never see him again (unless you want another abortion)..” (true story)
I’m sure I will think of others….
Wow, I can see an uptick of frigidity and erectile dysfunction if this ad campaign becomes pervasive.
Shameless promotion: Click on my nic and read up … the Indiana Senate Health committee passed through SB 72 and made Planned Parenthood cry.
Indiana Senate is now looking for the basis of planned parenthood’s practice of cutting the mifepristone and jacking up the misoprostil (off label protocol for both drugs).
Pharmer is convinced that the basis is: the hospitals are available to clean up their incomplete abortions.
The best response is to fire up the social media tech and start spreading these brilliant truth-dealing parodies of the PP ads.
Planned Parenthood is going to spend a LOT of money in trying to repair their brand and reputation. They will do everything they can to distance themselves
– from the abetting of human sex trafficking,
– from the cover-ups of sexual abuse of minors,
– from the fiscal abuse of public funds,
– from dangers of hormonal birth control and STD’s,
– from the Congressional investigation, and
– from Gosnell and his nasty ilk
— all of which have exposed Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry for what they are.
Planned Parenthood will try lobbying, advertising, anything they can think of…. until the money is gone and the doors are closed. We just need to keep the truth in front of the public.
“We’re the ones who are already encouraging your kids to have sex.”
I have to say that I am the director of a pregnancy center. I believe these ads, and thinking outside the box, makes for quite brilliant marketing. We are striving to think outside the box, as we try to reach those who need us the most. This kind of advertising, unfortunately, is right where Generation Y lives. I would change them slightly, but these could actually work for us… I can imagine the uproar of some of the pro-life people, though, if we did.
Let’s just say for the sake of argument someone isn’t familiar with Planned Parenthood and doesn’t know about the organization.
Now, that person is sitting there looking at that sign, and in big letters they read
Planned Parenthood
Sexual Experience.
Okay they know what parenthood is and sexual experience. So, there are the words parent and sex together. It just doesn’t work in the sense of being titillating. I am thinking ‘parent’, like responsible, like my parents, like being a parent, like planning etc. It comes off weird. It doesn’t fit with trying to arouse lust like those ads for erotica do.
PPNE: We’re your neighborhood pedophile protection racket! And every US taxpayer is now paying for it.
Anybody but Obama in 2012!
thats just psychotic !!!!
Neat, straight forward and effective ads. Well designed for their display location.
I think that some of the alternatives which have been suggested might just bump into some problems in regards to truth in advertising.
Yeah, Reality, because if Planned Parenthood told the truth in its advertising, people would demand that those baby-killers go to prison forever.
You appear to have the wrong end of the stick Clarice.
The PP ads are truthful.
It’s some of the suggested alternatives from commenters here which aren’t.
ABANDON ALL HOPES AND JOHNNYS, YE WHO ENTER HERE
Go Planned Parenthood,
“The adds are great!”
You mean the “subtracts”, don’t you? That’s what Planned Parenthood is all about.
All you people cheering on PP, you forget: Free clinics will also help you for free. That’s why they’re called free clinics. If you have trouble paying for pregnancy services, you can go to a pregnancy resource center, and get those exact same services for free. Planned Parenthood is trying to shut down pregnancy resource centers that are there to help women like you, women and families who cannot afford the things they need. PRCs offer services like medical, food, clothing, shelter, education, job training and references, help with bills, baby items, etc. that PP can afford, but laugh at doing.
When NYC had their hearings on whether to outlaw PRCs, a woman who was 28 weeks pregnant testified that the PRC near her helped her when she said she couldn’t afford a car seat, and one legally cannot take a baby out of a hospital without a car seat, even if they have no car. The woman testifying stated that she had previously gone into the local PP to see if they could help, and they said, “We can’t help you get a car seat, but you do qualify for a late-term abortion since you are under psychological stress due to monetary expenses.” She went to the local PRC, called EMC Frontline, and they helped her. She didn’t want an abortion, she wanted her baby, she just needed a car seat!
Bottom line: Planned Parenthood’s answer to this woman’s problem was that she should kill her much-wanted baby, rather than tell her where she could get a car seat.
That ought to tell you where their priorities lie. And no, this was not just a one-time thing. Stories like this happen more often than you think, just ask any sidewalk counselor.
Have pity on us for the look of things
When blank denial stares us in the face.
Though the serpent mask has lied before,
It fascinates the bird. – George MacDonald
Dittos Dr. Nadal, Christine, Theresa, LibertyBelle and others.
Challenge for “Reality”: either specify which counter-ad claims are false and back it up with evidence, or apologize to Dr. Nadal, LibertyBelle, et al for aspersions on their integrity and intelligence, change your moniker…or move to a planet where your “reality” actually exists…if you can find one. It isn’t earth, which is the only one I know of that supports human life. As long as you remain here, kindly start supporting human life, and not its willful, senseless destruction. It may be your opinion that chopped babies are the greatest thing since sliced bread, but there is no medical evidence that these savage acts of violence do no do serious harm to your first victims’ mothers; there is abundant evidence to the contrary which I would think you would at least examine if you actually gave a rat’s behind about the welfare of women.
Trombley’s hysterical claim that PPs curtailed activities “will have a devastating and significant impact on women and families” is stunning; it is PPs “services” that have arguably wrought significant devastation on women and families for decades…and of course they know it. But they are more interested in their population reduction agenda and bottom line than the wellbeing of either women or families.
Thinking on counterads, it’s hard to beat Dr. Nadal’s suggestions;
but some random thoughts here would be “WE’RE WATCHING YOUR PRIVATE AREA”; procreation police on a search and destroy mission; (Same small print for the “morning after” ad)
for “WE’RE YOUR FRIEND WITH BENEFITS”, etc., put “WE’RE YOUR STRANGER WITH CANDY” Protecting predators for profit; or “WE’RE YOUR PIED PIPER” luring you to death;
for “Sexual health experts with answers,knowledge, and advice” put “Sexual disease peddlers with avarice, deliberate misinformation and an agenda”
How about a simple, straightforward “WE’RE YOUR SLAUGHTERED CHILDREN”; followed by, after MacDonald’s (the hamburger chain, not the Scottish author), “Millions killed since 1973, and counting”. Or, WE’RE YOUR EXPLOITED, MAIMED MOTHERS (Keeping unsafe needless invasive surgery legal for profit and destruction since 1973)
Not a pretty picture, but after 39 years, it’s proven accurate enough to make any humane person who still thinks that PP deserves more support and sympathy than its victims reconsider and repent. “Reality”, CC, et al, wake up.
We’re your incompetent cervix… Planned Unparenthood
We’re your years of regret.
I would like to add a few MORE signs to PP new ad campaign. “We’re your STD.”, “We’re your devasted relationship”, We’re your infertility problem”, We’re your destruction of the family”, We’re your pedophile enabler”, We’re the abbetors of your incest”, And don’t you just LOVE the “Sex Positve” poster. Are the really too stupid to see the double meaning there. YES, your “positive” attitude about sex outside of marriage will DEFINITLY lead to POSITIVE results…for HIV, AIDS, SYPHILIS, GONORRHEA, HPV…..
Trish,
How do you figure that sex out of marriage will definitely lead to positive results for STDs? Yes, it is POSSIBLE, but NOT a definite. Just because SOME people choose to be irresponsible with having unprotected sex, NOT ALL people who have premarital sex will be irresponsible.
Also, some of these counter-adds make little to no sense. “We’re your STD”? Last time I checked, PP isn’t giving people STDs. I would also like to know how PP enables pedophilia and incest…
Oh, VERY GOOD, Carla and Pharmer!
A couple more …
We’re your tax dollars at work, accompanied by a photo of an aborted first trimester baby and smaller print with something like “destroying America’s future *one life at a time since 1973″ – this one wherever PP gets government funding; and in smaller print, *sometimes we get lucky and snuff out two at once – abortion kills born women, too – PP”
We’re the King Herod (or wolf) in your manger or living nativitiy scene– this one especially for the Christmas season, also accompanied by a graphic photo; and the smaller print would read, Keeping the massacre of innocents alive and babies dead since 1973.
Or possibly Tearing your future to pieces on earth since 1973. The PP logo should be placed on or near the photos. Or perhaps We’re your ”before the ghosts” Ebenezer Scrooge, Putting down the “surplus population” since 1973 – Banned Parenthood. Also accompanied by a photo…
This one just for February, as it is Black History month and just around the corner:
We’re your “ethnic cleansing” or racial genocide, working hard to make blacks history from day one with a photo of a black child’s face and a website such as blackgenocide.org. Oh, yes, it’s also Valentine’s Day. so perhaps We’re your broken heart, perhaps followed by Margaret Sanger’s infamous remark about “the most loving thing…”
All for now, must go; but thanks for raising the question -!- keep up the good work, fellow lifers!
After a bit of fiddling, I’ve come up with some image ones. Trafficking, for example.
Those rounded corners are really fiddly to duplicate, I discovered.
…And two more.
Budget Crisis
Cold Shoulder
Now to think of one to do in the green background…
Sami – They encourage irresponsible sexual behavior and call it “safer sex” even though you can get STDs such as herpes and genital warts (HPV) while using a condom correctly. There is also some suspicion about them handing out substandard condoms and giving low-dose BC pills without warning patients about their effectiveness being decreased if taken while on a course of antibiotics. Regarding pedophiles/sex trafficking rings, PP is known for facilitating abortions for underage girls who are under the legal consent age or whose partners are known to the personnel to be over the age of majority and failing to report statutory rape to the appropriate authorities as they are required to do by law. They are also willing to perform abortions on women who are trapped in sex trafficking rings without reporting this to the authorities so these women could get help and get out.
The incidence of STDs are very high. Having sex with only one person in a committed, monogamous relationship for life (in other words, marriage) is the best defense against STD infection. Each time a person sleeps with a new partner their probability of contracting an STD increases hugely.
It isnt irresponsible when you know what you are getting into if you take the precautions necessary to protect yourself and your partner. There are ways to protect yourself while still not waiting until marriage (insist on going with your partner to get BOTH of you tested for STDs).
Regardless of the standard of what is being handed out, people CAN research this and make the decision for themselves whether or not to trust the products, just like any other readily available product. If they choose to use the product given out by PP that is on them.
Happy to help you understand, Sammi. First of all, since the “sexual revolution” rates of STD’s have SKYROCKETED. Birth Control FAILS….A LOT! (Number of abortions per year should tell you that.) The ONLY way to ensure that you do NOT get or spread an STD is ONE man, ONE woman, ONE LIFETIME. EVERY abortion by someone who is NOT following this example means and STD could have been spread. And sinces 82% of college age males now carry HPV…I’d say this is exactly what is happening. By promoting sex without consequence and abortions as birth-control PP IS promoting this VAST increase in all STD’s. And I’m a little surprised about your question re: incest and pedophiles. Even the biased main-stream media was forced to report on this one. Go to youtube and find the videos by Live Action. They are undercover investigations showing PP offerring abortions to 13 year old girls who tell the PP worker that their “boyfriend” is 31. My “favorite” part is where the PP worker says to just put the age of the “boyfriend” as 17. Their are also videos of men posing as pimps bringing in girls THEY ADMIT are 14 years old and PP telling them, “no problem” we’ll get her an abortion. Any more questions??
I think it is odd to say that PP is OK because it offers other services besides killing our children.. Isn’t it like saying the Nazis are OK because of all the medical advancement they gave to us?
The medical advancement from the Nazis came at the cost of so many lives- I would rather not have that medical advancement.
Killing children is too much of a cost for me to justify buying contraception from PP. If you can’t afford contraception, or having children, then KEEP YOUR PANTS ON.
Also, think of it this way. When you go in to buy contraception, if a PP representative told you that in order for them to sell you the contraception at such a low price, you’ll need to find them 5 babies to kill- who would you choose??? You may not have to physically make that decision, but it is exactly what PP does to offer their other ‘services’. PP makes the majority of its money on abortions.
Alice, YOU’RE HIRED!! Like, like, like!! Now, where’s Cranky Catholic’s witty contributions?
Sami, you poor little darling. “Safe Sex” is a marketing ploy, not a real thing.
Alice – GREAT job! we should make those side-walk counseling signs… I’ll have to think on this a bit!
how about: “We are your infertility.” in honor of my friend who is now infertile due to her abortion history. This is why I am doing side-walk counseling in the first place. She told me that if anyone was on the side-walk praying or trying to make a difference, she would have seen that as a sign that she should not have gone in for her abortion. She would have her own natural family now.
Thankfully, whe and her husband adopted their foster-son, and he is the apple of their eyes.
Reality – the ones I highlighted as true-story are the ones I personally witnessed. There are dozens others – all heart breakers. all true. Just thought your should know. We even had one man threaten a young woman:
first threat – “get in there now, stop talking to her (me) – or I’ll leave you here.” They drove from 2 hours away to get to the clinic.
2nd threat – “get in there now, or you will be homeless by this evening.” With that, she looked at me with very sad eyes, and said she had to go, she could not afford to have her and her child out on the street. We offered to help with housing, transportation, but she capitulated to him, and went in to the clinic. utterly sad, and true.
Abortion is an insane and cruel business. And there are those who use abortion to get what they want at the expense of another – not only the life of the child, but the bullying and control of the woman also.
A green one! False Promises.
I’m trying to think of ones about opposing any and all safety regulations, skirting laws about parental consent/abortions for minors, and illegally using medicaid money to fund abortions, but I’m having trouble making it fit on the sign.
I never said I believe in there being “Safe Sex”, I’m saying that I believe there are ways to protect yourself. Look at this way. You live in a high-crime area where muggings are common and you decide to carry around a gun. Having the gun will help PROTECT you, but it doesnt necessarily make you SAFE. You can still get mugged. Same idea with protected sex. You COULD get an STD, but its not a guarantee and in protecting yourself if you do make the choice WILL lower your risk.
As for cover-ups, is it really any different from the Catholic Church scandal?
All of this is coming from someone who spent 15 years in Catholic School, and who has had 5 years of Generation Life talks. The problem I find with all of it is that they way it is all presented comes off as a gimmicky joke, especially to teens who think they know the answer to everything.
From a pure marketing standpoint, PP wins on that ground. They know how to grab attention and market themselves.
@joyfromillinois: As requested. Infertility.
To Sami,
I can’t answer for Trish, but PP does promote behavior that causes STDs, for profit. The best “protected sex” is a committed (responsible) , monogamous marriage to one uninfected partner, the one mode of sexual activity that is scorned and discouraged by PP. Condoms, esp. latex ones, have an abyssmal failure rate, even when used per directions, at preventing AIDS, and other STDs – they do tear, leak, and even intact ones cannot prevent the transmission of AIDS.
And though it isn’t a disease but a normal function of a healthy reproductive system, unplanned pregnancy isn’t necessarily prevented by condom use, or much else that PP offers as making illicit sex “safe”.
Not everyone that engages in extramarital sex gets an STD; but the more its practiced, the higher the risk is. I don’t know of any STDs among people who abstained from sex until marriage to an uninfected partner and remained faithful to that partner, do you?
Here’s one. We are now an environmentally friendly-source and now going “green”. Let us help you do your part to save our planet by killing the babies–oops–I mean by population control.
PP is desperate.
My apologies for posting twice.
You guys are incredibly hypocritical. Please educate yourselves. Drop the Bible and pick up some non-fiction.
Naturally they are going to promote a culture devoid of morals. They need repeat customers. Let’s turn todays youth into a bunch of morally corrupt sex addicts who in turn will get themselves knocked up and keep PP in business. If young woman today have self respect that is not good for business. With self respect comes responsibility. They can’t have that. These are sadistic people that prey on confused young woman. Disgusting.
OOOOh, JP, like Gloria Steinem’s memoirs?
How about you pick up a basic human biology textbook.
JP, why bring up the Bible? Abortion is a human rights issue, not a religious issue. Perhaps you should put down the liberal kool-aid you’ve been drinking and educate yourself.
http://secularprolife.org
Alice- Those are fantastic. I have already posted them on my facebook page. You are brilliant. We need more.
Alice – wonderful and thank you!
Mega-dittos, Ninek!
Congrats on the green one, Alice – looking forward to more…!
Sir Reality, perhaps you should pick up an A@P book. I am afraid that your concept of truth is skewed.
http://www.jdk.com/clients/planned-parenthood
It’s up on their web site. Take a look at that and guess how much it cost! I don’t know the answer, but having worked in that industry I can tell you it’s A LOT. The posters are horrible.
@Alice, I agree – you are brilliant! The classic undercover video by LiveAction is when the PP worker in New Jersey responds to the guy and girl’s (posing as the pimp and prostitute) question ”what can we do in the meantime- like how can we have sex?” And the PP employee responds in her tough-chick tone “waist up”. Pathetic.
@JP,
You do realize the entire Old Testament was confirmed as being accurate and unchanged when the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. Also, there is a method for determining the accuracy, legitimacy, and context called Literary Criticism. The Bible as known today has had nearly 2000 years of literary criticism, and who knows how many years of it in one form or another for the Old Testament. There are so much supporting documents, texts, and information to support the Bible that we should be questioning the existence of Plato and Aristotle in comparison. To completely disregard a text that nearly 3 to 4 Billion people on Earth either believe in or revere as a valid source of information is very foolish indeed. You are talking about a document that a prince of Egypt helped write, Emperors defended and supported its translation, kings feared, helped start an era of unprecedented freedoms, and is taken as the Word of God. The fact that you can even write the statement that it is fiction has been enabled by the principles contained within its very pages!
But, you would be a fool to take my word for it. Educate yourself by starting here:
http://oliverdemille.com/ This covers principles and sources of information. That way people can educate themselves and make their own decisions. Not swallow the indoctrination we call a “school system” in the USA.
Peace be with you.
“We’re your sexual partner… unless you actually decide NOT to kill your baby, in which case you’re on your own.”
My Experience at a Planned Parenthood
I went to Planned Parenthood last year and saw a nurse practitioner for my annual exam. You may be wondering, because I identify as pro-life, why I’d find myself in a Planned Parenthood. Well, although I had health insurance, it was a high deductible plan and we were tight on money, plus I wanted to see what the organization was like for my self. According to the National Planned Parenthood website, they list female infertility as one of their services, in addition to routine preventive care. I signed in and During the course of the exam, I explained that I have been diagnosed with PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome), one of the most common female endocrine disorders. I explained my concerns regarding the negative health implications associated with this condition and requested a medication to treat the symptoms. She replied that all she could offer was the regular birth control pill.. I tried to explain that I didn’t want the Pill, I’d experienced too many side effects and my husband and I were open to pregnancy. Even so, she continued to encourage to me to re-consider taking the Pill and I felt like I didn’t have much of a choice, between treating the symptoms of my condition or keeping my fertility. At no time during our discussion were any other options given. She continued to encourage me to take a script for the pill, although I was not interested. Getting no where and frustrated, I ended my appointment and took the script for a birth control pill of l which I had no intention of filling, so I could get out of there. I remained polite however and signed out at the desk and left. I later did some research and learned there are several other medications which can be prescribed to treat the symptoms of and address the underlying cause of PCOS without preventing fertility. Apparently this PP wasn’t equipped to provide infertility services or treat abnormal female reproductive conditions, nor did their staff seem interested in providing services to help me become pregnant.
Well, you’ve got to give it to them, when you think they can’t step lower, they do! And this generation Y girl thinks their recurrent choice of pepto-bismol-like colors is horrendous and their messages are not smart, they’re extremely creepy.
“We’re your Bedroom Intruder” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCXlL2MgIxA&feature=related
Seriously, all those PP slogans make me want to run away and scream, “RAAAAAPIST!” No, they are not my sexual experience, nor my friend nor my benefits, and they sure as heck are NOT my PRIVATE AREA. Perverts.
Thanks Jill for bringing this to light. We have some great Pregnancy Care Centers in Vermont but it is certainly difficult to compete with marketing from Planned Parenthood. Maybe this will move people to action to support pro-life centers.
These ads may be stupid, but I still support planned parenthood 100%. When I was poor, they provided me with check ups and screenings I couldn’t afford- even gave me free health insurance. Coming from a family prone to delibitating uterine and ovarian conditions (including tumors), that’s no small service.Too many judge this institution without full awareness of everything they actually do for people. I will never support pro-life centers that try to pressure young women into having children they don’t want. Planned Parenthood not only gives young women unbiased care and information, it also hands them the means to prevent themselves from ever needing an abortion. I’ve gotten birth control and condoms from Planned Parenthood, and have been sexually active and pregnancy-free since I was 18. Still, if the unthinkable happened- if I was raped or or my birth control failed me, I am happy to know that I have someplace to turn for an abortion that won’t try and bombard me propaganda and will respect my ability to make my own decisions.
Kindra @ 6:34 p.m. says: “I will never support pro-life centers that try to pressure young women into having children they don’t want.” You fail to understand that once a woman is pregnant, she already has a child. No one pressures her to reproduce. She already has. Abortion doesn’t change that, it just makes her vulnerable child dead. You need to familiarize yourself with what happens to the preborn human being in an abortion.
Kindra wrote: “Too many judge this institution without full awareness of everything they actually do for people.” Consider the following quote: “Among other things, and to his credit, Col. Simmons planned that his Klan would establish five universities, a publishing company, a banking and trust institution to aid ailing farmers, free homes to newly weds, a national full employment policy, a program to support orphans, several medical research centers, and a chain of hospitals.” source
If the KKK were to echo PP & say, “Lynching’s only 3% of what we do!”, I’m curious just what is an acceptable threshold of humans dying for you to be swayed in your 100% support?
It’s “unthinkable” that you might get pregnant from having sex? According to Guttmacher, over 50% of abortion-bound women were using birth control the month they conceived. Please educate yourself before anyone dies as a result of your ignorance.
“I will never support pro-life centers that try to pressure young women into having children they don’t want.”
klynn73 is correct, once a woman is pregnant, she already has a child. Check out an embryology book to confirm that your humanity began at your conception, as does everyone else’s.
Pro-life centers that also provide free ultrasounds, free pregnancy tests, free prenatal education, free diapers, free formula, free baby clothes, free car seats, free baby strollers, free cribs, free counseling services, free post-abortion healing programs, free referrals for medical and adoption services, and a loving, supportive community of women. Maybe you can claim the latter for Planned PARENTHOOD, but i have yet to hear of any Planned PARENTHOOD that provides actual PARENTHOOD assistance.
”I am happy to know that I have someplace to turn for an abortion that won’t try and bombard me propaganda”
Hah. Hah. Hah. Planned Parenthood was founded on propaganda (look up Margaret Sanger and her eugenic goals by pushing for more birth control), Planned Parenthood’s cash flow is dependent on propaganda (“Happy, Healthy and Hot” sex pamphlets being given to girls as early as age 8, empty pitch lines such as “Women are Watching” and “End the War on Women”, the “abortions make up only 3% of PP’s services” excuse, etc). Their vitriolic attacks against pregnancy resource centers is propaganda. Those “may be stupid” ads are PROPAGANDA. Abortion is a lucrative business, they’ll be all too happy to get paid to rip and suck your child out of you.
You can call a fetus whatever you want, it doesn’t change the fact that I don’t want one in me. Very few institutions are without some form of corruption or agenda. Planned Parenthood isn’t perfect, but they have helped me. And yes, I’m glad there’s a place out there that would be “all too happy to suck my child out of me” because I have no interest in making any new people. I think there are enough loveless children in need of homes and parents out there already. You see, the point at which “humanity” begins is a subjective matter, and I happen to believe it doesn’t begin until a child is capable of life outside of the mother’s womb. Up until that point, it’s not a whole lot different than a tumor in my opinion. You can launch hateful slogans at me all you want, but it doesn’t change my right to my own opinion any more than I hope to change yours.
I do want to make a clarification. I think EVERY woman, no matter her stance on her fertility or on abortion, has the right to pursue health care that is in line with her own beliefs. So, I’m glad there are BOTH pro-life pregnancy centers AND Planned Parenthoods. Both are biased, both have faults, but at least this way, every woman has an option that is more likely to suit her needs and her stance on reproductive rights. Pro-life centers aren’t for me any more than Planned Parenthood is right for any of you. So, although I say I would support a pro-life center, I just mean I wouldn’t go to one myself. Also, I have read up on accusations against planned parenthood. They do have an agenda, but it certainly isn’t eugenics. That’s a ridiculous story made up to turn people against them. I happen to agree with their real agenda of population control, however. They probably also want to make money, but as long as they’re helping the people that actually want their help along the way, I’m willing to accept that.
”You see, the point at which “humanity” begins is a subjective matter, and I happen to believe it doesn’t begin until a child is capable of life outside of the mother’s womb.”
You are assuming what you have not proven. And in one breath you refer to the fetus as a child, but state that a child isn’t human until viable. Freudian slip?
Leave the definition of humanity to subjectivity and you endanger yourself as well as the rest of us, or as the good Rev. Martin Luther King put it, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
“He who denies that human life begins with conception does not need to contend with religion, but science. To deny this certainty of biology is not to express a lack of faith, but a lack of basic knowledge of human genetics, something that is even known by the general public.”
—–Ecuadorian Federation of Societies of Gynecology and Obstetrics, April 17, 2008
The burden of proof is on you. You don’t have the right to kill people just because your personal belief denies their humanity.
Scenario #1: Two fetuses the exact same gestational age, but in two completely different countries. One is born prematurely and place into an intensive neonatal care unit and survives. The other is born at the same exact time but has no access to medical care, and is therefore not viable based on her surroundings, aka, she dies. Your claim, Kindra, would make the fetus delivered in the hospital a human being but the fetus delivered in a mud hut a non-human. Both the same age, but, your claim says that because of the surroundings in which they were born into, determines their humanity.
Scenario #2: Two fetuses are 4 weeks apart in gestational age. On the same day, in the same hospital, the younger one is delivered prematurely and placed in intensive neonatal care and survives, the older, more viable one is aborted and dies. Your claim, Kindra, would make both fetuses human, but the more viable one was aborted by her mother. You would have to accept that abortion kills viable human beings (which is true anyway, perfectly viable prenatal children are aborted every year).
Based on these two scenarios, do you still claim that humanity is subjective? Do you still claim that humanity begins at viability only?
You see, the point at which “humanity” begins is a subjective matter, and I happen to believe it doesn’t begin until a child is capable of life outside of the mother’s womb. Up until that point, it’s not a whole lot different than a tumor in my opinion.
Hahahahahahahaha! OH, wait… you’re serious?
Well, when tumors have brain waves, arms, legs, spines, heartbeats and digestive systems of their own, please be sure to let us know.
At my last visit to Planned Parenthood as a young adult, I was misdiagnosed by a young inexperienced doctor to have herpes. The nurse, scoffed in my presence and retorted “that’s no case of herpes I’ve ever seen”. He gave me a prescription for herpes, which didn’t work and the nurse put her arm around me and helped me out the door as I could barely walk. I was told to call in one week to get the results of the test.
I got in a fight with my partner because his doctor told him he had a “contact” infection, while I was insisting that it was herpes.
A week later I called the office to be told that the lab lost my test results, call back in a week to see if they were found.
Next wee, they were still lost, call back next week.
3rd week, the clerk hesitated before telling me my test was positive. huh? Positive that I had it, or positive that I didn’t. She hesitated again and said positive that I had it. Then total silence. I was waiting for her to offer me counselling, but she didn’t.
Is that it? I asked her. Yes she said.
Young and naive I believed everything they said. What a great malpractice suit I could have had if only I’d suspected.
Eventually I broke down and told my mother who sent me to her own doctor. I did not have herpes.
I wouldn’t send my dog to PP.
So, how much is this attagirl campaign costing us-as in the taxpayers?
I referred to the fetus as both a fetus and a child, because the point I’m trying to make is that if your conception of humanity is like mine, it doesn’t matter what you call it. I can think of a fetus before a certain age as a child and be completely ok with aborting it. Yes, fetuses of different ages can survive outside of the womb depending on the circumstances they are in, but there is a certain age before which they ABSOLUTELY can not survive outside the womb (without being frozen), no matter the technology available. As for fetuses having brain waves, this does not change my argument. Brain waves do not indicate consciousness, perception, or self-awareness. People in comas, for example, still have brain waves. I compare an early-stage fetus to a tumor because like a tumor, it is incapable of surviving outside the host body. Like a tumor, it is made of living cells and the DNA of its host. There actually have been cases in which fetuses are embedded in their twins and become tumors, and yes, they have arms and limbs and bones…but they aren’t people. The argument that abortion providers make money from the abortions they perform is completely moot. ALL doctors are paid for the medical procedures they provide, ALL health care is lucrative. let me say this again- you can call a fetus what you want; child, baby, cell-bundle, people like me will still believe that up to a point, it’s still ok to kill it. And yes, I’m perfectly willing to refer to an abortion as killing a child, killing a baby, or killing a fetus- as long as it happens before the stage at which that child/baby/fetus could survive outside the body, it’s all one and the same. Semantics don’t matter, and they’re not enough to sway me. As for reading up on embryology, my father is a surgeon and I’ve been reading embryology and anatomy books since I was 11 years old. At some point, you just have to accept that a person can be fully informed and still come to a different conclusion than you.
Also, I’m not trying to convince any of you that tumors and fetuses are the same thing. The comparison is meant to represent how I, and possibly others will similar viewpoints as my own, view fetuses and therefore why I feel it’s ok to abort them up to a certain point. They are not exactly the same of course, but I think that is the best way I have explaining how a thing can be alive, and part of ones own self, and still be OK to remove from one’s body. I respect anyone’s right to see life as beginning at conception, even if I don’t. Still, I think that if both sides of the argument can acknowledge ONE ANOTHER as people (should be easy enough, seeing as one side of this argument views fetuses as people) that it will become easier for all of us to find common cause. Planned Parenthood provides abortions, yes. But they also provide birth control. Providing ready access to birth control and sex education, whether it be through planned parenthood, schools, or health insurance, benefits pro-choicers and pro-lifers alike. Fewer unwanted pregnancies, fewer abortions. It also ensures that no woman is told she CAN’T have an abortion and be forced to have an unwanted child (for instance, in the case of rape). After all, no one is forcing any of you to have an abortion. Of course, for people like you who see abortion as murder, I suppose I can see where that wouldn’t be good enough…but I just can’t make any suggestions along those lines. I don’t want this country to go back to a place where abortion is illegal. I would love, however, for it to be rare. Again, another reason to support easy access to contraceptives. By the way, did you guys know that Planned Parenthood also provides mammograms and cancer screenings for women who can’t afford them?
“As for fetuses having brain waves, this does not change my argument. Brain waves do not indicate consciousness, perception, or self-awareness. People in comas, for example, still have brain waves.”
Interesting that you compare fetal children to coma patients in order to elaborate upon your pro-abortion view. Makes me worry for the well-being of coma patients.
“I don’t want this country to go back to a place where abortion is illegal.”
In order to go back, we have to go forward first. Legalized abortion hasn’t eliminated the back alleys, but it has made them permissible.
http://abortiondocs.org/clinic/surgical/6/birmingham-new-woman-all-women-health/
Google Kermit Gosnell.
“I would love, however, for it to be rare.”
What could possibly make you want it to be rare?
“By the way, did you guys know that Planned Parenthood also provides mammograms and cancer screenings for women who can’t afford them?”
Planned Parenthood does not provide mammograms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq0kBkUZbvQ
Unless you can give me the number of a Planned Parenthood facility that I can call to affirm that it does provide mammograms, your claim holds no water. As for clinical exams…. I don’t see why anyone needs Planned Parenthood to be groping her breasts when she can check herself at home for FREE.
“At some point, you just have to accept that a person can be fully informed and still come to a different conclusion than you.”
I at least appreciate that you are honest with your feelings, Kindra. Your views are deadly and unjust, nevertheless, you are free to have them. I have no problem accepting that an informed person has differing conclusions than my own, but I do have a problem with moral relativism when human lives are on the line. You seem to have no qualms supporting the killing of children–again, at least you are honest about it. I would love to keep your company like I would love to attend a KKK rally.