Jeff,

WE LOVE YOU!!!

You guys missed a published public notice and now you're embarrassed.

Gee, it now looks like Planned Parenthood fully disclosed EXACTLY what they were doing, and the other 170,000 residents of Aurora were just fine with it.

Laura,
Again Laura, the number is 1-800-GET-HELP.

Sandy, LOL!!

Laura said: "You guys missed a published public notice..."

This sounds a lot like my favorite cousin's very nasty first wife, who wanted their son to be adopted by her second husband without my cousin's knowledge. She, too, published public notice in the local newspaper where she lived -- halfway across the country from my cousin, knowing that he would never see it. So yes, she complied with the law but in a manner that was morally and effectively no different than if she hadn't. (My cousin only found out about it because her father was so shocked that he ratted out his own daughter.)

Nasty, hate-filled, underhanded people will search out the minimal methods needed to comply with the law, while completely escaping the responsibilities and consequences of doing things in a lawful and moral manner. Based on the evidence presented in this post, I would not say that "Planned Parenthood fully disclosed EXACTLY what they were doing" to the people of Aurora. And people who believe that someone tried to pull a fast one will often withdraw support for something that they might not have objected to otherwise, so I don't see how Planned Parenthood expected to come out on the winning side.

So why does Planned Parenthood feel the need to conduct their business in this sneaking manner? Do they not believe that their position is strong enough to win support in an open forum?

Laura said: "You guys missed a published public notice..."

This sounds a lot like my favorite cousin's very nasty first wife, who wanted their son to be adopted by her second husband without my cousin's knowledge. She, too, published public notice in the local newspaper where she lived -- halfway across the country from my cousin, knowing that he would never see it. So yes, she complied with the law but in a manner that was morally and effectively no different than if she hadn't. (My cousin only found out about it because her father was so shocked that he ratted out his own daughter.)

Nasty, hate-filled, underhanded people will search out the minimal methods needed to comply with the law, while completely escaping the responsibilities and consequences of doing things in a lawful and moral manner. Based on the evidence presented in this post, I would not say that "Planned Parenthood fully disclosed EXACTLY what they were doing" to the people of Aurora. And people who believe that someone tried to pull a fast one will often withdraw support for something that they might not have objected to otherwise, so I don't see how Planned Parenthood expected to come out on the winning side.

So why does Planned Parenthood feel the need to conduct their business in this sneaking manner? Do they not believe that their position is strong enough to win support in an open forum?

Posted by: Pat at September 19, 2007 4:12 PM
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That's silly Pat. Do you fantasize that you should have been specifically notified? If you are so paranoid about PP why aren't you scouring the legal notices on a daily basis?
As for your silly cousin, if he had provided his ex with his address, her placing a newspaper add would have been redundant and contrary to legal procedure.

Laura, THEY PUBLISHED THE F***ING THING IN ANOTHER TOWN'S NEWSPAPER, FORTY MILES AWAY!

You're supposed to publish these notices in the LOCAL paper.

This is akin to a man claiming he told his girlfriend he was married -- because after all, his wedding announcement had been published when he tied the knot, in another town forty miles away.

Laura, is there ANYTHING that PP could do that would in any way diminish your worship of them?

How can an organization that makes it a point to try to eliminate the poor, the disabled, and minorities elicit the kind of blind worship PP garners from its followers?

Do you hate the poor, the disabled, and minorities that much that anybody who sets out to wipe them from the face of the earth would have your unqualified support? Or do you just love the pink motif?

So let me see if I have this correct: If we follow the PP agenda as set forth by their founder, once we have eliminated the poor, the blacks, the less than intelligent, and oh yeah, the unwanted - there will be no more need for planned parenthood and their child killing ways?

Why not extend this to the fraudulent, lying, conniving, truth-manipulating, lemming schemers of the world, too? I can think of a few......... Do the initials S.T. mean anything to anyone???

M: So let me see if I have this correct: If we follow the PP agenda as set forth by their founder, once we have eliminated the poor, the blacks, the less than intelligent, and oh yeah, the unwanted - there will be no more need for planned parenthood and their child killing ways?

Just what do you think is a dangerously low population of those groups?

Sally:
My cousin's address/phone was not ever a secret from his ex-wife. She deliberately sought to keep her intent a secret from him so that he would not be able to defend his parental rights, just as she had defied court orders to deny him parental visitation. (But perhaps you think that fathers should not have parental rights.) Far from being silly, my cousin is an excellent parent with two daughters who adore him; any child would be lucky to have him for a dad. His ex-wife cheated his child out of a loving parent, and robbed his mother of her only grandson. She did so because she is a hateful person, not because there was anything in his conduct that would make him an unfit parent whose child had to be protected from him at all costs. Perhaps you think my cousin -- or any man at all -- should not have rights equal to a mother's and that he shouldn't have had a fair chance to object to his son's adoption behind his back, at the hands of a woman who deliberately circumvented the intent of the law requiring notification of the other parent.

My comment did not say anything that implied an expectation of personal, individual notice of Planned Parenthood's intent. My comment focused on PP's deliberate circumvention of the intent of the law by publishing in a venue far removed from Aurora and therefore unlikely to be read by people of Aurora. This may meet the wording of the law, but it most certainly does not meet the intent: that persons who will be affected by the planned action should have advance notice so that they can exercise their right to review, debate, and influence what is planned for their community. PP used this sneaky and underhanded tactic deliberately so that they would not have to face the objections or questions of the community that will have to live with them -- just as my cousin's ex-wife deliberately chose a sneaky and underhanded tactic designed to keep my cousin in ignorance of her intentions for his son, depriving him of his right to object or question her plans, or even to meet the adoptive parent. She knew his address and his phone number, but had no intention of giving him any kind of notice that would be, like, "actual" notice. Her tactic stinks; Planned Parenthood's tactic stinks for the same reasons.