Can I still buy Girl Scout Cookies? =/

[CarlosBarrera]

I hope that I’m posting this in the right place, Planned Parenthood falls under social UNjustice, but if a MOD chooses to move it I apologize.

I was SO very excited to see the little girls working hard and selling cookies outside my local grocery store, but then a friend of mine mentioned that Girl Scouts donates money to Planned Parenthood. I had no idea about this, and…well, this just stinks. I, of course, do not want ANY of my money going to Planned Parenthood, so I’m wondering if any of you knows if they do or don’t actually donate money to PP?

I just love those cookies and I was a Brownie as a kid and I know that being in that organization did a lot of good for me, but that doesn’t excuse this if they are donating.

sigh I want my peanut butter patties.

The way I see it this: If the Girl Scouts were donating to the Nazis during the Holocaust, would it be appropriate to buy their cookies?

 

[RosaryFan]

I need proof of that badge

Well, that badge existed for a very brief time back in 1975 when I was ten years old (just long enough for Catholic schools to disband its Girl Scouts in our Archdiocese). All I have is my memory of this badge. Good luck finding proof. Back then, there was no internet, so it’s hard to find any documentation now that existed so briefly 35 years ago.

Anyway, I remember it. But I guess my memory isn’t proof enough for anyone else except myself.

However, if you start Googling and looking around the internet, you will find that the Girl Scouts are steeped in relationships with Planned Parenthood and radical feminism going back for many years! That badge was just the beginning and may have even been restricted to my region. You also see a pattern of passing the buck and denial when it comes to accusations of cookie money supporting the abortion industry and accusations of teaching young girls inapproriate or sexually explicit behavior (the recent United Nations event).

I find Girl Scouts to be sleazy.

 

[Freeda]

My daughter was in Brownies and Girl Scouts both sponsored at the Catholic School she attended and where I worked. I guess you all who demonize the Girl Scouts can take up with the Diocese of Charleston. I doubt they will listen to some of your alls radical rants.

I was also a Brownie and a Girl Scout in 1966 and 1968. I sold Girl Scout Cookies to my aunts…all Catholic…to my neighbors…also Catholic.

I buy Girl Scout cookies every year. I am well aware of how much money goes to where and how little goes to the troop itself. With that said, I doubt buying a box of cookies from a 10 yr old is going to condemn me to hellfire and brimstone.

I think some of you need to boycott the world and be done with it. I believe there are many unoccupied caves all over the world. Your life will be as simplistic and fish bowl as you like. Using old unproved data to scare folks or guilt folks as if God is going to condemn you for buying a box of Girl Scout cookies.

Has the Church said anything about buying Girl Scout cookies. No, I didn’t think so. Paranoia, once again run amok taken to the 9th degree.

I think I’ll get in my Ford, stop for a latte at Starbucks, swing by Wally world, pick up a box of Girl Scout cookies from the girls selling them outside Wally world and pick up a pink ribbon ink pen and pink ribbon day pocket day planner. After that I’ll call my gay real estate agent and see if he can get me an appraisal on my house and lest I forget attend a bbq the next day where I was invited by my gay neighbor.

Do you see how crazy this can get? Ridiculas, isn’t it?

I wish I had written this. Planned Parenthood is the only resource for many women
when it comes to health care, is there a Catholic organization that provides the same services in the same towns where you can find a Planned Parenthood office?
If not people are barking up the wrong tree, they should be raising money and making their own cookies to provide essential healthcare services for women, because if they don’t have insurance or an alternative Planned Parenthood will continue to thrive.
And of course I buy Girl Scout cookies, even though I agree with the poster who says that they’re a rip off. I even found the original recipe for Girl Scout cookies on the internet.

 

[Julianna]

I wish I had written this. Planned Parenthood is the only resource for many women
when it comes to health care, is there a Catholic organization that provides the same services in the same towns where you can find a Planned Parenthood office?
If not people are barking up the wrong tree, they should be raising money and making their own cookies to provide essential healthcare services for women, because if they don’t have insurance or an alternative Planned Parenthood will continue to thrive.
And of course I buy Girl Scout cookies, even though I agree with the poster who says that they’re a rip off. I even found the original recipe for Girl Scout cookies on the internet.

Thank you Freeda. And welcome I have suggested the same regarding abortion clinics…a kind of a Lowes and Home Depot competition. Wherever there is a Lowe’s a Home Depot is either across the street or in the next block. Good idea

You are spot on that healthcare for poor women is scarce. Planned Parenthood is all some have. I guess the alternative is not to get tested for breast cancer and die from the disease. How sad. Every woman that walks into PP is not getting an abortion. So I guess vital screening for breast, cervical, ovarian, colon cancers for uninsured women should go by the wayside?

Freeda, I like your alternative…it makes perfect sense.

 

[RosaryFan]

Thank you Freeda. And welcome I have suggested the same regarding abortion clinics…a kind of a Lowes and Home Depot competition. Wherever there is a Lowe’s a Home Depot is either across the street or in the next block. Good idea

You are spot on that healthcare for poor women is scarce. Planned Parenthood is all some have. I guess the alternative is not to get tested for breast cancer and die from the disease. How sad. Every woman that walks into PP is not getting an abortion. So I guess vital screening for breast, cervical, ovarian, colon cancers for uninsured women should go by the wayside?

Freeda, I like your alternative…it makes perfect sense.

Planned Parenthood’s main source of income is abortions. They are the biggest abortion provider in the nation. They only do mammograms in order to qualify for funding. They don’t do mammograms because they care about the poor. They think the poor should be eliminated from society (ask Margaret Sanger).

We have a community women’s center that provides free cancer screening and aid for crisis pregnancies in our area. It is an organization founded by a group of Catholic women.

There is NO REASON to support Planned Parenthood. No reason at all. The more you support Planned Parenthood, the harder it is to get these legitimate community women’s centers up and running.

 

[Julianna]

Planned Parenthood’s **main source of income **is abortions. They are the biggest abortion provider in the nation. They only do mammograms in order to qualify for funding. They don’t do mammograms because they care about the poor. They think the poor should be eliminated from society (ask Margaret Sanger).
We have a community women’s center that provides free cancer screening and aid for crisis pregnancies in our area. It is an organization founded by a group of Catholic women.

There is NO REASON to support Planned Parenthood. No reason at all. The more you support Planned Parenthood, the harder it is to get these legitimate community women’s centers up and running.

depends on the source quoted. Isn’t it against the law to utilize fed funding for abortions?

Margaret Sanger died in 1966…I doubt she has anything to say:shrug:

That is wonderful. That is what I’m talking about. Reality is, there aren’t enough community centers such as yours.

There is NO REASON more community centers can’t get going. Change comes from within.

Regarding the OP’s question. Yeah I still buy Girl Scout cookies. They are expensive so I just purchase one box of my fav once a year, Carmel Delights.

 

[Freeda]

Planned Parenthood’s main source of income is abortions. They are the biggest abortion provider in the nation. They only do mammograms in order to qualify for funding. They don’t do mammograms because they care about the poor. They think the poor should be eliminated from society (ask Margaret Sanger).

We have a community women’s center that provides free cancer screening and aid for crisis pregnancies in our area. It is an organization founded by a group of Catholic women.

There is NO REASON to support Planned Parenthood. No reason at all. The more you support Planned Parenthood, the harder it is to get these legitimate community women’s centers up and running.

No reason, so the lives of women don’t matter to you? And you seem to think that just because your town has an alternative resource that all towns do, that, sadly, is not the fact. Quite frankly, if God forbid, my lump is discovered by someone who is indifferent to it that won’t matter to me because the important thing is that it’s discovered.
And you have no idea what the motives are behind Planned Parenthood, how can you
so carelessly ascribe such indifference to them? Of course they care about the women and the poor!
There may be no reason for YOU to support PP, however, since this appears to be an issue you care about, I suggest that you do as Julianna has suggested, get off the computer and take the Women’s Health Center to every state, or at least the state next door to you. As for me, I shall continue to buy my Girl Scout cookies, drink my Starbucks coffee and be glad that some health care is provided for poor women thru my purchases.

 

[beafedor]

Some of us need to be educated about Planned Parenthood. I advise people to check out your local PP center’s website, see how many services they offer under “Abortion Services” and compare with what they offer under “Womens Health Services”. Also check out their last national financial report to see how they make money.

 

[Freeda]

depends on the source quoted. Isn’t it against the law to utilize fed funding for abortions?

Margaret Sanger died in 1966…I doubt she has anything to say:shrug:

That is wonderful. That is what I’m talking about. Reality is, there aren’t enough community centers such as yours.

There is NO REASON more community centers can’t get going. Change comes from within.

Regarding the OP’s question. Yeah I still buy Girl Scout cookies. They are expensive so I just purchase one box of my fav once a year, Carmel Delights.

You are correct, Julianna, it’s against the law to use federal money for abortions, however
it’s not against the law to provide mammograms and pap spears and medication to poor women all which Planned Parenthood does.
There’s nothing wrong with someone refusing to support PP as long as they’re willing to support Women’s Health Centers.
Of course the WHCs were Joanie come latelys…it wasn’t until PP started providing the
other services beyond safe abortions that someone thought that women were worthy of their the Health Care Centers.
I don’t like abortions, however I don’t judge the women that have them and I don’t want them dying in a back alley because of anyone’s religious beliefs. When the Church communities welcome the mothers without judgement and they provide for the children
I hope to see a decrease in abortions.
The Health Care centers are a First Step, after that people need to open their hearts to
the unwed mothers and start teaching their sons that every woman deserves respect
even if she’s the little town trollop.
This is really incumbent on fathers of sons, mothers of daughters are already trying to guide them properly. What do the Men of The Church do on behalf of the mothers and children and how do they encourage the young men to take responsibility for their actions?
Thank God for DNA! They can’t get away with denial as they did in the past and the law is definitely on the side of the child after it’s born…and the fathers WILL pay if they can
be found and tested and they have a job.

 

[RosaryFan]

depends on the source quoted. Isn’t it against the law to utilize fed funding for abortions?

YES. THAT’S EXACTLY MY POINT. THAT’S WHY THEY DO MAMMOGRAMS.

Margaret Sanger died in 1966…I doubt she has anything to say:shrug:

YOU OBVIOUSLY DO NOT KNOW YOUR ENEMY. DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT MARGARET SANGER? GOOGLE HER NAME AND DO THE RESEARCH BEFORE YOU MAKE THIS STATEMENT. SHE CERTAINLY DID HAVE PLENTY TO SAY ON THE SUBJECT. SHE WAS A EUGENICIST.

That is wonderful. That is what I’m talking about. Reality is, there aren’t enough community centers such as yours.

There is NO REASON more community centers can’t get going. Change comes from within.

OKAY, SO MY POINT IS THAT THEY DO EXIST AND THEREFORE IS NO NEED TO SUPPORT PLANNED PARENTHOOD BECAUSE ALTERNATIVES DO EXIST. HOWEVER, IF THE GOVERNMENT CAN ONLY GIVE SO MUCH TOWARD MAMMOGRAM-DOING BUSINESSES, SUPPORTING PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND ENABLING THEM TO STAY AROUND WOULD HURT ANOTHER WOMEN’S CENTER THAT MIGHT BE STRUGGLING FINANCIALLY. IN OTHER WORDS, GET RID OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND THE FUNDING CAN GO ELSEWHERE.

Regarding the OP’s question. Yeah I still buy Girl Scout cookies. They are expensive so I just purchase one box of my fav once a year, Carmel Delights.

AND TO THIS STATEMENT, I ASK… WHY ON EARTH???

 

[Julianna]

RosaryFan:
and to why on earth…because it’s a once a year treat. Just like the occasional latte at Starbucks and as a free American I can spend my money as I see fit and I earned the money to spend. But then again, I don’t owe you an explanation of why or where I spend my money and on what. But I thought I would respond anyhow.

 

[RosaryFan]

and to why on earth…because it’s a once a year treat. Just like the occasional latte at Starbucks and as a free American I can spend my money as I see fit and I earned the money to spend. But then again, I don’t owe you an explanation of why or where I spend my money and on what. But I thought I would respond anyhow.

You certainly don’t owe me an explanation. I was just curious as to why someone would knowingly support a baby-killing organization, and then defend the action, no less. It’s your conscience.

 

[MrsScardinoz]

OP Here.

Thanks for all of your responses. You gave me what I was looking for, history.

Frankly, it doesn’t matter to me that Planned Parenthood helps in other ways. They still play a major role in murdering children. They are not one human being with whom I can still love (while I love their people), but an organization. Therefore I know that any cent I earn (or my husband earns lol) can NOT and will not go towards them if I can help it. I agree that there need to be more WHC places that women can receive mammograms at, but that does not at all change the fact that the place that many of them have to go to is also a place where thousands of children are murdered.

I, personally, live near the nations largest location of Planned Parenthood. I know that not every woman going in there is going for an abortion, which is why you treat individuals with love, but know your enemy. And that organization is most definitely the enemy.

 

[MrsScardinoz]

Oh, and when it comes to GS cookies, I don’t think I can partake in them. I will find some other way to help those girls and support them, but I will not buy their cookies. It stinks, because I’m 5 months pregnant and the peanut butter/chocolate combination is just to die for for me. I found recipes, though, so I’ll be using those.

 

[havana1]

You certainly don’t owe me an explanation. I was just curious as to why someone would knowingly support a baby-killing organization, and then defend the action, no less. It’s your conscience.

There’s a lot of rumor-mongering and hearsay - that’s what it’s called: hearsay - which is against CAF forum rules, no? I would like to see documentation that “proves” the Girl Scouts are a “baby-killing organization.” It’s easier to clear my conscience with facts and reason than it is to jump on the “it’s a sin to buy Girl Scout cookies” bandwagon. So, please: in accordance with CAF forum rules, please provide credible sources. Otherwise, it’s sinful to spread gossip. Thanks.

 

[Newbie2]

With that said, I personally think Girl Scout Cookies are overrated. Save your money for other delicious snacks.

You’re Serious?? NOBODY else makes Samoas. Mmmmmmmm.

If it bothers anyone to buy the cookies because of the reported link to PP, just give them five or ten bucks and tell them it’s for their local troop. Problem solved.

 

[Freeda]

I bought two boxes of Girl Scout cookies that I don’t like, one is still sitting in the pantry.

A little girl and her older sister came to my house on a freezing cold night, it was dark but early…she was walking the neighborhood trying to sell cookies! I couldn’t turn her down.

What concerns me about this thread is that people are saying they won’t buy GS cookies BUT what are they offering to the children, the little girls, the middle tweens that would compare. It’s easy to criticize, but correcting the problem, that’s not so easy is it?

And I will honestly say that I did not know that the GSA collected money from donors so that the GSA could donate money elsewhere! Now that seems just wrong. I would like the money to towards buying uniforms for girls who can’t afford them, buying equipment, sponsoring field trips that would edify the young woman.

 

[Freeda]

You certainly don’t owe me an explanation. I was just curious as to why someone would knowingly support a baby-killing organization, and then defend the action, no less. It’s your conscience.

Maybe the other poster supports choice. And to say that Starbucks and GSA are baby killing organizations borders on libel.

 

[beafedor]

Just to clarify for some posters on this thread, Planned Parenthood doesn’t do mammograms. I advise people who are on Facebook to become a “Fan” of Abby Johnson’s page (she s a former director of a Planned Parenthood abortuary) and read the info that she has been providing on that page about Planned Parenthood’s services and which organizations are tied to Planned Parenthood.

 

[RosaryFan]

Maybe the other poster supports choice. And to say that Starbucks and GSA are baby killing organizations borders on libel.

Dear Freeda, I was talking about Planned Parenthood being the baby-killing organization. I don’t think that would be considered libelous. In buying Girl Scout cookies and knowing that GSA supports planned parenthood, you are knowingly supporting planned parenthood (i.e. “the baby-killing organization”). Is that clear enough for ya? There… no libel!

I am truly amazed at the Catholics on this thread that are defending organizations that support Planned Parenthood! Shame, shame, shame!!!

With respect to the issue of life, there should be NO COMPROMISES!!