Charitable Organizations With Ties to Planned Parenthood

[surfgirlusa_200]

According to fightpp.org/index.cfm, many organizations such as Outward Bound West, American Automobile Association (AAA), Kaiser Permanente, The Salvation Army, American Cancer Society, Dr. Phil Foundation, American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), Camp Fire, Girl Scouts, Kiwanis Club, Rotary International, March of Dimes, Lions Club, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, American Diabetes Association, and the Young Womens Christian Association (YWCA) are somehow involved with Planned Parenthood.

I would just like to know the following: how many people here are pro-life, and still support one of these organizations for the non-PP related work that they do? This is not an attack; I am merely curious. Thanks!

 

[jmjconder]

According to fightpp.org/index.cfm, many organizations such as Outward Bound West, American Automobile Association (AAA), Kaiser Permanente, The Salvation Army, American Cancer Society, Dr. Phil Foundation, American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), Camp Fire, Girl Scouts, Kiwanis Club, Rotary International, March of Dimes, Lions Club, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, American Diabetes Association, and the Young Womens Christian Association (YWCA) are somehow involved with Planned Parenthood.

I would just like to know the following: how many people here are pro-life, and still support one of these organizations for the non-PP related work that they do? This is not an attack; I am merely curious. Thanks!

The head/leader for Relay for Life in our community is a Catholic who assured our parish team that no money went toward PP. After we were well into the process and only 10 days away from the event, we found out differently. We contacted our Diocesan Dept of Social Apostolate & Campaign for Human Development and our Regional Dir. for the American Cancer Society (who was very grateful for our honesty and open dialogue instead of quick response of pulling out of the event). In the end, we have very specifically ear marked our funds towards handpicked programs that are all within the Catholic moral life issues.

We have several teams from our parish and many parishioners that are survivors and many many more that are participating in walking. Had our team pulled out we would have had to do a lot of explaining, and would have placed many others in a difficult position without a lot of time left. Instead, we choose to stay and talk about it and educate people. All this was done with Father’s support/advice/consent.

The money from the ACS to PP was specifically used in one ad campaign that exclusively was aimed for the implementation of cancer control programs, including a smoking cessation program.

The interesting point I see is that PP will provide such a program to education in the harms of smoking while pregnant ~ yet still perform a procedure that takes a life of an innocent pre-born child.

We will not be participating in the Relay for Life again in two years ~ and next time I will do my own research!

 

[LucyLou]

Thank you for providing the link to LDI. It is most facinating to review the list of companies who donate to PP. I found many that I do business with in some form or another. I certainly will be more careful.

The other major charity that a large number of people are “required” to donate to through their employer is United Way. I was on the committee one year for the bank that I worked at. I asked what happends to the $$ that are designated to go to a specific charity and does that charity get all the funds designated to it. The answer was very sad. If the $$ that I specifically earmark to go to say Catholic Charities is more than that charity’s specific allocation for the year, them my $$ do not go where I designate them. I donated $5 that year and never have given to UW again. I prefer to give directly to the charity of my choice.

 

[Mattapoisett64]

I think posters communicating lists like this have an obligation to specify just what the alleged linkage and/or level of support for PP actually is, instead of broadcasting second-or third-hand claims of an organization’s being “somehow involved.” To leave it at the level of “somehow involved” makes this McCarthyism in the alleged support of pro-life.

 

[surfgirlusa_200]

I think posters communicating lists like this have an obligation to specify just what the alleged linkage and/or level of support for PP actually is, instead of broadcasting second-or third-hand claims of an organization’s being “somehow involved.” To leave it at the level of “somehow involved” makes this McCarthyism in the alleged support of pro-life.

Good point- they require a donation in order for you to view the whole list, which I found interesting to say the least, and they don’t list specifics. It makes me wonder how much of this is accurate. From my own experience, none of the Kiwanis, Key Clubs, or Circle K clubs (the latter two are related to Kiwanis) I have been involved with donated to planned parenthood, unless you count such events as participating in Relay for Life.

I’m not trying to promote McCarthyism, by the way- I was just curious as to other people’s experiences with these organizations, and if they have encountered their donations going to support PP. That’s all. I also realize that PP supports services other than abortion, although this seems to be the aspect of PP everyone discusses.

 

[FickleFreckled]

A lot of non-profits get service referrals from other non-profits that don’t provide the exact same services but may work with the same demographic. The referring non-profit is then billed as a vendor. Example: One senior services agency doesn’t provide transportation but refers to an agency that does and then funds the service through that agency. Money changes hands between non-profits like this on a regular basis. Any one of the organizations in the chain might have something to do with PP. Would you get rid of all non-profits because they receive service referrals from, or refer to, an agency that deals with PP? If you try, you can probably trace some kind of link between PP and every non-profit on the planet that way. You donate to your parish, right? Some of that money goes into the parish social service department that pays electric bills, rent, groceries for needy people in the community regardless of their religion or beliefs. If you donate to your parish, and any of it goes to social services, at some point your money is going to go to someone who is not pro-life and maybe even has had an abortion or who supports abortion rights actively. Will you stop giving to your church to prevent that? Refusing to support any non-profit that provides necessary services to the poor, children and the elderly because they might have some very thin link with PP is seriously couterproductive. You’re not making a statement or teaching PP a thing or two; you’re hurting people who desperately need a variety of innocent services.

 

[Joe_Kelley]

In judging companies’ support for PP it is important to differentiate between those cases where the company intentionally supports PP and those cases where it merely matches employee donations to any charity.