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Planned Parenthood Celebrates the Birth Control Pill
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
June 07, 2005
(CNSNews.com) - The Planned Parenthood Federation of America is celebrating the “birthday of birth control” on Tuesday.
At a rally in Washington, D.C., Planned Parenthood and abortion rights supporters plan to hoist a giant birth control pill and pill pack as part of their celebration.
A pro-life group will be there, too, staging a counter-demonstration to “unveil the truth” about birth control pills.
On June 7, 1965 – five years after the Food and Drug Administration approved birth control pills – the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Connecticut law that outlawed the use of birth control by married couples. That case, Griswold v. Connecticut, affirmed the right to privacy in marital relations.
But in the 40 years since then, “women still face unnecessary and often politically motivated barriers to contraception,” the Planned Parenthood Federation of America says.
“As we celebrate today, we know that the battle for access to birth control is not over,” Interim President Karen Pearl said in a statement on the PPFA website.
“Even now, we are in the midst of fighting off legislation and policies that would deny women their birth control prescriptions at pharmacies. The future of the Supreme Court is shaky at best. Planned Parenthood will continue to be the leading advocate for reproductive health and rights wherever they are threatened.”
On Tuesday afternoon, Pearl will hold a press conference with Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and other “leaders of the choice community.”
‘The pill kills’
A pro-life group says it will hold an “informative demonstration” of its own on Tuesday, to make the point that “the pill kills.”
American Life League’s STOPP International and Rock for Life said they will “offer the facts regarding the danger the pill poses to both preborn children and women.”
According to the American Life League’s website, contraception in general “facilitates the kind of relationships and even the kind of attitudes and moral character that are likely to lead to abortion. The contraceptive mentality treats sexual intercourse as though it had little natural connection with babies; it thinks of babies as an ‘accident’ of intercourse, as an unwelcome intrusion into a sexual relationship, as a burden.”
The Roman Catholic group opposes the pill in particular, because it can prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus – a form of chemical abortion, the group says.
It also says the pill has a number of adverse side effects on women who take it.
This is where I found it
cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=%5CCulture%5Carchive%5C200506%5CCUL20050607a.html
I love how they sit there and act like the American Life League is completely unfounded in there findings. :ehh: It just amazes me.
Lord I am not worthy to receive You, but only say the Word and I shall be healed.
:bowdown:
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
June 07, 2005
(CNSNews.com) - The Planned Parenthood Federation of America is celebrating the “birthday of birth control” on Tuesday.
At a rally in Washington, D.C., Planned Parenthood and abortion rights supporters plan to hoist a giant birth control pill and pill pack as part of their celebration.
A pro-life group will be there, too, staging a counter-demonstration to “unveil the truth” about birth control pills.
On June 7, 1965 – five years after the Food and Drug Administration approved birth control pills – the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Connecticut law that outlawed the use of birth control by married couples. That case, Griswold v. Connecticut, affirmed the right to privacy in marital relations.
But in the 40 years since then, “women still face unnecessary and often politically motivated barriers to contraception,” the Planned Parenthood Federation of America says.
“As we celebrate today, we know that the battle for access to birth control is not over,” Interim President Karen Pearl said in a statement on the PPFA website.
“Even now, we are in the midst of fighting off legislation and policies that would deny women their birth control prescriptions at pharmacies. The future of the Supreme Court is shaky at best. Planned Parenthood will continue to be the leading advocate for reproductive health and rights wherever they are threatened.”
On Tuesday afternoon, Pearl will hold a press conference with Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and other “leaders of the choice community.”
‘The pill kills’
A pro-life group says it will hold an “informative demonstration” of its own on Tuesday, to make the point that “the pill kills.”
American Life League’s STOPP International and Rock for Life said they will “offer the facts regarding the danger the pill poses to both preborn children and women.”
According to the American Life League’s website, contraception in general “facilitates the kind of relationships and even the kind of attitudes and moral character that are likely to lead to abortion. The contraceptive mentality treats sexual intercourse as though it had little natural connection with babies; it thinks of babies as an ‘accident’ of intercourse, as an unwelcome intrusion into a sexual relationship, as a burden.”
The Roman Catholic group opposes the pill in particular, because it can prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus – a form of chemical abortion, the group says.
It also says the pill has a number of adverse side effects on women who take it.
This is where I found it
cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=%5CCulture%5Carchive%5C200506%5CCUL20050607a.html
I love how they sit there and act like the American Life League is completely unfounded in there findings. :ehh: It just amazes me.
Lord I am not worthy to receive You, but only say the Word and I shall be healed.
:bowdown: