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Handed a copy of the student newspaper, I opened it to find not one, but two advertisements for “family planning” services that are notorious promoters of abortion.
“Need Free Birth Control?” asked the first ad for the Federal Way Public Health Center. “FREE … Condoms! Morning After Pill! Pregnancy tests! STD tests! Public Health Teen Clinic can help! Wednesday Walk-In Only for Teens, 2:30-5.”
The next ad was for “Free Birth Control for 1 Year at Planned Parenthood.” The Seattle and King County Public Health Department (taxpayers) funded the first ad, and taxpayers offset the funding for the second ad.
I suppose that similar advertisements appeared in American newspapers of the 18th and 19th century to promote the slave trade. Their modern counterparts are worse, for not only do these family planning advertisements propose the very abolition of life and character beneath their friendly invitations to the clinic, they are funded – directly or indirectly – by you and me.
The reason why Planned Parenthood was able to make a net profit of $35.2 million in 2004, according to its new annual report, is because of a record $265.2 million in taxpayer funds. By far, the general public gave more money to Planned Parenthood this year than did private contributors.
Taxpayers generously provided one third of the $302.6 million Planned Parenthood budget for 2004. This spoiled-profitable “non-profit” organization uses part of its lavish endowments to fund advertisements like the one that has appeared in every issue of my high-school’s newspaper since I was a sophomore at Puyallup High School half a decade ago.
Certainly, my old high school isn’t the only one with student newspaper exposure to Planned Parenthood advertising. I was once invited to speak on a panel for a high-school journalism workshop hosted by the Seattle Times and, in a breakout session, I was assigned to critique the student newspaper for Vashon Island High School. Seeing the familiar Planned Parenthood ad, I registered my moral objections to an unsympathetic group of high schoolers. “What’s wrong with that?” asked one student as if he had never known that there are people who oppose premarital sex and abortion. “They provide necessary services.”
As far as I can tell, it seems that Planned Parenthood is the most loyal advertiser in America’s high-school newspapers, period. And it goes without saying that many college newspapers also have Planned Parenthood ads. The ads are slick works of propaganda. "Planned Parenthood has been running ads in newspapers around the country that adopt a lesson from George Orwell and engage in a heavy dose of “newspeak,” writes pro-life author Kerby Anderson…
worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42035
“Need Free Birth Control?” asked the first ad for the Federal Way Public Health Center. “FREE … Condoms! Morning After Pill! Pregnancy tests! STD tests! Public Health Teen Clinic can help! Wednesday Walk-In Only for Teens, 2:30-5.”
The next ad was for “Free Birth Control for 1 Year at Planned Parenthood.” The Seattle and King County Public Health Department (taxpayers) funded the first ad, and taxpayers offset the funding for the second ad.
I suppose that similar advertisements appeared in American newspapers of the 18th and 19th century to promote the slave trade. Their modern counterparts are worse, for not only do these family planning advertisements propose the very abolition of life and character beneath their friendly invitations to the clinic, they are funded – directly or indirectly – by you and me.
The reason why Planned Parenthood was able to make a net profit of $35.2 million in 2004, according to its new annual report, is because of a record $265.2 million in taxpayer funds. By far, the general public gave more money to Planned Parenthood this year than did private contributors.
Taxpayers generously provided one third of the $302.6 million Planned Parenthood budget for 2004. This spoiled-profitable “non-profit” organization uses part of its lavish endowments to fund advertisements like the one that has appeared in every issue of my high-school’s newspaper since I was a sophomore at Puyallup High School half a decade ago.
Certainly, my old high school isn’t the only one with student newspaper exposure to Planned Parenthood advertising. I was once invited to speak on a panel for a high-school journalism workshop hosted by the Seattle Times and, in a breakout session, I was assigned to critique the student newspaper for Vashon Island High School. Seeing the familiar Planned Parenthood ad, I registered my moral objections to an unsympathetic group of high schoolers. “What’s wrong with that?” asked one student as if he had never known that there are people who oppose premarital sex and abortion. “They provide necessary services.”
As far as I can tell, it seems that Planned Parenthood is the most loyal advertiser in America’s high-school newspapers, period. And it goes without saying that many college newspapers also have Planned Parenthood ads. The ads are slick works of propaganda. "Planned Parenthood has been running ads in newspapers around the country that adopt a lesson from George Orwell and engage in a heavy dose of “newspeak,” writes pro-life author Kerby Anderson…
worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42035
