A note about blogging
As the Internet age takes hold, there is a new form of communications developing in America. It is a venue where every individual that wants to can simply sit down at the computer and in complete privacy type out their thoughts in an unedited stream of consciousness and then put those thoughts on the World Wide Web for everyone to read.
It is truly an imaginative way to let everyone know exactly how you feel. When these first began, they were called "web logs." Today, the name has been shortened to "blog." Lots of folks have their own blogs and the medium is growing.
Now, the problem with reading a blog is that there is no way of telling whether or not it is true. No editor checks the facts. No researcher verifies anything. It is written. It is posted. It is read.
That being said, it is generally believed that most bloggers are who they say they are and that what they write is true. But, as we pass along blog information in this and future WSRs please understand that we give you what was written. We have no way of verifying that they are true.
Planned Parenthood blogger talks about working at PP's facilities
Internet researcher Dawn Eden recently called our attention to a blog written by a Planned Parenthood worker in California. Over the course of the last six months, we have had conversations with several pro-lifers who have talked with people at Planned Parenthood, particularly at PP express clinics. The overriding impression they have received from PP people is that the express clinics are being setup as a means of moving more people through Planned Parenthood's doors. The need to increase customer numbers and to move more products faster is a major reason for these express clinics. Since the blog that Dawn pointed us to confirms what we have already heard, we bring it to you so you can get a glimpse of PP from someone on the inside. Someone so frustrated that he posted this for the world to see (we present this without any corrections for grammar, punctuation, etc. This is how it appears on the internet):
so i'm totally hating my job at planned parenthood. the philosophy behind the mission of planned parenthood is totally incongruent with the way medicine is actually practiced at the affliates i've worked for thus far. the way the clinics are run is totally not based on patient care. they seem more based upon volume of patients seen on a daily basis.the expectation is to see 40 patients in an eight hour shift. meaning at most i can give a patient 10 minutes of my time. that truly is unreal. i've learned to do the bare minimum for my patients, practicing shortcuts and excluding some extra care i would normally like to give my patients. this is not the type of care i really want to give to my patients but it essentially is the type of care planned parenthood has molded me into giving; not only by the managers who are fairly concerned about the number of patients seen per day as opposed providing excellent care, but also by patients who demand to be seen right then right there right away without any concern for the quality of care that is being taken away from other patients simply because i now have to cut time out of taking care of one patient to see more patients at any given time.
i am truly disheartened by the direction medicine and medical care has gone. had i known that this was gonna be the type of medicine i was gonna practice i would have chosen a job in research where caring about people doesn't really matter. but i do care, and it sux caring just isn't enough anymore. and caring really doesn't really make much of a difference in a world where all that matters is everybody elses time is more precious than anybody else's.
and it's funny because i thought i was just one of the few that felt this way about the way medicine is practiced at planned parenthood but in reality alot of clinicians at the riverside/san diego affliate and the orange/san bernardino affliate feel the same way. we are bullied by management into practicing fast paced bare minimal medicine. and this i learn to be truer and truer every moment i work for planned parenthood, as i talk to more and more of my colleagues. truly disheartening. i truly relish the moments where i can actually spend time with my patients and provide some counselling and education, moments when i feel i've made a difference. moments that are few and far between. truly disheartening but yet i hope that i at least make a little bit of difference in a few of the patients i am priveleged to take care of.
Some of this week's Planned Parenthood events
Being a federation with 120 separate affiliates, Planned Parenthood always has a number of events planned across the country. We monitor what Planned Parenthood is doing and bring you some of the more interesting or outrageous events. Local people who oppose Planned Parenthood are encouraged to voice your opposition to these events and to demonstrate outside.
- FUNDRAISER in North Carolina
Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina will hold a "Spirit of Pearls" fundraising event at a "historic Chapel Hill home" in North Carolina on April 23 from 1:30-4 p.m. Admission is $50 and further details can be obtained from Erica.Kitchen@ppfa.org
- GOVERNMENT FUNDING SEMINAR in Arizona
Planned Parenthood of Central and Northern Arizona will hold a "Government Funding for Family Planning" luncheon on April 26 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the offices of the Kutak Rock law firm (8601 N. Scottsdale Road, Suite 300, Scottsdale).
- TEEN CONFERENCE in New York
Planned Parenthood of Hudson Peconic is holding its 19th annual teen conference at the Hyatt Regency Wind Watch Hotel, Hauppauge on April 21 from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more information call the PP education department at 631-240-1130.
Planned Parenthood promotes homosexual agenda
Planned Parenthood is holding a number of events this month promoting the homosexual agenda to minors. Ranging from information workshops to promote "acceptance," to gay proms, to a special program on a state college campus, PP's programs reveal its agenda:
- LBGT PROM in New York
Planned Parenthood of the Mid-Hudson Valley is holding a Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay and Transgender prom on April 21. It is advertised as free for young people 14-18 years old. More information can be had by calling Nicole Reesa at 845-256-5441.
- GLBTQ WORKSHOP in Ohio
Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio Region is holding this workshop on April 26 from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at 224 N. Wilkinson Ave., Dayton, OH. The workshop is described by PP as follows: "This training is for teachers, guidance counselors, youth-serving professionals, school personnel, and anyone who works with teens and young adults and is described as: This workshop explores the risks faced by Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning teens and young adults and provides strategies for creating an atmosphere of acceptance, support and respect, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity."
- Details of its special program on a state college campus are:
The 5th Annual 'Faith and Choice' forum brought to you by Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood and the University at Albany's VOX Chapter is being held at the State University of New York (SUNY) University at Albany's Uptown Campus (Campus Center 375) on April 25th at 7p.m.
This year's forum theme will be "Causes in Common"; the current overlapping of issues challenging those concerned with reproductive health and justice and those working on the health and rights of gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual people. The speakers will also specifically address the strong role that clergy and people of faith have played in both of these movements.
Co-sponsors: SA's LGBT Concerns Advisor, The University Council of Women's Groups, The Women's Concerns Committee, Pride Alliance, Project SHAPE (Sexual Health and Peer Education), Middle Earth Peer Assistance, Department of Africana Studies, Department of Women's Studies, Amnesty International, the School of Social Welfare, CATALYST, Capital District Gay and Lesbian Community Council, Institute for Humanist Studies, GLSEN NY Capital Region, The Social Responsibilities Council of the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Albany, Congregation Berith Sholom, Interfaith IMPACT of NYS, Concerned Clergy for Choice, The Empire State Pride Agenda, and Family Planning Advocates of New York State (a Planned Parenthood coalition)
Planned Parenthood ad on MTV shows why you need to act NOW
Fighting Planned Parenthood is an emotionally draining task. The problem is not demonstrating in front of its facilities, testifying against it before school boards or city councils, or even the efforts to get its taxpayer money removed. The real problem is recognizing the damage Planned Parenthood is doing to our young people. Many years ago, on one of my speaking trips, I once had a medical doctor tell me, "You know, Jim, I attend a lot of meetings with Planned Parenthood people and I listen to them talk. I hate to say this, but they seem to get a vicarious pleasure in getting young people involved in sex."
Of course, this description does not apply to everyone at Planned Parenthood. We try to give them the benefit of the doubt. But then another item about PP's pushing of sex on our young people comes across our desk and we just want to cry out: "Why can't everyone see just how evil Planned Parenthood really is?!?"
The latest atrocity, which also came to us courtesy of researcher Dawn Eden, involves an ad that Planned Parenthood was scheduled to begin running on MTV this week. It is what Planned Parenthood calls a "safe sex" ad. Here is Planned Parenthood's description of the ad, taken from the web site of Planned Parenthood Golden Gate:
Our youth friendly ads focus on safety and prevention. The MTV spot, which starts airing April 15, depicts a responsible, young couple that practices safe sex. It begins with a young woman working with power tools in a hard-hat zone. A female voice-over states, "My father always told me to use the right tool for the right job." At the end of the day she returns home to find her hard-hat wearing boyfriend already under the covers. She tosses her own hard-hat aside and pulls off her coveralls, stripping down to a "Safe is Sexy" tank top, shorts style underpants and a tool belt. She dives across the bed for her safe sex toolbox, which is well stocked with colorful condoms, courtesy of Planned Parenthood. The ad closes with a shot of the safe sex toolbox and the same female voice-over saying, "Nice tool!"
You can actually view the ad online.
Everyone who has seen the ad and discussed it with me has the same comment: disgusting!
Planned Parenthood has over 800 clinic sites across the country and gets over $265 million in taxpayer money. The time for you to take action is NOW.
- Get out in front of your local Planned Parenthood today and every hour it is open. To find the PP facility nearest to you, got to our list of PP facilities.
- Inform your community about Planned Parenthood. Whether or not you have a PP facility in your community, everyone needs to know the evil of this organization.
- Circulate information about Planned Parenthood in your community. Have speakers come to your community to reveal the truth about Planned Parenthood. See our March 15 WSR for a list of available speakers and resources.
- Use the first step in our plan to defeat PP to get community support for the effort against PP.
- Get Planned Parenthood out of your local schools, Girl Scouts, 4-H Clubs and other organizations. Our Parent Power book will tell you how. You can download it for free.
- Stop all taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood at the local, state and national level.
PLEASE. If you do not act now to defeat Planned Parenthood, it will be your children and your grandchildren who will pay the price.
If you are unable to get actively involved in the fight against Planned Parenthood, then we ask you to pray for our efforts and to send your MAXIMUM donation right now to help us with all the tasks it will take to defeat this evil organization. You can DONATE ONLINE right now by going to: www.all.org/stopp/support.htm
May God have mercy on our children.
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