Want to help make a difference? Join other voices on March 8 and call or e-mail your Senators. Respectfully urge them to defund Planned Parenthood.
Why? We have known for years that Planned Parenthood (PP) is the largest abortion provider in the country. It endangers the health of women. Recently, Live Action Films exposed PP officials aiding and abetting individuals posing as criminal sex traffickers seeking abortions for underage girls. You can view the YouTube by visiting Live Action Films, Concerned Women for America, or The Susan B. Anthony List. (See below.)
PP uses our tax dollars to do its work. But, on February 18, the U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to defund PP. In anger, PP has thrown down the gauntlet and is using its significant war chest to batter members of Congress into submission.
Do you realize that PP:
- Is a $1-plus billion business that rakes in one-third of its budget from government grants and contracts at both the state and federal levels?
- Makes an $85 million profit?
- Fails to report many cases of sexual abuse and statutory rape involving girls under the age of 16?
- Aggressively advises pregnant girls under 18 on how to avoid telling their parents about visiting their abortion clinics through a process known as “judicial by-pass”?
On February 18 — and with all common sense — members of Congress voted against giving our $363 million (tax dollars) to the largest abortion provider in the country.
Years ago, two other members of Lutherans For Life and I “toured” PP in Des Moines, IA. I have no doubt that many who work at PP truly believe they are helping women. That day, during the tour, our “guide” expressed thankfulness that young girls, married and unmarried women, and even older mothers could be “helped” by way of an abortion. Today, I could share with you countless stories of friends and acquaintances who were “helped” by PP, but then fell to depression, eating disorders, alcoholism, sexual promiscuity, and anger. Some distanced themselves from God. Others wrote letters to their aborted children asking for forgiveness. All confess to me that abortion did not improve their lives; rather, quite the opposite.
A woman entering a PP clinic in 2009 was 42 times more likely to have an abortion than to receive either prenatal care or be referred for adoption. Through its “award-winning” website, Teenwire, PP normalizes teen sexual activity, peddles their “family planning” services, offers homosexuality as a “choice” and form of birth control, practically ignores the physical and moral consequences of abortion, scoffs at the psychological consequences of abortion, and actually helps build a wall between parents and children.
So, on March 8, please call your Senators and respectfully encourage them to defund Planned Parenthood, the taxpayer-funded organization that does not respect women, protect children, or honor the Creator of Life. You can find more information by visiting Concerned Women for America, Susan B. Anthony List, Focus on the Family, and The Family Research Council.
Then, please pray that we all have mercy on our littlest neighbor — the unborn child — and his or her mother.
After all, Jesus Christ calls us to mercy, not sacrifice.
Ezerwoman's Blog 
I noticed the religious overtone to your perspective on the issue of abortion. You have every right to your views and ideologies, but consider an “abortion” is no longer specifically a medial procedure. It is most commonly a prescription of two pills. It is now an induced miscarriage. Your life may be stable, as your health may be, but not everyone shares the experience of your comforts. and bliss life. These induced miscarriages save lives. There is no regard for the living breathing woman from PP opponents
Mike…
I is because I have “regard for the living breathing woman” that I warn against abortion. That I cannot endorse the profiteering of Planned Parenthood. Over thirty years out and about across this big country has taught me valuable lessons. I may have been the one invited to speak, but instead, I became the listener. I have yet to meet a woman who wanted an abortion. Instead, women tell me that they felt “trapped,” alone, and without support during a very vulnerable time in their lives. They knew other choices had been made in their lives which led to pregnancy. Sex is not recreational; it is, rather, procreational. A woman who has an abortion is no different from me. In a moment of temptation, she chooses to become her own “god” and decide for herself what is right or wrong. I am guilty, far too many times in a difficult situation, of trying to take control and be my own “god.” But, I am a believer in Hope after my wrong and hurtful choice. Yes, you recognized the “religious overtone” correctly. My hope is in Jesus Christ. Without Him, I’m left to despair in my own miserable mess.
At last count, 24 of my friends, relatives, and acquaintances have shared their abortions with me. They asked me to speak up! To warn! To help other women avoid what they experienced following their abortion choice. It is precisely because of “living breathing” women that I became a part of a “hope and healing” ministry for post-abortive women called Word of Hope. It is because of “living breathing” women that I co-founded a caring pregnancy center where we walk with women through their pregnancy and offer help to them and their families during the months following the birth. It is because of “living breathing” women that I started a small, but caring ministry called Titus 2 for Life in order to help older women confront the mistakes of their past and help mentor younger women to avoid similar life-changing mistakes.
Abortion is not an “induced miscarriage.” It is not natural. It is the intentional choice to end the life of a fetus (Latin: “young one”). The “common prescription of two pills” as you mention, reveals that action is being taken on the part of the doctor and mother to intentionally end a pregnancy or, more honestly, the life of a fetus (Latin: “young one”). Miscarriage is very, very different. It is not the choice of the mother. It is something that happens beyond the mother’s control.
You are correct that I, as you, have “every right to [my] views and ideologies.” That’s the beauty of living in a land where freedom of religion and speech are protected. It is because I believe in the God who creates, loves, and redeems life that I speak up. Warn. Help and support in times of difficulty. Because, you see, I believe we are more than body and mind. We are also soul. Our souls, and therefore our relationship to the Creator of those souls, matters. All may not be well with my physical life or with my emotional life (after all, it’s a hard and sinful world), but I most certainly desire that all be well with my soul. I desire this, also, for every “living breathing woman” and man. Our souls become right because of Jesus.
I appreciate the fact that you cared enough to comment, Mike. Thank you.