Obnoxious Bitch
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Breaking Commandments is OK, if it’s “for the children!”
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Unless, of course, your neighbor is Planned Parenthood, or a pregnant minor seeking an abortion.
An Indiana mother recently accompanied her daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend to one of Indiana’s Planned Parenthood clinics, but they unwittingly walked into a so-called “crisis pregnancy center” run by an anti-abortion group, one that shared a parking lot with the real Planned Parenthood clinic and was designed expressly to lure Planned Parenthood patients and deceive them.
The group took down the girl’s confidential personal information and told her to come back for her appointment, which they said would be in their “other office” (the real Planned Parenthood office nearby). When she arrived for her appointment, not only did the Planned Parenthood staff have no record of her, but the police were there. The “crisis pregnancy center” had called them, claiming that a minor was being forced to have an abortion against her will.
The “crisis pregnancy center” staff then proceeded to wage a campaign of intimidation and harassment over the following days, showing up at the girl’s home and calling her father’s workplace. Our clinic director reports that the girl was “scared to death to leave her house.” They even went to her school and urged classmates to pressure her not to have an abortion.
The anti-choice movement is setting up these “crisis pregnancy centers” across the country. Some of them have neutral-sounding names and run ads that falsely promise the full range of reproductive health services, but they dispense anti-choice propaganda and intimidation instead. And according to a recent article in The New York Times, there are currently more of these centers in the U.S. than there are actual abortion providers. What’s more, these centers have received $60 million in government grants. They’re being funded by our tax dollars.
A bill has just been introduced in Congress to stop the fraudulent practices of fake clinics, but it desperately needs more support. Tell your representative to take a stand: anti-choice extremists must not get away with this any longer!
People wonder why I’m so hard on Christians… the story above is just one example of the things that prompt me to rail against the Christofascist hypocrites who claim the moral high ground. Again we see that no underhanded deed is evil in the sight of the Lord they claim to follow, if it can be even remotely justified as being “for the sake of the children!” They will toss aside one of the Commandments they claim as the foundation of all human morality (which apparently American Christians will never remember unless they’re plastered on every school and government building in the country), usurp parental rights, and employ mafia-style tactics in order to further their agenda of controlling a woman’s body. “Family values,” my fat, white ASS!
I’m so glad my tax dollars are supporting groups that consider MY right as a mother to take my teenaged daughter for medical treatment both she and I agree is necessary as secondary to the need for all people to bow to the wishes of this God character, whose “mind” they claim to know - and in whose existence I fail utterly to believe.
I find nothing so depressing and hopeless as the thought of a woman (and in particular a teenaged girl) bearing a child before she’s ready. At this time in history, it simply should NOT happen. We have the technology to guarantee that every child born is both wanted and loved… what we don’t have is comprehensive, REALISTIC education; and more sad still, our society has politicized the issue of a woman’s right to choose the number of children she will bear as well as when she will do so, using religion as justification to limit the methods that make it possible. Shame and fear are the tools employed to keep women in check, which is why it is so important to be open enough in our education and public dialogue to remove the shame associated with our bodies, and to stop falling prey to fear of some sort of divine retribution for standing up for our right to do whatever the hell we want to with them.
Write to your representatives NOW. These lying hypocrites must be stopped…
FOR THE SAKE OF THE CHILDREN!!!!!
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