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Defund Planned Parenthood

When asked to give reasons why I want to see Planned Parenthood defunded, I found myself frozen in confusion. It goes back to the question: why are abortion and contraception wrong? How does one go about explaining why slavery is wrong or explain to a child why the Holocaust was wrong? It's so obvious that trying to explain it can be overwhelming. But what I do know is this: people don't care about facts so much as names and faces and stories that go with them. They don't care about statistic so much as details. So I am going to try to take something that is so horrific it seems unreal and lay it before you as something that is undeniably real – something that won't go away on its own.

Last week I was at the fair manning the pro-life booth with my sister, which led to several people approaching me and telling me their stories. A guy about my age told me that what pulled him into the pro-life movement was when he found out that his mother, who was eighteen when she was pregnant with him, was told by those around her that she would never make it through college with a baby. They wanted her to abort him. But she chose life. Stop and think about that for a moment. If she had listened to those people, I never would have met that man, never would have seen his face – because he would have been taken from the world before he was even born. Later, a young woman approached me, telling me that her mother gave birth to a baby at three months gestation and she had to go to court just to get the rights to bury her baby because people were planning to sell her baby's parts. Can you imagine? What if someone you loved died unexpectedly and someone tried to sell their body and you had to get legal permission just so you could bury them like they deserved? A young girl, who looked to be maybe fifteen or sixteen, came up to the models of preborn babies, pointed to one of them, and said to the women beside her, “That's how far along I was when I miscarried.” My heart broke for her – that a girl so young could go through so much and experience such heartbreak. And girls even younger than her have had abortions at the same time in their pregnancies, and yet they had been led to believe that their child was just a clump of cells.

When I was little, I remember riding along in my family's van after a pro-life event and my older siblings discussing with my dad about the evil of Planned Parenthood. Suffice it to say I didn't understand. Planned Parenthood? That sounded pretty good to me – it had the word 'parenthood' which I assumed meant they supported people keeping their babies, and since it was planned, I assumed that meant people would be ready to be parents so they would want to keep their babies. I said so, and my dad told me otherwise. It wasn't until much later that I could actually wrap my mind around the concept. That's the first sign that something is wrong with the organization: they chose a name that sounds pleasing and positive that can easily pull in unsuspecting young girls who find themselves in difficult situations and, from there, lead them to abort. How well can a twelve year old understand such a deep concept? Planned Parenthood is like an angler fish that has a welcoming light that hides its dangerous, hideous face, waiting to devour its prey – those who fall into their blinding, confusing trap.

How does Planned Parenthood keep its doors open? By preying on the weak. And people are easily misled. Take for example when I pray with my sister. If I accidently start saying the meal time prayer rather than our night prayers, she'll follow along until one of us stops abruptly when we realize what has happened. It works very similarly with Planned Parenthood. If one person is fed lies by them and they pass them on and the person they pass them on to trusts them, they will most likely also believe the lies. How else could someone come to believe that an unborn baby is nothing more than a clump of cells?

Planned Parenthood is known as an organization that helps women, but that couldn't be further from the truth. Even the locations that do not perform abortions teach women that it's okay to lower their standards and to be used as objects. How? By offering contraceptives so that these women can be as irresponsible and sexually active as they like with less chance of becoming pregnant afterward. This tells a woman that if she becomes sexually active with a man and things don't work out, she hasn't really hurt anyone and can just move on to the next man, with no real loss. This couldn't be further from the truth. If a man truly loved her, he would want ALL of her, including her ability to conceive. And if a man isn't ready for a baby, he shouldn't be having sex. But with contraceptives, men are able to have relations with a woman without any real commitment. He can easily use one woman for her body and move on to the next without being held back by the responsibility of having a family to care for or proof that he has been sleeping around. And that's not all: what happens when the contraceptives don't work and a baby is created? Then Planned Parenthood has allowed a woman to believe that it was okay for her to live life recklessly and she suddenly finds herself in the very situation she had been hoping to avoid. But no worries on their part – they will be right there to offer their services of abortion in her time of crisis. Some contraceptives can actually kill the baby without the mother knowing that she was ever even pregnant. Can you imagine being pregnant and losing a baby and never knowing? If they truly cared about women, they would tell a woman her worth and encourage her to save herself for the one who is worthy of her and her love.

Planned Parenthood gives the impression that some babies are better than others. If a baby is mentally or physically disabled or conceived in rape, Planned Parenthood is there with open arms to remove the so-called problem. My sister has Down Syndrome, and she is a beautiful creation of God. And what of the children who are wrongly diagnosed? Children like my cousin who the doctor predicted would be mentally disabled and was born without any mental challenges whatsoever?

I mourn the loss of all the friends I never met because someone didn't see their value. Just think – maybe God created someone to cure cancer, someone to make the world a better place, someone to make it so blind people could see, and we would never know because they were taken before their time.

One thing that really made the evil of defending abortion real to me was when I read an article (Surrogate offered $10,000 to abort baby) about a woman who became a surrogate mother for a man and woman only to find out that the baby she was carrying was severely disabled. She refused to abort the baby even after the biological parents insisted otherwise and even went so far as to try to bribe her with $10,000. After the little girl was born, an article was written about the whole situation, and hundreds if not thousands of comments followed, debating over whether or not the surrogate mother had the right not to abort since she was quote unquote “renting her body” out to the biological parents. In other words, people were reducing this girl's life to a legal matter, and some people even thought she'd be better off if she'd never been born so she wouldn't have to suffer, meaning, they were okay with this girl being killed before she was born so she wouldn't have to suffer later in life. It didn't make sense to me. Couldn't people see what they were saying? That they were saying a precious little girl should be dead? How could someone be so cruel?

As children, we are innocent and we see the world for its beauty. As we grow older, we make things more complicated than they are. Like the way a child clearly embraces the idea of an unborn baby brother or sister whereas an older person can be convinced that that baby is merely a clump of cells. They use ignorance as a cloak, protecting them from the guilt of knowing the truth. And sadly, some women accept the truth when it's too late. It's like the way a man can say there is nothing wrong with looking at porn, but even as he looks at it, he can feel something eating him up inside, and only after the fact, does he allow himself to admit that what he did was wrong, but by then it's too late. It's the same way with these women. They allow themselves to believe that they are just getting a clump of cells removed when they know in their hearts that they are paying someone to kill their children. But the guilt is sure to find them. Some women suffer from postpartum depression because they can hardly live with the fact that they had someone kill their babies.

Women have died from abortion procedures, and there have been cases where the baby has survived the procedure. Assuming that the abortionist or nurses don't suffocate the baby with a towel or set them aside to die on their own, the child can have disabilities or permanent damage for life. Some abortions involve chemicals that burn a baby to death and others involve shredding a baby apart and sucking up the pieces. After such a procedure, the body parts have to be counted to make sure all the vital parts and pieces are there so the mother won't get any complications from the leftover pieces. I once read about a procedure that used to be done in the U.S. that involved the crushing of the baby's skull and the removal of the brain. Planned Parenthood kills babies and throws them in the garbage or flushes them down the toilet or sells their parts. One abortionist, Kermit Gosnell, was found keeping aborted babies' parts in a refrigerator. Look up his case, and you can read all about Gosnell's House of Horrors.

I propose that we see children as a gift rather than a problem and take responsibility for our actions. I propose that we embrace women who feel lost and unsure and surround them with love and positive support. I propose that we defund Planned Parenthood and bring an end to the massacre. We deserve more – that's why I want to see all Planned Parenthoods and all other abortion clinic close their doors.

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