Around twenty of those 107 charges include performing an illegal abortion. How is that illegal? I thought abortion was mostly unregulated.
I somehow ended up on a Planned Parenthood mailing list. Since my family is seemingly on virtually every Catholic mailing list out there, it's a real mystery to me how I got on there.
But the business reply envelope has a big note that says "thank you for paying the postage, which is an additional gift to Planned Parenthood!" So I returned the donation card, with a big fat zero on the donation line, and mailed it back to them in their BRE (no stamp of course).
It's only a drop out of their bucket I know, but it felt good anyway.
"He hasn't succeeded, nor will he succeed now."
May the person who spoke these words see the truth and turn to the Light. These words come from the pit of Hell, actually; that's what all God's enemies like to say.
Until, of course, the Ring goes in. 
Kevin, my initial guess would be illegal as in without a parent's consent. Kansas, I think, has parental consent laws on the books when it comes to abortion.
But I could be wrong.
Either way, this news makes me happy. May their coffers stay empty, and may we continue to pray for the souls of those who are deluded into thinking that killing babies is a good thing.
I had a look at "Emily X's" blog. Wow. Talk about different perspectives. There's a hell of a lot of hate there.
When your organization is stressing out that they are the targets of a "40 days for life" campaign, you know you're working for the wrong organization.
I agree with sending PP's BRE back with no stamp and zero in the donation line, but, CV, wasn't making the zero big and fat just a little bit mean?
Yes it was, Cricket.
Like I said, it felt good.
I think I'm going to get on their mailing list just to waste their money! Thanks, CV...that idea makes my day!
...wasn't making the zero big and fat just a little bit mean?
No, mean is gluing the BRE to a brick before dropping it in the mailbox.
In regards to bricks and other building materials:
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Yes, I was curious about it too.
I wonder how hard she grit her teeth when she wrote about God answering their prayers?
Sometimes we ask you to take action, sometimes to volunteer. *Today, there is only one way to help: with money.*
It sounds to me like they're just using the occasion to scare their followers into coughing up more dough. They'll make a zillion dollars off this...
Yes, there is an awful lot of hate. I happen to live near Sacramento and when business took me nearby, I stopped by to join for an hour the group praying in front of the Planned Parenthood there.
It was a group of pleasant, ordinary-looking women--about as innocuous and un-threatening as you can get. All were smiling. They invited me to pray the rosary with them. Among our prayers, we prayed for the forgiveness of the workers at the clinic and for their change of heart.
Meanwhile, a young woman in a safety vest was sitting in front of the main doors glaring at us with palpable hate. When one of our group apparently stepped too close to their property, she jumped up from her chair and rushed at us.
She was shivering, and could hardly spit out her words--something to the effect of how we were supposed to stay 10 feet away from such and such, we could only have one sign of such and such size, and so on. She was rude and abrupt, her tone shrill. The exact list of regulations wasn't clear, except that she hated us and in an absurd way feared us; she pointed out that there were 5 security cameras trained on us as at the moment and she would call the police at a moment's notice if we got out of line.
I had two initial reactions, both of which I suppressed so as not to escalate the poor woman's out-of-control behavior. The first was to laugh out loud at the implication that this calmly praying group--an older woman in a chair, another with a baby strapped to her back--were about to storm the building if not for the cameras and the police. I would have payed much to see us for a moment through her eyes, for it certainly wasn't reality. It reminded me of the scenes in Lord of the Rings where Sam would attempt to help Frodo, but Frodo blinded by the power of the Ring could only see some ugly grasping creature.
The second was to admonish her, for it was galling to see her being so cruel to these gentle women. She even demanded that one of the older women fold up her chair and put it away, for according to her we were "only allowed" a single chair (I don't know which Ministry of Evil came up with the Regulations or if they existed only in the watchwoman's head, but it sounded a lot like those posted under Saruman's rule of the Shire).
We did not respond except with smiles and nods and inner prayers for her conversion, for our mission wasn't to escalate tension there and this woman was clearly out of her mind with hate. It was simply to pray and offer witness.
In disgust, she wheeled around and marched back to her watchpost. Another woman joined her to sneer at us, now and then muttering something in each other's ear followed by forced mocking laughter.
I've never experienced such a contrast of hate aimed directly at me in the very midst of praying for that person's wellbeing. It was very enlightening on many levels.
I'm a father of 4 young children who works mostly at home and it is hard to get out and help, but God willing I will do so again. Thank God for all the good men and women who spend so much of their time praying and working for life in the face of such irrational hatred.
M.Z. Forrest, clearly bricks are out of the question.
But there's really nothing to stop you from keeping some small pro-life materials on hand (say the ones the size of a holy card) with pictures of fetal development, stories of post-abortive women and their pain, prayers for the unborn etc.--and slipping one of *these* into the BRE and mailing it to Planned Parenthood on their dime.
Red--now you've made my night! I can't wait to get my first envelope from them!
Red-- Brilliant
Michael Gai, thanks for posting your thoughts.
I'm taking an early retirement (29 days from today!) and hope to be able to get involved with our very active local pro-life group.
*I am Ruthann. I am Pro-Life.*
Michael Gai,
Thanks for your story. Oh, the stories that so many, even me,(not nearly as actively involved as I ought to be) could tell of mobs of chanting, screaming, one-fingered-answer-to-everything, self-styled "defenders" of abortion clinics. Interestingly, though not too surprisingly, its usually young males who are the most in your face. They seem to clearly fear losing the repair shops for their broken toys. Most of the women entering (...being dragged into...) the clinics just look scared. God bless all you heroic servants of God who dedicate and sacrifice so much for the cause of life and justice for the unborn and their mothers.
I wonder how hard she grit her teeth when she wrote about God answering their prayers?
Grammar watch.
I grit my teeth every day.
Yesterday I grat my teeth.
I have grut my teeth frequently in the past.
In Kansas there is a law that before an abortionist kills a pre-term baby that is at least 22 weeks old, he or she must first determine whether the child is viable. Tiller ignored that technicality and it sounds like they also submitted false records to legal authorities investigating the charges and in some cases failed to properly record late term abortions, which is also required under Kansas law.
So PP is telling us that its raining on them... washing away all their funding, support, and the resulting evils, right? Maybe we could drench them with a holy water hurricane.
...And, Red Cardigan, on the days I've gotten such a funding solicitation, and no pro-life lit on hand, I just mail them back all the rest of the junk mail I've received that day. Not quite as satisfying, but it still sets em back a few centers...
I don't know, maybe it just increases their hate.
Prayer is the best answer.
Good on yer, folks!
I just wish something this good could happen this side of the pond. It helps to have states with their own laws.
Unfortunately, Sauron has an iron grip on the media here - even when polls show how many people are having second thoughts about baby-butchering. The minister stood up in Parliament and said there was no 'Scientific Evidence' (read - any that they're willing to accept) for lowering the time limit.
Jim, London
"I've never experienced such a contrast of hate aimed directly at me in the very midst of praying for that person's wellbeing. It was very enlightening on many levels."
I had this experience of contrast when I participated in the Walk for Life in San Francisco two years ago. It was an amazing experience to witness for life, while counter-protesters were displaying the vile and ugly hate.
I'm glad I took my 11-year son so he could witness the contrast.
I wonder how many mild pro-choicers could be deconvinced simply by witnessing - live or perhaps otherwise - the difference between pro-life demonstrators and pro-choicers.
The Emily X blog is laugh-out-loud ridiculous. Headlined "the true diary of a frontline Planned Parenthood worker and activist" and with each blog entry signed Emily X, the small print says
"For their safety and protection, Emily X represents a small handful of Planned Parenthood workers and activists, who may or may not be named Emily."
and each blog entry is obviously by a different person, since they switch occupation and location all the time.
And yet Planned Parenthood insist on talking about "she" to give it a personal touch. It's just dumb.
I also found myself on PP's mailing list. I took the opportunity to use their envelopes. You can cram 14 pages into them (at a postage cost to PP of about 83 cents), along with pictures of aborted children. I did this three times before they stopped sending me info.
Three strikes, they're out $2.49.
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