Planned Parenthood Staff Fights Sex Crimes the Wrong Way

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In January 2011 private sting operations were performed at twelve Planned Parenthood clinics in six states and secret videos were made. In one of them, Kimberley (a PP health technician), explains how to get birth control and abortions for underage sex workers. 

 

The videos were released in February by an anti-abortion group called Live Action. A man posing as a pimp asked about STD testing and once they got into a private room, he began asking questions – in confidence – about getting help for ‘his girls.’ 

 

Planned Parenthood staff are all too aware of the anti-abortion movement that constantly peppers the organization with whatever stings it can find on a daily basis. Kimberley said she was suspicious of who they were, but answered all their questions fully before calling the FBI upon the actors’ departure. 

 

Jobs Were Lost Over This 

She, along with technicians at the other clinics visited, was trying to do what she thought was right. But, when Planned Parenthood’s bigwigs saw the videos they immediately fired one New Jersey clinic manager, Amy Woodruff, for her seeming cooperation with the actors. 

 

Even if Woodruff’s intent was to trick them into giving information by being cooperative, her response to the actors went against everything Planned Parenthood stands for and it was shown to the public. 

 

Anyone watching those videos would believe Planned Parenthood is a help to sex trafficking schemes and not agents who work daily to protect people from STDs, unwanted pregnancy, birth control and sexual abuse. Now states are voting not to fund Planned Parenthood in eight states, so far, using these videos as part of their artillery.

 

 

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Revisiting the Issue of Abortion

 

 

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Organizations like Planned Parenthood have come under fire as being pro-abortion corporations. Indeed, many have balked at the fact that teenagers often do not even need a parents signature in order to get an abortion. Behind the rhetoric however is a real problem. Children very early on in teenage years are getting pregnant and then need to decide if they will become moms or terminate the pregnancy. Those looking to terminate the pregnancy will usually end up in small clinic for a day procedure. Here are a couple points in favor of keeping things the way they are and keeping abortion legal.

1.) Outlawing abortions could take the practice underground- No one like the idea of an abortion. Not the public as a whole and not the young women in stirrups about to get an abortion. But the fact remains there are a number of unwanted pregancies each year that require a solution. Closing abortion clinics would no doubt force the practice underground and increase the liklihood of things going wrong and the mom being hurt.

2.) A mother’s right to choose- The fact remains that there are many women who get pregnant and did not plan on those circumstances. It is a woman’s right to choose and control what happens to her body as well as to choose if she will be forced to raise a child when she knows she may not be competent and ready for the task. As individuals, it is important we be allowed freedoms over our body and not have decisions of this magnitude made without our input.

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Anti-Choice Wingnuts or Educated Haters: How Planned Parenthood is Being Reviewed

According to 2008 data, said Jill Stanek with the support of the infamous American Life League, Planned Parenthood offers little more to communities than abortion services. Though the American Life League, for their part, remarked that their findings are based solely on data about pregnant patients of Planned Parenthood, Jill Stanek has openly reported these findings in a way meant to imply that they are general. Her recent article, “Planned Parenthood: Abortion Virtually Only Service,” is not at all accurate or the writing of an educated person. From a bland title, to a grossly inaccurate conclusion, Stanek writes every word with colorful bias and pretense.

The graphs presented in her article are misleading, and meant to rally the support of Pro-Life readers and to make Pro-Choicers waver, too. As though her misleading information is not enough to add gray cloud coverage to anyone’s perspective, she peppers it with remarks like “You may need a magnifying glass to spot the adoption and prenatal care bars” (on her graphs, in contrast to the ‘abortion bar’).

Neither do Planned Parenthood centers pretend to be or want to be adoption centers. Though they do offer those services to community members who are distraught and seeking help and information, it is not a primary service that they provide. What concerns some readers, as is apparent from the comments on Stanek’s article, before they are periodically deleted, is that the “anti-choicers” don’t believe that women, or female patients rather, have a brain. Supposedly, the people who enter Planned Parenthood are being coerced into having abortions, where they would otherwise keep the child, or give it away to an agency. The reports of the American Life League and Jill Stanek on Planned Parenthood’s services fail to remark at all on the other findings from the document where they gathered their data from 2008, such as the rate of guests to Planned Parenthood who merely sought contraceptives (35%).

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Information About Planned Parenthood, and Their Services

As the leading national reproductive health care provide, and the leading sexual health care provider and advocate, Planned Parenthood is well known throughout the nation, though often with misconceptions about the agenda and mission of Planned Parenthood. Sexual health care services that are vital in our communities for the well being of young men and women are provided by Planned Parenthood now, and have been provided for more than 94 years, already. Information about sexuality, and about sex education, is also available for those who need advice and counseling. In the current year, Planned Parenthood employs more than 30,000 people, including both volunteers, and paid employees.

More than five million people are treated and advised by Planned Parenthood’s trained and caring staff. Sexual health and reproductive health care are important facets of communities, and Planned Parenthood has provided these necessary services so that those who are disadvantaged have access to equal medical care. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America founded the international branch, the International Planned Parenthood Federation, which now serves more than ten million patients annually.

The core service that is most vital for the teens who access Planned Parenthood is contraception and the pre-requisite education, information, and care. Nearly 11 million services were provided back in 2008 to more than five million people. This is believed to have prevented nearly 600,000 unwanted pregnancies. Most visitors of Planned Parenthood facilities are living below the national poverty line, which makes Planned Parenthood their only option for medical attention for sexual-related care. In addition to the great works being done by the core branches of Planned Parenthood, there are an additional 87 affiliates, which makes 912 offices nationally where people can seek help and attention. Providing a good sexual education for visitors is a vital role for a community member, as is providing services that people could not otherwise afford.

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Medication Abortion Versus Surgical: Planned Parenthood Options Debated

Planned Parenthood has publicly stated that medication abortions are the preferred method of most women, as they are less intrusive, and considerably more private. However, the “Des Moines Register” believes that the surgical option is being overlooked due to misconceptions about the pain, bleeding, and invasive-ness of the procedure. The truth as the “Des Moines Register” reports it is that medication-induced abortions are far worse, being more protracted, uncomfortable, and causing bleeding for up to two weeks for most women who choose this method. Also, women who choose this method may see the child’s body pass in their own toilet, rather than having a quick and formal surgical abortion that prevents such discomforts.

The real question that the “Register” has failed to ask is: how many abortions, either medication-induced or surgical, has Planned Parenthood prevented through their birth control services and sexual health education? Though the gruesome details of abortions make for better readerships for cheesy tabloids like the “Register,” the truth is that Planned Parenthood is first and foremost interested in caring for people, and helping them to PLAN for eventual PARENTHOOD. Plan, as in prevent, until the time is right. Planned Parenthood is interested in preventing the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases, providing affordable or free services to community members who live below the poverty line, and assisting those with surgical medical needs.

In addition to critically analyzing practices that Planned Parenthood necessarily offers, by public demand, to local communities, the “Register” has also stepped on their own feet. Initially supporting Planned Parenthood in an opinion piece about telemedicine and abortion, the “Register” back-stepped when their conservative readership ignited and threatened to cancel subscriptions. This caused the newspaper to swallow its pride, swallow it’s true opinion, and write what the local nay-sayers would have them write. Is that true journalism? Since when does a newspaper care about public interest? I thought they were all bought by Big Business, already!

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Abortion Clinic Plot Targeted at Family Planning Facility

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There must be a proud Concord mama out there somewhere. A man from Concord, whom most believe is mentally unstable, plotted to attack what he called “an abortion clinic” that was actually a family planning facility, Planned Parenthood. Though many people think of Planned Parenthood as an abortion clinic, in truth, it is a family planning facility for teenagers, particularly those who live below the poverty line. Last Monday, a man from South Piedmont was charged with a plot to bomb the local Planned Parenthood facility and seen in federal court, in Greensboro.

This A-class character who sought to literally explore a facility filled with pregnant women, young teenagers, and impoverished patients and the nurses who assist them, used a popular social media site to encourage others to help. Mr. Justin Carl Moose, a regular Facebook user, probably has the CEO of Facebook re-questioning their choice to make Facebook public, rather than just for college kids. Moose encouraged people on his page to use extreme violence against those in need of Planned Parenthood, and those working there. Justin Moose also provided diagrams, pictures, and instructions for the design and creation of homemade bombs, which he didn’t realize could be made by young boys to explode cats, in addition to the Planned Parenthood. His short sightedness could have lead to the deaths of innocent, random community members, in addition to helpless, impoverished young people. Mrs. Moose, Justin’s mother, must be extremely proud of her son.

The website on Facebook had enough damaging information that investigations were also launched on other people who interacted with Moose. The only good thing to come out of this horrific scare is that perhaps as many as four shady characters have been red flagged for further investigation, in addition to Moose. Moose may face as much as 20 years in jail for his terror plot, as well as a fine of $250,000.

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Options for Emergency Contraception

Many couples are careful and use protection when they have sex. However, in some instances birth control can fail or a condom can break. Sometimes accidental unprotected sex happens unintentionally for a variety of reasons. Additionally, some women are victims of rape and do not want a pregnancy to result. For these instances, emergency contraception is a great resource, and another service offered at Planned Parenthood clinics.

Emergency contraception, also known as the Morning After Pill, can help to prevent pregnancy if taken between one and five days after having unprotected sex. It is offered in Planned Parenthood clinics to women 17 years of age and older. If someone younger needs emergency contraception, they must go to their physician or other health center, and will often have to have parental consent. Basically the pill works by hormones which prevent the woman’s ovaries from releasing an egg. Additionally, it helps to thicken the mucus from the cervix which blocks sperm from joining with an egg. The pill also can thin the uterus lining, which could prevent an egg from attaching to the uterus. The sooner the pill is taken after unprotected intercourse, the more effective the pill will be. However, contrary to common belief, this pill does not cause an abortion; it will not terminate an existing pregnancy. It will only help in preventing a pregnancy if taken properly. The pill should not be used as regular birth control; there are many options for contraception available through Planned Parenthood clinics. The cost of emergency contraception pills can vary, usually ranging from $10-$70. Some clinics also provide certain intrauterine devices, which are believed to block pregnancy from occurring if placed in the woman within five days of unprotected sex. Some side effects are present in women who have taken the emergency contraception pill, including nausea and vomiting, cramping, and irregular bleeding.

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