Planned Parenthood exploits Mother's Day to raise money

by Tom Strode                                                                                                                                     Vol. XXI, No. 8, September 2008

Planned Parenthood Federation of America – known far better for terminating motherhood than for promoting it -- nonetheless found a way to turn Mother's Day into an excuse for fund raising.

The country's leading abortion chain, which performed nearly 290,000 abortions in 2006, observed Mother's Day by asking for donations in honor of mothers in the days surrounding May 11. Under the homepage heading "Planned Parenthood Celebrates Mother's Day," PPFA told visitors to its website they could make "a gift in honor of your mother or someone else you love this Mother's Day."

A link took visitors to a form on the website for credit card donations. The form included a space for the name of the person in whose honor or memory the gift was to be given. It also enabled the donor to include a person to whom a Mother's Day card could be sent from PPFA.

"For Planned Parenthood to ask for 'Mother's Day Gifts' is beyond appalling," said Janet Morana, co-founder of the Silent No More Awareness campaign, in a written statement. "This is an organization that has turned Mother's Day into a painful reminder of terminated children for millions and millions of women. To ask for money on this day so that it can traumatize even more women is the ultimate in insensitivity."

Silent No More describes itself as the world's largest network of women and men harmed by abortion.

PPFA President Cecile Richards and actresses Blythe Danner and Gwyneth Paltrow wrote e-mails asking for Mother's Day gifts to Planned Parenthood, according to LifeNews.com.

"We think that Mother's Day is the perfect time to think about what it means to support mothers in this country. There is no organization that we know of that supports motherhood and all that it means more than Planned Parenthood," Danner and her daughter, Paltrow, wrote in their e-mail, seemingly with all seriousness.

It does not appear PPFA lacks funds. It surpassed $1 billion in annual revenue for the first time last year, more than $336 million of that coming in government grants and contracts. [BP]

[Editor’s Note: Satan must be laughing uproariously at the picture of people actually contributing to Planned Parenthood to “honor” mothers! And Danner and Paltrow’s email, if it was not their idea of a cruel, horrible joke, could anything be more idiotic? TCP]