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Planned Parenthood: The Bigger Picture

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Jedediah Bila

By Jedediah Bila, Author and Political Commentator

Planned Parenthood has once again proven what many know all too well:  the organization’s mission, despite its charming title, has little to nothing to do with family planning or parenthood.

Footage released on December 9, 2009 from a Live Action undercover investigation in Appleton, WI titled The Rosa Acuna Project, reveals a Planned Parenthood counselor and an abortion doctor providing medically inaccurate, misleading information to a female “patient” in order to encourage her to have an abortion.  Some of the more alarming statements include:  “It’s not a baby at this stage or anything like that,” “You know, women die having babies,” and an insistence that the “fetus” does not possess a heartbeat, but rather a “heart tone.”  According to Live Action, leading embryologists Dianne Irving and Ward Kischer have labeled the statements by the counselor and doctor in the video “scientifically erroneous and absurd.”  The video complements former Texas Planned Parenthood clinic director Abby Johnson’s declaration that “Planned Parenthood really tries to instill in their employees and the women that are coming in for abortions that this is not a baby, that this is just a mass of cells.”

This is not the first time Live Action, a self-proclaimed non-violent “youth led movement dedicated to building a culture of life and ending abortion…” has brought Planned Parenthood’s dishonorable activities to our attention.  Their summer 2008 Mona Lisa Project exposed several acts of negligence on the part of Planned Parenthood to report cases of statutory rape.  In another Live Action undertaking, Planned Parenthood clinics in Ohio and Idaho were eagerly willing to accept donations from a caller—an undercover actor—who wished to ensure that his/her money was targeted toward aborting African-American babies.  Despite these occurrences, Planned Parenthood snatched $349.6 million of government funding in 2007-2008.  Visit Live Action’s national Planned Parenthood Violations Map for a peek into what your hard-earned tax dollars have really been up to.

Although these findings are heinous enough, there is a bigger picture that must be acknowledged.  Planned Parenthood has been long championed by the left as an honorable protector of women’s rights in much the same manner that the National Organization for Women—despite a single-issue, pro-abortion agenda and an ongoing commitment to crucify pro-life females—has been promoted as a beacon of feminism.  The results?  Thousands of women flock to Planned Parenthood each day with the false expectation of impartial guidance and sound medical advice.  They join NOW because their college Female Studies professors—and the NOW website—tell them that Sarah Palin “is a woman who opposes women’s rights.”  And ultimately, they head to the voting booths and pull the lever for the likes of Barack Obama because academia failed to mention that feminism and ownership of one’s body has everything to do with personal responsibility and the gift of womanhood, and nothing to do with the left’s sanctimonious right to kill.  FYI—NOW, the supposed champion of the rights of all women, features a page on their website devoted to “Fighting the Right Wing.”

Planned Parenthood, NOW, and the “feminist” left have long been the architects of a powerful disservice to women in the name of protecting them.  The distortions should not and cannot be tolerated, so let me break down just a few final equations:

Planned + Parenthood = Abortion Crusade.

NOW + Feminist Left = Oppression of Pro-Life Voices.

And while I’m at it, Hope + Change = Government Overtake of Your Liberty.

There comes a time to say enough is enough. That time is now.

Jedediah Bila is an author and commentator living in New York City. She holds a Master of Arts from Columbia University and completed her first novel in December of 2009. For more information on Jedediah, please visit JedediahBila.com.

 Isaiah 65:24
 
 This is a beautiful story written by a doctor who worked in Africa

 One night I had worked hard to help a mother in the labor ward; but in
 Spite of all we could do, she died, leaving us with a tiny, premature baby
 And a crying two-year-old daughter. We would have difficulty keeping the
 Baby alive; as we had no incubator (we had no electricity to run an incubator).  We also had no special feeding facilities.
 
Although we lived on the equator, nights were often chilly with
 Treacherous drafts. One student midwife went for the box we had for such
 Babies and the cotton wool that the baby would be wrapped in.
 Another went to stoke up the fire and fill a hot water bottle. She came
 Back shortly in distress to tell me that in filling the bottle, it had
 Burst (rubber perishes easily in tropical climates)..
 ’And it is our last hot water bottle!’ she exclaimed.
‘All right,’ I said, ‘put the baby as near the fire as you safely can, and
 sleep between the baby and the door to keep it free from drafts Your job
 Is to keep the baby warm.’
 
The following noon, as I did most days, I went to have prayers with any
 Of the orphanage children who chose to gather with me. I gave the
 Youngsters various suggestions of things to pray about and told them about The tiny baby. I explained our problem about keeping the baby warm
 Enough,mentioning the hot water bottle, and that the baby could so easily
 Die if it got chills… I also told them of the two-year-old sister,
 Crying because her mother had died.
 
During prayer time, a ten -year-old girl, Ruth, prayed with the usual
 Blunt conciseness of African children. ‘Please, God’ she prayed, ‘Send
 Us a hot water bottle today.. It’ll be no good tomorrow, God, as the baby
 Will be dead, so please send it this afternoon.’ While I gasped inwardly at the audacity of the prayer, she added, ‘And While You are about it, would You please send a dolly for the little girl So she’ll know You really love her?’
 
As often with children’s prayers, I was put on the spot. Could I honestly
 Say ‘Amen?’ I just did not believe that God could do this.
 Oh, yes, I know that He can do everything; the Bible says so. But there
 Are limits, aren’t there? The only way God could answer this particular
 Prayer would be by sending me a parcel from the homeland. I had been in
 Africa for almost four years at that time, and I had never, ever, received
 a parcel from home.  Anyway, if anyone did send me a parcel, who would put in a hot water  Bottle? I lived on the equator!
 
Halfway through the afternoon, while I was teaching in the nurses’
 Training school, a message was sent that there was a car at my front door.
 By the time I reached home, the car had gone, but there on the verandah
 Was a large 22-pound parcel. I felt tears pricking my eyes. I could not
 Open the parcel alone, so I sent for the orphanage children. Together we
 Pulled off the string, carefully undoing each knot. We folded the paper,
 Taking care not to tear it unduly Excitement was mounting. Some thirty or
 Forty pairs of eyes were focused on the large cardboard box. From the top,
 I lifted out brightly-colored, knitted jerseys. Eyes sparkled as I gave
 Them out. Then there were the knitted bandages for the leprosy patients.
 Then came a box of mixed raisins and sultanas – that would make a batch
 Of buns for the weekend. As I put my hand in again, I felt the…..
 Could it really be?  I grasped it and pulled it out. Yes, a brand new, rubber hot water bottle.  I cried. I had not asked God to send it; I had not truly believed that He could.
 
Ruth was in the front row of the children. She rushed forward, crying out,
 ’If God has sent the bottle, He must have sent the dolly, too!’
 Rummaging down to the bottom of the box, she pulled out the small,
 Beautifully-dressed dolly. Her eyes shone! She had never doubted!
 Looking up at me, she asked, ‘Can I go over with you and give this dolly
 To that little girl, so she’ll know that Jesus really loves her?’
 ’Of course,’ I replied!
 
That parcel had been on the way for five whole months, packed up by my
 Former Sunday school class, whose leader had heard and obeyed God’s
 Prompting to send a hot water bottle, even to the equator.
 And one of the girls had put in a dolly for an African child – five months
 before, in answer to the believing prayer of a ten-year-old to bring it
 ’that afternoon.’
 
‘And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and
 while they are yet speaking, I will hear.’ (Isaiah 65:24)

 When you receive this, say the prayer. That’s all I ask. No strings
 attached. Just send it on to whomever you want – but do send it on.
 Prayer is one of the best free gifts we receive. There is no cost, but a
 lot of rewards. Let’s continue praying for one another.
 
This awesome prayer takes less than a minute.
 
Heavenly Father, I ask you to bless my friends reading this. I ask You to
 minister to their spirit. Where there is pain, give them Your peace and
 mercy. Where there is self doubting, release a renewed confidence to work
 through them. Where there is tiredness or exhaustion, I ask You to give
 them understanding, guidance, and strength. Where there is fear, reveal
 our love and release to them Your courage.. Bless their finances, give
 them greater vision, and raise up leaders and friends to support and
 encourage them. Give each of them discernment to recognize the evil forces around them and reveal to them the power they have in You to defeat it. I ask You to do these things in Jesus’ name.. Amen
 
P. S. Passing this on to anyone you consider a friend will bless you both.
Passing this on to one not considered a friend is something Christ would do.