The inconsistency of Planned Parenthood
Recently, Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion organizations have been taking aim at crisis pregnancy centers. These attacks are quite upsetting, because they are deceptive and unmistakably intended to draw women away from alternatives to abortion.
Many abortion centers have “warnings” posted on their websites about the crisis pregnancy centers. These warnings speak of harassment and offer false promises of assistance. Planned Parenthood, for instance, has an extensive warning posted on its website, plannedparenthood.org, beneath information on first trimester abortion.
This “Patient Alert” states that, “In their zeal to stop women from having abortions, anti-abortion activists have set up "counseling centers" in hundreds of communities around the country. Far from true counseling, these centers are designed to misinform and intimidate women — some will go to any lengths necessary to dissuade women from ending their pregnancies.”
This warning also cites a survey of abortion clinics across the country which Planned Parenthood conducted. However, it does not directly quote any of the information from the survey reports that were returned. Instead, the website provides a vague summary of the survey.
Unfortunately, there is no information on where to find the official results of the survey, which appear to be a collection of casual reports from abortion clinics sympathetic to Planned Parenthood. These reports make it seem as though the crisis pregnancy centers are simply pushing their own agenda, and will stop at nothing to hurt women. Planned Parenthood’s website would have one believe that the only motive for the existence of crisis pregnancy centers is to keep women from having an abortion.
It is true that these centers want to help prevent women from killing their babies. The main reason for their existence, however, is to help women who find themselves pregnant and yet unable—financially, emotionally, or otherwise—to care for their babies.
As Total Life Care Center’s website, totallifecare.org, states, “At the Life Care Centers, we don't provide a quick fix and we don't look only at the current dilemma. We offer assistance to a woman as a whole person: We work with women because we know they have emotional, spiritual, and physical needs.”
Many women in this situation, while perhaps wishing that they had never become pregnant, still realize that there is a precious baby growing inside them. They want to be able to provide love and care for the baby. Crisis pregnancy centers assist women who want to do this, either by helping to place the babies with adoptive families or by finding financial aid for women who desire to raise their children independently.
Pro-abortion organizations do not acknowledge that a woman may have a very strong desire to keep her baby if circumstances allowed. For, these groups consider every unexpected pregnancy to be an unwanted one—which would result in an unwanted child. Therefore, the only option is abortion.
For example, on the Planned Parenthood website, there is little information on adoption and parenting, but very much information on abortion. From the varying degrees of information provided on such topics, it is easy to see that Planned Parenthood is focused on abortion, not on helping women with unexpected pregnancies find ways to manage their situation while also being open to new life and new love as the crisis centers do.
This focus on abortion is a serious shortcoming and evidence that Planned Parenthood is little more than an abortion mill. If this organization truly wanted to help women, wouldn’t it be applauding the efforts of these crisis pregnancy centers? Even though the means to the end are quite different and in Planned Parenthood’s case—morally reprehensible—the end is still ostensibly the same. Both of these organizations claim that their main objective is to help women.
Why, then, is Planned Parenthood attacking these centers that offer genuine assistance and support to mothers? The answer may be that these centers are so successful in aiding women in carrying their pregnancies to term and caring for their children, that abortion providers like Planned Parenthood are afraid of losing the profits they make from aborting babies.
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