Abortionists use Mother's Day for fundraising

Abortionists use Mother's Day for fundraising
'You have to admire the utter chutzpah of the people at Planned Parenthood'

Planned Parenthood, the U.S. abortion industry's biggest presence, is using Mother's Day to promote its conferences and raise funds, triggering a jaw-dropping reaction among those who battle its agenda.

"You have to admire the utter chutzpah of the people at Planned Parenthood," said statement on the American Life League website, which has a specific STOPP program to reveal Planned Parenthood's activities.

"You would think that of all the holidays of the year, this organization that kills the babies of more than 255,000 mothers a year, would find little to celebrate on Mother's Day. But you would be wrong," the group said.

The organization said it had received e-mails from several Planned Parenthood corporate divisions "asking for donations to Planned Parenthood in honor of mothers on Mother's Day. Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, D.C., brazenly says:"

"You can show your appreciation for your mother's love and devotion by making a gift in honor or in memory of her to Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington. Mother's Day is one day we can honor the women who have shaped our lives. … Making a gift to PPMW helps generations of women, mothers, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, nieces, and daughters…"

ALL noted the New York City office has written:

"With Mother's Day just around the corner … you're probably thinking about how to show the special women in your life how much you love and appreciate them. Well, we've got a great idea for you! Why not honor the special women in your life by taking one simple action to help empower women all around the world? It's easy - click here to join us in urging Congress to increase funding for international family planning programs…"

LifeNews.com reported on another from Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Richards shared part of an editorial her daughter wrote saying she got her pro-abortion views from her mother and grandmother, former Texas Gov. Ann Richards.

"It's true that I have had lots of rewarding moments in my career. So did my mother," Cecile wrote, according to LifeNews. "But knowing that my daughter is carrying on the legacy of fighting that my mother passed to me trumps 'em all."

It took her all of three paragraphs to ask for money.

That fund-raiser has been posted on the website of Jill Stanek, who also serves as a columnist for WND.

"As Mother's Day approaches, I am grateful for the opportunity to make a difference and hope you'll join me," Richards wrote.

"These pro-abort lunatics from Planned Parenthood are really out of their minds. Let me see if I've got this … we should 'celebrate' mother's day by aborting (killing) babies?" wrote a blogger at A Catholic View.

"This pathetic woman is so psychologically and emotionally invested in abortion she has no semblance of conscience left," Stanek wrote. "If and when she has grandchildren, I'm sure she'll use them too."

She called the "Happy Mother's Day" greetings as "grotesque" as the organization's much-criticized "Choice on Earth" campaign at Christmas.

The American Life League said it has a response.

"We encourage all of our readers to take action and call attention to this latest outrage by Planned Parenthood. Write a letter to the editor. Or demonstrate outside Planned Parenthood…" the group said.

At Silent No More Awareness Campaign, a campaign of Priests for Life and Anglicans for Life, spokeswoman Janet Morana said the solitications are "beyond appalling."

"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," she said.

The Planned Parenthood corporate branch for North and South Dakota and Minnesota was using a different angle, promoting its "Making the Connections" conference on Mother's Day weekend at a charge of $90.

It's promoted as a retreat "where mothers and their 10-12 year old daughters have tons of fun together while learning about puberty changes…"

Judie Brown, president of American Life League, said the solicitations have a morbid message.

"It's simply horrifying to think that anyone involved in abortion – even Planned Parenthood – could have the audacity to claim any association at all with a day designed to salute a mother's selfless love for her children," she said.

She cited the words of Jatrice Gaiter, the Washington PP chief, urging supporters to support her business, which is "to ensure that every child is wanted, nurtured, and enormously loved."

"Can Planned Parenthood be serious?" Brown asked. "Ms. Gaiter's words have a ghastly ring to them. How is it that a beautiful baby, which she describes as 'nurtured and enormously loved,' can be violently put to death in the offices that she overseas…"