Women unmasking Planned Parenthood: Defund it!

Two women speak out against Planned Parenthood, explaining why Americans should defund it.

Earlier today, National Right to Life President Carol Tobias released a video, in which she explains that “Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion chain in America.” Although the organization “has carefully crafted a public image as a protector of women’s health, its bottom-line depends on performing more and more abortions.”

“In order to make abortion seem like a small part of what it does,” Tobias claims, “Planned Parenthood lists every service it does, equally.” Despite this wealth of services, every one out of eight women who visit Planned Parenthood get an abortion.

Although the organization claims that “increased funding will enable it to reduce the number of abortions,” its own reports disprove this. From 1998 to 2009, government funding for Planned Parenthood has increased from $165 million to $363 million. During that same period of time, the number of abortions also increased, from 165,509 to 332,278. Indeed, Planned Parenthood performed 27.4 % of all abortions in the United States in 2009.

The racial demographics of abortion, especially in New York City, reveal a very ugly side to this apparently sterile practice. In 2009, the summary of vital statistics for the city of New York revealed that Non-Hispanic blacks accounted for 47 % of abortions in the Big Apple. Hispanics accounted for 32.5 %, with Non-Hispanic whites at 11 %, and Asian and Pacific Islanders at 6 %. In other words, abortion hits the black and Hispanic communities harder than any others.

In response to this, Dr. Alveda King, Martin Luther King Jr’s niece, led a rally in New York back in January, to begin a “New Civil Rights Movement” against abortion. As “abortion started in New York with Margaret Sanger,” it is fitting that Dr. King carries on her uncle’s legacy there.

Speaking “from my heart,” Dr. King declares that “we know that abortion is harmful, that abortion is genocide, and that Planned Parenthood lies.”

Dr. King agrees with Carol Tobias that the organization “has a huge sack of tricks,” and seeks to “rob America and the world of our greatest resource…our children.”

The Scout Law: Reverence

Growing up in the United States of America, I have always felt a primary loyalty to my native land. Having acheived my Eagle Scout and serving at Boy Scout Camp Buffalo Bill this summer, I realize the moral strength of the Scout Law.
In order to become an Eagle Scout, I had to memorize the twelve-point law established by the Boy Scouts of America. "A scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent." As a Christian, I especially value the twelfth point, that of reverence.
In the beginning of Matthew's account of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says, "blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the Earth." On the face of it, this statement seems absurd. How can a person gain the Earth when he is meek? Meekness involves accepting the world around you, acknowledging the greatness of things beyond yourself, and, in a sense, renouncing them to be themselves. But by this method, a man inherits the Earth, he does not conquer it. Indeed, only the man who can look at a mountain for what it is, and not strive to destroy it to fit his convenience, can truly appreciate that mountain. He possesses it more surely than any miner or logger, because he sees it, and because he reveres it.
Similarly, Proverbs says that "the Fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the holy is understanding." Wisdom guides a man's way in life. It may lead him to riches and honor, but most importantly, it will help him to make the decisions that he will not regret when he has grown old. Proverbs says that this great light proceeds, not from study or from hard work, but from the fear of the Lord, from reverence for the God who made the World, and died to save sinners.
Modern America seems to be abandoning this reverence on all sides.
Many women proclaim that their unborn children are "their body," and that they can do whatever they want with them. If they possessed the meekness to see a child for what it truly is, they would not so rashly cut up the wonderful thing that grows in their belly.
No man who truly understands the Constitution of the United States should desire such radical programs as Obamacare or the economic stimulus of the Federal Government. If our President could humble himself before the document that drew this nation together again after the debacles of the Articles of Confederation, he may not so rashly follow the interpretation that ignores the Founders' intentions to limit government and preserve individual liberty.
If married couples had the meekness to realize the gravity of their marriage vows, they would not so rashly throw them away for small causes. In cases of infidelity, the promise has been broken, and the marriage may be annulled. But if a man and a woman vow to love and serve one another "in sickness and in health, 'til death do us part," they should honor their commitment, and preserve the little nation of the family that their vows create. Each family is precious, and provides the home and childhood that each citizen needs. When a couple abandons their vows, they do not only commit perjury: they destroy a nation.
These three problems, abortion, excessive growth of government, and frivolous divorce, illustrate the lack of reverence in modern America. If we humble ourselves, we shall be exalted. If we boast ourselves, like Hitler's Nazis, the Russian Communists and the Italian Fascists, we shall surely fall. How long did Hitler's "thousand year reich last?" How greatly are the mighty fallen, but how greatly are the humble risen! In World War II, the United States did not plan on ruling the world, and it defeated those nations that desired to dominate all before them.
So, during this 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America, I challenge Americans to be reverent, and honor the good that surrounds us. While President Barack Obama has declined to appear at the National Jamboree, thus sending an insult to the Boy Scouts of America on their 100th anniversary, the American people may prove more loyal to an organization that makes such a difference in the lives of their children. Boy Scouts does not only teach young boys how to sail, row, paint, care for the environment, work with leather, survive in the wilderness, and live an outdoor life. It plants the seeds of virtue in a man, and those seeds, when watered properly, blossom to form the true citizen, the man who cares for others and for the integrity of his country. Wise citizens will make a peaceful and prosperous nation, while those who cannot humble themselves shall fall. May God bless America, and may America revere God.