February 3, 2012

Planned Parenthood Ad Campaign Reveals True Agenda

    

Note: Warning: This story contains graphic content.

A series of ads for Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNNE) that's being run on the Internet, in print and on the sides of buses in Maine and Vermont is raising eyebrows — everywhere but in the state Legislature.

The ads have slogans proclaiming, "We're your Friend with Benefits," ""We're your quickie," and "We're your Private Area," to name a few, letting teens and adults know that they can ask PPNE anything, because "We're your sexual health experts, nothing will freak us out."

"It's all to market their new location" in downtown Burlington, said Vermont Right to Life Committee Executive Director Mary Hahn Beerworth. "It looks like a pretty expensive deal here. But a significant number of the members of the Vermont legislature rely on Planned Parenthood's support at election time, and would most likely be fine with the ad campaign."

Though no information on how much the ad campaign cost PPNNE was available, Beerworth said PPNNE is free to devote all its private donations to efforts like it — including the explicit text-messaging service it runs for teens called "consensualtext.org" — because it has a lock on federal and state taxpayer dollars.

"Planned Parenthood gets the entire Title X (family planning) allotment for Vermont, the entire $1.5 million. It's a no-bid contract. It just goes right to them," she explained.  "So they've kept all abstinence education out of the state. They are the sexual educators, and they work hand-in-hand with the Department of Health.

"Our state grants them another $300,000 with no strings attached."

Vermont is the only state in the union with no abortion restrictions of any kind — no parental notification, no informed consent, no bans on late-term abortion, and nothing to prohibit non-doctors from performing them.

"Vermont is considered unique in its use of non-physicians," Beerworth said. "So when a minor daughter goes in for an abortion without her parents, she also goes in without a doctor."

Contact: Karla Dial
Source: CitizenLink