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Birth Pangs believes in a moral obligation to keep our readers up-to-date on the important (and neither frivolous nor vexatious) issues of the day.
Remember, a while back, somewhere around the winter holly daze, when our very own fern hill broke the story about the fundraiser organized by the Ottawa Senators’ wives and how they were planning to give First Place Pregnancy Centre, a crisis pregnancy centre, some of the money they collected? And remember how, thanks to fern hill’s great sleuthing, the Better Halves did not give First Place one dime of the money raised from the good Sens’ fans? Was First Place pushed off the fundraising bandwagon or did it jump into last place?
Well, now it seems the zygote zealots at the crisis pregnancy centre are getting even all upset because their client numbers are down. Clients? Their clients are the women faced with an unintended pregnancy – whence the ‘crisis’ – and then choosing to carry it to term.
What Birth Bangs does not understand is why the centre is not rejoicing! Doesn’t this mean that its potential clients — those who keep the rule of silence regarding abortion as an option, or those for whom that’s a no-go zone — well, they are NOT getting pregnant. Presumably, they’re practicing abstinence AS THEY SHOULD.
Wellllll. Not quite. Birth Pangs suspects episodes of shrieking and pearl clutching occurred when the centre’s board and its director realized the implications of all the publicity that exposed First Place and its explicit anti-abortion agenda. So, maybe potential clients, those who need information on all – and we mean ALL – the options and resources available, maybe these women, as well as those women not wanting to be dealing with an unintended pregnancy in the first place, are calling a place that actually gives ALL that information, maybe all those women are calling Planned Parenthood instead!
So, how is First Place Pregnancy Centre handling the decline in …..ah, business? Why, they’re suing Planned Parenthood Ottawa!
An Ottawa centre for women facing unplanned pregnancies yesterday filed notice of its intention to sue Planned Parenthood Ottawa in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.First Place Pregnancy Centre was one of three charities designated by the Sens Better Halves, a group of Ottawa Senators’ wives and girlfriends, to receive funds from the SENSational Tree Raffle organized last November. In December, First Place withdrew from the fundraiser after Planned Parenthood issued a press release saying the group was “anti-choice.”
First Place executive director Terri Mazik said her group has since noticed “a severe decline” in clients.
Why is it suing Planned Parenthood? For blowing its cover? For stealing its ‘clients’? Is First Place denying its anti-choice affiliations? Follow the links it provides from its own website to Care Net, a network of pregnancy centres that spans North America, where it states:
Each day, 3,300 women wake up in America believing abortion is the only realistic solution to an unplanned pregnancy. In this tragic decision, not only is a human life snuffed out, but a woman’s life is changed forever. Many have worked for years in the legal and public policy spheres to put an end to abortion. Care Net, however, seeks a more immediate route by supporting one woman at a time, to spare her and her unborn child the sorrow of abortion. While legal efforts will continue for years to come, hundreds of lives are being saved everyday in and through the work of pregnancy centers.
Here’s another blurb about the crisis pregnancy centre movement, from those crazy nutbars kids at Care Net. Pay attention to the connections.
Yet, as the judicial, legislative, and public education battles rage, there is another movement at work to end abortion in America. It is the mostly unpublicized, often unnoticed work of the pregnancy center movement. Begun over thirty years ago, this grassroots effort, enlisting thousands of volunteers and funded almost entirely by local community contributions, encompasses over 2,000 local centers nationwide. While judicial and legislative efforts may take years to come to fruition, the pregnancy center movement works to “help stop abortion every day.” While the ever-changing tide of American politics can bring a pro-life or pro-abortion President into office, and a higher court can quickly overturn a legal decision limiting abortion rights, the pregnancy center movement has experienced slow but steady expansion and increased effectiveness at reaching abortion-vulnerable women, one life at a time in the thirty-plus years since the Roe and Doe decisions. A closer look at the history, expansion, and transformation of the movement will reveal why it is one of the most vivid, undiluted, and practical applications of religion in contemporary American society.
Scary, huh? So, to we who watch what the fetal obsessionists do, it seems that First Place Pregnancy Centre is suing Planned Parenthood because it didn’t get to ride the coat-tails of the Better Halves fundraising event, and to harvest its publicity and financial benefits.
If the Centre had plans for the money the Better Halves would be giving them, shouldn’t it be hitting them with a civil suit for backtracking on their promise? Ah, but that would probably make the organization seem spiteful and mean-spirited, would it not? And that would be bad optics.
So, borrowing a page from the Cons’ dirty tricks manual, the Centre goes into attack mode. It will shoot for its day in court, try to prove that the Centre suffered terribly (watch for the pearls!) when the truth about it was revealed.
Count on Birth Pangs to report the ongoing frolics of the fetus fetishists and their followers. No doubt they will be inspired as they slog through the battlefields of civil litigation, by the broad example of their inspiring leader, Stevie Harpoon, who never stops to query: “Does this suit make my ass look big?”
Hey Stevie! Those lawsuits make your head look fat!
In the spate of frivolous suits, I’m sure they are considering you wimmens.