Brad Trost Launchs Petition Against Planned Parenthood
Brad Trost has launched a petition to defund the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).
From the IPPF website;
What we believe
We believe that sexual and reproductive rights should be internationally recognized as human rights and therefore guaranteed for everyone.
We encourage individuals, women in particular, to take control of their reproductive lives.
We promote equality between men and women, aiming to eliminate gender biases, especially those that threaten the well-being of women and girls.
Above all we promote choices.
Choice, it is such a hard thing for the average con to understand especially when it comes to choice for women.
The petition says that the government pledged $18 million to the IPPF over four years and that “the IPPF does not support physician’s freedom to practice according to their conscience and/or religious beliefs regarding abortion referral.”
Freedom’s just another word for imposing fundamentalist conservative “values” on everyone else.
Brad apparently isn’t worried about throwing the baby out with the bathwater however (after all it’s no longer a fetus)
Approximately 36 million visits a year are made to over 58,000 IPPF facilities worldwide.
The services our facilites provide for these users include:
counselling <- NOT ABORTION
gynaecological care <- NOT ABORTION
HIV-related services <- NOT ABORTION
diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infections <- NOT ABORTION
infertility services <- NOT ABORTION
mother and child health <- NOT ABORTION
emergency contraception <- NOT ABORTION
abortion-related services
{bold for the reality impaired}
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Obviously the IPPF doesn't respect life. Pro-choicers always sound so selfish only caring about themselves and not giving a damn about the baby.
I disagree Mr. Clark! Pro-Choice is entirely about caring for the baby. What if the baby would be born into a world where it wasn't loved or couldn't be properly cared for? "Oh, Adoption of course" all the Anti-choicers say. Hmm… Well I don't see a lot of those people linning up at the adoption agencies to take those babies, now do I? If you "Pro-Life"rs want to see abortion stopped, then for every ballot you tick saying you want to stop abortion, then you should sign up to become an adoptive parent! I think that the tides would very soon turn.
And why shouldn't a pro-choice person be "selfish"? It's the woman's body, the woman's peace of mind, and even the woman's money paying for that baby that she doesn't want or can't have. I say that woman can be as "selfish" as she wants, because it's her life, and no one should have the right to impinge upon her own free will. Denying rights to a woman's own body is not only unconstitiutional, it's simply a travesty. Now, you're a man (I assume…) so one, I don't believe you should have a say in this matter, and two… Let's try a different means of birth control then, and eliminate this problem all together. Let's hack off a certain body part of yours! If that was every suggested, there was be outrage and screaming men, all saying it would be their bodies and that no one would be allowed to rightfully do that.
Hmm… Now, doesn't that sound familiar?
I myself don't believe I could have an abortion. But I couldn't say that for sure unless I was actually in that position. And I certainly believe I should have the choice to have one, and that all women should.
Here's a sugestion, next time you're perusing a pro-choice website just to slander the articles that are against your beliefs, do us all a favor and don't. But thank you for giving me the chance for a good long rant.