Guest Post by Donna Garner: Exposing the Ugly Truth about Planned Parenthood in Waco, statewide, nationwide & worldwide

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This guest post is from Donna Garner who writes from Waco, Texas about the local, state and national scene regarding pro-life and other conservative issues.
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Now read this point to learn more about an organization the Pro-Life Foot Soldier calls Planned Promiscuity.

This is a long post, but very much worth your time and effort.

“Planned Parenthood’s New Horror at Nobody’s Fool”
by Donna Garner
7.20.10
Each summer when Planned Parenthood’s Nobody’s Fool conference in Waco, Texas, rolls around for students entering Grades 5 - 9, the public learns of some new “horror” that PP has developed. This year is no exception.

Healthy, Happy and Hot was published in January 2010 by IPPF (International Planned Parenthood Federation). This booklet can be read at
http://www.ippf.org/NR/rdonlyres/B4462DDE-487D-4194-B0E0-193A04095819/0/HappyHealthyHot.pdf .

What is IPPF?

Planned Parenthood is the collective name of organizations worldwide who are members of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is the U.S. affiliate of IPPF and one of its larger members. (http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/278748)

Healthy, Happy and Hot is a disgusting publication that states the following on pages 3-6:

Young people living with HIV have the right to decide if, when, and how to disclose their HIV status. Sharing your HIV status is called disclosure. Your decision about whether to disclose may change with different people and situations. You have the right to decide if, when, and how to disclose your HIV status.

Safer sex is a shared responsibility. When you share your HIV status, you and your partner(s) can work together to make your sex life pleasurable and safe! Many young people who are living with HIV or have a partner who is living with HIV find that they get the most sexual pleasure when they know that they are having sex as safely as possible.

We concerned citizens do not believe Felicia Chase Goodman, the director of Waco Planned Parenthood, when she states that students at the Nobody’s Fool conference will not be exposed to Healthy, Happy and Hot. Planned Parenthood has a long-standing pattern of lying.

We remember in past years when Planned Parenthood exposed the attendees (ages 10-11) to a magazine entitled It's So Amazing. This magazine showed full frontal nudity of various body types using cartoon-like caricatures with text that gave explicit explanations of such terms as abortion, masturbation, condoms, gay, lesbian, straight, homosexual, and lesbian.

Waco PP also handed out It's Perfectly Normal to the 12 - 15 year olds. This magazine contained numerous pictures of full frontal nude body shapes, various sexual intercourse positions, and a person bent over with her anus front and center on the page. One picture showed a pubescent boy standing at the chalkboard where he is having a penile erection that shows through his pants.
One glance at Planned Parenthood’s www.teenwire.com should convince any thinking parent that Planned Parenthood is not promoting abstinence-until-marriage but is instead promoting sexual activity among teens.
An even worse PP website called Take Care Down There (http://www.takecaredownthere.org/) blatantly encourages promiscuous and deviant heterosexual and/or homosexual sex.

[If you think I am exaggerating, please view these sites for yourself. Anyone can access them – even very young children.]

Planned Parenthood half-heartedly recommends abstinence, but PP does not mention the word “marriage.” These Grades 5-9 attendees at Nobody’s Fool are assured that if they want to have heterosexual and/or homosexual sex, all they have to do is to wear a condom.

Participants will not be told that condoms slip or break 1.6% to 3.6% of the time under the best of conditions and that even when used correctly and consistently, those involved in sexual activities can contract the deadly diseases of HIV/AIDS at least 15% of the time.

These students will also not be told that condoms offer little-to-no protection against the discharge diseases of HPV, genital herpes, syphilis, and chancroid. These STD’s (STI’s) can be transmitted through skin-to-skin contact on the parts of the body not covered by the condom.

Again practicing “child abuse by misinformation,” Planned Parenthood does not tell these vulnerable young people that HIV/AIDS is still largely transmitted through the CHOSEN behaviors of male-to-male sex, bisexual sex, and/or drug use.

The constant message throughout the Nobody’s Fool conference is always the same: any form of sex is perfectly normal -- just use condoms.

According to a researcher with a degree in biology/health education who has actually attended a Nobody’s Fool conference, 12-year-old boys were told about all kinds of sexual activities including oral sex. In a letter to the editor, the researcher explained:
The volunteer instructor for the boys was actually a licensed minister, who went on to explain how girls can give oral sex to boys, too. He concluded with the obligatory ‘safer sex’ spiel that it was safer with a condom…it is dangerously misleading to let teenagers think that condoms will keep them safe from disease, either orally or genitally…Condoms simply do not cover all the places on the human body where sexually transmitted diseases lurk.
ACTION STEPS
If you are as outraged as I am about Planned Parenthood’s Nobody’s Fool conference, please take action.

(1) Go to tonight’s Nobody’s Fool Program Preview for adults at 7:30 P. M. at the Waco Convention Center and ask pointed questions.
(2) Join Pro-Life Waco and many others as we display signage as the PP staffers and students enter and leave the Nobody’s Fool Conference at the Waco Convention Center (rallies from 7:00 A. M. to 8:30 A. M. and from 11:45 A. M. to 12:30 P. M.). We need to park in the City of Waco parking lot off Franklin Avenue. The current entrance to the Convention Center is from the Franklin Ave. side because the Washington Avenue entrance is closed.
For those of you who may want to read more about Planned Parenthood, please read the following.
CECILE RICHARDS -- HEAD OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD
Cecile Richard is the head of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. On June 8, 2010, Cecile Richards spoke at the IPPF conference in Washington, D. C.
Cecile Richards, daughter of Texas Governor Ann Richards, helped her mother to elect Sarah Weddington to the Texas Legislature. Weddington later won the Roe v. Wade case before the Supreme Court that legalized abortion nationwide.
Richards is former deputy chief of staff for House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi.
In 1995 Cecile Richards founded Texas Freedom Network (TFN) whose purpose is to destroy conservatism.
In 1998 Richards moved to Washington D. C./New York City where she became the head of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Cecile Richards is married to Kirk Adams, a labor organizer with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
Samantha Smoot took over at TFN in 1998 and left in 2004 for Washington, D. C. to work for the Human Rights Campaign, the largest homosexual organization in the country.
Another far, leftwing organization has recently been added to the TFN alliance: MEChA.
Now we have Texas Freedom Network, Planned Parenthood, Human Rights Campaign (largest homosexual organization in the country), and MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan) all speaking as one voice.
On 3.25.10, The Daily Texan reported:
A UT-based group called Save Our History, an alliance between University Democrats, a Chicano civil rights group called MEChA and the Texas Freedom Network, a nonprofit that works to combat the radical right voice in education, staged a march and press conference on March 10. Garrett Mize, a member of the Texas Freedom Network and the coalition, said the group plans to continue its activism and hopes to expand its membership in preparation for the May meetings.
MEChA wants to eliminate the border with Mexico entirely. They honor Mexican revolutionary war hero Ernesto Zapata and Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara.
MEChA has held rallies to pressure the University of Texas not to celebrate Texas Independence Day on campus, and they advocate for “La Reconquista” or the retaking of the Southwestern states (Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah) to form an independent nation called “Aztlan.”
Another leftwing organization is also a part of Texas Freedom Network’s list of supporters: the Center for Inquiry (CFI) based in Amherst, New York, with a chapter in Austin, Texas. CFI is an atheist organization that closely mirrors TFN’s agenda.
Last year, CFI and TFN did everything in their power to keep the majority of Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) members from voting to allow Texas students the right to study all sides of scientific theories including evolution. Thankfully CFI and TFN were defeated.
This last spring CFI-Austin and TFN churned up trouble as the Texas State Board of Education adopted Social Studies TEKS (standards).
The majority of members of the Texas State Board of Education prevailed and passed the most fact-based, patriotic Social Studies standards in the nation.
FUNDING FOR WACO PLANNNED PARENTHOOD
Announced by Texax Alliance for Life on 1.11.10 -- Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas received an estimated $16.4 million per year from the state. Waco Planned Parenthood received $1,122,174.
On June 18, 2010, the Washington Times reported that $2.3 Billion seems to be missing from Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s records:
Planned Parenthood Federation of America's (PPFA) audits show the organization spent just $657.1 million between 2002 and 2008 from federal government grants and programs, but the abortion behemoth's own annual reports show that it took in $2.3 billion from government grants and programs during the same time period…
Someone, then, needs to explain…why $2.3 billion in tax dollars have been doled out to an organization that admits to systematically having killed more than 1.8 million pre-born babies between 2002 and 2008 and then reports it only spent $657.1 million in federal dollars…
Obviously, every penny Planned Parenthood receives feeds its abortion business in one way or another.
For instance, Title X money is not to be used for abortions. However, according to Abby Johnson, former director of Planned Parenthood's abortion center in Bryan/College Station, Texas, it is used to gain the trust of women in minority neighborhoods in order to bring them into Planned Parenthood facilities, supposedly for health care, and then persuade them to become Planned Parenthood birth-control clients. Then, when the birth control fails, the organization has a built-in minority clientele for abortion, which Ms. Johnson says is Planned Parenthood's big cash cow.
MY OWN EXPERIENCES AT THE WACO PLANNED PARENTHOOD ABORTUARY

"The Killing Fields of America"
by Donna Garner
December 12, 2006

On Friday, December 8, 2006, I stepped into the "Killing Fields" of America at 1927 Columbus Avenue, Waco, Texas: an abortuary called Planned Parenthood (PP). I could not help but notice the irony of the location. On one side of the street was an elementary school with children energetically frolicking in the cool air. On the other side of the street, 11,050 babies from 1994-2005 have been torn limb from limb out of their mother's bodies. These babies will never frolic in the cool air of the schoolyard.

On this day in December, Planned Parenthood of Waco had boldly invited the public to an open house to coincide with the free distribution of Plan B, the "morning-after" pill. (This pill keeps the pre-embryo from implanting in a mother's womb after she has intercourse.) I wanted to experience for myself what it would be like to go into this place, knowing that PP only stays in business so long as its vulnerable client base is sexually active. Would the clients be told that Plan B does nothing to stop the spread of sexually transmitted infections, or would the young and vulnerable clients be assured that all their problems with unplanned pregnancies would be over if they would simply take an innocent-looking pill?

First, a policeman allowed me to pass through a sturdy iron gate on the side of the PP building; and he told me to enter through the back entrance, a well-fortified door with a video camera in place. After pushing a button and identifying myself to a voice on a squawk box, I was allowed to enter the "safety" of the facility. (I couldn't help but reflect on the lack of "safety" for those 11,050 little babies who gave their lives inside the confines of this "safe and secure" building.) Inside were various clients, male and female, all very young; most were Afro-Americans or Hispanics. At a table stood two friendly women, and we fell into chatty conversation.

The staffers eagerly gave me a tri-fold, slick, brightly colored pamphlet, written in simplified wording and produced by PP of Waco. Based upon their eagerness and their statements, I could tell the staffers believed most clients would read the pamphlet rather than the uninteresting black-and-white, two-pager which I was handed next. The staffers hyped the pamphlet by telling me that everything that was written on the two-pager was covered in the pamphlet as if to say, "You really don't need to waste your time reading anything but the yellow pamphlet."

They were totally wrong. The pamphlet (1) does not say that girls could be put at risk if they take Plan B more than once a month thinking it is a regular form of birth control; and (2) the pamphlet does not tell clients that even though Plan B may help to prevent a pregnancy, the pill offers no protection whatsoever against sexually transmitted infections (STI's or often called STD's).

The two-pager is written at a much higher reading level than is the brightly colored pamphlet. As a classroom teacher for over 33 years, I know that many clients will either struggle or will be completely unable to read the two-pager. This means that many if not most Planned Parenthood clients will rely solely on the information found in the much more appealing, brightly colored pamphlet.

Looking at the two-pager, I later noticed that out of two pages of text, this one succinct and unelaborated statement is found: "Having unprotected sex may have put you at risk for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and a serious infection could cause sterility. If you think you could be at risk for STIs, you should talk to your clinician about getting tested." Nothing is mentioned about the specific STI's of genital herpes, Chlamydia, gonorrhea, HPV, or syphilis; and no details about the life-long complications and dangers of each is given. It is an understatement on the part of PP to say that STI's can cause sterility without telling clients that STI's can also cause death. The word "abstinence" appears nowhere on either the pamphlet or the two-pager.

In the course of our chatty conversation, the staffers vaguely alluded to information from the Texas Department of State Health Services; but I had to ask explicitly for that booklet before it was given to me. The booklet was not a part of the items, including the Plan B pills, which were placed in the little brown sack that we clients received after showing our I.D.'s. It is in that Department of State Health Services booklet (which I had to ask to receive) that the statement is made each and every time that a contraceptive device is described: "No protection against STI's or HIV/AIDS."

Unfortunately, the typical client with a limited reading level will not ask to see the Department of State Health Services booklet and will probably read only the slick, brightly colored pamphlet which gives no warning about sexually transmitted infections nor about the dangers of using Plan B as a regular birth-control method.

Inside the little brown sack along with the Plan B pills was a price list of services offered by Planned Parenthood of Waco:

Pregnancy tests, physical exams, male/female urine tests for Chlamydia/Gonorrhea, lab work, counseling, emergency contraception, and physical exams cost from $10 to $49.

"Abortion -- Medical to 8 weeks or Surgical to 13 weeks 6 days -- $390"
"Abortion -- Surgical from 13 weeks 6 days to 14 weeks 6 days -- $525"

"Medical" probably means administering RU-486 to the woman to cause her to abort. "Surgical" undoubtedly means suctioning out the live baby's body parts.

Now I understand better how Planned Parenthood Federation of America was able to report a $63 Million profit in 2004-2005. The fact is that PP profits only if people are sexually active: PP gets money for the sexually related services; it gets money for the abortions; and it also gets over $272.7 Million a year from us taxpayers through government grants and contracts.

PP constantly uses the words "unprotected sex" and "condoms" in its literature. What PP says in its hand-outs is bad enough; but it is what the organization does not say that is the most disturbing. PP consistently refuses to inform clients of statements from the Centers for Disease Control such as, "Abstinence from vaginal, anal, and oral intercourse is the only 100% effective way to prevent HIV, other STDs, and pregnancy...No protective method is 100% effective, and condom use cannot guarantee absolute protection against any STD or pregnancy. "

As stated in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) condom workshop, condoms can reduce the transmission of HIV (85%) and the risk of pregnancy (greater than 95%) if they are used consistently (every time) and correctly; however, since most people do not use condoms consistently and correctly, actual risk reduction is much lower in preventing both HIV and pregnancy.

Because a condom cannot cover all infected areas, condoms do not appear to reduce greatly the risk of other STDs including herpes simplex virus (HSV), Chlamydia, syphilis, and human papillomavirus (HPV). HPV is the leading cause of cervical cancer. Planned Parenthood fails to tell its clients what the National Cervical Cancer Association says: "In the United States, about 14,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer disease each year and more than 3,900 women die in the USA each year from this disease." It is a true outrage that Planned Parenthood gives its vulnerable client base a sense of false security by pushing condoms without telling them of their failure rate in the spread of STI's.
The staffers with whom I talked at Planned Parenthood of Waco left out vital information which they should have told us clients. The staffers did not bother to mention why it is that many healthcare professionals consider it dangerous for Plan B to be passed out without women going to their family doctors for the prescription. For instance, we clients at Planned Parenthood were able to get Plan B without having to be tested for STI's and without physical exams being performed by our family doctors.
Medical evidence exists that says women can still conceive while using Plan B and that these women are three times more likely to suffer potentially fatal ectopic pregnancies. Because women can now receive Plan B without going to the doctor, it will be easier for the abusive actions of male predators to be covered up while they put more pressure on young women to become sexually active; all involved will probably think that preventing pregnancy is as simple as taking a pill after intercourse. None of these concerns were mentioned to us by the Planned Parenthood staffers.
The most grisly part of my visit to Planned Parenthood of Waco was yet to come: the tour of the "Killing Fields" -- the abortion section of the facility. Now that advanced ultrasounds are common in our country, the debate is over as to whether a fetus is a blob of tissue or is a distinct baby. In the first month of development, the baby's brain, spinal cord, bones, eyes, and ears form; and the heart beats.
Knowing all that, I cringed with revulsion as I saw the tables on which living and breathing babies are torn from their mothers' wombs. I saw the forceps which squish these babies' brains. I saw the recovery room where the clients recuperate, the memory of which will haunt these women for the rest of their lives. The glibness and nonchalant attitude of the staffer who was giving me the tour of the "Killing Fields" revealed much of what is wrong with our society today -- a lack of respect for God's creation.
At this special season of the year when we are particularly reminded of the birth of the Christ Child and of the holiness of life itself, I could not help but wonder what might have happened if Mary were living in today's world and had come to seek the grisly "services" of Planned Parenthood to get rid of an "inconvenient" pregnancy.
For those of us who value God's creation, we must speak out against Planned Parenthood and its evil practices. The fact that we as taxpayers are perpetuating PP's influence on our society by rewarding them with $272.7 Million a year must stop. We must make a concerted effort in 2007 to expose Planned Parenthood for what it is -- a curse upon our American society.

OBAMA CARE -- NOW GIVING DIRECT FUNDING FOR ABORTIONS
“Obama Administration Approves First Direct Taxpayer Funding of Abortion Through New High-Risk Insurance Pools” 7.14.10, CNSNEWS.COM -- http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/69384