My Town's Planned Parenthood Closed: Replaced With Right to Life

Isn't that the ultimate slap in the face? I listen to the kids at my lab talk about how drunk they were here or how they don't even remember what they did there. These kids also probably have Fundie parents (private school) and aren't on any sort of birth control. Now they don't even have anywhere to go for help to avoid pregnancy. I don't understand "pro-life"ers. I called one of those places just to see what they would say, they refuse to offer help on getting birth control and will offer no advice other than "abortion stops a beating heart" and "the only acceptable form of birth control is abstinence". Don't they realize how many young women are going to be affected?

I was a social worker for seven years, so you know where I stand. Let's get the children here covered health-insurance-wise, and fed every night. Every child a wanted child - with mentally and financially competent parents to care for that child for 18 years (hopefully, mature parents too).

I'm grateful for people like you who speak up. What you describe is outrageous.

disgusting idiots

Forcing young women away from their homes, families, and education leaves them prey.

Anti-abortion is pro-prostitution. How are these girls going to support those babies? Because not all of them are eager to be baby factories for the upper middle class, as proposed by Bush.

When someone says to you they're pro-choice, you counter with that means they are pro-prostitution.

Get them off the beating heart and on to the dirty old men.

Red...very red and very conservative.

ones who made special trips to the nearest state (or city) that had an abortion clinic.

Their parents put so much guilt on them and yet they don't teach them how to protect themselves. So they have unprotected sex thinking "you can't get pregnant on the first time" etc., and then end up pregnant. They are so scared that they go and have an abortion. Oddly enough, I think some of their parents would actually condone this rather than have a grandchild out of wedlock and be ostricized from their Fundie friends. Then they will probably go about their lives continuing to criticize pro-choicers.

Is directed at the girls, no matter what they say. It's the old double standard in full swing. Boys will still be allowed to be boys so some of them will pressure their girlfriends into unprotected sex. And if she gets pregnant, oh well, the little slut should've practiced abstinence!

that the abortion rate has risen in recent years, since Bush took office.

* talked about in one of the debates.

when grandparents are responsible for child support, how many will be pro-life?

that location and had to close, leaving the property available for Right to Life to rent.
I don't think Right to Life forced Planned Parenthood out, do you? So why make an issue of Right to Life's new offices when your real concern is that Planned Parenthood is no longer in your town?

I agree with you that people, including teenagers, should be well educated about sex and contraception, but it seems obvious they weren't going to Planned Parenthood for that education. Do your students get some instruction in those areas? In my public school teaching days, I was able to give my biology students a lot of information because human biology/ sexuality are included in state learning objectives for biology students, but I know private schools are different.

I really hate that PP National would allow this to happen. The access to women's health services for low income women and girls in this country is already becoming scarce, and I'm sure that facility was really needed in that area. Unfortunately, once they have to move out it may be next to impossible for them to find another space in the future. The anti-woman forces are always fighting them, even if they don't provide abortions at a particular facility. Their true goal is deny almost all females of childbearing age the right to birth control. I think they would be in seventh heaven if all BC was illegal. We all know that is their ultimate goal, even if they hide it from the American people.

They are very conservative and now that they are on campus, I imagine they are rebelling. Yesterday in lab for example, my benchmates were talking about how drunk they were, how they couldn't even remember what they did. Now they are probably not even on any form of birth control, because of the conservative nature of the area. It's asking for trouble.

other states' schools, most of the junior high health textbooks now leave out birth control completely in favor of stressing abstinence and only abstinence. There might a couple of textbooks that carry it, but Texas is leading everyone right back into the 1950's.

The idea of women being sexually educated and liberated is a no-no in the Republican world.
They're trying to classify estrogen-based BC as the same type as RU-486 (chemical abortion) so they can ban such BC as ortho-cyclin (which I'm on).
Fuck these assholes. KEEP YOUR ROSARIES OFF MY OVARIES!!

used to be big supporters of Planned Parenthood, until Poppy became Ronnie's VP. So much for principles.

more cannon fodder if the poor girl raises the child herself.

Either way, the Right gets what it needs for all its fellow fascists.