Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: greenspirit who wrote (109465)	4/20/2009 9:41:23 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 540950

You can define "fringe" in any odd way you want, but most people- the "nonfringe" if you will, are fine with planned parenthood: plannedparenthood.org In the past year, our affiliate health centers provided a wide variety of trusted, high-quality sexual and reproductive health care services. As always, the focus was on prevention. Services included contraception (36 percent of our total services), testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections (31 percent), cancer screening and prevention (17 percent), and abortion services (three percent). In all, we helped prevent roughly 621,000 unintended pregnancies, and, as a result, we helped avert 295,000 abortions. We also focused primarily on prevention through our affiliates’ age-appropriate, medically accurate sex education programs that reach more than 1.2 million adults and young people in communities nationwide each year. Our commitment to reproductive health and freedom extends around the world. With the help of our international partners, we reached 935,000 individuals in 20 developing countries, and we supported their vital work with more than $2.5 million in grants last year alone. ............ Oh yeah, with that size and scope, absolutely, I'm sure everyone can see how totally fringe they are. Not. Perhaps you calling them fringe helps define you more than them. Ever thought of that? "Planned Parenthood is the leading sexual and reproductive health care advocate and provider, with 93 years under our belt. And in the near future, we will play a unique role in helping to shape the health agenda for the new administration." I'm going to send them a big check, and I'm going to say it is in memory of Greenspirit. :-) Thanks for giving me that idea. I haven't sent them anything in a while.

To: greenspirit who wrote (109465)	4/21/2009 12:34:03 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540950

>>An organization that supports and defends abortions of all kinds, including partial birth abortion, which probably 10 percent of the country support is a fringe group.<< GS - In cases where the mother's health is at risk and the fetus is not viable, Planned Parenthood supports second trimester abortions, some of which may be performed by the method you are referring to as "partial birth" abortion. So that much is true. I look at the totality of their message and see that their main effort is to help prevent unwanted pregnancies. If we had no unwanted pregnancies, we would also have no abortions, which everyone, especially the people at Planned Parenthood and I'm sure everyone who participates on this thread would be happy to see. You're entitled to your own view of what constitutes a fringe group. We can just disagree about this. - Allen