According to Planned Parenthood Federation of America director, Cecile Richards, “choice is meaningless” unless pro-lifers help pay for it.
In an email to supporters Tuesday, Richards urges readers to help fill a million signatures on a petition demanding free birth control. She says:
The truth is, choice is meaningless without access to affordable care. The recent rise of a new crop of anti-choice extremists shows just how important it is for people like you and me to stand up for access to affordable reproductive health care. To protect choice now and forever, we must give every woman the support she needs to control her own reproductive health and her life. That’s why birth control matters.
Suddenly being “pro-choice” is not enough to Planned Parenthood. Now choice is “meaningless” if we who oppose abortion have a choice in where our money goes. Even the most extreme of all pro-aborts can see that this is not a pro-choice rationale.
This latest advertising blitz by Planned Parenthood comes with a pretty pink splash and says “Birth Control Matters: No-Cost Birth Control Now!” But it’s not that clear cut, and unless pro-lifers stand up now, there will be another freedom snatched from us in the name of health care.
First of all, some birth control can cause abortions. While some methods of birth control are non-abortive, many others, including versions of the pill, can be. You can examine this resource from Abort73.com for some cursory information on this and resources to look further. Planned Parenthood’s insistence that my tax dollars buy birth control for every woman will mean I am helping some women abort their babies.
Adding to this conflict is the FDA’s (unanimous) approval of the new abortion pill Ella, which is being marketed as a contraceptive. This pill, which can halt nourishment to an already-fertilized baby is one that would be covered under Planned Parenthood’s plan. Chemically, Ella is almost identical to the known abortion pill RU-486, as LifeSite reports:
In a Family Research Council video, Dr. Donna Harrison explains that RU-486 is the "parent drug" of ella. "They are of the same class of drugs," says Harrison, "which is progesterone reception modulators" – a function that can block conception, but also disallows an already-conceived embryo from receiving nourishment in its mother’s womb.
This is what Planned Parenthood thinks every American should pay for. Its campaign says:
"Affordable prescription birth control is an essential part of health care for millions of women. "The time has come to provide birth control at no cost to every woman who wants it."
I want a lot of things that are better than killer pills. I want to not have to pay when I have bronchitis and need a bunch of medicine that halts my ability to breathe right. I want free dental work when I have an abscessed tooth that keeps me up all night. I want a lot of necessary medical things free, but that isn’t the way our society works. Planed Parenthood is trying to convince the nation that it has the interest of public health at heart, when really its interest is in its own outpouring of funding it would receive as a major distributor of all forms of birth control. LifeSite News reports that there has, so far, been little opposition to the abortion providers campaign:
Perhaps the only direct challenge to Planned Parenthood’s campaign so far has come from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which argued in a letter to the HHS last month that birth control is not preventive health care at all, since “abortion is not itself a disease condition, but a separate procedure that is performed only by agreement between a woman and a health professional." Adding that “[Contraception] is almost always prescribed for personal or lifestyle reasons, not for any specific medical justification, and it poses its own serious risks and side-effects, some of which can be life-threatening," they wrote. "Use of prescription contraception actually increases a woman’s risk of developing some of the very conditions that the ‘preventive’ listed in the Interim Final Rules are designed to prevent."
The US Conference of Bishops further notes here that the health care law would actually mandate changes even in our current health insurance:
"Currently, [employers and insurance providers] are completely free under federal law to purchase and offer health coverage that excludes these procedures," they wrote. "They would lose this freedom of conscience under a mandate for all plans to offer contraception and sterilization coverage."
The loss of freedom, and the mandate that I pay for someone else’s elective choices are violations of my choices and freedoms. How can that be choice?
By the way, Planned Parenthood, I have free birth control with no co-pays: It’s called abstinence.
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