Planned Parenthood
Toll-Free: (800) 230-7526
Call this number if you think you are pregnant and scared or need someone to test you or talk to you. ↓
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| Name: For YOUR best interest | Date: May 20th, 2006 6:44 PM |
ya, and they'll tell you where you can conveniently rid yourself of the problem. They carry no information on adoptions. They make money off of abortions, so what do you think they are going to promote?
How about calling a non-profit organization that doesn't have a 'product' to sell you on so that they can make money? They will be able to counsel you on what is best for YOU, not what is best for THEM to make more money.
1-800-395-HELP
1-800-395-4357 ↑ |
| Name: To For your best interest | Date: May 20th, 2006 9:16 PM |
| If you think Planned Parenthood is one-sided, why don't you visit a pregnancy crisis center or call their hotline. Planned Parenthood offers many services besides abortions, and obviously best interest is a fundamentalist anti-choice individual. You better stop ordering food from Pizza Hut b/c they support PP...give me a break!!! That's the great thing about this country, women can make choices. Just b/c that choice conflicts w/ your religious belief, doesn't mean that it's not right for someone else. Maybe you should stop worrying about other women's reproductive choices...I mean no one is forcing anyone to have an abortion. ↑ |
| Name: For YOUR best interest | Date: May 20th, 2006 11:06 PM |
How am I obviously a fundamentalist anti-choice individual by giving a number out for a nonreligious agency that has ALL information available and has the pregnant woman's best interest in mind by giving her ALL her choices, not only one that they would make money off of, (because they don't make money off of whatever choice she would make, whereas PP does...if she chooses an abortion)??
What does religion has to do with my belief that a woman should be given FULL INFORMATION, and not be persuaded into making a decision by an agency that keeps factual information from her?
I didn't bring up religion at all. I don't have to. I think it very funny that you did though. Do you have to have that overused "you're just religious and trying to force your religion on other people" argument to support your stance?
What if I am an atheist? What ridicule would you throw my way then to support your belief that a woman should go to an agency that tries to persuade her to make a choice with only half the information?
I can throw out my own ridicule at you...
How about 'You are obviously a person that thinks that a woman should not become educated, that she needs an agency like PP to decide what information she should have and shouldn't have, that a woman isn't capable of making a good choice if she is given all the information available.' With such a perception, it would indeed appear that YOU are the one who is really anti-choice. How dare a woman choose to contact an agency that doesn't promote abortion? How dare I choose to try to promote such an agency?
I don't really believe this about you. I just think that you are sadly mislead and simply believe what you have been told by others.
I say what I say about Planned Parenthood out of personal experience. I went there and they gave me a bunch of information, NONE of it was about adoption, and NONE of it was about the after effects of abortion. When I asked about the after effects, they told me there was none and totally dismissed what little fact I did know at the time as 'rumors' and 'lies' by the 'anti-choice' groups (which I found out were not just 'rumors' and 'lies' but facts aqcuired by valid research agencies with not affiliation with either side).
When I inquired about adoption, she told me, "Oh we can give you information about that too if you want" then went on with even MORE reasons why an abortion would be in my best interest. Keep in mind I was pretty vulnerable at the time. After what seemed to be about 10 minutes, I asked about adoption AGAIN. She said she would get the information, excused herself, came back 5 minutes later, said they 'happened to be just out of the pamphlets', then opened her desk drawer gave me information about abortion at their clinic, including forms to fill out ahead of time so to 'make it easier'.
She was very persuasive.
I left there feeling ill, and like I was a sick person for considering giving up my baby to a stranger. I was also given the impression that if I had an abortion, it would be like the pregnancy never happened, everything would go back to normal.
And by the way, I don't order from Pizza Hut, not because of the PP issue, which I didn't know about, but thank you for that info anyways, but because they have lousy pizza compared to my neighborhood shops. ↑ |
| Name: Chris | Date: May 20th, 2006 11:48 PM |
If you go to the Planned Parenthood website and do a 'search' with the keyword "Adoption" you get a return of 166 documents.
A search with the keyword "Abortion" gets a return of 1529 documents.
It is obvious what Planned Parenthood supports.
I wouldn't go there if I was a teen with a pregnancy.
Scary. ↑ |
| Name: lori | Date: May 21st, 2006 1:45 AM |
Actually...I'd love to know who sponsors PP.
Please include a list in your next posting so myself and my family can be sure NOT to support them. ↑ |
| Name: Chris R | Date: May 21st, 2006 1:52 AM |
| We have a Planned Parenthood out here and they don't do abortions. They help with family planning and education and offer counseling and referrals to women. In fact in my state abortions may be outlawed in July, but the Planned Parenthoods around the state will still be here to offer their services, I think it's necessary to have someone out there to help out the community, they aren't all bad... ↑ |
| Name: me | Date: May 21st, 2006 2:16 AM |
| There's nothing wrong with abortion. It is and should always be a womans choice and right to have one if she so desires. No one should be able to take that right away from her. ↑ |
| Name: to me | Date: May 21st, 2006 3:08 AM |
| Name: to lori | Date: May 21st, 2006 7:45 PM |
| Wow..you seem a bit hyperconservative. Lori sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but your little boycotts are not going to make a difference. Why don't you channel all that anti-abortion bullsh*** into something productive! ↑ |
| Name: ** | Date: May 22nd, 2006 3:53 AM |
| Prochoice should mean allowing people to choose to boycott too. ↑ |
| Name: . | Date: May 22nd, 2006 6:37 AM |
| My mom was 16 when she went to PP and found out she was pregnant with me; I'm still here. They do a lot of good for women who are scared and don't have the money to go somewhere else. ↑ |
| Name: ~~ | Date: May 22nd, 2006 11:15 AM |
| I have had experience w. Planned Parenthood when I got pregnant at 15, and they gave me lots of options, yes abortion was one of them but so was an adoption agency. ↑ |
| Name: Lori | Date: May 22nd, 2006 11:23 AM |
| My "little Boycotts" I never said anthing about abortion is you look at my post here above. I am just trying to give out a number who can help young girls that think they are pregnant coming here asking if they are I am 100% correct that WE on this board CANNOT tell these girls if they are pregnant PERIOD! If they are so scared and need help Planned parenthood is known for having young girls in for test for pregnancy, STD's, Birth control ect ect. That is the best place for free for them to go, of course there are other options like Gyn, OB, family Dr, Hospital ect but this is free and private. If you don't like the idea of planned parenthood for these teens that are scared, then list your own help for them. I was just trying to help because they apprently didnt know where to turn and that is the only place I could think of.. So as far as me being hyperconservative and anti Abortion.. Get off YOUR high horse and grow up! AS far as me being Pro Choice that is what I am. Every girl/womens body is their own and should do what ever is best for them! You don't know til you been there and you don't know each persons life. I WILL NOT debate abortion here with you it is not the place nor do I feel the need to debate it, its a choice a personal choice one makes. ANYWAY The number is still posted if there is someone that wishes to use it. ↑ |
| Name: ** | Date: May 22nd, 2006 6:04 PM |
Agreed Lori,
and it appears that both numbers are posted at the top so that a young lady is free to choose which number she wishes to call.
How about if we all agree to just leave it at that. ↑ |
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