Planned Parenthood Celebrates Mother's Day...By Destroying Motherhood

Planned Parenthood naturally feels that the best way to celebrate Mother's Day each year is to take donations in the name of mothers and use the proceeds to pit other mothers against their own unborn children, stripping them of motherhood while killing their babies. They also work hard to tear down the rightful relationship between mothers and their children by spreading their rhetoric about "choice" and the ensuing, politically correct fear of the subject throughout society and among families. 

Last year they used mother - daughter combo Blythe Danner and Gwyneth Paltrow as their appealers, and this year they are using controversial author Judy Blume. I received a second version of the same fundraiser, featuring Cynthia Nixon (of Sex and the City), in my own inbox this morning.

Jill Stanek had a post on the topic this week and provided the picture below, highlighting a rather ironic statement that appears in the fundraising scheme each year. Click here for a closer look.

The letter reads:

"There is no organization that I know of that supports motherhood and all that it means more than Planned Parenthood." 

I don't think I need to explain the irony of the country's largest abortion provider claiming to be a bastion of motherhood. A more accurate statement is that there is no organization documented that does more to end motherhood and all that it means than Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood ends motherhood hundreds of thousands of times a year at an increasing rate (PP Annual Report 2007-2008, p.9). 

Speaking of "the guts to give you the answers to questions you couldn't quite figure out how to ask" Blume speaks of, and in order to illustrate all that motherhood means at its core to me, I'll share a story about my own mother and what she said to me years ago about the kind of services Planned Parenthood exists to provide to women. 

We were talking (or maybe I was just venting) about some abortion debate, and the subject of the big "exceptions" came up. We got to the ultimate life of the mother exception, and I went on about how abortion has never been illegal in the U.S. in order to save the life of a mother, nor does anyone I know of advocate a ban on abortions in such rare and extreme cases when the mother will likely or inevitably die otherwise. My mom and I think that one is between a patient and doctor, genuinely in order to save lives.

Despite this, I said that I wouldn't even personally lean towards one in that scenario, unless it was an ectopic pregnancy and the child was going to shortly die. And then my mother defined for me the most basic motherly instinct, the kind that lends itself to reports of mothers lifting cars to save trapped children or giving their lives to save their children in danger. She told me that if a doctor had ever told her that she could either have an abortion or risk her own life, and there was a chance the baby would have survived, she would have told him that he better not harm one hair on our heads; she also said she would have physically defended us against any doctor wishing to abort us to save her life. She's a firecracker like that.

But the truth is, I never would have assumed my mother felt otherwise, nor would I have a shred of doubt that she really meant what she said. My mother and father are pro-life to the core, and my sisters and I grew up knowing without a doubt that they would do anything to protect us and save our lives if such a situation presented itself, born or unborn.

But how does a child grow up with such secure knowledge of his parents' protectiveness? I'm sure there are many ways parents can instill this security in their kids, but I'm also sure that such means don't include raising their children to think that abortion would ever be an acceptable choice between them and their own children. And to take that stance, parents must be able to explain why. To teach them that it's not a choice for oneself but that it should be for others does nothing but confuse kids and reveal to them one's own disbelief in the reasons for being "personally against it." We're talking about living humans, or we're not. We're talking about ending lives, or we're not. 

How does a child believe his parents would do anything to save his life if he knows they would have considered aborting him or his siblings? And how does a child know they wouldn't have considered doing so if his parents don't believe he was a living child in the womb, already deserving of their love and protection?

I can't help but think that such confusion and family insecurity is having a profound effect on the mentality of young people and society as a whole. But if we raised everyone in the United States with the outlook on life, motherhood, and family values that my parents did, the abortion profits for Planned Parenthood would quickly disappear. They know that.

So Planned Parenthood works to tear down this relationship between mothers and their children, not just by killing the children by the thousands; they spread their rhetoric about "choice" and paralyzing political correctness about the subject throughout society, targeting families. They actually fundraise annually through Mother's Day under the guise that they support motherhood more than anyone else.

This mother's day, I'm celebrating having a mother who doesn't support Planned Parenthood and would never accept abortion as a choice. And I plan to pass this along to my future children, teaching them that they are not just winners of my birth lottery, no matter how they may be conceived. From the moment of conception, they will have all been my children, who I will love and protect with all that I have, including my life. They can also thank their grandmother and great-grandmother for that someday, each and every Mother's Day.

Happy Mother's Day, Mom. Thank you!

*For better places to send your money in honor of motherhood, check out pregnancy resource centers like Care Net or post-abortive recovery centers like Rachel's Vineyard. 

Update -

Pundit & Pundette have A bouquet of Mother's Day stories.