Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, due to high demand, will open a 33,000 sq. ft. facility, to be opened on Pleasant Street, in the heart of Worcester. According to a report by the Worcester Telegram and Gazette:
Jackie Mansfield-Marcoux, a PPLM spokeswoman, told the Telegram and Gazette newspaper, "We had more than 10,000 patient visits to our Worcester health center last year."
“Community demand for our services continues to grow, and building this health center will allow us to meet that demand in a more convenient location,” she said.
So, to recap, Planned Parenthood is essentially following suit with WalMart--opening SUPER CENTERS across the country--Denver, CO; Houston, TX; Aurora, IL, Worcester, MA--in order to provide better SERVICES and EDUCATION. Yet, what differentiates WalMart from Planned Parenthood is that WalMart objectifies people already living (through low wages and cheap imports), while Planned Parenthood provides easy-access murder.
The perpetual presence, prayer and protest in Aurora, IL organized by FamiliesAgaintsPlannedParenthood has been an amazing witness to folks around the world. I hope and pray something similar can happen in Worcester.
Some of the most vivid memories I have from my teen years were the Saturday mornings we'd go to pray at the abortion facility on Commonwealth Avenue outside of Boston, MA.
Lately I've spent more time praying in front of abortion facilities in Chicago. Just yesterday morning I watched 5 women walk into Planned Parenthood at 7:45 a.m. for abortions...one of them with her mom, and she couldn't have been older than 13. I think until you stand in front of an abortion facility and actually see people going in to have their children killed, it is hard to conceptualize the magnitude of this greatest of crimes against humanity.
Remember how Kosovo just declared independence earlier this week? Well, C-FAM reported yesterday that incorporated into the constitution this now independent nation wants to ratify is the right to abortion and same-sex marriage. Not only is this a reminder of how the abortion industry has a hold on hearts and minds internationally, but a grave reminder of how vigilant we must be.
I can't really remember much about my life before I became an active pro-lifer at the age of 13. My involvement has varied over the years, and now I do it full-time. It is the greatest blessing and the heaviest cross. This Holy Saturday will be the 10th Anniversary of pro-life activism for me, for which I am excited and humbled.
There is so much work to do, yet with the Truth on our side, we will be successful. We may not see it in our lifetime, but we can trust that one day, abortion will be no more.
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I recently read an article that said more abortions are happening behind the closed doors of an OBGYN's office than at Planned Parenthood due to the Plan B pill. Basically your battle will be in the court room trying to stip people of their medical privacy rights. How do you feel about that? Plus women going into Planned Parenthood may not be even thinking about abortions; they do offer other services.
urbanartiste,
You're right that Plan B is responsible for millions of abortions. But Planned Parenthood distributes Plan B, along with every other form of contraception. So they're definitely the largest abortion chain. Here are some numbers to illustrate that. They come from PP's Annual Report.
Abortions: 264,943
Contraception: 2,480,082
Emergency Contraception: 1,245,506
TOTAL: 3,990,531
That's nothing to sneeze at. Almost 4 MILLION abortion and contraceptives services done in 1 year. A lot of babies die at PP.
Yes, Planned Parenthood offers other services. But that doesn't make them a decent organization. Serial killers don't kill people 24/7, but they're still criminals.
Umm, you do know that even more than half of all concepti never implant?
Did you also know that St. Augustine said abortion was not murder because a fetus did not have a soul?
Speaking as a Catholic, being Catholic doesn't mean you shouldn't think critically about these things.
ismone,
What does it matter if a tiny embryonic person doesn't implant in the uterus? That doesn't make them any less human. We ALL die at some point.
Yes, we should think critically about everything.
To Andrew--So you're basically willing to accept that God lets half of all people die before they even develop a heartbeat? That seems very strange to me.
ismone,
It's not really strange at all. God exists outside time. Our souls are immortal, so they exist from our creation throughout eternity.
With eternity as a frame of reference, how long is an average lifetime anyway? What's the difference between 1 day or 100 years on this Earth, when both souls will live on forever?
You really have to think outside our notion of time.
Andrew
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