The following comes from an October 16 Catholic News Agency article by Matt Hadro:
As Planned Parenthood celebrates the centennial of the opening of its first birth control clinic, pro-life leaders are condemning the abuses of the nation’s largest abortion provider.
October 16 marks the 100-year anniversary of the founding of Planned Parenthood. It began as a birth control clinic in Brooklyn opened by Margaret Sanger. It is now the nation’s largest abortion provider, performing over 300,000 abortions annually in the United States.
Although Planned Parenthood casts itself as a health care provider, a coalition of pro-life groups has started a #100YearsOfAbuse campaign to bring to light how the group profits from abortion while claiming that it is only a small part of their health care package.
Members of the coalition include the groups Alliance Defending Freedom, Americans United for Life, the March for Life, the Family Research Council, the Pro-Life Action League, Radiance Foundation, Students for Life of America, and Susan B. Anthony List.
The website includes videos of how Planned Parenthood “double-dips” by receiving compensation for abortions from mothers and for fetal tissue from tissue procurement companies, and how their income from tax dollars, while not going directly to abortions, is fungible – it frees up other resources for abortion services.
The 100-year anniversary is no occasion for celebration, pro-life leaders insisted.
“It’s a pretty somber milestone in American history,” Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, told CNA.
In 2015, undercover videos released by the citizen journalist group Center for Medical Progress showed Planned Parenthood executives discussing the pricing of fetal tissue with actors posing as representatives of tissue procurement companies.
“I think it’s really important for pro-lifers to keep talking about Planned Parenthood,” Hawkins said, noting that the conversation has quieted down in recent months.
“The election’s kind of taken some of that wind and steam away from that movement, and I think that’s really helped them,” she said.
One hundred years of a very bad plan founded by a degenerate eugenicist reprobate!
October 16 is a horrible day for the millions upon millions of unborn baby children that have been slaughtered in America and throughout the entire world. I plead with the people of America not to celebrate the culture of death. I urge America to turn back to a loving and merciful God before it is too late. God will simply not allow this senseless slaughter to go on for very much longer. Celebrate life not death. Our Lady of the Holy Rosary pray for the unborn. Our Lady of the Holy Rosary pray for America.
A day that will live in infamy.
You are right Anne T. it is a day that will live in infamy. In tonight’s final debate Hillary Clinton announced that she will defend Roe versus Wade after Donald Trump stated that he would select pro-life judges on the Supreme Court. With all due respect to Mrs. Clinton Roe in Roe versus Wade is totally opposed to abortion and has very negative memories of that entire episode in her life. Does Mrs. Clinton and the Democrats not even know or want to know that Roe in Roe versus wade wants nothing to do with abortion? I guess they really can’t handle the truth! America turn away from the road that the Democrats and Hillary Clinton want to take the country.