It is always a risk to speak with a reporter, print or visual as they never quote you correctly or leave out the best part of your statement. They always seem to print or show what they want the readers or viewers to see rather than the message the speaker intends to convey. Read the printed letter to the editor I sent to the Indianapolis Star and then read what I submitted.
This is the original submission:
I find it difficult to understand why a business such as Planned Parenthood has need to receive tax dollars of any amount, let alone 300 million plus dollars. According to its own records, PP has more than a billion dollars in its coffers, so what is its reasoning for the federal government to give hard-earned American money for its "services"?
When the government gives money to a program, organization, or business, it is a clear endorsement of the activities of that business. It is disturbing that the United States government is comfortable endorsing a business that annually ends the lives of approximately 300,000 human beings.
Disturbing also are the continuing efforts of PP to fulfill the orginal goal of its foundress, Margaret Sanger, who, on Dec. 19, 1939 said, "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
And also disturbing is a more recent quote by a sitting Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was quoted in the July 9, 2009 edition of the New York Times as saying, “Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”
Planned Parenthood is continuing the work of its foundress, work supported by the Roe vs. Wade and Doe vs Bolton decisions, and currently endorsed by the federal government through the payment of our tax dollars. It is clear that those who do not vote to defund PP are supporting this endorsement.
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Leaving out the Margaret Sanger quote drastically changes the intent of the letter making it just another call to defund PP. The use of both quotes was purposeful, the first leading to the other, allowing the reader to connect the dots to the agenda that reaches beyond the abortion industry.
I am, however, thankful to see it published. I had doubts that much would have been allowed.
Pray for journalists.
This is the original submission:
I find it difficult to understand why a business such as Planned Parenthood has need to receive tax dollars of any amount, let alone 300 million plus dollars. According to its own records, PP has more than a billion dollars in its coffers, so what is its reasoning for the federal government to give hard-earned American money for its "services"?
When the government gives money to a program, organization, or business, it is a clear endorsement of the activities of that business. It is disturbing that the United States government is comfortable endorsing a business that annually ends the lives of approximately 300,000 human beings.
Disturbing also are the continuing efforts of PP to fulfill the orginal goal of its foundress, Margaret Sanger, who, on Dec. 19, 1939 said, "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
And also disturbing is a more recent quote by a sitting Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was quoted in the July 9, 2009 edition of the New York Times as saying, “Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”
Planned Parenthood is continuing the work of its foundress, work supported by the Roe vs. Wade and Doe vs Bolton decisions, and currently endorsed by the federal government through the payment of our tax dollars. It is clear that those who do not vote to defund PP are supporting this endorsement.
_____________________________________________________________
Leaving out the Margaret Sanger quote drastically changes the intent of the letter making it just another call to defund PP. The use of both quotes was purposeful, the first leading to the other, allowing the reader to connect the dots to the agenda that reaches beyond the abortion industry.
I am, however, thankful to see it published. I had doubts that much would have been allowed.
Pray for journalists.
