Press Memo April 18, 2008
Vermont Right to Life Committee 802-229-4885
Planned
Parenthood Event Trivializes Abortion’s
Impact
on Women and Young Girls
This weekend Planned Parenthood of Northern New England
(PPNNE) is a hosting a fundraising event involving the auction of shoes donated
by area retail outlets, like Stella Shoes on Church Street, and they are glibly
marketing the event as, “Our Right to
Shoes.”
Planned Parenthood’s decision to make a play on words with the title of this event is disturbing.
“For the women who have had an abortion and today live with regret, the advertising scheme is neither clever nor amusing,” stated Mary Hahn Beerworth, Executive Director, of Vermont Right to Life. “For those women, the day they exercised their so-called ‘right to choose’ was the worst day of their lives.”
“When I heard of the
event I immediately thought of all the little feet that would never get to wear
a pair of shoes,” said Annisa Lamberton of Middletown Springs, who had an
abortion at the age of 18. Later, Annisa
suffered a miscarriage. “I saw those little feet with my own eyes and
will never forget them……….the ‘shoes’ that are auctioned on Saturday night to benefit
Planned Parenthood’s abortion business will wear out …………but my heartache never
will.”
“Proof abounds that Planned Parenthood is more concerned about their bottom line and their radical political agenda than the well-being of women,” said Beerworth.
The nation’s largest abortion business has made over $1 billion in income for the first time in history according to the organization’s new annual report for 2006 – 2007. The report shows an increase in the number of abortions they performed from 264,943 in 2005 to 289,650 in 2006.
For more information, see the Weekly Standard expose entitled, Planned Parenthood’s Unseemly Empire.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/223livny.asp
Planned Parenthood will also give the Margaret Sanger Award to one of their activists despite the fact that Margaret Sanger was well-known in her day as a pioneer in the field of eugenics and wholeheartedly believed that the poor, the physically and cognitively disabled had no inherent dignity. Planned Parenthood has never distanced themselves from their founder or from her eugenic philosophy.
Angela Franks, author of Margaret Sanger’s Eugenic Legacy, The Control of Female Fertility, argues that “Sanger did more than any other person to expand the reach of eugenics, an ideology that has done irreparable damage to countless women, minorities, persons with disabilities, and the poor.”
Find out more: www.angelafranks.com
Mary Hahn Beerworth, Executive Director (802) 881-1615