AUBURN — China’s sex-selective abortion policy of favoring male children is state-sponsored gendercide. Nations across the globe decry this brutal barbarism. Human compassion rebels against such evil as practiced in China. No innocent unborn child should be aborted because of her gender.
Why then, is a so-called women’s group spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in Maine to elect candidates like Democrat Mike Michaud, with a voting record supporting abortion on demand for any reason, including gender selection? On May 31, 2012, Michaud voted to oppose a ban on sex-selection abortions.
Many people are surprised to learn that on June 18, 2013, Michaud also voted in favor of abortions after 5 months.
His record is certainly outside the norm for most people who want restrictions placed on abortion. According to a May Gallup Poll, only 28 percent of Americans polled believe abortion should be legal under any circumstance. Gallup reports that a whopping 71 percent believe abortion should be restricted under some or all circumstances.
More and more women are turning away from abortion. This downward trajectory reflects a profound shift in changing hearts and minds to choosing life. As abortions in Maine and across our nation decline at historic rates, the pro-abortion movement has doubled down.
Its disciples are threatened by any restrictions on abortion whatsoever. Even moderate candidates who support legislation safeguarding women’s health are considered “extremists” who are trying “to deny women access to basic health care,” as Planned Parenthood has said.
It’s not surprising when you consider the radical philosophy of Margaret Sanger, founder of the organizations that became Planned Parenthood. In 1914, Sanger penned a newsletter titled “The Woman Rebel,” which offered birth control information and had the slogan “No Gods. No Masters.”
Today, the slogan of “choice” is being replaced with “women’s health.” Planned Parenthood is evolving once again and re-branding itself to reach a broader audience. And we taxpayers are helping.
Last year, taxpayers donated $540.6 million to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider. That’s almost $1.5 million in tax dollars every day. So much taxpayer money has been donated to Planned Parenthood that last year it was able to bank $58.2 million in profits. There was even enough left to provide the nonprofit’s president with a tidy $523,616 salary.
In Maine, Planned Parenthood of Northern New England launched a so-called innovative social education project aimed at teens titled “A Naked Notion.” Through YouTube videos, it educates young people about bondage and other X-rated activities that would make a grown man blush. Their 2013 annual report boasts that the video has received over 1 million views.
Cecile Richards, national president of Planned Parenthood, was scheduled to headline a “Women for Mike” Rally endorsing Michaud and other like-minded “champions for women’s health” on Aug. 27. The event was postponed and has been rescheduled for Oct. 3.
In the meantime, the abortion giant has promised to unleash an unprecedented $500,000 through its Maine Action Fund PAC to elect extreme candidates like Michaud, fellow Democrat Emily Cain and similar ideologues – including those who support taxpayer funding of abortion, as Michaud did by his vote Jan. 28 against a proposal to bar taxpayer funding for abortion in Obamacare plans.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if Planned Parenthood and its “champions for women’s health” would consider using some of its profits to “pay it forward” for real health services for women, such as installing mammography equipment at all of its facilities? (Planned Parenthood provides referrals but generally doesn’t provide mammograms.)
Or perhaps some of its profits could be used to provide professional, thorough pre- and post-abortion counseling for women and men who are devastated by a “choice” made in haste, with no 24-hour waiting periods in place. Millions of post-abortive women and men are among the walking wounded in the reproductive rights war.
Our women and children (born and unborn) deserve our best and most compassionate care. The so-called “rights” of abortion have wronged the soul of our nation. No amount of money or rhetoric can justify the taking of innocent human life.
Maine deserves leaders who place people over politics. And we certainly deserve leaders who place people – especially our most vulnerable – over profits.
— Special to the Press Herald
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