Newspapers do Puff Pieces on Planned Parenthood, Abortion Fund

A shocker!   Two Wisconsin newspapers used valuable real estate recently to promote abortion advocates.   It must have been a slow news week or a perceived need to pat the pro-aborts on the back.

The first was an op ed on page 1 of the Sunday Crossroads section in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.  Written by the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, it celebrated 75 years for PP in Wisconsin.    And, my, to read this article, PP has saved the state from just about everything — cancer, STDs, poverty, a bad economy.  The list is endless.

“Above all,” the article says, “Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin firmly believes, and research demonstrates, that parents should be the primary sexuality educators for their children.”  Is that why PP is always touting “confidential” services to teens without parental knowledge?    Things like keeping abortions a secret from parents?

The second is a Wisconsin State Journal article sympathetically highlighting a fund set up to pay for abortions for women who can’t afford them.  Founded in 1976 (right after the state passed a law spearheaded by Wisconsin Right to Life to prohibit state taxpayer dollars for abortion), the fund boasts payment for 18,986 abortions in the past 34 years.   Here is what Anne Gaylor, the fund director, says about things dear to us:

On large families: “How presumptuous of someone to think the world in interested in a half-dozen or eight or 10 of their kids.”   So much for “choice.”

On anti-abortion activists:  “They’re religiously motivated, not intellectually motivated.”   I guess she thinks we’re dumb.

On abortion:  “A blessing.”   The worst of all.

All in all, thanks to the newspapers, a good propaganda week for proponents of abortion.

Read Planned Parenthood piece here.

Read about the abortion fund here.

Barbara Lyons