A welcome shot across the bow of the bloody ship...

... Planned Barrenhood, fired by Archbishop John Vlazny of Portland, Oregon:

Most of us have already learned that Planned Parenthood of Columbia-Willamette hopes to move its headquarters to a site on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Beech Street in Portland. Considerable opposition to this project has been voiced by many of our fellow citizens, people of all faiths, including Catholics. More than a year ago an organization entitled Precious Children of Portland was started with the very specific goal of stopping Planned Parenthood from building a new facility on MLK Jr. Boulevard. The larger goal is to remove Planned Parenthood from all our neighborhoods. Some thirteen PPFA (Planned Parenthood Federation of America) facilities can be found in Portland’s metropolitan area.

Why all the opposition? Frankly, too many of our people, including Catholics, fail to understand the disingenuous approach of PPFA in promoting its cause. I fear that many of our Catholic people have been taken in by the propaganda. I believe it is important for us to support the efforts of Precious Children of Portland and to stop the killing of unborn children in our community.

Read the entire column, which appeared in the April 24th edition of The Catholic Sentinel. The location chosen by PPFA for its new headquarters is in an area of Portland with a high percentage of black residents. The Precious Children of Portland website offers these sobering numbers:

Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in America. 78% of their clinics are in minority communities. Blacks make up 12% of the population, but 35% of the abortions in America.

Planned Parenthood is putting a huge abortion center in this area (Beech St. and MLK) with over 43% African Americans.  The average African American population for all of Portland is under 7%.

Planned Parenthood performs more abortions in their facilities than any other organization in our country and admitted they performed 264,943 abortions in 2005.  They will probably perform over 1000 abortions a year on MLK.

Visit the Precious Children of Portland site for further info. For more on how Planned Barrenhood targets blacks and other minorities, visit the BlackGenocide.org website.

Comments

[Dan Deeny]

Carl, Thank you for this information. Can you arrange some interviews? Some questions might be the following: Why locate in the African-American community? and What do the public leaders in the African-American community think?.

[Alexis]

Readers might want to research one of the founders of Planned Parenthood: Margaret Sanger, and the eugenics movement of the late 1800s/early 1900s. One of their goals was to begin the process of eradication of undesirable folks. There is a connection between them and some abolitionists of earlier days, and certainly a connection to the social Darwinists of the era.

PP was never a 'benign' group with a compassionate plan for supporting families with 'wanted children'.

[Fr. Andrew]

There is also a book that has some thoughts on Margaret Sanger, Architects of the Culture of Death, via Ignatius Press.

[jean]

It depends on what black "leaders" you talk to. As the late NFL player Reggie White once said, there are people who want poor people to stay poor, because they make so much money off of them. Planned Parenthood would fall into that category, as well as the old eugenics beliefs that are still swimming around the organization.

I read once in an excerpt of a history of PP (sorry, I can't remember the book title now--maybe someone else will?) that part of PP strategy was to get Black Protestant preachers to encourage their congregations to use birth control. (No chance of getting Catholic priests to do that, not 50 plus years ago!)

Pray for your minority sisters and brothers. And make sure that if a sister is in a crisis pregnancy, that you get there before PP does.