“Did you escape the hurricane without your birth control?” asks Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas.
“As a courtesy to women fleeing Hurricane Katrina, we will offer one free cycle (one month) of birth control or one free Emergency Contraception kit to women” who come to a Houston-area Planned Parenthood clinic and produce a valid Louisiana or Mississippi driver's license.
The group's website says the offer is good until September 10.
The generosity does not impress a pro-life group that considers birth control pills and emergency contraception abortifacients.
“It is absolutely unconscionable that Planned Parenthood would use the tragedy of hurricane Katrina to push its shameless agenda on the American public,” said Jim Sedlak, executive director of American Life League's STOPP International.
Thousands of people displaced by the Hurricane are being moved from the New Orleans Superdome to the Houston's Astrodome.
“In New York City in 2001, Planned Parenthood used the 9/11 attacks to publicize its programs by offering free contraceptives and abortions for the week after the terrorists struck,” said Sedlak.
“Now the organization is exploiting one of the worst natural disasters in American history for cheap publicity by offering one month's supply of free birth control and so-called emergency contraception to victims of Katrina.
“If Planned Parenthood really wants to help, it should donate a portion of the millions of dollars in profits it makes every year to aid in the victims' plights,” Sedlak said.
He called Planned Parenthood's latest stunt disgusting and inappropriate but not surprising: “The bottom line is that Planned Parenthood is out to promote its own agenda and will stop at nothing to take advantage of an opportunity to do so.”
(This article courtesy of the Thomas More Law Center.)
