Your Tax Dollars at Work

The Dawn Patrol presents an interesting perspective on how Planned Parenthood is spending our taxes these days:

An account that a California blogger wrote yesterday of her visit to Planned Parenthood contains the most insightful description of the organization's methods that I've seen from someone who supports it [link contains profanities—I've cleaned up this excerpt]:

so since i have no insurance, going to Planned Parenthood is much cheaper (read: free) than paying to go see a normal girlie-doctor. the one that i go to is really nice and i actually prefer it to a doctors office cause you get all sorts of free sh-t like a bag of condoms and a big bottle of lube. and see, with a gift like that, theyre really developing a bond with their clients. its like theyre saying "ya know, we know youre out there getting laid and having crazy monkey sex with hot british boys all night" (im just, ya know...making things up) " so why not at least have FUN and be SAFE while you do it?! then everyone's happy! woohoo! hooray for sex!" they sort of take on the role of your older, wiser sister who tells you about the birds and the bees long before mom and dad try to give you The Talk.... anyway, the point of this post goes back to the PP freebies. apparently in cali, it is now a rule that when you go for any sort of check up at PP, they give you this pre-packaged dose of the morning-after pill, aka Plan B (no really, thats what its called. although id really like it if it was called "Baby Repellant").

She's right about California Planned Parenthoods' dispensing prepackaged morning-after-pill kits like candy; last year, Planned Parenthood Golden Gate gave out 16,446 "EC [Emergency Contraception] to Go" kids, according to its annual report (PDF file).

Planned Parenthood Golden Gate, like other Planned Parenthood chapters, receives over half its funding from taxpayers—but you know that, if you've read about their cartoon depicting a PP "superhero" blowing up pro-lifers.

Thanks to The Dawn Patrol for the hat tip.
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