LEAVE PLANNED PARENTHOOD ALONE!

Let me  preface the following with this:  my husband and I have two adult children.  They are both married and have given us five grandchildren.  There will be another grandchild in the fall and I'm already excited imagining about how the new baby will be like our other grandchildren, yet different in his or her own way.  What will this new grandchild be like?  We love our children and their spouses and our grandchildren very much and cannot imagine life without any one of them. They are much loved imporant people to us.  Having said that . . .

As I was eating breakfast this morning and listening to NPR, there was a report about how Republicans will continue to push for cutting Federal funding to Planned Parenthood.  They keep emphasizing that Planned Parenthood is all about abortions.  It's not!

Leave Planned Parenthood alone!   We need Planned Parenthood.  We need to educate more -- yes, as a taxpaying society.  Abstinence education means nothing unless a young person's hormones can be controlled too -- and we certainly don't want that, do we?  Both males and females alike need sex education to prevent diseases and unwanted pregnancies.  

There wouldn't be any abortions if our sex education in this country was better.  Women don't decide willy-nilly to go have abortions.  They have abortions because their lives aren't ready, for a myriad of reasons, for the responsibilities of a new life.  That is totally the woman's personal decision.  It's her body that carries the baby, and fathers might protest this next thought but child rearing is still squarely on a woman's shoulders.

Planned Parenthood is about education.  After we had the number of children that we had planned for, my husband went to Planned Parenthood and got a vasectomy.  A vasectomy meant peace of mind for both of us.  We had our family.

Republicans trumpet that Planned Parenthood is all about abortions and how the unborn child must be protected.  I ask all of you: what about the child after he or she is born?  How much, as a society, do we care about that child? 

Watch one of those afternoon judge shows.  Keep track of how many cases come up that have to do with unmarried couples who have had a child.  They have no love for one another and they have no desire to form a family. In fact, many times, the child is simply a result of a one night stand.

Again, it's not about being  right or wrong, it's about being smart or stupid. 

EDUCATION, people.  Watch the first 15 minutes of the movie, "Idiocracy."  That is where we are headed as a society.