Abortion movement sends letters to the editor using scare tactics and misinformation

This is how they are going to spin it....letter today in Memphis Commercial Appeal...

First they are going to ignore federal law and lead with the scare....

"amendment one would allow legislators to ban abortions even in the cases of rape, incest and life of the mother."

Scare tactics....truth does not matter. Legalized abortion is federal law and state law cannot supersede federal law. What they really fear is that Roe Vs. Wade may fall some day and they are wanting to prepare for that. Actually the abortion industry holds TN as a model for other states on how to achieve unregulated abortion on demand at any stage of the pregnancy.

"These regulations and laws the other side wants seek to shame,stigmatize and deter women from choosing abortion."

Really ? Requiring abortion facilities to be inspected and regulated and meet the same standards as other outpatient surgery centers is intended to shame? Having late term abortions done in hospitals is a stigma? Informed consent is a deterrent?

"It’s perplexing that the writer suggests Tennessee has become an “abortion destination”

Latest stats from CDC says that Tennessee is 3rd in the states  for doing abortions on girls and women who reside out of state.  Most Tennesseans would not see this as a source of pride.

"In fact, a requirement passed by the General Assembly in 2012 led to the closure of several clinics and forced some physicians to stop providing abortions." 

This administrative regulation by our pro life governor states that abortionists must have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. Is it a bad thing, that doctors who cannot meet these minimal standards cannot provide abortions at these uninspected and unregulated centers? 

"....most Tennesseans treasure their right to privacy."

Memphis Editorial calls legislators and school administrators "prissy fools" for promoting abstinence

Shelby County TN (Memphis) has  one of the highest teen birth rates in the nation.  Yet the Commercial Appeal writes an editorial calling educators and legislators "prissy fools" for acknowledging their sex ed methods have not worked and agonizing over the new law that went into effect on July 1st. 

"According to The Urban Child Institute's data book on children in Shelby County, one in six births in Shelby County is to a mother in her teens." 

Planned Parenthood has enjoyed a free reign over the students for years and the results have not been stellar. They start out with the premise that everyone is having sex and move quickly in techniques to satisfy yourself and your partner(s) and circumvent  pregnancy. Except everyone understands that in the heat of the moment the best laid plans...well you know. So pregnancy and STI's are off the chart. Now Planned Parenthood has the answer for the pregnancy part and their revenue stream of abortion on demand is a well oiled machine. Don't want your parents to know...we have a friendly judge with a judicial bypass for you. Don't want to tell the judge the true age of the man who impregnated you.....our counselors can prep you on how to lie about his age. Hey, we were even caught on camera doing that.  But with all those pregnancies some choose not to abort and the end result is borne out in the statistics that are a national crisis. So what is the definition of insanity...doing the same thing and expecting different results. 

The shrieking editorial has a fit that parents have more control over the sex ed their minor child is being taught. Shocking....after all it is their child.  The editorial thinks it should be up there with the 3 R's. regardless of what parents think.  Next the new word of the day is nonabstinence is introduced to us. 

"The law forbids participation in the classes by groups that promote nonabstinence."

 How is that for a new word...... nonabstinence. Is that how the style book at the Commercial Appeal says to say screwing around or the F word???  Actually tried to look it up in the urban dictionary. Nope not there. But the unmitigated nerve of kicking out those who promote sex???

 That is the part that angers Planned Parenthood and their friendlies.   Why if Planned Parenthood can't go in and give them cards with their number on it to text for private sex info ..there goes there marketing strategy. 

Prissy fools...says the editorial.....wonder if  they had a day long meeting in the editorial board room to come up with that wise statement. 

Memphis PP continues to whine via Commercial Appeal

This woman knows no shame. And why  the Commercial Appeal to continue to use her  to write op eds is a total mystery.

 Wendi C. Thomas continues to shill for Planned Parenthood with an op ed decrying the loss of Title X funds to Christ Community Health Care ending with a plea  straight from PP prez Barry Chase  to donate $$ to PP giving them the website and to tell the county commissioners that you are upset and you vote .
She cries real tears because according to Barry Chase, the well paid, prez said that they had to do the following:

"Last week, Planned Parenthood was forced to put up this sign, in English and Spanish, in its waiting room:
"Attention: Shelby County has currently refused to fund our patients for family planning healthcare, which includes birth control and medical services. Please see the front desk staff for the cost of your services. Payment is expected at time of service."

As one commenter said: What a novel idea...paying for services... 

CCHS is supposed to take over in early November and PP is claiming that their Title X money is already gone so they are  denying they are referring them early but putting up the sign is not really referring them   according to  Chase who said ..."they have television sets  and read the newspaper so they know that CCHS beat out PP."  Really?? Interesting concept for those who are unable to pay for their own bc services.

It is the Christ in Christ Community Health Services that  so annoys Ms. Thomas. She has nothing good to say about those "evangelicals" who oppose abortion and thinks it is only a matter of time before their faith does not allow for them to violate the law and not refer for abortions.  

Memphis Commercial Appeal: Christ Community Health Services...stay in your lane

Memphis Commercial Appeal's  columnist  Wendi C. Thomas uses her platform  to continue carrying  water for Planned Parenthood . You remember her "serious "  column,  such as the infamous duct tape one where she  suggested that Republicans wanted to duct tape women's legs together!?!


She continues  this lofty thinking to her latest column attacking Christ Community  Health Centers in Memphis, who scored higher than her beloved Planned Parenthood in the evaluation process according to independent reviews.

Christ Community operate six medical clinics, a mobile clinic for the homeless and three dental clinics compared to  Planned Parenthood's one. Remember  this is in reference to Title X monies for family planning and not one  cent , per Ms. Thomas is used for abortions.    Yet, it becomes all about abortions. She finds it truly "inexplicable" that anyone could score higher  than  Planned Parenthood who she considers THE  experts.

Planned Parenthood's CEO, Barry Chase, is incensed that Christ Community would give women facing unplanned pregnancies options to consider  other than abortion which to him is the only  $$ option.  Christ Community states that women know that Planned Parenthood is the place to go for abortions but just the idea that they might hear other options is for Chase and Thomas beyond the pale and reason  to be outraged.


While she starts off her column stating by saying...

"I have nothing but respect for the righteous work that Christ Community Health Services does. The workers live their faith by caring for the poor and are irreplaceable."

That seems to be as far as her calm side can go. As her column progresses her feelings  show a hardened side as she turns on those "righteous" people at  Christ Community who   MUST be replaced by the experts at Planned Parenthood.

Consider some of her closing comments. Can you hear the rage? I do note that she posts this at midnight. Maybe her reasonable clock had run out.

"Aside from mean-spirited political and short-sighted religious convictions, there is no reason to give this grant to Christ Community. "

"...there is no place for federal family-planning dollars to go to an evangelical, anti-choice health center. " ( Remember this is about family planning, not abortions, Wendi)

Put more simply, Christ Community should stay in in their lane.

Stay in their lane, Ms. Thomas??  Is that like saying sit in the back of the bus?   I thought they were irreplaceable a few paragraphs up? 
Better hide the duct tape....your editors may want to use it on you.

Pix from Commercial Appeal 

Memphis: Letter to the editor suggesting that morality empowers women get angry responses from PP supporters

Memphis Commercial Appeal publishes a letter to the editor following the editorial from Wendi C. Thomas suggesting that the TN Legislature headed by Republicans  want to reduce teen pregnancies by duct  taping women's legs together.  A lady pens a perfectly logical letter speaking truth and is immediately inundated with shrieking comments blasting her ogic, defending Planned Parenthood who do have a business model out of unchecked sexual activity. 


To the Editor:
Why does Memphis have high rates of illegitimate births, children who die before their first birthday and sexually transmitted diseases, despite the current (dis)services Planned Parenthood provides?
Because Planned Parenthood is a business that relies on unchecked sexual activity. We live in a time of unparalleled access to birth control, yet we are still dealing with the problem of teen pregnancy.
In her May 8 column "Morality solved by duct tape on minds," Wendi C. Thomas wrote: "When women can control when and how they have children, those women are powerful. They have options and are more likely (to) chart their own fates." Yes, so why don't they make choices that would empower them? Because they believe the lies.
They have been told that everyone is having sex. And they have been told that there are no consequences to having sex. Those are the lies that hold women back. Those are the lies that rob women of controlling their destinies. And yet, that is the very propaganda that keeps Planned Parenthood in business.
Birth control has given women control over our reproductive health, but the immorality ushered in with the belief that a negative consequence of sex had been eliminated has led to devastation. Women have paid a huge price for the sexual revolution in the anxiety of unplanned pregnancy, the horror of STDs and the scars of abortion. And we will continue to pay it until we admit that engaging in sex outside of marriage is not empowering us as women.
I know how easily some will dismiss the morality that says premarital sex is wrong. But, as a teenager faced with sexual temptation, I did not see God's laws as harsh and unfair, but as protection given not out of hatred, but love. Following those rules has led to a life of freedom: freedom from shame, from STDs and from unwanted pregnancies. It is immorality that leads to bondage.
Let's truly empower young women to make better choices by thinking beyond government programs and services to a real future where education is valued, marriage is a desirable goal and children are the blessing they were intended to be. Let's help them see the logic in morality. 

Emily Ford
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Memphis Commercial Appeal: Republicans wanting to send tax $$ to health dept. instead of PP want to duct tape women's legs together!!

Wendi C. Thomas writes a column for the liberal Commercial Appeal  that is so ridiculous that many readers spoke for me when  they questioned how this could ever make it into print even in the Commercial Appeal. 

She rails about the state legislature wanting to send Title X monies  to the county health dept. instead of her pal Planned Parenthood. She goes on to suggest  Republicans in control want to duct tape women's legs together as a form of birth control. She is hysterical that the infamous Planned Parenthood of Memphis  ( remember them starring in the sting operation of Live Action covering up statutory rape) might be robbed of a quarter of their $3MM annual budget.

The abortion friendly health dept. says they cannot handle another anyone sending them $750,000....they don't have the capacity.  Shelby county is known for the high rate of teen pregnancies, STI's and infant mortality rate. Still the  county's health dept. thinks it a good idea  to outsource this $$ to an organization that shows  nothing but failure.

Her hysterical rant did not impress  the readers of the CA as most of the comments took her to task. One letter from a reader sums it up well. Why keep sending tax money to a failed program?  Isn't that the definition of insanity...




Letter to the Editor:

Wendi C. Thomas uses her May 8 column to carp about those of us who would like to see Planned Parenthood defunded.
So how is it that after the millions of tax dollars Planned Parenthood has collected in the last 50 years, the millions of dollars it has spent in so-called health care services, the millions of women it has "served," nothing ever gets better?
In Memphis, STDs are still out of control, unplanned pregnancy is epidemic and the infant mortality problem "bests those of many developing nations." Planned Parenthood has obviously failed at what it says its purposes are. Its programs have failed miserably for those it "serves," but its programs have certainly been successful in lining Planned Parenthood's pockets.
Indeed, all their efforts have accomplished is a guarantee of their part of the 9,000-plus abortions that happen in Shelby County every year with the fees they represent and more millions to them at the taxpayers' expense.
Yet every time they are in jeopardy of losing a cent of public money, Planned Parenthood screams that without them all hell will break loose. "Hundreds of women will be turned away." STDs and HIV will spin out of control! Women will be forced to have 10 babies before they are 30 years old! Teenagers won't be able to get "protection" so they won't get pregnant! Really?
We can do without Planned Parenthood entirely. Many local Christian-based health care providers offer STD testing and treatment, help in preventing unplanned pregnancy, and give prenatal care to prevent infant mortality, along with many other women's health care services. They do it at no cost to the patient and without expecting taxpayers who don't agree with them to pay up anyway. They do everything Planned Parenthood does except abortions.

No matter what Thomas says, that is really what it is all about. Protecting abortion.
Planned Parenthood's failure is all around us. Enough already. 

Karen McNeil

Commercial Appeal's editorial does puff peice on Planned Parenthood highlighting services they don't even advertise

Chris Peck: Honest talk on sex is way overdue

Commercial Appeal in Memphis .....

Feb. 14th

This editorial  is a ppp, puff propaganda piece for Planned Parenthood...I suggest you refresh your memory about Memphis Planned Parenthood by watching the video at the bottom of this post.
After watching this video see what Planned Parenthood calls sex education. Look up this website sponsored by Planned Parenthood.  Fair warning....this is disgusting especially considering that our tax money pays for this  in the name of sex education. But wait, it gets better....

 He quotes Carr from Planned Parenthood.....''Contraception and prenatal care are most of what we do,'' explained Joan Carr, director of community relations for Planned Parenthood of Greater Memphis.


Really!  I looked at the website for PP in Memphis and if prenatal care is large part of their services why do they not even list it on  their services page?   I know when one legislator in Nashville asked Jeff Teague, Director of PP in middle and East TN what prenatal care  they offer, he said they give samples of prenatal vitamins!!
Peck further makes the astonishing statement  that one of their services is how to nurture  a healthy baby!  
"But most of the clinic's work is devoted to helping poor women and very young women, including high school girls, get honest information about how to prevent pregnancy, how to avoid sexually transmitted diseases and how to nurture a healthy baby" ...

Again, their  own website doesn't even list nurturing a healthy baby or parenting  as one of their services.Read their own list from their website here.

Read the rest of the article if you wish here.