Planned Parenthood and the pink Bibles controversy

Are you kidding me? 2% of Planned Parenthood's services are even abortion-related. They do freaking screenings for breast cancer, which I should think would be pretty darn important to an organization that promotes breast cancer awareness.

Honestly, our healthcare system should be modeled after Planned Parenthood: Pay what you can, when you can, give what you can to help who you can, and receive the care you need at an affordable price with respect from the doctors!

Where can I buy these books? I'm not even Christian and I want to buy one...or three... or 50

If these organizations are going to interfer in our lives stop any tax dollars from going to them and let them start paying taxes.

Before Roe v Wade, back in the day when abortions were performed in back alleys with dirty coat hangers promoted by the girls' menfolk whether father, husband or boyfriend, the ministers sure did NOT woof and fuss like they do today. Apparently the 'Christian' form of honor killing was okay by them or maybe they all had laryngitis? I took care of two girls in the hospital one 18 one 19 years old, I was 18 at the time. Took those girls three days to die from infection which the antibiotics obviously did not touch. I don't remember reading about how tragic their deaths were and etcetera... You all fill in the blanks, none of today's rhetoric do I remember. And I am absolutely sure neither one of those girls really really wanted her private parts reamed out with a dirty coat hanger; we all knew the dangers of a back alley abortion. Somehow abortion is wrong with the so called Christian folk when the woman decides for a clean abortion rather than her menfolk decide to risk her life with a dirty abortion. So much for the value and equality of women in America...so much for Christian compassion.

this is your typical right wing crazy talk----------------they have proven over and over again that they despise women and for that matter babies--------------these pink BIBLES provided funds for breast cancer showing they hate women------------------they scream about abortion but then after the baby arrives then it is to hell with them and the mother, again they hate women and their children----------------------

Planned Parenthood gives all women who come to them sex education and contraceptive services. They have prevented more abortions by doing this then all the anti-choice groups put together. Planned Parenthood is the true anti-abortion oganization.

It is a shame that some brilliant Christians will never be born because their mothers died of curable breast cancer?

These ignorant bible thumpers have no problem allowing living women to die of cancer in order to protect unborn embryos. A bunch of brainwashed fools.

Typical right-wing attack on women and their health care.

Only these nutjobs would turn something as important as saving women from breast cancer into another argument about abortion. Talk about screwed-up priorities.

This reminds me of the smaller governement that Kansas republicans promissed, then they created special building codes for PP (there are 2 in the entire state) that first had to approved by the legal team, then voted on by the legislature, then adpoted in to law, then had to be implemented by triaining the building inspectors, then they shut one of the two down. So how much money, time and effort went into the smaller goverment? Hypocrites and idiots following sharia laws (ancient tribal laws, that is all the bibble is) and suppressing the religious freedom of everyone in the state!! Gotta love the gop, smalller govt unless it involves your marriage, bed, children, other religions, sexual partners, sexual prefernces, ect...

Right wing Christian fundamentalists proving yet again that they are no less oppressive than their Sharia Law counterparts.

Nothing christ-like about these control freaks that are unwilling to mind their own business.

These self-righteous so-called "Christians". They object to any effort to provide care to people who do not have insurance. They rally against "Obamacare" but offer NO solutions. Not ONE republican candidate has expressed ANY concern about the plight of American citizens who have no health insurance, although they all delight in badgering Romney over the Massachusetts mandates. Any REAL Christian would back a national health program to make sure that no American citizen is denied needed health care. The pseudo-Christians only spout verses from the Bible that don't threaten their greed and riches. They forget the entire chapter of Mark, and they certainly don't tell about Lazarus, the beggar at the gate of the rich man (who ignored his needs). "That was me, said Jesus".

Oh, how they #$%$ anything to do with right to choose, but then refuse to have the safety nets and programs avialable for the children they demand must be born. They are lunatics--unable to think of the best solutions for the time we live in.

What a shame for so-called "pro-lifers" to take funding away from cancer screening. How do they live with their hypocrisy and bullyish behavior?

Put the Bibles on the shelves and I will buy ten so that I can help with the cancer victim! What about them, doesn't life as a person mean anything. Why should the publisher be dictated to when we are trying to save lives??? Don't understand the double standard of those people who complain. Don't they have cancer victims in their family and if not well what goes around comes around!!! Unbelievable!!!!

If we really started looking deeply, we'd find 'links' between any organization and any other organization...particularly if they are in the same field...ie: healthcare. I can see the publisher's dilemma but wonder if they have thought out the consequences. They have given into blackmail. If you do it once, it's so much easier to do it a second...or third....or twentieth time. What will be the next objection?

Planned Parenthood offers more than abortions....it offers essential healthcare to thousands of women every year. That means that child-bearing age women are healthier so that complications in pregnancy are reduced which reduces the cost of healthcare....that women have healthier babies who do not end up spending months in the hospital. Healthier babies grow up to be more productive adults. And yes, there are those who for whatever reason do have abortions, sometimes for financial reasons. Perhaps if there were more viable alternatives the number of abortions would go down but until we have a social support structure that ensures that no child grows up malnourished, abused, or abandoned, we are stuck with what we've got.

Adoption is inadequate. There are thousands of children being shuffled around foster care and institutions with physical/emotional/psychological problems that require treatment. People often want to adopt a perfect little baby, not a toddler with FAS. All too frequently those children wind up in abusive situations where they are warehoused for the money they bring in.

As for personal responsibility....there are two parts to that, the man and the woman. Too many men seem to think that because they donate the sperm that makes them a 'father', but they contribute nothing to the upbringing and well-being of the child. Too many women chose immature males to have a relationship. Birth control is not 100% effective and even those who love and want children may not be prepared financially or emotionally for the strain even a healthy child can bring into a situation. Too many women have been abandoned by the men who promised to care for them and their children, yet there are men who whine about how much child support they have to pay...too many girls who think that a baby will bind the father to her or give her someone to love and to love her or justify her existence, perhaps out of her own uncaring unloved childhood, but the support she needs...the education she needs....aren't out there. I don't approve of abortion as birth control but until we start passing out birth control on every street corner, I don't see an alternative.

There are times when the destructive behavior so overwhelms me that I think people should be required to get a permit to have children. There are too many broken homes, unstable relationships, immature selfish people making stupid decisions not to pay attention. This isn't limited to any particular race or religion or social class...it is endemic in our society.

I find the whole 'pro-life/pro-choice' argument more than a little specious. The reality is that abortion is too often a necessary healthcare choice. My mother had to have what was (at the time) an illegal abortion...fortunately done by a doctor in his clinic. The only options available to her were the abortion or dying along with the fetus. Since she had 4 children, she felt she didn't have a choice. I give thanks every day of my life for the doctor who had the compassion and the courage to help her live. I hope every woman who finds herself in an equally heartbreaking situation will have the love, support and medical care she requires...not quasi-governmental or societal condemnation for something that is beyond her control.

When all children have loving, supportive homes then we will have achieved something.

Imagine if these inbred giblet heads actually devoted the same amount of time, money and resources to help children that are already BORN instead of wasting effort on zygotes...they only care about life as long as it's a fetus, but the moment you're born their plan for you is "please die quickly, you freeloading #$%$

What a bunch of narrow minded fools...They all think they are going to Heaven...but, I doubt God would take them...they aren't his kind of people...