Confessions of a News Junkie

The Los Angeles Times published a story today about Lila Rose, an undercover anti-choice activist who visits Planned-Parenthood clinics with a false age to illicit poor ethics of the clinics. By lying about her age and crying to Planned Parenthood agents that she wants an abortion - despite the laws that restrict the services for under-aged women - when agents cave, Rose advances the jeopardy of one of the few free/low-cost health institutions for women. Through their deceptive tactics and agenda to restrict women's reproductive health care, the credibility of Planned Parenthood and its free services are in danger. (Seventy-three percent of clients meet poverty conditions.)

Planned Parenthood's education programs concentrate on AIDS/HIV and contraception/family planning — including abstinence, parent-child communication, safer sex, sexually transmitted infections, teenage pregnancy, and women’s health. In addition to providing safe sex contraception, it also performs STD/STI and cancer screening.

Planned Parenthood's accomplishments give the organization's potential for increasing low-cost and free health care to vulnerable populations; its success should override conservatives’ agenda that strips funding for sex education and women's well being.

The Los Angeles Times article: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-abortion26-2009apr26,0,5408628.story