Planned Parenthood
& NOW Are Pro-Choice?
By Glenda Stephens
This
past November (2003) the St. Charles City-County Library District hosted the
quarterly meeting of Meeting the Non-Profits, which gives various groups
an opportunity to gather together, network, and listen to a program. I
got there a few minutes early and proceeded to set out my Birthright brochures,
Precious Feet pins and my business cards. Having done that, I started going
around the room introducing myself to the other early birds. I came to a table
where two women were talking and proceeded to introduced myself to one of the
ladies and shake her hand. As it turned out, she was from the Emmaus Home.
I presumed the lady next to her was also from Emmaus, extended my hand to shake
hers and said, “Oh, are you from Emmaus Home too?” She replied rather bitterly
I thought, “No, I'm Carolyn Landry, President of NOW in St. Charlesin
Again in an age of “CHOICE,” why can't pregnant women
be presented with all CHOICES? If Planned Parenthood were really “PRO-CHOICE,”
why don't they have a Birthright banner hanging in the waiting rooms of their
abortion clinics? Why aren’t the phone numbers of the various pro-life
centers on their speed dials? We would be most happy to meet the needs of the
precious women they “serve”. Women are given only ONE CHOICE once they
walk through their doors – the CHOICE of destroying the life of their children
while lining the pockets of the abortion industry.
Glenda Stephens is the Director
of