Gift Certificates for an Abortion?

How about 2 for the price of 1. Maybe pay folks money for sterilization. Sounds immoral. but some of these folks just might go for it. Arbortion is just really a sad state of affairs for this country.

I'm trying really hard to envision any circumstance in which a Planned Parenthood gift certificate would be an appropriate gift.

That aside, the gift certificate itself doesn't sound like a "bad" thing when most people will buy basic health care products and services with it. By comparison, Wal-Mart gift cards can be used to buy alcohol and ammunition (please correct me if I'm wrong about this), but nobody is outraged by Wal-Mart gift cards.

Disgusting!!!!! I am pro choice, but gift certificates for abortion, sick, sick, sick!

Come on folks, this is just like giving away free condoms.
The certificates aren't MEANT to be used for abortions, that's just an unfortunate loophole that has been pointed out. I'm sure it'll be corrected at some point.
Quit over-reacting. If you want to get upset about something how about this one:
Close to a million innocent Iraqis are DEAD because of an illegal war based on LIES, and our new president has NO EXIT STRATEGY and has hired the SAME Secretary of Defense.

Whoo-hoo! I'll be sending one to my favorite Indiana Senator, Brandt Hershmann!! I'm sure he will appreciate the gift since he has been so generous to PPIN

I'll be sending one to Sarah Palin so she can afford to stop bringing defective children into the world.

A gift certificate valid for a contract killing. Is that on anyone's wish list this year?

There's absolutely nothing wrong with it.

so if these health-care gift certificates are "attacks on the Christian community at Christmastime." should we all assume that Christians don't NEED prostate exams? Or contraception? Or STD treatments and the like?

As for who one might give these to, how about your girlfriend who just lost her health insurance and only has two weeks of birth control left?

What a bunch of maroons these Christianist whiners are. Just because the CAN be used for abortions doesn't mean they WILL be. It'd be different, maybe, if they were specifically FOR abortion (which no Christian would EVER have! Oh, no!).

When I first heard about these gift certificates, I donated $100 to Planned Parenthood. What a practical gift, especially for those without health insurance. Planned Parenthood also offers health care to MEN, so research their services before you judge, OK? This is much better than some useless gift card for useless do-dads from a store who'll soon be going belly up because what they offer is useless and overpriced! YAY, Planned Parenthood!

I don't see what the big deal is with these gift cards...Also as for the groups in indiana that are against abortion and planned parenthood. Isnt planned parenthood a good thing? or would we rather have a bunch of 13 year old girls running around with kids? You decide.

J.D., leave Sarah and her children alone.
Did her baby do you something?

Seems to me that a gift card for things like PAP smears, contraception counseling and the like would be welcomed by a woman with low income and no health insurance. As the article said, 95% of the services PP provide are basic women's health services.

How can a gift certificate for medical care be seen as negative?
Pro-life Christians who quote the Bible as providing support for their views are abusing the book they purport to cherish the most. They are showing their gross lack of knowledge of what the Bible actually says.

(Pro-life Christians are not the only Christians who are ignorant of what the Bible says - it is appalling how many so-called Christians are ignorant of what is actually in the Bible.

If you cherish the book, devote yourself to understanding it, understanding issues pertaining to translation, history, and context. If you fail to do this, you don't cherish the book at all - you are simply (mis)using it as a tool to advance your political views - which shows no respect for the Bible whatsoever.

Magie Read, I don't like Sarah Palin, but there is no need for such an attack.

Jay Edgar, I do like Sarah Palin and wonder why you would have to use the prelude: "I don't like Sarah Palin, BUT....."

Why couldn't you just say that the comment was idiotic?

This is the real question... why are 13 year olds having babies at all? Don't say they are unable to get an abortion... that is simply the reason they are not delivering them. More importantly, why are they having sex at all?
Why is abortion even needed if contraception works?
If contraception doesn't work to prevent pregnancy completely effectively, what is its purpose (ie, why did it come into existance)?
If abstinence (even during fertile times in marriage if pregnancy is not wanted) is shown to completely prevent pregnancy, than the logical end is not that contraception was invented to prevent pregnancy, that could already be done, but rather to indulge the vice of lust.
If contraception allows the indulgence of lust, who does it really benefit?
If feminism was meant to make men and women equal in society, why are women being raped, stalked and abused in higher numbers than ever?
Contraception has been proven to increase the risk of disease, breast cancer and infertility, does this benefit women?
Statistics consistently show that marriages between people who do not contracept, live together before marriage and are open to having children are the most happy marriages with a less than 2% chance of divorce, not to mention that these couples all report having the highest level of sexual satisfaction. In this case, does contraception really allow the pleasure of sex without the responsibility?
Why are we teaching sex ed as young as kindergarten and then surprised when kids get pregnant at 13.
Why does the rate of abortion rise with the rate of contraception?
Why does the rate of unplanned pregnancy rise with the rate of contraception?
Why does the rate of contraception rise with the rate of sex ed classes?
Why does the rate of STDs also rise with the rate of contraception?
Why then, is sex ed looked at as a way to help prevent unplanned pregnancy, abortion, and STDs?

On a side note... please justify "pro-Bible, pro-Choice" where your view is in the Bible (as I am a biblical scholar who understands hebrew, and have never found this in any degree)

Another side note.... please justify to me how a person with downsyndrome or similar condition is less of a person... because biologically, the same argument has been made throughout history that blacks, jews, catholics, etc are less of a person with about the same amount of logic.

Questionit -

Some folks are just plain ole ignorant.

Sarah Palin was the windex that made the picture more clear.

Here is a woman who did everything a man could, graduated college like a man, worked like a man, hunted like a man, ran a business like a man, was on the city council like a man, was a mayor like a man, is a governor like man...but unlike today's liberal women, she is pro-life, pro-marriage, and managed to have it all while looking gorgeous, being unapologetically pro-life, and loving just one man and having five gorgeous wonderful kids under (yes, say it with me) ONE WEDLOCK!

What a horrible representation for women!

LMAO.

questionit: where do you obtain statistical data that supports your assertions? Much of what you assert is not supported by CDC and US Census data, and seems skewed.

Anytime I've been to a planned parenthood clinic they have taught that abstinence was the best way, however, they educate you on ways to keep yourself safe and not have an accidental pregnancy if you decide that abstinence isn't for you. Again I ask why is this an "Evil" service?

As for teaching sex ed in kindergarten...I'm pretty sure they don't teach them about sex in those situations. I'm pretty sure they focus on good/bad touch topics to help keep them safe from predators or in most cases family members or religious leaders (BURN!).