a letter of complaint on behalf of life

This is a letter I sent last night to the management of a local radio station. The general manager called this morning right away and left a message for me to call him. (It spoke well of him that he tried calling me first thing...He did not ignore this "squeaky wheel". ..) I left another message...

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Dear Sir,

This evening, I was driving along, listening to the soothing music being broadcast on your station when all was interrupted by an ad for Planned Parenthood (PP), proclaiming the organization cares about women's health care. I'm trying to understand why you would promote such a lie. Maybe you don't know what I know. Every single day, at the pregnancy resource center where I work, I listen to women's "after abortion" stories. From hearing their stories, I know without a single doubt that abortion does terrible things to women. PP is the largest purveyor of abortions in Minnesota. If the people who work there really cared about women's health, they wouldn't be doing abortions because abortion causes terrible devastation to women's spiritual, psychological, emotional and physical health.

Women tell me they will never get over their abortions. They are tormented by thoughts of suicide, what their babies would have been (boy or girl), what they would have looked like, how old they would be now. They are depressed. They have usually miscarried a succeeding pregnancy (a proven side effect of abortion). Their sex partners have left them after their abortions, even though the men were probably the ones who coerced them into having them in the first place. They know, in their hearts, that what they did was wrong. The folks at PP told them it was good to kill their unborn children but they know that isn't true, for it was written on their hearts, inherent in their human nature as mothers, that they were to protect their children from harm, not kill them. They acted against their natural instinct and it doesn't feel right. And, now their lives are shattered and they are permanently scarred. If you don't believe me, just ask a woman who has had an abortion how the experience went for her. She may say she's just fine but, then, query her further. Ask her if she'd do it again. She'll say NEVER. When asked why, she'll tell you she thinks about it all the time. I've talked with hundreds...probably thousands; I've been doing this work for over 12 years...and the answers are the same, with very little deviation.

There's another part to this. What about the unborn female children who are aborted? It's obvious the people at PP don't care about THEIR health. So, they don't care about the health of the women who allowed them to kill their babies and they don't care about the health of the unborn female babies. I wonder. About which women do they care? There are only two kinds of women: unborn and born and, as we all know, these are the people PP targets to do abortions.

I encourage you to spend a little time googling the artificial birth control PP promotes. You will find terrible side effects from those, too. And, what about all the sexually transmitted infections that are running rampant? PP is responsible for those by touting their message of sexual freedom by using contraception. What's so freeing about AIDS or gonorrhea or chlamydia or herpes or the myriad other sexually transmitted infections that are being diagnosed every day?

I hope and pray that you will stop airing this ad. It is offensive and an assault on the truth. The reality is PP does nothing good for a woman's health.

Sincerely,

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I just talked to him and he said he agreed with every word I wrote. He said this spot should never have happened. How it came to be is his advertising sales rep sold a 60 second spot to a company who used 30 seconds for their company (a sex toy store...ugh!) and tagged PP on the last 30 seconds. He said they had to honor the contract, which runs through next week and then, "no more...it will be done forever". He said he talked to the sales rep and he promised him it will never happen again. He said he's with us in our mission. I asked him to pray for us and he said he would because he knew it was a spiritual battle. He thanked me for calling this to his attention because he hadn't been aware of what had happened before I wrote. He said I could contact him any time...I asked for free advertising for our centers. He didn't bite, dang it!

He sounded sincere--I felt at peace, believing what he told me.

Sometimes, we must make a loud noise on behalf of the truth. May God be with us, as we do!