Planned Parenthood Celebrates Keeping Parents In The Dark

(LifeNews) In Planned Parenthood of the Heartland’s Fiscal Year 2011 report, it boasts as one of its achievements for the year “actively work[ing] against…[a bill] requiring parental consent for a minor to receive abortion care.” This Planned Parenthood affiliate’s opposition to a proposed parental involvement law is far from unique.

Planned Parenthood routinely opposes parental involvement legislation, and initiates legal challenges to newly enacted laws.

This contempt for laws supported by the vast majority of Americans, along with the fact that some Planned Parenthood affiliates have exhibited a pattern of violating and circumventing these laws once they are enacted, call into question whether Planned Parenthood truly is the “defender” of women and families that it so-publicly holds itself out to be. Planned Parenthood’s actions are stunning, given that parental consent laws—laws that protect the health and well-being of minors, respect parental rights, and save the lives of unborn babies—have a 71 percent nationwide approval rating. In fact, 39 states currently have enforceable parental involvement laws. ... Keep Reading RELATED STORIES