Pro-Choice to Pro-Life: An Insider’s Look Into the Conversion of a Planned Parenthood Employee

[Are_grits_groceries]

This is a very long article from Daily Kos. The 'conversion' is a lot more complex than the headlines would lead you to believe. It is worth the read.

For over a year and a half I have been a volunteer escort at the Planned Parenthood reproductive health care facility in Bryan, Texas; this particular facility is located in a town home to arguably the most conservative public university, Texas A&M, and is known as one of the most anti-choice areas in the country. Located just steps from Planned Parenthood is an organization that opposes reproductive rights, the Coalition for Life. The fence that surrounds Planned Parenthood serves as the frontline between those that support reproductive rights and those that opposed reproductive rights. This week someone crossed from one side of the fence to the other: the director of the Planned Parenthood joined the Coalition for Life. How could something like this happen? The story is more complicated than the mainstream media is reporting.

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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/11/4/800445/-Pro-Choice-to-Pro-Life:-An-Insiders-Look-Into-the-Conversion-of-a-Planned-Parenthood-Employee

[trotsky]

1. Hmm, something seems odd there. n/t

[PeaceNikki]

2. This is the twist to the story the majority of the media won't report.

[ehrnst]

3. There is definitely something missing here.

Norma McCorvey's "conversion" was not very surprising - she's a woman with some deep seated issues about being validated and getting attention When she realized that she could get much, much more of that by going to the PL side, she did.

The head of a Planned Parenthood suddenly "converting" to an anti-choice stance because she sees an ultrasound - yet gives an interview with a PC org the day after she witnessed it?

Only a PL could believe that. They think that supporting women's reproductive choices means being at least borderline sociopathic towards pregnancy and childbearing.

The difficulties with PP that she had...the financial difficulties...something other than "seeing the light" is going on here. Is that the twist you were talking about?


Or this:

"Neither her parents, members of a Baptist church in Rockdale, Texas, nor her husband ever "bought into the pro-choice mission," she says."

[Sinti]

4. A while back

in doing some research I actually found that parts of the anti-choice movement (organizations) began as proponents of Planned Parenthood, but that was when Planned Parenthood was more about eugenics and keeping certain people from having children and less about giving women power over their own bodies.

I don't have the work product from this research handy, maybe I'll dig it up at some point. It gave me a lot of questions about the anti-choice movement. They don't believe in birth control either, so their agenda just doesn't look honest.

[ehrnst]

5. The guy that did "Silent Scream" - Bernard Nathanson

Very questionable medical ethics. And Norma McCorvey, since conversion, has been a speaker at at least one white supremicist event.

Control is the issue, not babies. These people need to be heroes, and as such, need dragons to slay and innocent victims to rescue.

The ultimate victim? A baby - they don't have opinions, won't talk back, and won't ask for equal rights.

The ultimate evil dragon? A sexually active woman who rejects motherhood and the man's seed...

You can see the truth when they say that women that didn't want sex at the time of conception have a right to say no to childbirth.

Control, and fear of women's progress in this culture fuel most PLs.