Planned Parenthood

[murielm99]

I give to Planned Parenthood every year. I have to budget, because we are not rich. We are ordinary middle income, I suppose.

I will be giving a little extra this time. Women are able to get free birth control there. My daughter and some of her friends went to Planned Parenthood for b.c. when she was in college, and donated what they could afford.

I am giving a little extra this year. Maybe we could get everyone who is disgusted by the Supreme Court ruling to give something to Planned Parenthood. We could make sure that the women who will now be deprived of birth control know that they can go to Planned Parenthood for help.

I don't work for Planned Parenthood. This is just a suggested way to fight back and make ourselves heard. I hope some of you reading this are with me.

[MADem]

1. I started sending them a check after the Komen thing.

Good charity, IMO. They provide important services for the needy, to include cancer screenings.

[BrotherIvan]

2. I give every month

[spanone]

3. k&r...

[BlancheSplanchnik]

4. K and R. DU should do a fundraiser.

Make a little Ruth Bader Ginsberg icon and give them out for donaters to gift each other.....like the Valentine's hearts.

This is a clear declaration of war on women's lives, bodily sovereignty, and economic survival.

Jane Crow indeed.

[SunSeeker]

6. The thing is, Ginsburg voted to strike down buffer zones in McCullen v Coakley.

Yeah, she wrote a nice dissent in Hobby Lobby, but from the point of view of all the chaos the ruling could bring, not the rank misogyny of it. Her (and the rest of the liberals) joining the conservatives in striking down buffer zones at women's health clinics is pretty unforgivable. I was a clinic escort in the 80s. Anybody who knows anything about how anti-abortion terrorists operate knows a 35 foot buffer is pretty minimal. She really fucked up on that vote.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

8. Oh, shit, I forgot about that in the heat of the moment

Different pic, then.

[Phentex]

9. Still

a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood is a good idea.

[SunSeeker]

10. LOL.

Thanks for the giggle. I needed it.

[SunSeeker]

5. K & R

[Hekate]

7. Yes. We give annually. It's been a priority charity for years.

Locally there's a fantastic book sale in September. People donate books all year long, volunteers sort and price them, more folks make donations to sponsor tables, and then for one week in September -- zowie, a bibliophile's paradise.

We're lucky here, I guess. Even so, we've had some troubles over the years, and security measures are in place. There is definitely a need for clinic escorts and volunteers at the intake desk. The book depository is on a separate street from the clinic, and has several security
cameras. The employee and volunteer parking lot is down an unmarked alley, and the back door to the building has a coded lock for entry. At the front of the building the door remains open, but I used to be able to walk up the stairs to the business office, and now I have to be buzzed in.

Yet, when I think of the clinics around the country that have been driven out, turned into fortresses, destroyed -- I still know we are among the lucky ones.

Solidarity.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. PP is one of the outfits that we give to. We've been donating since about 1980.

Well worth it.

[Heidi]

12. Kick, kick, kick!