The Author Of “A Series Of Unfortunate Events” Just Donated $1 Million To Planned Parenthood

[eissa]

Source: BuzzFeed

American author Daniel Handler, popularly known by his pen name Lemony Snicket, tweeted recently that he and his wife, the illustrator Lisa Brown, have decided to donate $1 million to Planned Parenthood.

Read more: http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexisnedd/the-author-of-a-series-of-unfortunate-events-just-donated-on?utm_term=.smRrzrLGR#.qfAe2egBJ

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Operation Backfire appears to be in full swing!

[REP]

1. Heh. A series of unfortunate events indeed for those who oppose PP.

[gademocrat7]

2. K&R!

[Daemonaquila]

3. Good show!

[TubbersUK]

4. Recommended n/t

[AtomicKitten]

5. Great news. Thanks for posting it.

[appalachiablue]

6. K & R. Outstanding! Good on Daniel Handler & Lisa Brown. Great news, thanks.

[bvf]

7. K&R!

[yurbud]

8. Does the right ever say what they will replace PP with?

[eissa]

9. Abstinence

No sex = no need for birth control, abortions or STD screenings. And it's easy to do -- just ask Bristol.

[christx30]

11. Not to mention death from

cancer that's discovered too late to do anything about it.
Not that the GOP gives a crap, as long as they get political points from the rabid.

[NewJeffCT]

17. In the eyes of the GOP

the people that go to planned parenthood are mostly poor and/or minority women, so who cares if they die too soon, as they likely weren't voting Republican anyhow. (Yes, I know the reality is that a ton of middle class women use their services, too.)

[dorkzilla]

28. That was ME!

They caught an all-too-common but hardly spoken of virus (HPV) I’d gotten as a very young woman 30 years ago from a cheating boyfriend. I had YEARS of cryotherapy and quarterly pap smears (it came back 4 times) but if PLANNED PARENTHOOD hadn’t been there for a hand-to-mouth young woman, I surely would not be here today. I literally could not afford to go anywhere else.

FUCK the GOP for this shit. Fuck them a million fucking times.

[yurbud]

37. great testimonial. I hope you post it where righties can see

[Ilsa]

35. LOL. Great burn!

Truth bites, doesn't it?

[jeff47]

12. Suffering. (nt)

[Lordquinton]

32. The response I got was that there are plenty of hospitals

around that provide every other service but abortion.

[Jean Genie]

10. Replace P P?

What would the right replace Planned Parenthood with, you ask? Perhaps they'll start with mandated pregnancy (ie unprotected sex on demand), go on to arranged marriages, bride-burning, the stoning of non-virgins, wearing the ever-popular burka, and, of course, denying a drivers' license to anyone female.

[vlakitti]

18. Yay!

[0rganism]

23. sounds like a country we might have diplomatic relations with

especially if they were "an ally in the War On Terror"
even if they covertly funneled a bunch of money to actual terrorist organisations

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

25. You had me right up until the bride-burning

[TexasBushwhacker]

41. They want the money to go to faith based pregnancy

centers which don't provide abortions and often don't even provide contraceptives. They are pro-birth, not pro-life.

[yuiyoshida]

13. Take that Republican idiots!!

Lemony Snicket says UP YOURS!

[AuntPatsy]

14. Great news

[47of74]

15. K and Fucking R!

[cpompilo]

16. YEAH!!!

[Grassy Knoll]

19. Good, But This Is What The Cons Want....

Self Funding.

[Skittles]

21. it has always been both for PP

and should continue to be

[Skittles]

20. thanking Mr. Handler / Snicket and Ms. Brown

love these kind of gestures

[Sunlei]

22. We need to change & Federal gov gives grant$ directly to the charity.Not to the States to distribute

[ctsnowman]

24. lol Love it.

[randys1]

26. Was waiting for this. Gates Foundation should donate a billion, Zuckerberg should

as well, this would send a LOUD message to the bigot FUCKS

[TexasBushwhacker]

42. Actually Zuckerberg donated 18 million Facebook shares

of (now worth almost $1 Billion) to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. One of the groups the SCVF contributes to is Planned Parenthood.

Bill and Melinda Gates donate a lot to the International Planned Parenthood Federation.

[Walk away]

27. I donate yearly but made a special donation this week. nt

[locks]

29. Cecile Richards did a great job today

before the House Committee and the Dems defending Planned Parenthood were outstanding. The nation is fortunate to have good liberals who will give back some of the money they have made, but even more fortunate that a number of our elected representatives defend the funding of needed agencies like Planned Parenthood and knock down the outrageous lies of the right wing Repugs.

[SusanaMontana41]

34. Reprehensible, playing with women's lives like that.

That's evil. I don't know what else to call it.

[OldRedneck]

30. Maybe Cecile Richards should show . . .

Maybe Cecile Richards should show those dumbass Republicans who beat her up a chart that plots the dramatic increase in donations to Planned Parenthood - - - and the dramatic DECREASE in GOP approval ratings.

[Duckfan]

31. But they've proved time and time again that they.....

....don't give a rats ass about their approval ratings. A sick and twisted philosophy to operate. But that's the repuke party.

[SusanaMontana41]

33. Right on!

Thank you, Lisa and Daniel!

[Adrahil]

36. WTG Lemony!!!!! nt

[yurbud]

38. Attack on PP is a twofer for GOP: abortion AND take down progressive activist group like ACORN

Just as business has been attacking unions for decades both to get cheaper labor AND destroy political opposition, the right is going after any group that organizes the left politically and has a broad base and name recognition.

[Gloria]

39. PP is in my will ...the local Rocky Mountain area where they actually

do the real work....

Another worthy organization are the Zero Population growth people, who are working worldwide...

[rhett o rick]

40. Seems to me that only the progressive wing of DU thinks this is good news. Am I missing

something?