If City Weekly sponsors/supports Planned Parenthood, then I’m presuming you support its mission.
If so, then you really should not post advertisements for PregnancyResource.net. Its sole purpose is to scare women away from getting abortions, skewing medical information and using language such as: “The doctor must first stretch open the cervix using metal rods”; “The doctor inserts a hard plastic tube into the uterus”; “The suction pulls the fetus’ body apart”; and “A number of women who have used the abortion pill have died due to sepsis (full body infection).” At least, they are no longer trying to say that abortions cause breast cancer.
However: Yeah, it’s a metal rod. And yeah, the plastic is “hard.” And of course s/he “must” stretch it open. But why paint the procedure as sinister and perverted unless your point is to scare people away?
Really, the imagery parallels that of rape—of an “innocent maiden” no less. You don’t have to be the bra-burning type of feminist to be offended by that.
And if abortion is so bad that you think people shouldn’t have it done, why not talk about the real issue: religion? If you force a teenager to continue her pregnancy, have you really saved her soul if her motivation for having the baby is fear and not religious fervor? Have you saved the “baby’s” soul? Point:
Does it have one? Is that a discussion the medical establishment has any authority in?
No one is forcing anyone to perform an abortion against his or her will. I insist, however, that if a medical institution is going to give any information at all, as an authority figure responsible to its patients, it is morally obligated to give all the information in a professional manner sensitive to the patient’s needs and leave the moral judgment to the patient. Pregnancy Resource centers and PregnancyResource. net do not do this.
Therefore—and especially since you are a sponsor of Planned Parenthood—I request that you remove their advertisements from your magazine. Or, below each advertisement, explicitly state that revenue from their advertisement will go to fund local Planned Parenthoods and advertisements for them, and include the phone number for Planned Parenthood.
Nicole Hendricks
Salt Lake City
Editor’s note: It is true that City Weekly is a Planned Parenthood sponsor. However, throughout our pages, you’ll find a diversity of views, some contradictory. We encourage a robust idea emporium to inform and educate readers.
Before you write an article about Planned Parenthood and the Pregnancy Resource Center, you should really do all your research instead of "assuming" how these two centers work, or what is said when being counseled by either of them. If you would like to read a wonderful article on these two centers, please read this weeks City Weekly article done by Mr. Dark(8/12/10). It is a truly great article, well written and he did ALL his research to try and bring light to both of these centers. Neither of these centers is about "religion", it is about the women and their choices that they have to make when they are sexually active and become pregnant.
killyerself: "i'm sick of censorship it must be banned."
Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off!
Yeah Sonny and you're a paragon of virtue. Your idea of a robuts idea forum is to supress anyone who doesn't agree with your point of view. It's fascists like you who give a lot of people, not of the dominant religion, a bad name in this state.
killyerself: What in the world are you talking about ?!? None of what you wrote makes a bit of sense. What it rings of is hatred and prejudice. How in the world do you know what a woman considering an abortion is going through and what that person's circumstances are. It's righteous fools like you that make a muddle of every single damn issue in this state.
I do not agree with you. i believe that if the person can not go through with the pregnancy due to mental issues or may not be able to survive then to go along with abortion. but if the issue is completly selfish in the fact that they don't want their body ruined screw them if they don't want the child its called adoption. why kill a child to satisfy the selfish people in the world. i feel that religion has nothing to do with any of this. so i say advertise what you want if your offended by it don't look at it that simple. i'm sick of censorship it must be banned. why make people ignorant with no choice? let people make their own choices!
Thank you