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Planned Parenthood’s sign of desperation

I know I’m not the only pro-lifer who glances at Planned Parenthood’s Facebook page now and then. In the last week or so, a noticeable pattern has emerged on the page: supporters complaining about unsolicited phone calls from the abortion giant. Not just unsolicited, but “pushy” and “rude” phone calls.

A Planned Parenthood representative always responds to the complaint with an apology and a suggestion to contact an affiliate or Planned Parenthood’s customer service. There are suggestions that these phone calls are a prank being pulled by pro-lifers in order to further tarnish Planned Parenthood’s reputation.

I want to make a note that the following posts were made on Planned Parenthood’s wall the same week that a large number of Planned Parenthood volunteers were panhandling in my home town. I actually had the privilege of talking to a young woman, about my age, whom I encountered while I was out. When she asked me if I supported Planned Parenthood, it launched a discussion of the abortion aspect of Planned Parenthood – much of which she wasn’t even aware of.

Abby Johnson, former director of Planned Parenthood in Bryan, Texas, told me that it is unusual for Planned Parenthood to send people to the streets to garner support and funding. This shouldn’t come as a surprise, though: in their latest annual report, Planned Parenthood reported that a whopping $487,000,000 (that’s 46% of their overall billion-dollar income) came from taxpayer dollars, a huge spike from the $360,000,000 they received in 2009. In the last year, millions of dollars have been defunded from the abortion chain.

Although I blurred the names of those who posted the following comments on Planned Parenthood’s Facebook page, I have provided links to the respective comments. I smell desperation from Planned Parenthood.

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  • Rebecca Downs

    Very interesting… 

  • Lauren B

    I donated $25 to PP once before becoming pro-life, and I had the same experience as those people above. They are very pushy! But, on the bright side, it became just one more factor in my decision to be pro-life :)

    • Rebecca Downs

      That’s so great that you became pro-life, Lauren. God bless! :) 

  • Sharon Rose

    I recall the same furor over Priests For Life aggressive and incessant fundraising tactics. 

    • http://stopthecap.ca Alex Perrier

      Yeah.  They keep asking for donations and they claim that ObamaCare will pass unless i “donate NOW!”  This is starting to annoy me and i delete all of PFL’s “please give us money!” messages.

      • http://twitter.com/MarauderTheSN Marauder

        That kind of reminds me of an old Onion headline that went something like, “Will You Please Donate a Dollar To Show That You Don’t Hate Crippled Children?”

  • Guest

    I can honestly say that , the American Heart Association, Thon, the Alzheimer’s Association, my college, the Special Olympics, and especially political candidates are all far more annoying and aggressive in their fundraising than Planned Parenthood, and we get calls from all of them. And those are just the first few that popped into my head. 

    I don’t like fundraising calls either, but singling out one non-profit for them is a little ridiculous. Everyone’s hurting for money right now.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michelle-M-Williams/1021964754 Michelle M. Williams

    I used to work at a call center for my university. We had to stick to to a “pledge ladder” and annoy alumni of our school. We had to stick to a script. I don’t think PP is “desperate”, it is just typical of fund raising organizations.

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