Pro-life group chides Planned Parenthood for donating birth control kits to Haiti victims

VIRGINIA, USA, Jan 21, 2010—IN LINE with the tragic earthquake in Haiti, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) launched a campaign to provide what they call “emergency and basic health services” to victims in the country. But according to Life Decisions International  President Douglas Scott, “Planned Parenthood looks at emergency birth control the same way most people view food, water and shelter.”

“What the people of Haiti need is food, water, clothing, and shelter. They do not need anything that Planned Parenthood has to offer,” Scott said.
As stated in their website, IPPF is doling out, in addition to “essential basic and primary healthcare, specialist maternity and sexual and reproductive health services as well.” IPPF argued that an increased vulnerability of women to HIV infection and sexual exploitation often follows natural disasters and that “many women lose access to family planning services, exposing them to unwanted pregnancy, and, in cases of rape, access to emergency contraception and counseling.”

But Scott countered, “Planned Parenthood’s deadly network wants to provide ’sexual and reproductive health to people affected by the disaster. While there are many organizations offering essential healthcare to the people of Haiti, Planned Parenthood wants to be sure that this includes birth control and abortion.”

According to Scott, after the fall of the Romanian dictator in 1989, Planned Parenthood donated $22,000 to the country to buy abortion equipment and coordinated an airlift of 40,000 condoms. Following the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, the organization offered a free week of “reproductive health care” which Scott claims U.S. taxpayers helped underwrite. After the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Planned Parenthood allegedly raised money to provide “essential medication” and “bare necessities” which consisted of a few months supply of birth control pills and emergency birth control kits, says Scott.

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Cited from an original article from catholicnewsagency.com last 01/21/10