Abortion Group Targets Youth Rock Fans

I recently overheard a conversation between my teenage brother and my Mom which began like this: “Mom, can I go to the Vans Warped Tour on Saturday?” Horrified, I dug through my files, thinking Planned Parenthood. Not only did Planned Parenthood tum out for the Vans Warped Tour, they were also there for the Barenaked Ladies, Ani DiFranco, Lilith Fair, Santana, and at the Woodstock Festival — all told, reaching out to thousands and thousands of fans between the ages of 15–18 years old with propaganda and supplies.

It’s not bad enough that marijuana, promiscuity, and pornography mark rock concerts. Now, courtesy of Planned Parenthood, your kids can get high, and also get an adequate supply of contraceptives.

Planned Parenthood’s VOX: Voices for Planned Parenthood is just one aspect of their Responsible Choices Campaign, “a nationwide program that seeks to increase awareness of reproductive health and freedom, and to engage 18–30 year olds in the civic life of the nation. Through VOX, Planned Parenthood works with musical artists, and the music industry to help create a healthier world and to inspire young people to raise their pro-choice voices.”1

The occurrence of drugs and sex at rock concerts is nothing new. The sexual revolution of the 1960’s would forever make pop-culture and the music industry bedfellows. Today, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) looks to capitalize on this relationship — by making contraception easily accessible in an atmosphere that fosters irresponsibility, emphasizes pleasure, and preaches “choice.” In this way, PPFA continues during the summer months to propagandize the youth — who are subject to Planned Parenthood continued sex education during the school year — to push their contraceptive policy in the anti-family, angry feminist, anti-life environment of the rock concert.

“Planned Parenthood is once again conducting outreach, advocacy, and education at concert festivals around the nation!” the VOX web site reads. “Through our nationwide concert outreach program, Planned Parenthood reached thousands of young people with vital information about birth control, safer sex, making responsible choices, and getting involved.”2 In 1965, then national board chairman of PPFA, Donald Strauss, warned that PPFA could not escape the moral implications of widespread, easy to use contraceptives. The availability of contraceptives for all, which is their objective, is having a profound effect on the sexual attitudes and behavior of our time.3

How else does one explain that today’s teenagers view premarital sex as “less wrong” than their counterparts in 1929 through 1949?4

But at what cost does this inundation of the minds of America’s impressionable youth pay for this ‘change in social values?’ It’s a greater cost than PPFA may admit. The adoption of a relaxed attitude toward adolescent sexuality has led to the demise of the American family, a demise that has been achieved under “family planning” programs financed with tax money and sold to state and federal legislators and a “Pill-swallowing public as a means for insuring family stability!”5 Artificial birth control, whether pre- or post-conception, is thus the driving force for the demise of the family, an institution that predates recorded history.6

In 1910, when Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger began her social misadventures, America was a contraceptive desert where there were 948,000 marriages and 83,000 divorces and annulments [8.75%]. By 1976, with America well on the path to “reproductive freedom,” there were 2,178,000 marriages [figures include remarriages] and 1,092,000 divorces [50.1%]. For 1987 there were 2,477,000 marriages and 1,169,000 divorces [47.2%]. Can birth control account for all of the continuous increase in divorce and cohabitation rate since 1910? It’s difficult to say. But recall that Sanger claimed birth control would usher in an era of marital stability and a higher morality. Instead, the phenomenon of divorce has regularly occurred in other countries in proportion to the extent that birth control has gained acceptance.7 The chief catchphrase by which we are lured into this morass is the slogan “Every child a wanted child,” or “Children by choice, not chance.” In either case, sexual intercourse is “freed,” except in cases of “contraceptive failure.”8

Notice that when Planned Parenthood used the “wanted baby” phrase, that such babies have rights. Unwanted babies have no rights and are morally equivalent to disposable property. But under the wanted baby scheme, where do rights come from? From being wanted, of course. But who is it that does the “wanting” that results in the conferring of rights? Not the father, nor a couple seeking to adopt. No, it is the pregnant woman alone who gets to confer rights. Planned Parenthood could never use the phrase, “Every child a valuable child,” because that would implicitly recognize the intrinsic worth of the child irrespective of whether father, mother, etc., “wanted” the baby.9

The social policy of Planned Parenthood has always taken the same form. The organization sees certain children as a social disease or an epidemic, seeks to induce barrenness; opposes even a 24 hour abortion waiting period during which a woman could be counseled about adoption. Planned Parenthood facilitates and promotes disobedience to parents, fornication and temptation by giving birth control to teens without mandatory parental notice. It justifies the continued use of powerful anti-fertility drugs by millions of healthy women; its sex education policies proclaim heterosexuality and homosexuality as matters of “personal choice;” it claims that “contraception is liberation,” and that even temporary abstinence is either psychologically harmful or virtually impossible for most humans.10

As United Nations bureaucrats and lobbyists, and progressive NGO’s, press the UN to implement abortion and adolescent promiscuity as basic human rights worldwide. PPFA is working hard on American youth to ingrain in them this new way of life.

Michele Madasz is PRI’s Associate Program Coordinator.