Slaying the giant

National | Stop Planned Parenthood (STOPP), a division of the Virginia-based American Life League, focuses its pro-life fight on the nation's leading abortionist. | Gene Edward Veith

Stop Planned Parenthood (STOPP), a division of the Virginia-based American Life League, focuses its pro-life fight on the nation's leading abortionist. Since 1985, STOPP has in its newsletter chronicled victories of parents and local pro-life activists who have closed clinics and prevented others from opening; booted Planned Parenthood from schools; and transformed the group's public funding stream into a dry well. Here's an overview of three recent battles:

Coronado, Calif. Teenwire.com, Planned Parenthood's website for adolescents, promotes abortion, homosexuality, and premarital sex, often with profanity and graphic descriptions of sex acts. The website also undermines parental and pastoral authority, telling teens that nobody except teens themselves—including parents and pastors—is qualified to make decisions about sex. In 2002, when John Bowen, a father in Coronado, showed some Teenwire pages to the local school board, the board promptly canceled Planned Parenthood presentations in the school's health classes. "What's important here is that there wasn't a person that I brought this information to who wasn't surprised," Mr. Bowen told San Diego News Notes, a pro-life publication. "One board member spoke up and said she was a pretty liberal person herself and that she was shocked by what she saw."

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December 06, 2003, Vol. 18, No. 47

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