Raphael
June 29th 2008, 08:29 PM
http://www.albertmohler.com/blog_read.php?id=1177
"It is indeed a new look...a new branding, if you will." That's the explanation offered by Leslie Durgin, a senior vice president at Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains. She was speaking of Planned Parenthood's new "upscale" approach to marketing abortions and other "services" to wealthier suburban women.
This new strategy and marketing plan was described in chilling detail by reporter Stephanie Simon of The Wall Street Journal (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121417762585295459.html?mod=hps_us_pageone) [article available by subscription only]. "Flush with cash, Planned Parenthood affiliates nationwide are aggressively expanding their reach," she explains, "seeking to woo more affluent patients with a network of suburban clinics and huge new health centers that project a decidedly upscale image."
More:
The nonprofit, which traces its roots to 1916, has long focused on providing birth control, sexual-health care and abortions to teens and low-income women. While those groups still make up the majority of Planned Parenthood's patients, executives say they are "rebranding" their clinics to appeal to women of means -- a move that opens new avenues for boosting revenue and, they hope, political clout.
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This is about revenue and profit, market growth and competition. It is a horrifying glimpse into the cold hard reality of what stands behind the abortion movement in general and Planned Parenthood in particular -- the ideology of death and the love of money. Can we imagine a more lethal combination?
Planned Parenthood may soon be coming to a mall near you, but no matter how much they want to burnish their image and go "upscale," their business remains death on demand. The Culture of Death creeps on -- mile by mile, mall by mall.
"It is indeed a new look...a new branding, if you will." That's the explanation offered by Leslie Durgin, a senior vice president at Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains. She was speaking of Planned Parenthood's new "upscale" approach to marketing abortions and other "services" to wealthier suburban women.
This new strategy and marketing plan was described in chilling detail by reporter Stephanie Simon of The Wall Street Journal (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121417762585295459.html?mod=hps_us_pageone) [article available by subscription only]. "Flush with cash, Planned Parenthood affiliates nationwide are aggressively expanding their reach," she explains, "seeking to woo more affluent patients with a network of suburban clinics and huge new health centers that project a decidedly upscale image."
More:
The nonprofit, which traces its roots to 1916, has long focused on providing birth control, sexual-health care and abortions to teens and low-income women. While those groups still make up the majority of Planned Parenthood's patients, executives say they are "rebranding" their clinics to appeal to women of means -- a move that opens new avenues for boosting revenue and, they hope, political clout.
....
This is about revenue and profit, market growth and competition. It is a horrifying glimpse into the cold hard reality of what stands behind the abortion movement in general and Planned Parenthood in particular -- the ideology of death and the love of money. Can we imagine a more lethal combination?
Planned Parenthood may soon be coming to a mall near you, but no matter how much they want to burnish their image and go "upscale," their business remains death on demand. The Culture of Death creeps on -- mile by mile, mall by mall.