(CNSNews.com) – Planned Parenthood’s New York City affiliate has posted an article telling visitors to its Web site how to successfully discuss abortion around the “holiday table.”
The article, “Talking Turkey: 8 Easy Steps for Discussing Reproductive Health and Justice at the Holiday Table,” also includes a quiz to help people prepare for “touchy questions about your politics over the dinner table.”
This claim about emergency contraception is in keeping with those who think that preventing a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus lining is not an abortion, including the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals.
On its Web site, the association states, “pregnancy begins when a pre-embryo completes implantation into the lining of the uterus” – a tenant also accepted by the Health and Human Services and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, according to ARHP.
But, according to the textbook “The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology (6th Ed.), “Human development is a continuous process that begins when an oocyte is fertilized by a sperm…’ The fertilized egg is known as a zygote, which ‘is the beginning of a new human being ….”
One question asks what one should say to “cousin Charlie” when he asks if abortion ends a life.
The “correct” answer is A – “Well Charlie, the decision about whether or not you’re ready to become a parent is a very important one, and that’s why I think everybody should have a chance to become a parent only when they’re ready.”
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the nation’s largest abortion provider, received more than $349 million in federal grants and contracts, according to its 2007-08 annual report (the latest data available).
According to a “fact sheet” published by the organization, Planned Parenthood Affiliate Health Centers performed 324,008 abortions in 2008.
Efforts by some Republican members of 112th Congress to defund the organization have failed thus far.
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