Why do Catholic groups protest Planned Parenthood?

Question

They don't even provide or refer abortions.

fr_chuck - They do not refer patients. A referral requires the PP office setting up an appointment with the abortion clinic.

Answer 1

It is not just the Catholic groups, there are many of us out there.
I am not Catholic.

Life is not ours to take. Jesus told us whatsover we do to the least of these, we do to HIm.

The Catholics have a support system (or they used to) to help place a baby into a loving family. There is no need to kill that child when there are many homes out there filled with lonliness for a child.

Every life is precious. God knows every one even before they are born.

Answer 2

Mostly it is because Planned Parenthood keeps abortion as an option for an unwanted pregnancy. They either have clinics that perform abortions or they can refer a woman to a clinic that does. I doubt is has very much to do with contraception but it might. It is true though that the official Catholic stance on contraception is that every sperm is sacred and you should not use any birth control to prevent the sperm from doing its job. I know a lot of Catholics in the US that use birth control. I think it's more to do with the abortion issue.

Answer 3

Please provide for yourself at least some semblance of understanding of Catholic Doctrine before you criticize Catholics for it. The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches:

2271 Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law:

You shall not kill the embryo by abortion and shall not cause the newborn to perish.

God, the Lord of life, has entrusted to men the noble mission of safeguarding life, and men must carry it out in a manner worthy of themselves. Life must be protected with the utmost care from the moment of conception: abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes.

2272 Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. "A person who procures a completed abortion incurs excommunication latae sententiae," "by the very commission of the offense," and subject to the conditions provided by Canon Law. The Church does not thereby intend to restrict the scope of mercy. Rather, she makes clear the gravity of the crime committed, the irreparable harm done to the innocent who is put to death, as well as to the parents and the whole of society.

2322 From its conception, the child has the right to life. Direct abortion, that is, abortion willed as an end or as a means, is a "criminal" practice (GS 27 § 3), gravely contrary to the moral law. The Church imposes the canonical penalty of excommunication for this crime against human life.

2274 Since it must be treated from conception as a person, the embryo must be defended in its integrity, cared for, and healed, as far as possible, like any other human being.

Prenatal diagnosis is morally licit, "if it respects the life and integrity of the embryo and the human fetus and is directed toward its safe guarding or healing as an individual. . . . It is gravely opposed to the moral law when this is done with the thought of possibly inducing an abortion, depending upon the results: a diagnosis must not be the equivalent of a death sentence."

Now do you understand?

Answer 4

Planned Parenthood does in fact refer to abortion providers and in some heath centers does preform abortions.
What Planned Parenthood prefers to do is provide information about sexual health and birth control services to people. Planned Parenthood is mostly about contraceptives. The abortion part is for the people who fail to plan. Who come too late.
Planned Parenthood also refers to adoption services when parents to be make that choice too, Check it out for yourself
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/index.htm
Catholic do not approve of any artificial contraception except for the rhythm method. Or as they sometimes call it Natural Family Planning. Condoms, Chemical methods of birth control are all out. Ask some current Catholic to explain this to you, it gives me a head ache. Then if you want to be snotty, ask that Catholic why Catholic families all over America and Europe have the same 2.1 children every other family has. It works that well huh?
It Italy the average birth rate is 1.7 children per woman. Not Even replacing themselves.
I'm off topic.
The problem is, there are two competing theories about how to lower the rate of abortions. I do not believe we will ever not have any abortions. One is to make it illegal, dangerous and expensive. The other is to make it unlikely by providing contraceptive services, and knowledge about contraceptives freely and openly, and by providing more support to parents.
Catholics should see that as far as preventing abortions, Planned Parenthood is trying to help.
Oh Jesus H. Christ on Rocket Powered Roller Skates. Margaret Sanger opened her birth control clinic on October 16, 1916, in Brooklyn, NY. The line of women who wanted services went down the block and around the corner. She opened the clinic after attening the difficult and bloody childbirth of a woman who already had too many children. When this woman ask the doctor if there was anything she could do to prevent more children the doctor laughed and said "Tell Jake to sleep on the roof."
Opponents of both abortion and evolution try to associate abortion, as it is practiced in America and Europe today, with abortion as it was practiced in Nazi Germany.

In Nazi Germany, however, abortion was not a legal personal choice. Healthy German women in Nazi Germany had a duty to have children, and were not allowed to have abortions by their own choice. Other women, however, could be forced to have an abortion if they were deemed inferior or unwanted for some reason.

The right to abortion and birth control today is very different from the abortion policy of the Nazis, where abortion decisions were made by the State.

Margaret Sanger, the legendary American women's rights advocate who founded Planned Parenthood, had this to say about a women's right to reproductive choice:

Eugenists imply or insist that a woman's first duty is to the state; we contend that her duty to herself is her first duty to the state. We maintain that a woman possessing an adequate knowledge of her reproductive functions is the best judge of the time and conditions under which her child should be brought into the world. We further maintain that it is her right, regardless of all other considerations, to determine whether she shall bear children or not, and how many children she shall bear if she chooses to become a mother.
- Margaret Sanger; The Birth Control Review, 1919

Answer 5

that's super which you probably did this. i'm no longer so specific regardless of if that's actual names that we are referred to as, extra so suggestions and ideas. to illustrate, monks are referred to as pedophiles, we worship Mary and the Pope, we at the instant are not Christians, we are cannibals, we pray to saints, cultists, satanists, and of course, the whore of Babylon. those rude, smug and infantile comments gets them no the place- so I fail to be certain the factor for why human beings call us those names. Even after answer after answer pointing out that we don't worship Mary, they nevertheless bypass on pointing out that we do, like they have some divine reason to have self assurance that. they're in basic terms misinformed- and that's by using us Catholics to set those questions promptly. Ever observe while a Protestant asks a query with regard to the Catholic church, many Catholics answer thorough and exact solutions, the perfect answer- however the Protestant nevertheless possibilities yet another Protestant answer because of the fact the final answer? i think of that's basic insecurities. all of us understand that none of those names or claims are genuine, and that i think that searching for the perfect solutions from fellow Catholics right here in R&S will purely make us enhanced. Protestants are lacking lots- they at the instant are not purely lacking the actual physique and Blood of Christ, they're lacking lots extra, God's genuine presence. ignore with regard to the assaults, because of the fact that's barely blatant lies.

Answer 6

It is against Catholic teaching to damn anyone to hell. Catholics accept all baptized Christians as brothers and sisters in the Lord, its right in the catechism under section 818, anyone can read it for themselves. I don't like this anti-Catholic propaganda that tells lies about Catholicism.

Planned Parenthood is powerful. It has the enthusiastic support of influential organizations and extensive connections inside the government. It invariably gets favorable coverage in the news media and each year it
receives large sums of money from taxes and community charities. Yet the public knows nothing about its history. This silence has a reason.

The philosophy of Planned Parenthood for first formed in Nazi Germany when the foundress, Margaret Sanger, sat with the Nazi social planners to find ways of cleaning out "the undesirables" of society.

Planned Parenthood is an enemy of mankind.

Theare in fact, the biggest abortion machine on the planet.

Answer 7

Catholics do not believe in any form of birth control except the rhythm method.

In the Bible when God said go forth a multiple they take that literally.

This form is very hard to practice because a woman's hormones and cycles are not down to a science.

However all Catholics do not believe this.

Answer 8

They believe sex should only be for procreation...period. Not for enjoyment, so they're against any and all kind of birth control, abortions, so forth.

Answer 9

Planned Parenthood is one of the larger groups that refer people for abortion. A pregnant women going into one of thier centers is as good as killing her baby.

Yes Christians of all faiths protest against this group.

Answer 10

Because they believe all things that interfere with conception or life is a sin.