Anti-Abortion Wants Planned Parenthood Closed. Its Profits Doubled


It is amusing for people like me to read the rants of the religious right these days. It expected huge victories over Planned Parenthood, gay marriage and its other efforts to control the general population by putting religion into law. The anger and rants seem to be getting louder. The rant, of course, is written by a man. Unfortunately, the forced birth people themselves are now admitting Planned Parenthood's profits have doubled since the big push against abortion. 

It is exactly what many of us expected. When rights are taken away from a group, they rally. Money is one of the consistent variables that ramps up. Money flowed to anti-abortion groups when Roe was put into law. My guess is taking away rights from women will juice up women's rights politics like never before. I'm less certain about success in politics but we will see about that.

Money does not always translate into votes. But when the outcome of a social issue depends mostly on how many boots on the ground can be mobilized, the most money hires the most boots. That, to me, is what we can watch as the forced birth movement tries to stop abortions. It will take a lot of people spending a lot of time to circumvent the abortion restrictions. Right now there are people walking abortion pills across the border from Mexico. One would think much of the distribution in the U.S. will have to be by people driving the pills around by automobiles. We know the illegal drug trade has thrived for decades using this very system. I can recall several busts of people pulling U Haul trailers filled with marijuana.

Red faced protesters in front of clinics have closed no clinics. Certainly, laws and birth control have closed several but decades of protests did not close them.  

I've been giving money to Planned Parenthood for many years. I'm pleased it is on a solid financial footing and ready to fight for abortion rights for a long time to come.

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