USSU garners national attention

TANNARA YELLAND
Associate News Editor

University of Saskatchewan students may soon be getting national publicity for their stance against Conservative Member of Parliament Brad Trost.

Trost, who represents the Saskatoon-Humboldt riding, recently began distributing a petition asking the federal government to stop funding the International Planned Parenthood Foundation. His main contention is that the IPPF offers abortion to women in developing countries.

After reading it, University of Saskatchewan Students’ Union vice-president external Chris Stoicheff was motivated to draw up a counter petition that the USSU then released.

USSU vice-president external affairs Chris Stoicheff “There are two roles the petition plays,” Stoicheff said. “One is to raise awareness in the campus community about this issue, which I think is very serious. The other goal was to get it read in the House of Commons.”

Having this petition read in the House of Commons will, Stoicheff feels, “show that students can play a role in shaping the decisions that the government makes.”

Stoicheff will see his second goal met soon — two MPs have confirmed that they will present the USSU’s petition to the House of Commons. Megan Leslie, a New Democratic Party MP representing Halifax, and Winnipeg’s south-centre Liberal MP Anita Neville have been in contact with Stoicheff about the petition.

Stoicheff says the fact that more than one political party is interested is in itself a victory.

“Two parties reading it out brings more credibility to the petition,” he said enthusiastically. “I’m just personally delighted about the interest from a number of political parties.”

The first MP he contacted was Neville; Stoicheff was impressed that the first person he was in touch with was interested.

When asked about the involvement of other student unions, Stoicheff responded that the U of S is the only university whose students have responded to Trost’s petition, though “other student unions have historically taken on the issues that the IPPF deals with.”

He also mentioned that he is proud of the USSU for being the only student union to deal with Trost’s petition.

Stoicheff and the rest of the USSU executive felt it necessary to voice their disagreement with Trost’s petition because the IPPF does extensive work in the developing world and Canada to promote safe sex and to prevent sex-related crimes.

“The IPPF does a number of things,” said Stoicheff, “with regard to gender equality, and the promotion of safe sex, particularly in developing nations. It ensures such things as genital mutilation don’t occur, and it also helps to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.”

The IPPF’s activities make it an organization that Stoicheff feels Canada needs to support. However, he is open to the idea of debating how much funding should be given, calling it a “fair argument.” Canada pledged $18 million to the IPPF in 2006.

The USSU did not try to contact any Conservative MPs to see if they were willing to read the petition because, Stoicheff said, it would be very unusual for them to present a petition made against one of their own caucus members.

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  • Jennifer Snell

    International Planned Parenthood is quite simply an organization that is robbing countries all over the world of its citizens, Canada included. The fact that Canadian tax dollars support this multi million dollar operation makes me ashamed to be a tax payer. For all university students who support the taking the lives of innocent babies you may wish to think about your future and who will be there to take care of your needs in every aspect of your life. More importantly,think hard and long of the harm done to expectant mothers when they destroy the life of their child. Mr.Stoicheff, I respectfully ask you to consider very carefully what you are actually opposing. I respect your life, please spend your time more profitably respecting the lives of all others.

  • Lorianne Earis

    I consider myself very much pro woman but I think the UN taking any position on abortion is way beyond its mandate. The UN should focus on basic medical care for women – like decent hospitals for safe childbirth. A simple fact: the vast majority of pregnancy related deaths for women around the world are due to inadequate medical care during childbirth – not due to unsafe abortions. Keep UN funding focused where it belongs – on the basic human needs – food water and basic medical care. That’s where our fellow women around the world need our support the most.

  • Natalie

    IPPF has an aggressive pro-abortion agenda that begins with promoting explicit and dangerous sexual behaviour among youth. It breaks down their family traditions, their cultural heritage, their mores and promotes sex at any age, with anyone for any reason. Oral, anal, hetero or homosexual sex is promoted and under the guise that sex is for pleasure, period. It gives youth a sense that there are no onsequences. OF course, when these young people end up pregnant and full of STD’s who is there to provide the abortions, the pills, profelactics…all at a cost. It’s a multi-million dollar industry with IPPF execs bringing home salaries that exceed 400,000 USD. Don’t kid yourselves – people prepared to kill for profit will stop at nothing.

  • Samantha

    Abortion should not be funded by our taxes. It is an invasive procedure unlike any other that terminates another living human being. It is immoral and unethical and should not be funded by the public’s money. If you want to kill your unborn child go to a clinic and pay for it yourself. I do not agree to paying for your death ticket.

  • James Fotheringham

    Forcing Canadians to pay for abortions with their tax dollars is a violation of OUR human rights. Our right to practice our religion. Abortion is against the Commandment of God … “Thou Shalt Not Kill”. By forcing us to pay the government is forcing us to be aiders and abetters in the MOST serious crime against God and mankind and totally ignoring our Human Rights and the most basic human right or our brothers and sisters in the womb … the right to life itself … after which all other human rights are without substance.

  • http://www.prolifekelowna.com Marlon

    The fact that Canada helps to fund the eugenicist, population controlling IPPF is disturbing to say the least. Defund this anti-human organization now!

  • http://www.canadasilentnomore.com Denise Mountenay

    As a former abortion patient and on behalf of thousands of women hurt and damaged by legal abortion we totally oppose planned barrenhood…many of my friends aborted the only baby they could ever have. Abortion has caused most of us much GRIEF, remorse, regret, depression, anxiety disorders, fertility problems, hysterectomies, higher risk of Breast Cancer, pre-term births etc…Most of us were never informed about ALL of these risks, most of us were lied to about fetal development and we can never bring back those children.

    Abortion is the greatest crime against humanity in our generation. It is really child sacrifice and should be unthinkable. Choices should take place on who to have sex with, when, where and why…one conception takes place there is a unique person with a beating heart only 3 weeks after conception.

    Abortion is always the wrong choice. Women are suffering after abortion, as life is the natural choice. Many studies prove abortion damages women. afterabortion.org and canadasilentnomore.com, abortionbreastcancer.com

    Abortion is NOT health care, but a violent form of birth control…doctors should SAVE LIVES, not dismember and take innocent lives!It is not a black and white issue, it is blood red.

  • Andrew

    I find it ironic how people support Planned Parenthood but at the same time condemn Hilter for his actions, Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood subcribed to the same school of thought as the Nazi’s towards Eugenics.

    “Nazism and Planned Parenthood
    (Reprinted from the Francisan Friars of the Immaculate brochure)

    Adolf Hitler – Dictator of Nazi Germany “The demand that defective people be prevented from propagating equally defective offspring. . . represents the most humane act of mankind.” Mein Kampf, vol. 1, ch. 10

    Margaret Sanger – Founder of Planned Parenthood “. . .we prefer the policy of immediate sterilizarion, of making sure that parenthood is ‘ absolutely prohibed ‘ to the feeble-minded.” The Pivot of Civilization, p102

    Most people today think that Planned Parenthood and Nazi Germany have little in common. Their histories show otherwise. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, subscribe to a Hitlerian philosophy of Eugenics – the science of improving “racial health” by socially engineering human reproduction. Both Hitler and the founders of Planned Parenthood advocate birth control, sterilization, and segregation in concentration camps for the “unfit.”

    http://www.happinessonline.org/MoralDrift/p15.htm

  • Linda Lucyk

    It is incredible that the only solution some politicians and leaders of student unions can come up with is ‘abortion’, as if it solves the problem of an unexpected pregnancy. I would expect more of someone in public serve or in the academic world. Can we not start to propose some more thoughtful solutions to young women instead of to kill her baby? The inconvenient truth is that too many people in our society are complicit in murder. And if we vote for pro-abortion politicians, we are complicit in murder. So thankyou finally to our Conservative MP for bringing back HOPE!

  • Ernie Wesolowski

    I am a retiree now, but got my university education at the good old UofS in Saskatoon. I am saddened that the Student’s Union is taking an anti-life position which results in killing our young people before they are even born! And this kind of thinking is somehow supposed to give us hope for our future!? It is simply ridiculous and pathetic.

  • Tracey

    The United Nations should be giving a hand up, food and medical supplies to the developing nations. Not killing their children. I’ve gone through the pain of abortion. When you kill your own child, you kill yourself.

  • Ron

    Where would your freedom to express your tainted abortion views be had your mother decided to ABORT YOU????

  • Bill Judt

    There are many better places that government funding can go than to IPPF.

    Funding needs to be directed to those organizations that promote a pro-active approach to unwanted pregnancy, addressing the real roots of the abortion mentality – those organizations that promote and teach the fundamental value of life from conception onward.

    Just as there are groups which offer assistance and support to those facing an unwanted pregnancy without resorting to abortion, there are other groups that offer alternatives to the destructive and dehumanizing extra-marital sex culture that permeates our society, where the conceived child is seen as a liability rather than a responsibility and a blessing. Groups that promote chastity education are a good example. Groups that promote the value and sacredness of the family are another. Groups that promote marriage as a covenant relationship between one man and one woman are yet another example.

    Turn the funding away from IPPF and towards these other groups if you want to see real constructive change in our society.

  • Dave Sidloski

    To sponsor IPP in developing nations is a destructive choice on Canada’s part when other agencies that really help people in the third world so urgently need funding.

  • Jim Christian

    Young Mr. Stoicheff should apply the skills of a diligent student to learn more about the organisation that calls itself “Planned Parenthood”. He would soon learn that it is the largest promoter and provider of abortion in the world. It was founded by eugenisist Margaret Sanger… and even today locates its clinics near its target “clientelle”. Why is it that young university students so easily go running off after the vapourous cloud of subterfuge distributed by the Uber Left? I think they’ve been in the inner city too long, and have never learned what the world is really all about.

  • Naomi Fehr

    Did anyone ever consider that pregnant women WANT their babies? Unplanned pregnancy, rape, incest and any other atrocity resulting in pregnancy does not automatically mean the mother does not want the baby! Women in a crisis pregnancy are desperate and often are LIED TO about both what a ‘foetus’ is and what abortion will do to their minds AND bodies. When groups like Planned Parenthood are funded by complacent countries like Canada, women worldwide are at risk!

  • Charles Vince

    When will this government wake up and say, ENOUGH, 3 million babies killed in the womb over 40 years has to stop. Why are our millions of our tax dollars being wasted on unnecessary abortion procedures. This should be paid for by the Mother, who tragiclly elects to have her own child killed in her womb. Now the government want to continue funding, again at the taxpayers expence, an agency that kills millions of babies worldwide. When will the madness stop.? God help them on Judgement day.

  • Valerie Wadephul

    IPPF should not be funded by any government monies. Their promotion of any and all sexual behaviour, no matter how bizarre, just for pleasure to our young people has resulted in many profits for their organization. Sex in all cases is for reproduction of the species, be it animal or plant. The fact that human sexuality is accompanied with physical pleasure should not be exploited but revered in the confines of a proper marriage. Teens should be taught to respect their sexuality and avoid the pitfalls of promiscuity and the resulting pain of decisions hastily made with often brutal consequences. Sexuality properly lived results in great joy and happiness that goes FAR BEYOND the momentary happiness of the immediate gratification of basic urges.

    The abortion factor of IPPF, ( who I am sure used donor’s dollars to “re-brand” their name to throw people off their agenda) is abhorrent when one researches the harm done through the continued existence and functioning of IPPF’s policies on abortion.

    The U of S as an institute of learning should encourage its students to research, in depth, and fully inform themselves of the WHOLE picture of the abortion issue before they go off ‘half-cocked’ on an issue they know far too little about.

  • http://www.socialconservatives.ca Ted Hewlett

    The U of S Students’ union no doubt purports to represent all the students in the university, and –I expect– like other student unions, receives money taken from student dues without the students being able to prevent that money being misused. Unfortunately the misuse of student money by such unions is countenanced by governments.

    Chris Stoichoff should indeed look into the background and practices of Planned Parenthood. Then if he still wants to support it, do so on his own, not in the name of all the U of S students.

  • Peter Hoogendam

    Read Psalm 139 and you will read that God Almighty is in charge of life and death.
    You can act contrary to that, your judgment will be decleared when to face the Lord at your own death time. Peter.

  • D. Hogg

    Mr. Stoicheff and the rest of the USSU executive would do well if they acquainted themselves with the medical issues associated with promiscuous sex. Condoms or not, there is no such thing as promiscuous “safe sex”. Facts are facts, notwithstanding their view “because the IPPF does extensive work in the developing world and Canada to promote safe sex and to prevent sex-related crimes.

    The IPPF does a number of things,” said Stoicheff, “with regard to gender equality, and the promotion of safe sex, particularly in developing nations. It ensures such things as genital mutilation don’t occur, and it also helps to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.”

    Anyone who knows any thing about Africa, for example, would know IPPF have been ineffective in preventing HIV/AIDS ttransmission.

    Mr. Stoicheff, and the rest of the USSU executive, her is a challenge: find me any country in Africa where IPPF has been able to reduce HIV/AIDS infection rates.

    Then look at Ugand’s ABC program.

    Are you up for the challenge?

  • D. Hogg

    Mr. Stoicheff and the rest of the USSU executive would do well if they acquainted themselves with the medical issues associated with promiscuous sex. Condoms or not, there is no such thing as promiscuous “safe sex”. Facts are facts, notwithstanding their view “because the IPPF does extensive work in the developing world and Canada to promote safe sex and to prevent sex-related crimes.

    The IPPF does a number of things,” said Stoicheff, “with regard to gender equality, and the promotion of safe sex, particularly in developing nations. It ensures such things as genital mutilation don’t occur, and it also helps to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.”

    Anyone who knows any thing about Africa, for example, would know IPPF have been ineffective in preventing HIV/AIDS ttransmission.

    Mr. Stoicheff, and the rest of the USSU executive, her is a challenge: find me any country in Africa where IPPF has been able to reduce HIV/AIDS infection rates.

    Then look at Ugand’s ABC program.

    Are you up for the challenge?

  • Tracey

    Mr. Stoicheff you should also know that many of these abortions are unwanted abortions, and women are pressured to have them against their choice. It happens all the time.

  • Dr. Paul V. Adams

    Dear sirs,
    Please ensure that money is not being forwarded to organizations which support induced abortions in financially dependent countries.

  • Nadia Trafananko

    Planned Parenthood’s international abortion agenda is a masked Hitler’s ugenics program. Poor women are simply not regarded as mothers fit to raise children. Our society has an elite attitude towards these women and uses abortion to say:”we are better than you and our children not yours deserve to live.” How arrogant of us!

  • Dr. Paul V. Adams

    Dear sirs. Please ensure that money is not being provided for the promotion of induced abortion in financially dependent countries.

  • Ken Pachi

    How dare Mr. Stoicheff pretend to represent the interests of students at the UofS with this petition.

    The Students Union should aim to ensure the academic success of students in University, not involve itself in unrelated, divided issue on campus.

    Where are Stoicheff’s initiatives on government funding for the UofS to keep tuition affordable, or lobbying efforts for more childcare spaces? Instead he’s actively lobbying for something unrelated to student success, and that students are ultimately divided on anyways.

  • Signe

    Abortion was used to exterminate Jews before birth and it was encouraged by the Nazis.

    “Planned Parenthood” should realize they’re doing the same.

  • Greg

    Women got abortions long before they were done in more humane ways. And all this Nazi talk doesn’t help anything. It just makes you guys seem crazy.

  • Tannara

    Margaret Sanger died in 1966; throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries eugenics was considered a credible science, and, regrettably, many of the world’s leading thinkers subscribed to it.
    The IPPF absolutely does not support any sort of mass abortion program: it offers all available options to people who are pregnant and looking for help. Abortion is one of many options. Condoms and other prophylactics are important for stopping the spread of STIs and HIV/AIDS; and no, the IPPF has not completely stopped these diseases. That is a completely implausible goal to set for an organization, and one they are doomed to fail at.

  • Jennifer Q.

    Nobody stands in the corner of IPPF offices holding a scalpel and running after poor women, you crazy fucks.
    The IPPF offers abortion as an option because they are willing, apparently unlike you stupid assfucks, to face the fact that some women get into situations they can’t handle and sometimes that means they need to have abortions. I sincerely doubt anybody at the IPPF actually thinks abortion is good, or something to encourage; it is a last resort, an unfortunately necessary evil in our assbackwards messed-up world.
    Fuck you guys and your crazy, dangerous fucking ideas. You distract people from important issues because your ideas are so dangerous that rational people can’t take the chance of ignoring you.

  • Brett S.

    Wow. Just wow. Seriously. Hitler?

    How many of you crazies are actually students and how many of you were directed here by some anti-abortion forum?

    Don’t you have somewhere else you could be, like volunteering to actually help those in the third world you are misappropriating for your cause?

  • Jennifer

    “Abortion is murder in the womb…A child is a gift of God” Mother Teresa

  • Brennan F.

    I remember reading in a chain e-mail something about IPPF being directed by a malevolent supercomputer possessed by Hitler’s ghost. Shame on you, Mr.Stoicheff, for supporting such an abomination with my tax dollars!

  • Leah

    As a U of S student it is disapointing that our university newspaper does not have the courage to stand up for what will actually help women and future generations in Canada. Planned Parenthood promotes themselves as offering women “options” – but in truth, they will just help abort your baby. True “help” for a pregnant women would include financial, emotional, and material assistance for her child. Why not implement constructive programs to support the pregnancy and birth experience, instead of just terminating it? Why not promote adoption as a viable option? The amount of funding that goes to Planned Parenthood as “women’s rights” should be reallocated to support “human rights” at every age – providing a balanced support for all options to women.

  • Craig

    I just want to say thanks to my mom for deciding to give me life!

  • Colleen

    When an abortion is performed on a woman, she becomes subject to many physical complications. Blood loss during the procedure causes diversion of blood flow to various organs and can result in shock. When the canal of the cervix is dilated, the insides of the uterus, fallopian tubes, and the abdominal cavity are exposed to invasion by bacteria. Abdominal infection can cause peritonitis and abscess formation. Severe hemorrhage often follows an abortion. Instruments can perforate the uterus causing injury, infection, and bleeding to internal organs.
    Not only do these women bear physical side effects, but they also suffer many emotional side effects. Among these are depression, long-term grief reactions, anger, sexual dysfunction, guilt, flashbacks, memory repression, suicidal ideas, and difficulty keeping close relationships.
    I am against abortion because it ends the innocent life of a child and because it harms women both physically and mentally.

  • Suzanne

    The legalization of abortion 40 years ago has resulted in the deaths of over three million Canadians whom God provided to generate taxes to help support the handicapped, people suffering from serious illness, and seniors (whose numbers are increasing dramatically in comparison to young people).

    Wake up and do something Canada before we get deeper in this culture of death.

  • http://www.cutethingsfallingasleep.org Brutus

    1) The USSU does not seem to be contributing student funds to this, beyond the cost of the paper the petition is signed on and the phone call made to Ottawa. Thus, almost no student money is being spent on this. It doesn’t say “USSU throws entire budget behind IPPF!!” nor does it even say “USSU to donate $1000 to IPPF”. There is no student money being “wasted” on the IPPF.

    2) You criticize Mr. Stoicheff and the rest of the USSU Executive – who are student politicians – for supporting an issue that is of the utmost importance to many students. Why? Because it is not in the interest of all students, you say. Well I ask you this: what one issue exists around which every last student has formed a consensus? None. There will always be some who disagree with an issue. And in the absence of a consensus, decisions must be made. Thus is politics.

    3) Many of the criticisms on here bring in the fact that ‘god’ doesn’t want people to have abortions. He said so in the bible. You are followers of the bible, and thus feel that your tax dollars should not be supporting the IPPF (which does a lot more than just abortions). However, I would fall under the category of agnostic. So I do not want my tax dollars going to catholic schools, fair? In fact, I do not have any children who are in school, so I do not want my tax dollars going to schools at all. Furthermore, I work out regularly, I eat properly, I do not engage in coitus with hookers, and I do not use heavy drugs. As a result, I have never had to go to the hospital. So I do not want my tax dollars going to the hospitals, either. Fair?

    Moreover, I doubt all of you are prophets. Hence, you cannot claim to be legitimately speaking on behalf of your god. So why don’t you do what you do and go pray to your god that he might smite Mr. Stoicheff and the rest of the USSU Executive with one of his omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient lightning beams? Or maybe you could simply turn the other cheek? Either way, you should do something more productive than posting these hateful, theologian messages on the Sheaf’s message board so that I don’t have to read them and feel that I need to respond in order to show that there is some decency and reason in the world.

    Science bless you.

  • Angie

    Brutus, you pompously claim ” In fact, I do not have any children who are in school, so I do not want my tax dollars going to schools at all.”

    Who do you think put you through your school years if not “tax dollars”? But then in turn you don’t want to contribute… just take?

  • Jesus Christ

    Religious fanaticism is a crime in itself.

  • Keith Folkersen

    I think the underlying thing that most people don’t realize is that through cutting funding of your tax dollars to a program like this you will be passing judgment on the decisions others are allowed to make. I am fine if you worship who you want where you want whenever you want, don’t tell me what I can and can’t do. There are many examples of how these programs from planned parenthood help people and save lives, taking a stand on abortion does not mean that you should remove Planned Parenthood’s funding, if you want to try and change it’s role, fine, go ahead, make your voices heard, it’s supposedly a free country. However when you start making a fuss and saying things are worse than Hitler and bringing Nazi comparisons into this you devolve the argument into something that is so immature and inarticulate that it doesn’t belong anywhere outside of the intellectually devoid spaces of the internet where anonymity and lack of control breed hate and misinformation (something our world would be better off without). Through doing these idiotic comparisons you reveal that you are passing judgment on how other people should live there lives which is at the heart of this debate. I will say this once, “do not tell me how to live my fucking life or I will attack everything you built your little house of sand you call a life on,” ok? I believe that it is a woman’s choice and not being a woman I don’t have a leg to stand on here in this argument as I will never have to make this decision myself.
    So coles notes:
    1) don’t devolve your argument into childish reactionary name-calling or people will think you are a moron and that your cause is stupid.
    2) you can pry my freedoms from my cold dead hands
    3) if you want to lobby government try intelligent argument, if your cause can not stand up to intelligent argument your cause is stupid and you are stupid, give it up.
    4) believe what you want and say what you want but don’t tell me what I can and can’t do unless you can argue it in a civil and intelligent manner.
    5) if you disagree talk to Brad Trost I’m sure he’ll listen to you, you probably voted for him, that is the acceptable way of dealing with this leave your stupid off of the internet where I have to read it, get upset, and tell you too stop being stupid.

    Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
    ~Abraham Lincoln

    If the Sheaf wants to print this in their letters section go ahead, these people need to grow up.

  • Keith Folkersen

    ps Angie you’re missing the point Brutus is trying to make which is that we all pay for many government services that we do not use or support, it’s how our government works. He is trying to say that although you do not support paying for Planned Parenthood as you do not like or use it, he also does not use the schools or hospitals but pays for them. Other people believe in this service, bitch all you want, tell other people not to do it but there are supporters for a woman’s right to choose and as long as they are here abortions will happen. Outlawing abortions and removing all funding for them will just drive them underground which would be horrible and unhealthy. But feel free to bitch about them just do it without the childish name calling.

  • Angie

    Keith, you say “I believe that it is a woman’s choice and not being a woman I don’t have a leg to stand on here in this argument as I will never have to make this decision myself.”

    Therin lies the problem. Often it is men who are making these decisions for women and pushing women into something they really don’t want to do. I know, it happened to me.

    At the time of the abortion in June, 2003, 6 years ago, (my son would be 5 now) abortion headlines were on the news because it was some anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, I was praying that by some miracle they would outlaw abortion thus taking the decision out of my hands (the father’s in actuality) but that was not to be.

    Now I just try to live with “My” decision. When I went for counselling the psychiatrist told me point blank I had killed my child and prescribed anti-depressant’s. They don’t work.

  • Angie

    Dr. Martin Luther King said; “Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrict the heartless.”

  • Cody

    Fundies say the darndest things. i am seriously annoyed that i had to read all this religiously motivated drivel.

    There is little doubt that the IPPF has in fact prevented the transmition of AIDS simply by providing condoms. The catholic church has promoted a failed policy of “dont have sex before your married” and has done very little to stop people from having sex anyway. EPIC FAIL

    sure the bible says not to kill but i have a tapeworm growing in my lower intestine. its a life growing inside me. but in the long run it will only damage my own. so abort that parasite and live a life without fear of reprisal from God. morality is subjective, deal with it.

  • Cindy Smith

    Please don’t call an unborn child “that parasite” Cody; remember that’s how you started out.

    While I was expecting my daughter my doctor referred to an unborn child as “a parasite”.
    I immediately changed “doctors” and since then I’ve heard of many women who’s babies died while he was delivering them.

    Coincidence…. I think not.

  • Patrick

    People will be having abortions whether you like it or agree with it or not. What is important is that women are doing it safely and not in a back ally with a god damned coat hanger. Funding a program like this is a health and reproductive rights issue. People all over the world, especially in developing countries are in dire need of actual, informed, education about sex and reproduction.

    Plenty of faith based organizations taking part in this field are actually promoting abstinence until marriage, in Africa! Cultural ignorance directly effecting the spread of AIDS. Programs such as the IPPF, however are taking a better approach. (Although plenty of faith based organizations in Africa also do a great deal of awesome humanitarian work, for this I give credit.)

    The fact that some people on this message board can come to conclusions that represent Chris Stoicheff or any other supporter of funding the IPPF as having a lesser value of life is way off base. Chris and those that agree with him, (those that aren’t highjacking the poll connected to this article) support maintaining funding, and opposing Brad Trost because it is the right thing to do.

    Dear “pro-lifers”
    What is imperative to understand, is that “not agreeing with abortions” shouldn’t lead anyone with such a high value of life to support pulling funding from the IPPF. You’ve been misguided by Mr. Trost and other interest groups. You have demonstrated through the poll on this site that you have a great deal of power with your votes, and I suggest you use those votes more wisely, not as a knee-jerk reaction. (Because you know who liked knee-jerk reactions? Hitler. And the Nazis. and Stalin. and Mao. And Darth Vader. and Dr. Claw. and any other evil vilian I can mention to scare you and be melodramatic with through mentioning. kidding.)

  • Peter

    Planned Parenthood advocates and promotes the murder of unborn Canadian citizens; they don’t need to be imposing their culture of death on other countries. I will never support that.

  • Cindy Smith

    Not only does Planned Parenthood promote the murder of unborn children, they’re getting filthy rich doing it.

  • Lianna

    When I told my boyfriend I was pregnant he said, “Don’t get to attached to it, you’re not keeping it”, before he sent me for an abortion. Sick bastard. For me it’s polarized me from the opposite sex and I’ll never trust a man again.

  • http://N/A Cliff

    As Science and technology now show that life begins at conception, and research verifies the devastating effects of abortion on women, and men, your arguments about it being only faith based groups opposing abortion holds no water.

    You can attempt to nullify religion, but you cannot nullify science, because when you do you lose all credibility.

    Also, name calling does you no good either, because it shows your lack of intelligence and that you are incapable of debate and understanding how democracy works.

    As Brutus said, “Science Bless you”, but make sure you respect science.

  • Patrick

    The name calling was a reference to people on this post earlier… and done in sarcasm… obviously I don’t think anyone commenting is akin Hitler, nor Mr. Claw… from Inspector Gadget. But I did read comments mentioning an executive being akin to Hitler, and that’s a pointless, ignorant thing to say.

    My point is we are looking at this the wrong way, the truth is abortions happen. No one is “for” aborting pregnancies, so your argument as to whether or not they are “bad” is a moot point. Make this an issue of whether or not you support promoting safe sex, and safe abortions, because they both will happen regularly, with or without funding to courageous groups such as the IPPF. If you pull funding from this group men won’t stop pressuring women abusively, AIDS won’t stop spreading from unprotected sex, and people will not stop aborting pregnancies.

    Finally, saying that the IPPF supports the, “…murder of unborn children, they’re getting filthy rich doing it.” Is entirely misguided and serves to misinform people looking to be truly educated on this very complicated issue.

  • http://N/A Cliff

    IPPF is getting rich by murdering unborn babies. It is not a moot point that abortion is bad, it is a reality.

    See:http://liveaction.org/index.php/projects/rosaacuna/104

  • joseph

    Since when did killing and massacre of innocent babies become something that anyone and I mean anyone wants to happen. Even to one innocent baby.
    And for those still on the fence, why don’t you go and see what a so called choice abortion (killing) is really like. After all it’s the mother’s choice to kill, isn’t it?

  • The Sheaf

    Now that everyone has vented their spleens, further comments will be closed. Thank you for the lively discussion.