Editor:

Perhaps many of you have heard of Planned Parenthood’s latest clandestine move in Knoxville to insert itself into another minority neighborhood, which also happens to be close to the UT campus. They claim not to be planning to provide surgical abortions, but they will sell unsuspecting women the chemicals to kill their child in the womb.

Planned Parenthood is nothing more than a business that preys on the poor and misinformed. You don’t find these dungeons of death in more affluent communities. Their own statistics show that 45 percent of their abortion clientele are minorities.

PP not only targets the poor and the college-aged, but even our youth are preyed upon. Planned Parenthood does not view teenage sex as wrong. Just look at PP’s Web sites geared to our youth to get an understanding of how they attempt to undermine the parents’ role in providing a healthy, moral outlook concerning sex and marriage.

Planned Parenthood’s sex education programs are not about telling children how to avoid sex. They are, rather, designed to indoctrinate our children into what PP calls “responsible sexuality.” Their responsible sexuality only serves to increase their customer base among our teenagers.

PP goes even further in damaging our youth by purposefully concealing the acts of sexual predators so that they can eliminate (abort) evidence of any crime. You might recall the “sting” operation in Memphis last year, which provoked our state legislature to defund PP in Tennessee.

It is estimated that PP (a so-called nonprofit) receives at least $337 million in tax money from federal and state governments. They use this windfall to lobby for even more tax revenues, in particular, Obama’s health care reform plan.

In the wake of loss of life and the accompanying pain and suffering brought on by the earthquake in Haiti, Planned Parenthood issued a call for donations to its Haiti project, PROFAMIL. Like the current administration in Washington, PP will never let an emergency go to waste. Their ultimate goal is to remove the “excess” population so the resources might not be wasted on those they deem “unworthy.”

Another organization that shares these depopulation goals is UNICEF. I’ve seen their ads on TV seeking donations for Haiti. This UN organization (like the UN Population Fund which our current president wants to renew funding to), tries to undermine pro-life policies in every third world country where they have a presence.

I suggest that we consider carefully to whom we donate in the Haiti relief effort. Planned Parenthood is “reaching out” — to grab the donations that should be going to provide real help to these poor suffering souls and diverting them to its population control programs.

In conclusion, Planned Parenthood is not a benevolent organization trying to strengthen women’s rights. It is a cold, calculating group intent on spreading the humanist religion, luring our children into their web of premarital sex and unlimited abortions, reducing the population of minorities in particular and filling its coffers with the profits from sales of birth control devices.

Roger L. Hall, Wears Valley