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Washoe County Gives $190,000 to Planned Parenthood
Credit for this article goes to Don Nelson of Nevada LIFE.
Yesterday Washoe County gave Planned Parenthood Mar Monte in Reno another $190,000 dollars in taxpayer funding. Commissioner Bonnie Weber voted no.
This was the second grant to Planned Parenthood this year. The county previously gave Planned Parenthood $160,000 While other state and local governments are cutting funding to Planned Parenthood, Washoe County has given them $350,000 this year! $350,000!
Planned Parenthood survives and subverts family values, parental rights and goes about destroying the moral fabric of America in large part through the tax payers, whose values and families they undermine. In fiscal year 2005-2006 (p. 16) Planned Parenthood Federation took in over $300 million in tax payer funding in fiscal year 2005-2006 and reported a profit of $55 million. They performed 265,000 abortions (p.6)
The outcome of the meeting was bizarre. Other commissioners, especially Chairman Bob Larkin who blistered the Health Department reps, seemed on the verge of denying the grant to Planned Parenthood when the Washoe County DA attorney told Commissioners that they were REQUIRED by statute to “RUBBER STAMP” the un- elected Washoe County Health Department’s recommendation to give Planned Parenthood the money.
The program aims to reach “high risk” kids (11-18 year olds) through the CDC’s “Street Smart Program.” “By December 31, 2009, (p.7) 70 % of program participants who complete 6 out of 10 sessions will report increased knowledge of the risks associated with unprotected sexual activity.”
Planned Parenthood should not receive one cent of tax payer funding because the sexual crises we are facing are a result of their 40 years of failed sexual policies. They are the problem and cannot fix it. They oppose the two things that are reducing teen pregnancy and other negative teen indicators. Those are abstinence training and parental notification laws. They don’t need the money and taxpayer funds should not be given to organizations that form the backbone of the abortion industry. All funds are fungible and tax dollars given to Planned Parenthood will be used to lobby and litigate for their positions at taxpayer (your) expense.
See our testimony below for other reasons. We don’t care that it was federal money and not county money. Not one cent should go to Planned Parenthood except to file notice that they are leaving town.
What to do: if you are a Washoe County resident, please email the commissioners and tell them you oppose giving tax payer funds to Planned Parenthood. Ask them to explain their vote.
The commissioners have web based email forms. Click on these links to fill in the your message
Commissioner Bob Larkin
Commissioner David Humke
Commissioner Kity Jung
Commissioner Bonnie Weber
Commissioner Jim Galloway
Or send a message to the Commission’s General Email.
Our comments to the Commission on why Washoe County should not fund Planned Parenthood Mar Monte in Reno are below.
Don Nelson
Nevada LIFE
I am frustrated by the DA, but I think she was giving her opinion to the commission. As the DA she is the attorney for them and advises them. I do not hold her in contempt. I am upset by the law which I don’t understand. The big thing for me is that we are giving money to the very people who are undermining our society. Even though we lost, it was a foot in the door. Don’t be discouraged. We have a lot of hard work ahead of us, but this was the first time I can remember someone going to oppose this in this forum. We learned a lot. Note, a few commissioners were asking where the faith based applicants to this contract were. I said that it’s not in our mission, but we hadn’t heard about it. I also noted that it’s faulty to say there’s a difference between faith and evidence based programs. It’s not as if Christians don’t rely on the truth, research and etc and that abstinence isn’t scientific… it works. It’s not as if what we say is not objective. We are subjective people, but the subjective part is our judgments and values. It’s the same with Planned Parenthood and their nonsense about “medically accurate” information. What does that mean? It’s just a ruse to say you can’t do abstinence. They make value judgments too. Their judgment is that their way is better and they want their way to work. And to be honest, I sometimes wonder if their opinion that young people can’t abstain is a projection of their own failure to do so. That is, they couldn’t do it, so no one can. That doesn’t cut it with me. We’re humans, not animals. As Morgan Freeman said in Lean on Me, if you treat them like animals, they’ll act like animals. We have a superior idea/ideology at least in part because we have a higher vision for human beings than they do. Christ was a sinless human. He was God the Son, but he was also like us in everyway. He was more human than me because of his sinlessness. I’m a Baptist so I don’t think I’m not going to be that perfect man, but if I don’t aim at it and think I can make progress toward it, it won’t happen.
I had a neighbor. He was my youngest brother’s best friend for a while when they were growing up. My dad left when I was 11-I was the oldest and it was devastating. But I remember my mom always saying she expected our best, whatever that would be. She expected we could do more than we thought. But my brother’s best friend had a tough time reading, even in high school. I remember his dad saying one time, “I don’t expect much of anything out of him.” Well guess what, he didn’t reach his potential. Neither did his siblings. He would work occasional labor for my uncle. I used to be my uncle’s laborer and worked for our plastering company. It’s a good and honest living. Anyway, he was accused of stealing valium out of a home we were working on and he never really reached the potential we thought he had. My brother is the VP of something or other at the largest time share resort in the world… www.orangelake.com. He’s a total overachiever who hasn’t reached his best days. He was student body president two times, home coming king. All my brothers did very well. I know we don’t all have the same capacities. I’m not you. I’m not pastor Roger. But I can’t help but believe that my mother’s expectations of him had a lot to do with the difference between him and his best friend.
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Not only can you make progress towards being sinless, you can acheive a sinless life if you believe you can. Jesus told the woman in the village to “Get up and sin no more”.
Why did He tell her this? Certainly not to send her on a path of impossibility. He instructed her to crucify her flesh and turn away from it, BECAUSE it IS possible. He was the example set for all of us.
Through God ALL things are possible. We can can have that lifestyle if we turn to the Father and recognize that with His grace and unconditional love, we too can live as Jesus did.
Peace and love,
Raynod Vandamme
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