Trafficking in innocent babies’ blood

The EDITOR: It is hardly surprising that Lynette Seebaran-Suite deliberately avoided all the issues, but took pen to paper to object to the figure given by Leela Ramdeen, even while admitting that they are paid by the PPFA. No one cares whether ASPIRE is paid US$10,000, $20,000 or $50,000 a month to do the work of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. What concerns most right-thinking Trinidadians who have been following the incursion into our society of this  dangerous lobby is the effect legalisation of abortion would have on our nation’s youth, our women and our families. It is true to say that the PPFA is immersed in abortion. Its facilities enthusiastically kill unborn babies and, where they don’t personally, they refer to others who will. They may well be call the “Father of Abortion.”

As reported in the National Right to Life News: PPFA’s 2002-2003 annual report (complete with a couple of babies on the cover and smiling babies sprinkled throughout the text) reminds us that PPFA continues to be the nation’s largest abortion chain, with 125 affiliates, 866 “health centres,” and “a presence in all 50 states” and the nation’s capital. This report tells us that 2002-2003 represented yet another year in which Planned Parenthood clinics performed a record number of abortions. PPFA takes in over three quarters of a billion dollars in revenue, a good portion coming from abortion. Twenty years  after  the legalisation of abortion in the USA, PPFA boasts of “a record number of abortions. “Yet ASPIRE claims that legalisation of abortion will “lower” the number of abortions performed in Trinidad and Tobago!

PPFA is proud of its part in aborting over 44 million babies in the USA in the past two decades. PPFA does not agonise over abortion, it frets that not enough abortions take place. PPFA traffics in the blood of innocent babies and the misery of desperate women. The quality of life for the poor and the oppressed will not be served by destroying their children. Just in case it is not aware — just as the African slave traders captured and sold their brothers for the baubles of the “white” slave masters — so too ASPIRE is willing to sell out our nation to its masters in the PPFA. And even if ASPIRE believes its own propaganda — that its intention is good for the women of Trinidad and Tobago — I can now say I truly understand the old saying that “the road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

MARIA ANNETTE DOPWELL
Port-of-Spain