Missing the point of Planned Parenthood

I live three blocks from the new Planned Parenthood clinic in Aurora and my blood pressure literally goes up every time I pass those protesters. I cannot understand how people will not look past the abortion factor and see what Planned Parenthood is all about. Their intention is to stop pregnancies, educate teens on how to stay safe and offer birth control. We cannot, as a society, stop people from having sex despite the fact they may or may not be ready for parenthood.

If you drive past downtown Aurora and see how poorly some people live, it is a shame there is not more help for those families who choose to have children and bring them up in poverty. Every night when I watch the news, I hear about murder, rape, child abuse, mothers killing their own children, the war in Iraq, on and on and on.

If their belief is against abortion, then come up with other solutions and stand up for those. Most pro-lifers do not believe in birth control, so what is the solution? They care so much before the child is conceived, but where are they after the child is born? Who fights for our children after? Not them.

I drove by the other day with my two sons and had to stop the car when one of the protesters had a huge sign of a dead, mangled baby on it saying "Choice." I told him to take that down because children did not need to see that, but his response was "Well, this is reality." He did not care, and then I had to explain to my sons why someone would hold up a sign like that. It was awful and totally unacceptable.

Now the city is trying to stop the clinic from opening and all it does is fuel the fire for the protesters because they believe they are winning. The way I look at it, all it does is take another day away from a scared teen that has nowhere to turn.

I read a quote that sums it all up: "Every time a hard Choice. Sometimes the best Choice. Always a women's Choice."

Jenny Sikora

Aurora