Don't be tricked into gift of 'health'

Planned Parenthood of Illinois is offering gift certificates, copying Planned Parenthood of Indiana. Their Web site promotion asks, "What could be more important than your health this holiday season?" Noting "it's becoming harder and harder to afford staying healthy," they suggest, "So think about giving a gift of health this year."

What Planned Parenthood has to do with health is unknown. Their promotion of casual sex leads to more unwanted pregnancies, more STDs, and more abortions.

Pregnancy is not a disease and contraception is not medicine. Contraception tricks the woman's body into acting pregnant to try preventing a pregnancy. Sounds real healthy to me.

And that is before you consider the negative psychological consequences of broken relationships and casual sex. Does that contribute to the rate of teen suicides?

Sexual health is achieved by practicing abstinence until marriage and fidelity and natural family planning within marriage.

Keep teenagers as far away from Planned Parenthood as possible if you want to help them stay healthy. Casual sex as promoted by Planned Parenthood is never healthy, so a Planned Parenthood gift certificate cannot be a "gift of health."

William Beckman

Executive Director

Illinois Right to Life Committee

Chicago