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Defends motive of Planned Parenthood

Web posted February 17, 2000

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Editor, The Chronicle

A recent letter questioned the motive of Planned Parenthood. The group's motive is as implied in the name, ``planned parenthood,'' or more properly ``every child a wanted child'' since many unplanned children are very much wanted. However, I suspect that all unwanted children are also unplanned and that these unplanned children are much more likely to be abused and abandoned and to live in poverty.

It would be nice if we always had the choice between good and evil, but the world doesn't work that way. So the choice is between having an unwanted child and an abortion. Those of us supporting the goals of Planned Parenthood reluctantly favor abortions. The so-called right-to-lifers and the picketers and bombers of clinics want others to choose having unwanted children over abortions.

Further they believe that their interpretation of Christian teachings is the only one. But most of the supporters of Planned Parenthood are also Christians who are equally entitled to their interpretation and thus respect the rights of others to believe as they choose and do not picket and bomb the abortion counseling centers.

If the goal of ``every child a wanted child'' could be achieved, no one would be happier to cease doing abortions than Planned Parenthood; then it could devote full time to its main objective.

Don Hostetler, North Augusta