Someday, somehow, the leadership of Planned Parenthood will have to answer for their callous disregard of the sanctity of human life. In the meantime, I am relieved that the Bryan abortion facility has gone out of business.
Planned Parenthood’s mission, on paper, is to give women quality and affordable health care and to protect women’s rights. In reality, their mission is to increase their abortion numbers and, in turn, increase their revenue.
I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There’s very little dignity in parenthood. It’s a great leveller.
Planned Parenthood is not the front door of women’s health. Not here in the 6th District, not in the state of Georgia, and not around the country.
There was one family drama on television when we took out ‘The Fosters’ – ‘Parenthood’. Everybody thought it sounded like a great show, but nobody thought there was a home for it.
I owe thanks to a thoughtful, sophisticated readership hungry for challenging subject matter, for honest portrayals of parenthood, and for fiction whose meaning is neither obvious nor morally pat.
Anything that opens you up emotionally is going to impact your acting. Parenthood, becoming a mom, certainly does that.
You can’t go into parenthood as a battle wearing armour. It doesn’t work that way.
Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions.
Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.
I think parenthood does change your priorities quite drastically in an incredibly good way – most of the time.
I wrote in my book, ‘unPlanned,’ about a church that kicked me out when they found out that I worked for Planned Parenthood. I often get questioned about that, whether I still think they made the wrong decision. My answer is a resounding ‘Yes.’
I don’t think anything can prepare you for parenthood.
Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.
This tension between ambition and parenthood, that’s not a reckoning that many men face. There are plenty of men who say, ‘Oh, I need to be there for my kids, and I can’t do x or y professionally,’ but for the most part, that’s a struggle that belongs to women in society.
The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime.
No secret that for some years – long before my time – Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.
When we talk about more access to birth control, a lot of times that means more funding for Planned Parenthood, and we know that’s a touchy subject, so I certainly see that perspective and agree with a lot of conservatives on it.
When I was 16 and I wanted information about birth control, Planned Parenthood was the first and only place that I could think of going for my health care and education.
Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
There’s something about the alchemy of the show – the actors, the writers, the directors, the editors – that makes ‘Parenthood’ unique. You get so deeply embedded with these characters because you go through life with them, and that’s our priority.
One year of parenthood made us realize our responsibility towards our son. We also understood how a child needs his parents and how much they are dependent on their parents for anything to everything.
Maybe it’s just parenthood that puts you in a situation where you just have to develop a new attitude, I guess, about things.
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
I don’t consciously think of how parenthood has changed me but I’m sure it must have.
Planned Parenthood’s bottom line is number. And, with abortion as its primary money-maker, that means implementing a quota.
As I say, I can’t wait until Congress – half of Congress can get pregnant so we can quit fighting about birth control and Planned Parenthood.
When I have people like Planned Parenthood intentionally not following the law, that’s where the state will be involved.
Planned Parenthood is an organization that does not provide quality health care.
When the extreme right-wing… charges forward with a defund Planned Parenthood, anti-Planned Parenthood focused message, what happens is that people rally even more around Planned Parenthood.
Parenthood changes things a lot.
Over the last several years, I’ve passed defunding Planned Parenthood, the sonogram bill, voter ID. I passed the TSA anti-groping bill, sanctuary cities, loser pay, border security, and the toughest Jessica’s law in the entire nation against sexual predators.
When I left Planned Parenthood, I was extremely nervous. I was immediately thrown into the media spotlight, and I had no idea what it was going to be like to be a public figure in the pro-life movement.
When you’re 5 ft. 5 in., have a round Jewish face and wear glasses and refuse to wear contacts, you’re going to get offered certain parts. People thought of me as the nerdy guy, even in non-nerdy parts like ‘Parenthood.’ I didn’t feel the need to change anything I was doing – I embraced it.
I’ve never personally had to use a Planned Parenthood. But I have many friends who have and do and did, and I think it’s important that that access be there for everyone.
The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
