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Published: December 30, 2008
“They have special needs”
Planned Parenthood offers ‘reproductive health services’ at Santa Barbara shelter for homeless women
Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, who called for the elimination of “human weeds” and wrote that the purpose of birth control was “more children from the fit, less from the unfit,” would be proud. On Dec. 12, the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Planned Parenthood of Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo Counties began offering “confidential reproductive health services” at a Santa Barbara shelter for homeless women.
 “We really wanted to look beyond our four walls and work collaboratively with more community-based organizations,” Pat Fajardo, vice president of clinical services for Planned Parenthood of Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo Counties told the Santa Barbara Independent. “I’m all about increasing access, and this population is nontraditional. They have special needs.”
“For the first few months, reproductive services will be limited to what Planned Parenthood dubs ‘express exams,’” reported the Dec. 16 edition of the Independent. “They include birth control and testing for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) without that physical exam many women find intimidating. Within a few months though, the clinic will ramp up to a full-service Planned Parenthood satellite clinic, capable of gynecological exams and the more invasive birth control device Implanon, which is surgically inserted under the skin and lasts for three years.”
Joining Planned Parenthood in the venture are Santa Barbara Street Medicine and Transition House, said the newspaper. “Mimi Doohan, a family practice physician and director of Santa Barbara Street Medicine, said the idea was to create a comfortable environment for women to have reproductive exams,” the Independent reported.
Shelter sponsors even provide a van with a round-trip route from various locations in the city to the shelter’s clinic. For now, the clinic offers its services from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the second and fourth Fridays of each month. The shelter runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. every second and fourth Friday of the month. “Anything that will help our population is a positive thing,” Annette Perez, director of operations for Transition House, told the Independent.
To encourage homeless women to take advantage of Planned Parenthood’s services, the shelter also offers free meals, child care, counseling, a laundry and a place to take a shower.
According to the Planned Parenthood of Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo web site, “in a typical year Planned Parenthood provides a wide range of contraceptive services to over 25,000 women…”
Details of the story in the Independent were confirmed in a press release from Planned Parenthood under the heading, “The Women’s Free Shelter Clinic Opens December 12, 2008 To Serve Homeless Women.” The news release noted, in part, that the chief purpose of the Women’s Free Shelter Clinic is “to provide reproductive health care services to homeless women in Santa Barbara.”
Posted Tuesday, December 30, 2008 9:07 AM By Lon
This sounds like a very good community-based compassionate public health program. All this "Margaret Sanger was a Nazi" wording seems irrelevant to the good work this program is doing.
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Posted Tuesday, December 30, 2008 10:39 AM By John Zakharia
If Planned Parenthood applied their "CARE" to Borack Obama when he was unborn he would not be alive today. Borack came from a poor family
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Posted Tuesday, December 30, 2008 12:25 PM By Anne T.
"Come into my web," said the spider to the fly. And they are probably doing all this with our tax dollars.
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Posted Tuesday, December 30, 2008 1:00 PM By Anne T.
I would add to my last post, inluding the abortions.
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Posted Tuesday, December 30, 2008 3:41 PM By Dr. Bob
It is fitting that Margaret Sanger be associated with Planned Parenthood. The one thing that Planned Parenthood WILL NOT acknowledge is the fact that the late Ms. Sanger was also an avowed believer in "eugenics movement." A product of that movement was the following excerpt from a United States Supreme Court decision written by the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., affirming the right of the state to order sterilizations of those it considered "feebleminded." The excerpt reads as follows:
"We have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives. It would be strange if it could not call upon those who already sap the strength of the State for these lesser sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those concerned, in order to prevent our being swamped with incompetence. It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough. [Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200, 208 (1927)]
Now, with the "right to choose," Planned Parenthood not only has the tools to abort; but also the tools to provide financial incentives for those who, in Planned Parenthood's opinion, should not procreate, by providing so-called "voluntary tubal ligation," to whoever they perceive as "social undesirables."
Unfortunately, Planned Parenthood, like so many other "pro choice" groups have unwittingly bought into the notion of the old eugenics movement. After all, if there is pro choice to procreate, it is also a choice to voluntarily sterilize. By disguising this practice under the "palatable" name of "special needs," Planned Parenthood is reviving the holding of the Buck v. Bell decision.
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Posted Tuesday, December 30, 2008 6:01 PM By Mark from PA
I am just shaking my head here.
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Posted Tuesday, December 30, 2008 6:12 PM By HGP
All the eugenics proponents will like what PP is doing. They don't want anymore "weeds" sprouting up from these homeless women. The only purpose for PP is to stop babies from being born except to the "chosen".
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Posted Wednesday, December 31, 2008 12:33 PM By Annika
John-Obama did not come from a "poor" family. His grandparents provided for him most of his life. They were a long way from poor living in the affluent suburb of Mercer Island, Washington and then in Honolulu. His grandmother was a VP of the Bank of Hawaii. She was known as being tough but fair on investors doing big real estate deals in Honolulu. She saw to his education and paid for his expensive private schooling. His mother Anne did not want.
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Posted Thursday, January 01, 2009 8:21 AM By JLS
Hey, if you want a poor man for president, then vote for me; my parents and grandparents lived with jorses, cows and chickens, goats and donkeys, and I live with a pack of dogs, a legion of ticks a few years ago, at least one rat out back, and ants which don't like to stay in their bubble zone. But then this is all middle class -- An old priest, and one time missionary to the back country of the world, told me that it would be nigh impossible for me to ever be poor ... this has puzzled me for decades: So, if I'm not poor, and Obama is not poor, then who is poor? And why does the public spring for the association of poverty with Obama? Does the public prefer a fantasy world? Does the public prefer seeing someone wealthy as poor, as it means then that they are even poorer and the solution is to buy more stuff? What must many Saints think now that so many of their followers have redefined poverty? Come to think of it, our government must be poor, as it is feeding at the hog trough.
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Posted Thursday, January 01, 2009 12:40 PM By Eileen
JLS, Satan has helped society usher in a new definition of poverty. Victimization! The thought of someone being poor is now the pre-qualifying excuse to commit grievous sins. Murderers, rapists, child molesters, adulterers, serial fornicators, thieves, etc. It's not their fault anymore. They were poor. They are just victims of crushing physical poverty who are expressing their rights and feelings that have been denied. The new PC real villains are those religious, hard working people with morals and values who have placed such incredible pressure on these poor victims to act out their every temptation and frustration. The grave evil of abortion is an example great spiritual poverty. Satan has cleverly used Planned Parenthood to deceive women by falsely appearing as generous rescuers in alleviating the suffering of having unwanted babies or babies deemed unfit for any reason that will burden the lives of their parents.... "Any country that accepts abortion, is not teaching it's people to love, but to use violence to get what it wants. It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish." "If we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell others not to kill one another." Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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Posted Thursday, January 01, 2009 5:42 PM By Anne T.
If any of you do not know what I meant by my comment, ' "Come into my web,"said the spider to fhe fly," I mean that Planned Parenthood entices these women with these things, loads their bodies up with artificial hormones (the birthcontrol pill, instead of other forms of Natural Family Planning, etc.), which causes cancer in younger women and bone loss in very young teens and women, then teaches them how "nice" abortion is, including partial birth abortion which is nothing less than infanticide.
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Posted Sunday, January 04, 2009 10:05 PM By JLS
Eileen, I just did a retake on the first line of your post, about victimization. The sin of Adam and Eve has made victims of all humanity since then; however, Baptism overcomes victimhood. At least it seems like it to me at this point. I wonder if this is true. If so, then it should be good to go in doing battle with the preachers of victimhood: Namely, the answer to the problem of victimhood is Baptism.
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