Planned Parenthood's Million Dollar Donor...Sarah Palin?

by Jen Nedeau · 2008-10-09 07:16:00 UTC
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Sarah Palin has "donated" over $1 million to Planned Parenthood's Action Fund.

The name of the woman who is adamantly pro-life, who would choose life even if her own daughter were raped, who opposes the use of public funds for abortions, who slashed funds for teen mothers, and even charged rape victims for their own rape kits - is being used as catalyst to fund Planned Parenthood, an organization dedicated to women's health-care services, including abortion clinics, and is frequently a target of social conservatives.

Oh, how the Gods of Irony are smiling upon us right now...

The idea to donate to Planned Parenthood in Sarah Palin's name started after an anonymous email campaign was started asking people to protest the pro-life GOP lobby. Social Media Examiner, Tracy Viselli, shares the "fiendishly brilliant" scheme that she personally received two weeks ago:

Make a donation to Planned Parenthood. In Sarah Palin's name. And here's the good part: When you make a donation to Planned Parenthood in her name, they'll send her a card telling her that the donation has been made in her honor.

Cut and paste to the Planned Parenthood website: www.plannedparenthood.org. You'll need to fill in the address to let Planned Parenthood know where to send the 'in Sarah Palin's honor' card. I suggest you use the address for the McCain campaign headquarters, which is:


McCain for President
1235 S. Clark Street
1st Floor
Arlington, VA 22202

Feel free to send this along to all your friends and urge them to do the same.

Planned Parenthood has posted a press release stating that the viral e-mail did not originate with them, and that the origins of the email remain unknown. As of late September, almost 32,000 individual donors from all 50 states have made donations.

Additionally, country singer Gretchen Peters has jumped on the bandwagon using the newfound enemy of pro-choice movement and is donating royalties from her song "Independence Day" during this election cycle to Planned Parenthood as well. She also asks that donations be made in honor of Palin.

Jen Nedeau Jen Nedeau is a media relations professional and a writer based in New York City.
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