Stop Waterloo Region from publicly funding Planned Parenthood

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1) Petition opposes government funding for Planned Parenthood A university student in Waterloo, Ontario, has launched a petition in response to a decision by the Waterloo Region to fund Planned Parenthood after the group announced it might have to close its doors due to lack of money. The municipal government decided to hand $20,000 to the pro-abortion group in response to an 864-name petition. Theresa Matters has launched a petition she hopes will attract more signatures urging the region to stop using taxpayers' money to fund the controversial organization. The petition is at http://www.petitiononline.com/stopppwr/petition.html.


The petition says:

It has just been announced that the Region of Waterloo has granted Planned Parenthood an extra $20,000 this year in response to their petition with 864 signatures. We can surpass this small number that supports this special interset group and show the region what the people of Waterloo Region really think! Pass this petition around to your friends and family and anyone you know, everyone should be given the opportunity to sign this!

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To: The Community Services Committee of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo Planned Parenthood is an organization that not only provides information to the community, but also takes controversial positions on sensitive issues. Members of the pro-life community are appalled to find that Waterloo Region provides funding to an organization that has proven to have a clear bias. This organization is a special interest group that should not be funded by taxpayer’s money. If people support the giving of taxpayer’s money to Planned Parenthood, it would only be proper for support to also be provided for funding pro-life groups.

Planned Parenthood may provide valuable information to some members of the community, but not without a cost. The group advocates that the unborn should have no right to life and uses terms such as “Woman’s Choice” in attempt to squash the discussion of the rights of another individual human being. It advocates that the right to choose should come before all other rights, even another individual’s right to life. It is a scientific fact that the unborn is a growing, individual human being, just like any other individual human being that is born. No law in Canada guarantees this right to abortion, though Planned Parenthood’s “educational services” would lead one to believe so.

When Planned Parenthood councils young girls, they encourage them not to tell their parents that they are on birth control; what kind of precedence does this set for parent-child relationships? Should we not be encouraging children to talk to their parents in order to develop healthy, respectful and trusting relationships rather than encouraging them to avoid their parents on sensitive issues? This is another bias that Planned Parenthood creates that we should remain skeptical of.

With Planned Parenthood being an external organization, it is understood that there is nothing that can be done to change how it is run and how changes can be made to better administer it. The best way to deal with the current bias in funding is to fund an organization that does not take positions on sensitive political issues.

This petition has been brought forward in response to a petition from supporters of Planned Parenthood who wish to see its funding increased. The undersigned are concerned citizens of Waterloo Region, students of the University of Waterloo, the pro-life community and those who disagree with the funding of this organization. We wish to see the discontinuation of the funding of Planned Parenthood, an organization that we are ashamed of seeing our tax dollars going into.

Please consider our thoughts and opinions as just as valuable as our opponents.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

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I really think this should be a paper petition signed by the residents of Waterloo. However, I think signing it is worth a shot. Maybe some Waterloo residents would like to take this up?

Still, it's worth signing, if only for the publicity value.