by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
May 7, 2008
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- With Mother's Day coming up this weekend, Planned
Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion business, has a message for moms: send us more money. Cecile Richards,
the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, sent out a fund-raising request this
week one pro-life advocate says is grotesque.
Richards
honored Mother's Day by sharing part of an editorial her daughter wrote saying she got her pro-abortion
views from her mother and grandmother, former Texas Gov. Ann Richards.
"It's true that I have had lots of rewarding moments
in my career. So did my mother," Cecile wrote in the email LifeNews.com obtained. "But
knowing that my daughter is carrying on the legacy of fighting that my mother passed to me trumps 'em all."
Richard couldn't wait until
the third paragraph of her Mother's Day letter to PPFA supporters to ask them to open their wallets.
"This Mother's Day,
I'm honoring that legacy with a Planned Parenthood Federation of America Mother's Day gift. Join me,"
she wrote.
"You
can help with a gift to Planned Parenthood Federation of America today in honor of your mother or daughter,
and on behalf of all the women," she added.
Pro-life blogger Jill Stanek called Richard's exploitation of Mother's Day
for pro-abortion money-making purposes "grotesque" and said she couldn't believe Richards
would stoop to "using her dead mother and daughter as props."
"This pathetic woman is so psychologically and emotionally
invested in abortion she has no semblance of conscience left," Stanek said. "If and when
she has grandchildren, I'm sure she'll use them too."
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