Fargo Forum - Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the national reproductive health organization, has opened an office in Fargo.
Until the downtown office opened recently, North Dakota remained the last state without a Planned Parenthood presence.
Although the organization has operated a clinic in Moorhead for 30 years, opening an informational office in Fargo is viewed as a milestone for the organization.
“North Dakota literally is the last state in the union that has a Planned Parenthood presence,” Marta Coursey, director of marketing and communications for Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.
“To say we actually have a presence in North Dakota is important,” Coursey said
Staff in the Fargo office will work to build coalitions and create public awareness about women’s reproductive freedom issues, Coursey said. . . .
“We don’t anticipate opening a clinic,” she said, noting Fargo has an abortion clinic. “It’s to draw attention to the reproductive freedom needs of women in North Dakota.”
In the view of Planned Parenthood, North Dakota has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the nation, Coursey said.
“It’s not considered reproductive-freedom friendly for women,” she said.
Nice of Patrick Springer and the Fargo Forum to give Planned Parenthood this fawning welcome to our state. The entire article reads like a press release/invitation to the official reception for the group. Not one response from a North Dakotan who views our laws not so much as against reproductive freedom (whatever that means, seems North Dakota women are as capable as having sex in our state as in any other state in the union) as against allowing women to shirk the consequences of their actions by killing their unborn children.
I guess a little bit of balance in the face of a withering deluge of propaganda and buzzword doublespeak from Planned Parenthood is too much to expect.
Regardless, I expect that this organization will soon be advocating for legislative protection for smuggling children away from their parents to have abortions without their knowledge or consent, among other things.
I cannot wait for the day when Roe vs. Wade is overturned and North Dakotans (along with every other citizen of this great country) have the opportunity to tell groups like Planned Parenthood, with cast votes, that we do not find abortion acceptable.