Memo to Iowans: Avoid "Avoidthestork.com"

Over the last couple weeks I have seen a couple of billboards pop up for a website called "Avoid the Stork". They direct people to their website for information about how to avoid an unwanted pregnancy. While on the surface, the idea of avoiding unwanted pregnancy sounds good, something just didn't smell right. So, I decided to check their website out. & as soon as I got on their homepage, I know my Italian-American nose was functioning properly. The 1st thing I saw was affiliated with the Iowa Initiative, a group I am very familiar with.

II is headed by the wife of Iowa's former governor (& current US Secretary of Agriculture) Christie Vilsack. In fact, last month the local paper had an article by her promoting the II. (Interestingly, unlike most opinion pieces written for the TH, they didn't put this 1 up on their website.) After reading the article I checked out the II website. It was because that article & the ensuing research was still fresh in my mind, I knew that "Avoid the Stork" is a website to avoid.

Vilsack's support of abortion & PP is well known. & she has made it clear that the Iowa Initiative & PP would work hand in hand. (I am not 100% sure about her, but I know her husband is a pro-abort "Catholic in Name Only" & all the evidence points to the same for her.) Other members of the II staff & board include Sally J. Pederson (Lt Gov under Tom Vilsack) & Pro-abort RINO Maggie Tinsman.

II & Avoid the Stork obviously have the same philosophy. That philosophy is made very clear in how it treats NFP: "Please know that while it is more effective than no birth control at all, natural family planning has a high failure rate." What they leave out is that that is true only when NFP is NOT properly implimented. NFP can be just as successful as the most successful of the types of birth control they approve of. But then they also give only the "perfect use" success rates for other forms of birth control. they fail to give the "actual use" rates, which are often much lower.

& of course, they also promote the myth that access to contraception reduces the number of abortions. On a pro-birth-control website they point out that "of women having abortions, 46% did not use contraception during the month they became pregnant." So that means 54% of the women who had abortions did use birth control.

Another thing is what is noticibly missing from II & Avoid the Stork are Crisis Pregnancy Centers. All they tell you under what to do should the chosen birth control method fail is to use "emergency contraception" & visit a family planning clinic or another health care provider. There is no mention of Crisis Pregnancy Centers, which should surprize no one who knows how PP & other abortion supporters attack them. However, since a huge number of the clinics are run by PP it is clear what kind of advice women would get from the clinics they are promoting, have an abortion.

I will admit that I was surprized that they sort of admitted that the Pill & other forms of hormonal birth control are abortafacients. usually they completely ignore that fact. So, what do I mean by "sort of"? Here is what they say: "Some hormones let the egg release from the ovaries but prevents the womb from becoming a perfect home and alerting the Stork of your location." You will note that they skip over the fact that the egg gets fertilized, creating another human being, & by preventing the womb from becoming a "perfect home" what results is an abortion.

The reality is, the II & Avoid the Stork are promoting immorality that calls for taking no responsibility for your actions. Sex anytime, with anyone, just don't have a baby. & if you do, well, since we work with PP, well, we have the solution we don't publicly mention, but provide, abortion. Another example of PP at its stealthily worst. But then what do you expect when all 3 of these groups buy into the demonic "culture of death" agenda? When you work for the "father of lies" you will definitely follow his example.

While this is what the "culture of death" is doing in Iowa, I am sure similar programs are springing up elsewhere in the USA. & being just as stealthy about their real agenda. If they were really serious about reducing unplanned pregnancies outside of marriage they would be promoting the only morally acceptable method, abstinence. & promoting Crisis Pregnancy Centers for those who do stumble & fall.

Before I end this post, I have to add that they have given birth control a cutesy name "stork insurance" to make it sound so much better. & their page to help a person decide which type to use is called "Get a Quote".