Company Matching Gifts to Planned Parenthood

We have been boycotting Levi's Strauss (including PiperLime, Banana Republic, Gap and Old Navy stores) for the last several years because they give grants to Planned Parenthood.  About two days ago, we heard an announcement on a pro-life news service that Levi's had stopped donating to PP, so we wrote them a quick thank you note. 

Today's reply:  "Levi's doesn't give them grants any more, but we do still match donations from our employees."  In other words, we pretend not to support PP and abortion unless someone really wants us to keep doing it. 

We're still boycotting Levi's.

Before you resume shopping at a store that says they've stopped supporting abortion, write them a thank you note or ask if they make matching gifts to PP.  If you think this sounds too strict and we should reward companies that only give small amounts, you've missed the point.  It's not the amount that matters.  Any amount given, even a dollar, means that Planned Parenthood can claim they have community support.  Don't let them get by with  it.

If you want to join the prolife boycott of companies who give money to support abortion and the culture of death, please visit the website of Life Decisions International at http://www.fightpp.org and purchase their boycott list. 

Keep praying and fighting!

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Who is doing embryonic stem cell research?

To my pro-life brothers and sisters,

I belong to a large church, and every few months, I see advertisements in our bulletin placed by families raising money to help cure diseases such as diabetes or cancer.  Although the intent of such fund raising is admirable, many people do not realize that too often, the money you raise is not being spent on legitimate medical research.  Rather, many of the largest and most well-known non-profit organizations are actually wasting your donations on human embryonic stem cell research.

So-called embryonic stem cell research is not research at all.  It is gravely evil because it always kills a living human embryo.  Scientists who promote embryo destruction claim that since some of the embryos created for use in fertility treatments and then frozen may never be implanted, they should be considered “left over.”  This convenient label is used to justify killing the tiniest babies to obtain their stem cells. 

In order to avoid funding the destruction of innocent human life, it is critical that before you begin a fund raising project, you learn as much as possible about how your donations will be spent.  Fortunately, this task is not difficult, thanks to the extensive investigations carried out by pro-life groups such as Life Decisions International.  LDI publishes a free report entitled “Organization Watch,” which lists the names of groups who are on record as supporting the destruction of human embryos.  To download a copy, visit LDI’s website at www.fightpp.org.  

If you want to support truly life-saving research, you may also wish to consider donating to the John Paul II Stem Cell Research Institute.  Their mission is to conduct medical research that respects the dignity of all human life.  You can learn more about them by visiting their website at http://www.jp2sri.org.

Destroying even one embryo for the sake of medical research can never be justified.  There is no such thing as a left over human being.

Respectfully,

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