Dear United Way,

After reading your position statements on abortion and funding for Planned Parenthood, I am amazed at and disgusted by your evasive answer.   You are not being intellectually honest by suggesting that your local agencies can give to Planned Parenthood, the world's largest abortion-committing group, yet claim that you are not supporting the murder of unborn children in the womb.

If you took this attitude of "we don't support abortion but some local UW agencies do," and applied it to other controversial subjects such as pedophilia or human trafficking, society would rightly judge you to be criminals.  By the way, remember that earlier this year, Planned Parenthood affiliates in numerous states were caught aiding and abetting pimps and pedophiles engaged in just such crimes.

I have never given money to United Way, no matter how great the pressure in the workplace, and I will go out of my way to discourage others from wasting their donations on you as well.

I pray that you'll wise up and end your association with Planned Parenthood right now.  God is watching.

I wrote the above letter in response to United Way's word-twisting with regard to supporting Planned Parenthood while claiming not to support them.  To read their gobbledy-gook, click here. The more words they use, the more they know they can't justify their actions morally.  So far, I haven't heard back from them, but when I do, I'll post it here.  I'm dying to read their response, aren't you?

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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