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-Great Cultural Revolution
Assisted Suicide Group Teams Up With Planned Parenthood Honcho
2021-07-05
[Free Beacon] America's leading physician-assisted suicide advocacy group has tapped a Planned Parenthood of Illinois board member to help lead the organization.

Compassion & Choices named Jill Gordon, CEO of children's hair salon company KidSnips, to its board of directors on Thursday. Gordon has donated tens of thousands of dollars to both Planned Parenthood and Compassion & Choices through her foundation, the Jill and Bradford Gordon Family Foundation. Gordon told the Washington Free Beacon the issue of assisted suicide is "close to my heart."

"Baby boomers like me are leading the end-of-life care movement because we have challenged the status quo our entire lives," Gordon said.

Rachel MacNair, vice president at the Consistent Life Network, said she is not surprised that a prominent abortion supporter would also become a cheerleader for assisted suicide.

"The connection between killing at both ends of the lifespan has been one that both pro-life and pro-choice advocates have held for a long time," MacNair told the Free Beacon. "For pro-lifers, of course, it's social approval of killing either way and done on similar reasoning. For pro-choicers, it's choice and bodily autonomy either way and done on similar reasoning."

Kim Callinan, president and CEO of Compassion & Choices, told the Free Beacon she added Gordon to the board based on her wide-ranging professional success.

"Compassion & Choices appointed Jill because of her leadership experience as a CEO, an entrepreneur, and nonprofit board member across multiple organizations, not because of her work on a particular issue," Callinan said. "Jill’s past experience with governance, stewardship, and fidelity will help ensure that Compassion & Choices continues our commitment to ensuring that patients have access to the full range of end-of-life care options from pain management to hospice care to medical aid in dying."

KidSnips, Gordon’s company, is the largest provider of children’s haircuts in the Chicago metropolitan area, according to a Compassion & Choices press release. Gordon’s foundation has donated nearly $120,000 to Planned Parenthood affiliated organizations since 2014 and more than $74,000 to Compassion & Choices since 2013, according to Grantmakers.io.

Illinois, where Gordon’s company is based, has some of the most lenient abortion restrictions in the country. Democratic governor J.B. Pritzker signed the Reproductive Health Act in 2019, which repealed a state ban on partial-birth abortion—in which doctors artificially deliver unborn children before terminating them. The practice is already illegal under federal law, but the line around the partial-birth abortion ban has been blurred in the past. Kermit Gosnell, a former abortion doctor in Pennsylvania, was convicted on three counts of first-degree murder for using scissors to snip the spinal cord of fully delivered babies—a practice that went undetected for decades.

Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project, told the Free Beacon he sees a clear relationship between abortion and physician-assisted suicide and believes in the importance of protecting human life from conception to natural death.
Posted by:Besoeker

#11  My first thought when seeing the headline was, "They are going to help PP kill themselves? YAY!!!"

Man am I disappointed.
Posted by: DarthVader   2021-07-05 11:35  

#10  Conservatives really need to start thinking survival strategy and stop this 'ye oldé values' nonsense. Instead just keep your own youth safe from the doctrines of compulsive liberality and indecency.

Separate from these monsters and violent grifters. Bring back segregation.

Separate physically and socially.
Separate schools, separate culture.
Posted by: Enver Snomotle1257   2021-07-05 10:24  

#9   Lastly it is sanctioned by the government and becomes.... mandatory.

We have seen reports from the Netherlands of elderly relations and those who do not live happy, productive lives being pushed to request suicide. In Britain, the standard protocol for National Health Service hospitals is to withhold food and water, or give only water, to those they figure will die soon enough anyway — without informing the patient or the patient’s family.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-07-05 09:18  

#8  ^
Same can be said for the Covid "Vaccine"
Posted by: Phinter Shavitle5555   2021-07-05 08:21  

#7  First the action becomes legal. Then it becomes a human right. Lastly it is sanctioned by the government and becomes.... mandatory.

Something of a slippery slope.

Posted by: Besoeker   2021-07-05 08:03  

#6  ^Hear, hear.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-07-05 07:50  

#5  I don't see the problem. The sort of people who casually opt for things like abortion are more than likely to raise only delinquents, serial killers or worse. The ones who are valuable to your society are not rushing to Planned Parenthood anyway. Assisted suicide, if practiced casually will also cater only to the godless liberal bastards you can do without. The I'd-rather-be-dead-than-Christian crowd.

One reason Mugabe-time has not yet arrived in America for instance is because unlike the moslems, the wakandans do not yet appreciate the power of numbers [Probably because with so many guilt ridden snowflakes on their side they don't feel a need yet.]

Conservatives really need to start thinking survival strategy and stop this 'ye oldé values' nonsense. Instead just keep your own youth safe from the doctrines of compulsive liberality and indecency.
Posted by: Dron66046   2021-07-05 07:03  

#4  New Headline Banner
"The Minions of Satan Unifying to Promote The Orgy of Death"
Posted by: Fleregum Jones8496   2021-07-05 06:34  

#3  An important thing about fighting - don't pick fights you can't win.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-07-05 06:13  

#2  /\ Yes, we are evolving. The over-population of Airstrip One by aging non-producers must be dealt with. Selective human longevity really is the key.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-07-05 06:05  

#1  Think of it as evolution in action.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-07-05 05:48  

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