I learned a lot from Planned Parenthood yesterday, and was very impressed [View All]

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Just a note of thanks for people who support Planned Parenthood.

Saturday morning I attended a Candidate Issues Forum hosted by Planned Parenthood of San Diego and Riverside Counties. I am helping run a campaign for a local office. (My candidate was the only one for our target office who bothered to show up.)

I was a waffler on "parental notification" laws, now I am strongly against them. I had been looking at it from the perspective of an individual parent, thinking about how I'd feel if I had a daughter and she got pregnant.

Planned Parenthood set my mind straight. Girls who get into that situation come in to PP pre-sorted: 70% of them have already gotten one or both parents involved. For the other 30%, there is usually a good reason the parents are not there.

They gave us a whole bunch of data supported by hard evidence - Facts and figures, not appeals to emotion or other bullshit.

Thanks to everyone who supports that fine organization. It's grown up a lot since my last contact with them (as a teenager, taking a young woman there to get her hooked up with contraception).

The overall experience made me feel more comfortable being outspokenly pro-choice.