Planned Parenthood’s international efforts to promote birth-control and the abortion/contraception mentality have not gone unchallenged by the pro-life community.
In 1992, a group of North American pro-life authorities came together to form Life Decisions International (LDI), an Amherst, New York-based organization dedicated to challenging Planned Parenthood’s agenda worldwide.
Led by president Douglas Scott and executive director Patricia Bainbridge, LDI offers parents concrete action to counter the Planned Parenthood efforts in schools, in the local community and the corporate level. The latter point is necessary in light of the number of large corporations supporting Planned Parenthood.
According to LDI’s publication Planned Parenthood …You Decide, there is too much at stake to dismiss Planned Parenthood lightly.
The organization’s newsletter Caleb Report is the main information vehicle about Planned Parenthood. LDI also publishes brochures, geared towards both U.S. and Canadian audiences about PP, and provides education material to help groups recognize and counteract the PP agenda.
To help spread the word about Planned Parenthood’s objectives, LDI in 1989 began its corporate funding project. This is a program urging a boycott of organizations known to support PP. Over the last eight years, more than 40 corporations have stopped funding Planned Parenthood thanks to the Corporate Funding project.
In conjunction with the funding project, LDI also oversees Organization Watch, which investigates charitable organizations with a view to their support of such issues as abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and sexual promiscuity. Related to Organizations Watch is LDI’s Solomon Project, a program allowing pro-life, pro-family individuals an opportunity to learn more about groups and organizations seeking support or endorsement.
To offset much of the values neutral information disseminated by Planned Parenthood, LDI offers a Women’s Health Project. The hope is that all women can be guided to good decision-making when presented with formation on behaviour choices that may put them at high risk for serious health problems.
