Pro-Abortion Business Leaders Speak

Some corporate executives find that criticism of their support for Planned Parenthood can be a little hard to take, particularly since most thought they would never be "outed" for their dastardly “philanthropic” activity. Corporate executives often use letters, emails, and phone calls to express their frustration and disgust at being exposed.

What follows are some classic responses, printed virtually verbatim. Cleaning up the grammatical and spelling errors would take far too much time. If we included the "sic" notation with every error, the page would be full of them.

Please note that many of the messages below include extreme profanity and/or other highly offense text.

Catering By Jill (Richmond, Virginia)

I am sorry that you are so un informed. I am an adoptive parent and not a supporter of abortion but believe that planned parenthood offers women more options than abortion. Constitutionally it is a womans right to seek those services, usually a last option of despartation not a birth control device as some simple minded boobs like you believe, planned parenthood helps woman not get pregnant in the first place. It offers woman and men the options that are available to them including adoption, in a thoughtful manner letting those people make their own choices. Hopefully contraception is the choosen form of birth control by most. Get a grip on your emotion and when you can offer an alternative I respectively request the you take your simple minded less than christianed spirited vile assertations and stick kindly up your pompus ass and spin.

PS. Next, will you persecuting the blacks or the jews?

-- Jack B. Halpren, Catering By Jill

LDI COMMENT: Hmmm, name-calling. Halpren states that Planned Parenthood gives its customers "the options that are available to them including adoption'." Yet Planned Parenthood admitted to surgically killing 374,155 not-yet-born human beings in FY 2021-2022 alone. Over the same 12 months, only 1,803 customers were referred to adoption agencies. If a customer wants an abortion, Planned Parenthood will commit the act ― for a price. If a customer wants to have the baby, she is referred to an organization willing to help her. Furthermore, Planned Parenthood's abortion referral rate is more than ten times that of other "family planning" offices.

Catering By Jill (Richmond, Virginia)

I will not be threatened by scumbags like you. I will not stop supporting Planned Parenthood and if you threaten me with any kind of boycott action or publication of my name without my permission, I will sue your ever-loving pants off, you ignorant, slope-minded, caveman mentality, non-humanistic human beings. I will destroy you. Do not threaten me. You do not know who you're screwing with. You take your lowbrow, redneck, trashy letter--you leave your [answering] machines on 'cause you're afraid of talking to people, and you take my message, you chicken shit, afraid to speak to a person. Yeah, that's why you have machines 'cause you know that people don't like the lard likes of you. And yeah I do think that you're like the Ku Klux Klan or something like that. You take your personalities and you take your causes and you stuff them so far up your ass that the sun won't shine in there and maybe somebody can come do an abortion to get 'em out for you. But don't you ever threaten me again. You threaten me I will sue you until your [unintelligible] head falls off. You put me on your Boycott List. Let's play, bubba...I won't be threatened by redneck scum like you.

-- Jack B. Halpren, Catering By Jill

LDI COMMENT: Hmmm, more name-calling. At least he's consistent, albeit in a bad way. Halpren wrote to LDI after receiving a letter from us requesting that Catering By Jill end its support of Planned Parenthood so it would not be added to The Boycott List, which he refers to as a "threat." LDI does not add a business to The Boycott List without first contacting the potential boycott target. Along with the letter requesting that funding for Planned Parenthood end, LDI sends information about the group. Our goal is not to boycott businesses; our goal is to end funding for Planned Parenthood. We much prefer that a business leader agree to make Planned Parenthood ineligible for future funding so we never have to publicly name the company. We believe it is only right to educate business leaders about Planned Parenthood in the event support was being given out of ignorance or a misunderstanding of the group's activities. In fact, many corporate leaders have told us they had no idea Planned Parenthood was involved in such horrific activities. (Recommended Resource: What's Wrong With Planned Parenthood?)

As for the answering machine, we do not have the resources to hire a receptionist. Moreover, even if we did have the resources doing so would be somewhat unwise since the vast majority of calls we receive are of a nature that they do not require a live answer. We return calls to people who require a personal response. Besides, if a person had answered the phone when Halpren called (shortly after midnight on a Sunday morning), he or she would have been subjected to Halpren's verbal abuse.

Two final thoughts: 1) We are, indeed, "non-humanistic human beings;" and 2) We have not killed any black human beings. Planned Parenthood has killed far more black human beings than the Ku Klux Klan. In fact, a racist would love to fund Planned Parenthood because the group is doing far more damage to the black community than any other entity throughout all of history. Now which group is like the Klan? (Recommended Resource: Black Genocide)

Mirador Community Store (Portland, Oregon)

We recently received a mailing threatening to add our store name to your boycott list because we support Planned Parenthood. Thank you for that letter and please add our name as soon as possible.

And if you could send us a poster about the boycott with our name on it, we would appreciate it. We'd like to put it in our window to show people that we support a woman's right to control over her own body and aren't afraid to be known as a supporter of Planned Parenthood.

P.S. Why is that 18 out of your 21 directors are men?

-- Steve & Lynn Hanrahan, Mirador Community Store

LDI COMMENT: Ah, there's that "threat" word again. While we doubt the store would really put such a poster in its window, we should note that it is not "her own body" that the woman wants to control. If it were not for the placenta, the preborn human being would be expelled as foreign tissue. Can a person have two blood types, two different heartbeats, two different brainwaves, and be two different genders at the same time? So, let's get the scientific information down pat first. And the Hanrahans should not be "afraid" to be known as a supporter of Planned Parenthood, they should be ashamed to be known as a supporter of Planned Parenthood.

Why are most of our directors men? Because they agreed to serve and many women are far too busy running their own pro-life organizations. Most pro-life organizations are run by women. But why do we believe that even if our board of directors consisted of 99 percent women, it would not mean anything to the Hanrahans? After all, they would just be the victims of "brainwashing" or "religious dogma"--or both.

Tom French Flowers (Richmond, Virginia)

Received your letter dated December 1, 2004 regarding your threatening actions. As you are not aware, I also donate to religious causes and churches. Due to your letter, I will no longer assist these groups and refer them to your letter with copies to each group. I will give your information to each and let them discuss their reaction with you. This means good Christians will be affected because of the action of your group...May God Bless Your Souls.

-- Tom Binns, Tom French Flowers

LDI COMMENT: There is a thread that runs through most of the letters we receive from those who oppose our work. "Because you are boycotting corporate supporters of Planned Parenthood, I'm going to stop supporting good organizations." This ploy is as common as it is fruitless. Anyone who stops supporting worthy causes because LDI will boycott them for doing evil deeds is personally responsible for the decision. We will not be deterred by this, um, "threat."

The Portland Mercury (Portland, Oregon)

As previously noted, a company is not added to The Boycott List unless its chief executive refuses to make Planned Parenthood ineligible for support in the future. LDI sends a letter requesting that Planned Parenthood receive no more funding along with information about Planned Parenthood to every chief executive, even if we believe there is no chance he or she will end the philanthropic practice. Take, for example, The Portland Mercury, a "newspaper" of the radical left, which used a photograph of LDI's letter to the publication (signed by LDI’s president) on the front page of the "newspaper." In fact, LDI's letter was the front page! William Steven Humphrey, editor of The Portland Mercury, printed his response to LDI's letter in the same edition (the following may include extreme profanity and/or other highly offense text):

BOYCOTT US...PLEASE!

[A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: On our front cover is an unedited letter sent to us by Douglas R. Scott, president of "Life Decisions International ― a group whose sole purpose is to put Planned Parenthood out of business. Here's our response to Mr. Scott!]

DEAR MR. SCOTT: Thank you for your recent correspondence. It gladdens my heart to see people who still see the necessity in standing up for what's right. Bearing that in mind, the Portland Mercury is thrilled that Life Decisions International has chosen us to be included in your upcoming publication, The Boycott List. We have struggled long and hard to provide corporate and moral support to Planned Parenthood, and until now, it felt like no one had even noticed. But now that the Portland Mercury is featured in The Boycott List, we can shove it in the face of all those other liberal organizations, and say, "You think you love abortion? Well...look at THIS! We reaaaaaaaalllly love abortion!"

But abortion is not the only reason we love Planned Parenthood. We love how they provide much needed health services such as safe sex counseling, gynecological exams, prenatal care, pregnancy testing, treatment for STDs and much more--all at a reasonable cost. Their services were especially helpful when your wife gave me Chlamydia, or that time I impregnated your daughter. (Wait...maybe that was some other Christian bigot's wife and daughter. Regardless, those gals love to party!) But Planned Parenthood isn't just for the promiscuous daughters and wives of hypocritical honky Anti-choice crackers. It's for any woman who believes in the American right to choose, and make responsible decisions regarding her own body.

So thank you once again for recognizing the Portland Mercury's continuing devotion and support for Planned Parenthood by including us in The Boycott List--and if it's not too late, we'd like to make one more request: Is there any way you can push us to the top of the list?

-- Wm. Steven Humphrey, Editor, The Portland Mercury

LDI COMMENT: The Portland Mercury’s letter above was published in an edition of The Portland Mercury. As is often the case with those who "love" abortion, Humphrey prefers to ignore the grossly evil acts committed by Planned Parenthood and concentrate on its seemingly innocuous activities.

It's quite interesting that Humphrey can refer to "Christian bigots" while blatantly exposing his own anti-Christ bigotry. Putting aside his name-calling, racist remark, the downright perverse comments about having sex with a Christian wife or daughter, and his extensive reliance on sarcasm, Humphrey views "anti-choice" people as hypocrites who oppose the "right to choose." (Let's not be overly appalled by Humphrey's remarks. Humphrey is serving his god just as we are serving our God. We should not be the least bit surprised that he would write such things.)

While we hope and pray that all Christians would be faithful to God and His will, which never includes the killing of those He created in the womb, we could be the most hypocritical or inconsistent people on earth and abortion would still be wrong. And the "right to choose," which is verbal engineering that was purposefully created to help sway public opinion, is an incomplete phrase. (Slaveholders did not believe that everyone should own a slave. They just did not want people interfering in their personal decision. If slaveholders have invented the "pro-choice" strategy, the abomination might still exist.) Humphrey supports the "right to choose," but the "right to choose" what? The full sentence would read something like this: "I support the right to choose to kill a preborn human being I find inconvenient--at any time in pregnancy and for any or no reason." Okay, now we have an accurate picture of what Humphrey is talking about because we have employed proper use of the English language.

For the record, exposing and fighting Planned Parenthood's agenda is LDI's primary purpose, not our "sole purpose."

Hippo Hardware (Portland, Oregon)

We greatly appreciate your Planned Parenthood supporters list. It is some of the best advertising we have ever received.

-- Morgan Miller, Hippo Hardware & Trading Company

LDI COMMENT: While Miller has a skill for sarcasm, his goal is to convince us that the boycott is backfiring. He does not seem to understand that the boycott is to educate pro-life advocates, so they do not unknowingly patronize companies that fund Planned Parenthood.

Il Piatto Restaurant Inc. (Portland, Oregon)

As you know il Piatto has supported the right to choose since our inception in 1994. We are honored to be listed amongst your distinguished boycott listing as it actually increases our business volume.

So is I that should be thanking you for your service, you don't charge do you?

Speaking of choice, Mr. Douglas Scott, Jr. I equally do not hinder your organization the right to exist.

It is your choice to oppose any business that does not support your organizations view; fortunately however we are not of the same opinion as is most of the population in this great nation.

Your organization is only supported by the minority, and thanks Buddha it is.

You have a lovely day and may Buddha bless you.

-- Eugen Bingham, Il Piatto Restaurant Inc.

LDI COMMENT: We are expected to believe that the boycott has increased business for Il Piatto. Even if this were true, which it is not, at least it was not increased because those people who care about life we patronizing the restaurant.

Bingham is grossly mistaken when he suggests that the majority of people in the United States have views on abortion similar to those he holds. The vast majority oppose Roe v. Wade, as evidenced by virtually every poll done on the subject.

Bingham referenced a sentence in our letter to him that read, "God bless you." While he is clearly trying to "get our goat," it is possible that he could challenge Morgan Miller of Hippo Hardware & Trading Company for the "Most Reliance on Sarcasm" award.

Kees Inc. (Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin)

GET LOST!!

I GIVE TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD SEVERAL THOUSANDS EACH YEAR AND PAID FOR PART OF A CLINIC.

WHAT IS YOUR SALARY????

-- Edward R. Zieve, Kees Inc.

LDI COMMENT: This chief executive officer clearly has a way with words. The note above was scribbled across LDI's letter to Kees Inc. and returned to LDI.

We do not know if the "clinic" Zieve supported commits abortions. But we do know about some other donations he has made. He has contributed a sizeable amount of money to Governor Jim Doyle, D-Wisc. The Capital Times reported that the re-election of Doyle is "the top priority this year" of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. "It is their No. 1-targeted race in the country because of what's at stake," said Lisa Boyce, vice president of public affairs for Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin. Doyle has vetoed every bill passed by the legislature that would have saved the lives of preborn humans.

Zieve supports and has donated to the campaigns of rabidly pro-abortion Senator Russ Feingold, D-Wisc. He has given money to Friends of Hillary (campaign war chest of Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.). In addition, Zieve has donated to the Progressive Patriots Fund (PPF), which is dedicated to "promoting a progressive reform agenda and supporting candidates across the country." Of course, as used by PPF, "progressive" and "reform" mean a rabidly leftist agenda.

Basics Office Products Inc. (Cambridge, Ontario)

Further to our telephone discussions..., I wish to confirm that, as a corporation, Basics Office Products Ltd. has not funded Planned Parenthood at any level. Further, if Life Decisions International proceeds to include the name of Basics Office Products Ltd. or the names "Basics" or "Basics Office Products" on its publication list, Basics Office Products Ltd. will hold Life Decisions International responsible for all damages to reputation or otherwise as a result of this libellous action.

-- Paul Knechtel, Basics Office Products Inc.

LDI COMMENT: After sending the above letter to LDI, Knechtel spoke to LDI’s president. During the phone call, Knetchtel tried to intimate Scott into keeping the company off The Boycott List. Knetchtel used the same tactics in the follow-up letter.

Needless-to-say, we certainly hope Basics Office Products would hold LDI responsible for all actions relating to the boycott. And LDI would not have sent a letter to Basics Office Products in the first place without first having ironclad evidence that support had been given to Planned Parenthood in the name of the Company. Knechtel was told of the proof and urged to investigate it. Furthermore, it is quite interesting to note that Knechtel would consider libelous a statement that his company had supported Planned Parenthood. (This does not say much for Planned Parenthood!)

Basics Office Products Inc. (Cambridge, Ontario)

As an independent, Canadian owned and operated private business we completely reserve the right to support agencies that offer professional, supporting and non biased education and services to our community.

Moreover, it is with great disgust that I read your letter, which is nothing more than a veiled threat and attempt at blackmail.

Our donations policy is in place to benefit those in our community needing support, education and or services&Our donations extend to both a local HIV/AIDS program and yes, to Planned Parenthood KW [Kitchener/Waterloo]. We have been a supporter of PPWR [Planned Parenthood Kitchener/Waterloo] for years and will continue to support all agencies that meet both the needs of members of our community for safe and informed education and services, and agencies that administer their services in a fiscally responsible and accountable manner.

As private business owners we take our community role and our business roles very seriously. We don't abandon our community members and their needs simply because there are groups whose religious beliefs don't extend to others outside their creed.

Those, whose sole agenda is to push their "personal" views on others and who are quite willing to ignore both social conditions and the very real needs of their community, because they do not fit into either their religious beliefs, or their political agenda will not deter us from helping others. We decide where our donation money goes&We won't abandon the people who need the services of PPWR because you have threatened our business.

As an agency you suggest that you have a right to international corporate intimidation and imply much like those who extract payment from others. You exact "both a condition and time frame to comply with your demands - I state clearly you have no jurisdiction in Canada or any credibility for that matter. We defend our community members right to educated information and informed choice. If your group really was interested in reducing the number of abortions and protecting children, then you would work with legislators to prevent unwanted pregnancy and to improve the lives of women and children in your own country; instead of trying to bully others and to stop legitimate attempts to provide access to legal birth control information.

Here is a no win situation for you: - you neither win friends nor influence peoples decisions by courting the name of God or by using threats and intimidation as a means of conversion to your very obvious right wing religious agenda.

To paraphrase your comments - It is virtually impossible to separate Life Decisions International from the obvious coercion and tactics as outlined in your letter, from the kinds of intimidation, threats and associated violence; that is frequently engaged in by both criminals and extortionists. We will not submit to your intimidation, we will continue to defend the rights of members of our community to healthy sexuality and legal birth control information.

As you have advised us of your intent to add us to a list that you obviously provide to groups in kind, we will advise you that we will use every legal avenue available to us to defend our right to support and care for those in our community as we see fit.

As you are an American agency, and while we consider greatly our North American relationship to be of value; like good friends and neighbors it seems the property lines must be redrawn; therefore we must advise you, that the last time we listened to the CBC [Canadian Broadcasting Corporation] - Canada was still a free and self-governing nation.

-- P. Dillon, Basics Office Products Inc.

LDI COMMENT: Dillon, whose letter was sent in the same envelope as Knechtel's, seems to be referring to Planned Parenthood when he writes about "agencies that offer professional, supporting and non biased education and services..."? He surely is (naïvely) doing just that, but we thought the Company was going with the story that it had not funded Planned Parenthood (see Knechtel's letter)? Dillon just confessed! In another part of the letter, Dillon attempted to establish some sort of technical distinction between Basics Office Products Ltd. and Basics Office Products Inc.

Dillon needs to look up the definition of "blackmail." It is blackmail when Planned Parenthood tells a company that if it chooses to stop making donations to the group, it will become a boycott target by pro-abortion activists. Are animal rights groups engaging in "blackmail" if they tell McDonald's officials that unless cows are raised under humane conditions a boycott will be called against the company? It is not blackmail when LDI gains nothing by the decision made by a company.

The more Dillon wrote, the more obvious it became that he is grossly ignorant and an anti-religion bigot. But Dillon chose to broaden his message. Not only did Dillon show anti-religion bigotry, he demonstrated an anti-American inferiority complex that is quite unnecessary, unwarranted and unfortunate. Furthermore, his rhetoric is exactly like that of a Planned Parenthood activist. (Did PPWR officials help Dillon write the letter or is he truly that radical on the issue?)

One part of LDI's letter to Knechtel included a statement that it is "impossible to separate Planned Parenthood from its abortion business." Dillon responded with the, "It is virtually impossible to separate Life Decisions International from the obvious coercion and tactics as outlined in your letter..." He concluded with a threat and further expression of his anti-American inferiority complex. But despite Dillon's bigotry, inferiority complex, weak logic, and simplistic attempts at clever retort, the bottom line is that Basics Office Products gleefully funds Planned Parenthood.

In a statement to the media, Scott said that if he had to pick the one boycotted corporation he believes deserves the most attention it would be Basics Office Products. "Company officials demonstrated their anti-Christian bigotry time and time again during our discussions with them," Scott said. "If any company deserves to be picketed and highlighted, it would be Basics Office Products."

Tess' Lark Tavern (Albany, New York)

Hi. My name is Tess Collins and I own the tavern at

453 Madison Avenue

. I got a blackmail letter from you doodling something about Planned Parenthood. I couldn't believe it; how disgusting it is. I've never given Planned Parenthood money but I would like you to put me on the list anyway. They've had a party at my place because it's down the street. I want you to put me on the list because if this is the way you guys are going to behave--I have a very strong spiritual background and I don't want anybody from your company to come to my place. What you're doing is disgusting to me. I'm filing this letter with my lawyer so that if anything happens I will sue you. Like I said, I don't give donations to Planned Parenthood, but you can put me on the list anyway. You disgust me. My name is Tess Collins. My number is 518-212-8702. You can file that!

-- Tess Collins, Tess' Lark Tavern

LDI COMMENT: "Blackmail?" We have not demanded money. We have even said the business is free to support any organizations its owner(s) choose. But pro-life people have a right to information so they do not inadvertently help the business do so. Collins said she has a "strong spiritual background" but this apparently means it is okay to fund groups that kill God's creation so long as she's (unjustifiably) upset about the text of a letter she received. (Not exactly an example of commitment to her "spirituality.") Finally, if Tess' Lark Tavern does not support Planned Parenthood, why does Planned Parenthood say the company does so?

Grand Central Baking Company (Portland, Oregon)

We don't donate money to Planned Parrent hood [sic]. I think we may have donated day old pastry for an auction a while back. But with the shameless tactics you and your organization are using to shut down the vital service PPFH [sic] does for this country and the health of women, I'm thinking of writing them a big fat check. Shame on you! 

-- Ben Davis, Grand Central Baking Company

LDI COMMENT: So the donation was with product instead of cash. The fact remains that Grand Central Baking Company made a donation to Planned Parenthood. "Shamless tactics?" "Vital services"? We now see why Davis would want the name of his business associated with an organization that kills hundreds of thousands of human beings every year. He approves.

Pine Ridge Winery (Napa, California)

Please remove by all means our name from your mailing list. We will not support blackmail and extortion.

-- George Scheppler, Pine Ridge Winery Inc.

LDI COMMENT: It looks like someone needs to look up the definitions of some terms.

Newark Natural Foods (Newark, New Jersey)

A comment from Newark Natural Foods CO-OP in regards to your letter to us about supporting the Planned Parenthood Organization. We are somewhat disappointed at your tactics on how your are handling this situation. We will not change our decision based on your opinion and hope in the future that you will understand that it is a free world and we will always support our freedom. Please do not contact us again on this matter.

-- Karen Taylor, Newark Natural Foods

LDI COMMENT: It is a "free world"? Ever heard of Communist China, Communist North Korea or Communist Cuba? It is hardly a "free world." It is, however, a free country and LDI has always acknowledged the right of a business to support any organization(s) its owner(s) so choose. The desire to make this an issue of "freedom" rather than an issue of killing preborn human beings is understandable, particularly since there is no real defense to the latter.

Coco Rouge (Chicago, Illinois)

Get fucked you all have rotten souls.

It is an unacceptable and unAmerican practice to try and bully people into your beliefs.

-- Erika Panther & Jeremy Brutzkus, Coco Rouge

LDI COMMENT: Well that's rather strange. We don't recall ever trying to bully anyone into believing anything.

Irish Boat Shop (Harbor Springs, Michigan)

Yours is a bizarre letter. It would seem you feel that your judgment is suggested to be substituted for ours regarding what we do with our charitable funds. It seems to imply that we are just a bout too ignorant to make our own funding decisions. Isn't that rather arrogant of you?

We have contributed to local PP [Planned Parenthood] organizations for about 40 years. In particular our female employees urge and support that choice. A number of our employees have relied on PP at one time or another for economical, unbiased, non judgmental reproductive health care services. I am proud that our contributions helped make those services available.

I assure you that our support for Planned Parenthood will continue.

-- David H. Irish, Irish Boat Shop

LDI COMMENT: LDI's letter included educational material regarding Planned Parenthood. Irish Boat Shop was urged to stop funding Planned Parenthood in light of the evidence provided about Planned Parenthood activities and agenda. How Irish can conclude that LDI is implying that he is too "ignorant" to make philanthropic decisions is a stretch to say the least. However, intentionally reading things into the letter while ignoring what is really written is a common pro-abortion tactic.

The last word that could honestly be used to describe Planned Parenthood is "unbiased." As with all other pro-abortion business leaders, it seems that Irish has chosen to ignore the material that was sent to him. He is not interested in letting facts or truth get in the way of his political opinions.

Jungclaus-Campbell (Indianapolis, Indiana)

I read with acute interest your letter of 20 October threatening to put Jungclaus-Campbell on some boycott list and inviting us to avoid the boycott by pledging to withdraw our future support for Planned Parenthood.

Because we enthusiastically support Planned Parenthood, you have my permission to list Jungclaus-Campbell in boldface type!

-- F. Timothy Nagler, Jungclaus-Campbell Company Inc.

LDI COMMENT: Nagler apparently did not want to address the specific Planned Parenthood activities that he "enthustically” supports. We don't blame him as they are certainly indefensible.

Citybikes Workers’ Cooperative (Portland, Oregon)

Thank you for your letter of the 20th, in which you advised us that our company would be included on your boycott list if we continued to lend our support to Planned Parenthood. On behalf of my co-workers, we do appreciate the advance notice of your upcoming Boycott List.

We are a worker-owned cooperative. Our business decisions are made by consensus, including decisions on how we invest a portion of our annual profits back into the community. We proudly chose to support Planned Parenthood last year and will likely do so again should the opportunity arise in the future.

We await the updated edition of your Boycott List. Should you choose to include us, please be sure to list us by our official business name: Citybikes Workers' Cooperative.

-- Beth Hamon, Citibikes Workers' Cooperative

LDI COMMENT: Hamon chose to ignore all of the points made in our letter to the company.

Citybikes Workers’ Cooperative (Portland, Oregon)

Thank you for yours of Nov 1st. Let me clarify our position for you:

1) We are proud to be on your boycott list.

2) We are even prouder of our support for Planned Parenthood.

3) We've been receiving your empty threats for years. Unless you're prepared to actually picket our shop, you might want to save the paper and remove us from your pathetic little list.

Your "boycott" hasn't hurt our business one bit. Meanwhile, we will continue to support the work of Planned Parenthood.

-- Beth Hamon, Citibikes Workers' Cooperative

LDI COMMENT: Aren't numbers one and two basically the same? In any case, in number three, Hamon refers to a statement in letters sent to the company that "boycott targets may be subjected to picketing and other legal activities." First of all, the sentence clearly includes the word "may." There are many boycott targets. Frankly, Citibikes has not warranted being picketed--not yet, anyway. Furthermore, there is no way for Hamon to know how much business she has lost because of the boycott. Nevertheless, she continues to feign a position of strength and heroic defiance in her allegiance to those who kill.

Citybikes Worker's Cooperative (Portland, Oregon)

1.  We will continue to support Planned Parenthood.

2.  Your threats of picketing and boycotting are EMPTY and carry no meaning, as evidenced by our record sales and our location in one of the most progressive cities in the USA.

3.  We are honored to be counted among those who you call enemies.

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!

-- Beth Hamon, Citibikes Workers' Cooperative

LDI COMMENT: see above.

Jackson's Computer Services (Albany, New York)

My husband had already thrown out your letter, when I picked it out of the trash to see what "Life Decisions International" was and why you would be sending me a letter. I am really glad I did. I want you to know that my business, Jackson's Computer Services wants to be on your list of corporations that support Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood is an excellent organization that promotes women's health. Every child should be a wanted child, and in order for women to have happy, lives, they need to have control over their reproductive health.

In you letter, you threaten that corporations supporting Planned Parenthood may be targeted for picketing and "other legal activities" (whatever that means). You suggested that controversy is to be avoided because controversy is bad for business.

Women's rights are being taken away every day by the Supreme Court and the current government in power. As a woman, and as the owner of a woman-owned business, I must stand up for what is right. Supporting Planned Parenthood is one of the best things I can do to show my support for women and children's health. Obviously, you are ignorant about history, and how women and children's health suffered prior to the creation of modern contraceptives and reproductive health care or you wouldn't be sending out such false information about Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood is the most important advocate for woman and children's health in the world today.

If supporting Planned Parenthood brings controversy to my business, so be it. I will stand for what is right no matter what.

By the way, after retrieving your letter from the trash, my husband retrieved one from Planned Parenthood. Because of your letter, we realize that we really must send Planned Parenthood more money, and are sending a check today.

-- Lynne Jackson, Jackson's Computer Services

LDI COMMENT: Jackson is clearly an active part of the Pro-Abortion Movement as she has certainly mastered its empty rhetoric. For example, she used the slogan, "Every child should be a wanted child..." Taken to its natural conclusion, the slogan should actually be, "Every child a should be a wanted child, and if the child is not wanted, he or she should be a dead child." Yes, better dead than "unwanted." Of course, declaring another human being "unwanted" says nothing about the victim. It says something about the attitude of the person making the declaration. It's rather odd that the only human beings we ever label "unwanted" are preborn children. Sadly, Jackson essentially believes the "penalty" for the "crime" of being labeled by someone else as "unwanted" should be execution.

Jackson called Planned Parenthood an "excellent organization that promotes women's health." Exactly how does the killing of preborn human beings "promote women's health?" Even more shocking is that Jackson believes women cannot be "happy" unless they are allowed to kill their children before they are born. How sad.

What does LDI mean by "other legal activities?" Well, we mean other activities that are legal. Sounds pretty clear to us!

Controversy is indeed bad for business. Jackson has apparently not taken any business classes as this is a given. Had Jackson taken "Business 101"--in high school--she would know this to be true. But Jackson seems willing to place her political agenda and a zealous desire to allow the killing of human beings to overshadow the basics of running a business.

"Women's rights are being taken away every day by the Supreme Court and the current government in power"? Every day? We must have missed that. "Women's rights" have not been taken away, unless one defines "women's rights" as the right to kill children. And only a zealot would do that.

Jackson wrote that supporting Planned Parenthood is "one of the best things" she can do to show support for "women and children's health." In the second paragraph of this response we asked the question, "Exactly how does the killing of preborn human beings 'promote women's health?'" Now we must ask an even more important question. Exactly how does the killing of preborn human beings support "children's health?" Using this logic, the Third Reich was merely demonstrating its "support" for the "health" of Jews. This is utter nonsense on its face.

Jackson argued that LDI President Douglas R. Scott, Jr., is "obviously...ignorant about history." This is a rather interesting statement, especially since Scott is a licensed history teacher. Of course, Jackson declares that if Scott knew anything about history, he would agree with her. Besides, at no time has LDI advocated a ban on contraception.

LDI is accused of sending out "false information about Planned Parenthood," yet Jackson does not specifically state what was "false." This is because everything LDI releases is 100 percent true. And the source information regarding statements made about Planned Parenthood was included in the mailing Jackson received from LDI.

"Planned Parenthood is the most important advocate for women and children's health in the world today." If this is true, the Ku Klux Klan is the most important advocate for black Americans in the world today. Once again, Jackson presents us with nonsense.

Jackson apparently sees herself as some sort of hero because she is going to "stand up for what is right no matter what." Why were the original feminists passionately anti-abortion? The women's rights movement was anti-abortion until it was hijacked by radicals who wanted to turn the movement into something it was never meant to be. (If Jackson knew anything about history, she would know this is true.) They believe that turning a mother against her own children is somehow "liberating." We urge Jackson to join LDI in promoting long-term and life-affirming solutions to the problems women face when they find themselves with an untimely pregnancy. We urge her to reject death as a "solution." In the meantime, she is certainly free to support any group she desires, no matter how deadly.

Flying Pie Pizzeria (Portland, Oregon)

This letter is in response to the form letter sent to my office concerning my "Corporate Support" of Planned Parenthood of the Columbia/Willamette. I fail to see how the very simple donation of a $20.00 gift certificate at an auction in any way thrusts Flying Pie into the middle of this truly "Very volatile" issue.

For more than 18 years now Flying Pie has been heavily involved in our local community. We donate Gift certificates to all types of religious denominations (both parochial and non-parochial), charities, and many other groups. We chose not to pick sides, or to say one is less deserving than the other based on opinion, need, or in this case moral superiority. I do not intend to advocate for any group or to say one or the other is right. My views and beliefs are not expressed in the actions of my donations. To do so would cast a negative light on the fact that I'm only here to serve pizza to ANYONE who may chose to eat it. Every type of person is represented in my customer base. I do not tell someone they can not eat at my restaurant because they think one way or the other about an issue. Personally I don't want to know. Their opinion and actions should be, and are, none of my business.

It seems that the only real way for my company to not become embroiled in this controversy is to not make donations to any group or organization. This way I wouldn't be supporting either side of your chosen fight. I wouldn't be in the middle of saying that Christianity is better than Judaism or the Muslims. I wouldn't be stuck in the middle of the battle over taxes and the schools, or the environment, or even scholarships for underprivileged/non-Caucasian/female students.

It seems regardless of your personal view of how my business should operate that no matter what I do in your eyes would be "Bad Business." Please don't force me to not have my own thoughts, opinions, or morals. Whether they are the same as yours or not is unimportant, and quite frankly none of your business. Only the fact that I chose not to express them as being right or wrong is. Flying Pie Pizzeria does not and will not endorse any religious, political, or social position on any issue. If you choose to assume that I have done so is your own mistake and I would consider it slander towards my company. If you choose to include my "Corporation" in your boycott list realize that you are putting all other donations in jeopardy as well.

This letter along with a copy of yours is being forwarded to the local news agencies. I feel that you are threatening me with an unjust action and if any actions take place against myself or my restaurant I will hold you personally responsible since you have chosen to initiate it.

-- Ty DuPuis, Flying Pie Pizzeria

LDI COMMENT: We have to credit DuPuis for sending one of the most thoughtful letters LDI has ever received from a businessman that has supported Planned Parenthood. But his leaps in logic cannot be left without comment. And his flair for the dramatic would make any Broadway star jealous.

The manner in which a donation is made to Planned Parenthood is immaterial. The amount of the donation made to Planned Parenthood is immaterial. Planned Parenthood has hundreds of millions of dollars sitting in a savings account. It does not need the money. What Planned Parenthood wants more than anything is Flying Pie Pizzeria's endorsement. By making a donation of any kind to Planned Parenthood, that endorsement is provided. Why does DuPuis think Planned Parenthood publishes the name of his restaurant in its newsletter? It is inherently implied--and reasonably so--that Flying Pie Pizzeria, as a company, supports Planned Parenthood's activities and agenda. Had the donation been made in the name of the owner and not the company, it would not be a boycott target.

DuPuis claims his donations are not mean he is taking sides on any issue. If Flying Pie Pizzeria had donated money to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), would anyone say, "Well, this by no means indicates that Mr. DuPuis supports the group's goals"? Certainly not. If Flying Pie Pizzeria has donated money to the Ku Klux Klan or the campaign of David Duke, would anyone say, "Well, this by no means indicates that Mr. DuPuis is a racist"? Definitely not. In addition, if DuPuis would donate to anyone should the Klan and NAACP be asking for money? After all, he would not want to choose sides in a controversy.

"It seems that the only real way for my company to not become embroiled in this controversy is to not make donations to any group or organization," DuPuis wrote. This argument borders on the ridiculous, as does the rest of the paragraph (choosing between Christianity, Judaism, Islam, etc.). Few groups, if any, have the same kind of negative baggage Planned Parenthood carries. For the vast majority of charitable groups, no controversy would be involved. This is like saying, "If I have to make a choice, I'll give to no one. So there!" Not only is it DuPuis' responsibility to decide which groups are worthy of his support--and being associated with--it is his duty.

"It seems regardless of your personal view of how my business should operate that no matter what I do in your eyes would be 'Bad Business.'" This "poor me; there's no satisfying you; 'don't force me to not have my own thoughts'" approach begs the question. Furthermore, such statements are nonsense and overly dramatic.

It is inherently impossible to donate money to a cause and claim neutrality on that cause.

"This letter along with a copy of yours is being forwarded to the local news agencies. I feel that you are threatening me with an unjust action and if any actions take place against myself or my restaurant I will hold you personally responsible since you have chosen to initiate." Oh, pleeeeze. DuPuis needs to stop whining and look at this issue with eyes that are open and a mind that is business savvy.

FastSigns (Carrollton, Texas)

I am in receipt of your letter concerning Planned Parenthood. First of all, our company (FASTSIGNS International, Inc) has never made a donation to Planned Parenthood, however, I find your approach completely inappropriate and smacks of blackmail & extortion.

As a result, next time Planned Parenthood comes knocking on my door, I will personally give them a donation. I'm sure I am not the only one that finds your approach distasteful and offensive.

-- Gary Salomon, FastSigns International Inc.

LDI COMMENT: Actually, many corporate leaders have expressed their appreciation for the letter from LDI, which has been described as "clear" and "professional." After all, LDI could have just added the corporations to The Boycott List without first contacting them.

Let's see if we understand this. Salomon will donate to an abortion-committing and promoting empire because he doesn't like LDI's letter. Sounds rather childish, but this is certainly his decision.

Maybe "FASTSIGNS International, Inc. "has not funded Planned Parenthood, but one of its franchisees has done so. Of course, Salomon neglected to address this obvious fact.

Salomon was sent a list of some other examples of blackmail and “extortion."

Ex Floreus (Lake Forest, Illinois)

Hi. My name is Kim Merlin. I own Ex Floreus. It's a company in Lake Forest, Illinois. My address is 760 North Western Avenue, Lake Forest, Illinois, and I just got your letter and I am proud to support Planned Parenthood and will continue to support them financially, physically, emotionally and spiritually. So you can take me off your crappy little mailing list and I hope that you tell every single person who calls that plan--that I support Planned Parenthood. Thank you so much.

-- Kim Merlin, Ex Floreus Inc.

LDI COMMENT: Merlin seems to have an elementary predisposition toward sarcasm. In any case, we are happy to educate people about Merlin's support of an organization that kills children.

Night Kitchen Bakery (Philadelphia & Doylestown, Pennsylvania)

Hello. Uh, my name is Peri Abramsky. I am the pastry chef and general manager at the Night Kitchen Bakery in Philadelphia and, uh, this message is specifically for Douglas Scott. Um, we just received a very threatening letter from you and your organization and I just wanted to let you know that I think it's completely inappropriate that you're sending out letters that are threatening and trying to scare businesses away from donating money to causes that they believe in, and I just wanted to let you know that thanks to your letter, we're going to be significantly increasing our support to Planned Parenthood. So thank you very much, I'm sure they'll appreciate it as well. Have a nice day. Bye bye.

-- Peri Abramksy, Night Kitchen Bakery Inc.

LDI COMMENT: Yet another pro-abortion person who relies on sarcasm. Night Kitchen Bakery may send a billion dollars to Planned Parenthood if it so chooses. Someone seems to be missing the point. At least the billion dollars will not include one penny from pro-life advocates. Would Abramsky have preferred we not give the company a chance to do the right thing and just make Night Kitchen Bakery a boycott target?

Stargazers Vineyard (Coatesville, Pennsylvania)

My husband and I proudly support the work Planned Parenthood does. Abortion services are a small part of the services provided. We [sic] nor you have the right to force a woman to commit her life to bring a fetus to term. The individual and her doctor have the right to private confidential appointments and services. No one has the right to say how and what services will be conducted!

If you wish to stop abortion you should support education beginning in elementary school so that all persons know how all body systems including the reproductive system function! All persons should know how to start and stop reproduction. Facts! should [sic] should be taught by qualified individuals. Parents and clergy can provide interpretation. All persons' reproductive systems function according to their sex regardless of their religion. Education is the key for all body systems if you want a healthy society.

We are very careful with what we support and where we put our name. We want to support good health. The idea that you would waste so much time finding our name and address and threaten us for spending our money in a way we see fit is appalling! I would not want to be on any list you put out stating that you invade private medical and financial records and call in question peoples competence to know whether they are supporting a worthwhile organization.

We have done foster care and adopted 3 children whose parents could not care for them so our actions speak loudly! What have you done to support the unwanted children of the world??? [sic]

[P.S.] I reuse paper and envelopes to make a small "foot print" on the earth. We are a sustainable business and are powered entirely by the sun. You sir waste our resources, making copies of nonsense and threatening citizens. Why not protest the killing of thousands of Iraqis and Palestinians?

-- Alice B. Weygandt, Stargazers Vineyard Inc.

LDI COMMENT: Weygandt writes that, "Abortion services are a small part of the services provided" by Planned Parenthood. Yes, and slavery was only a "small part" of American society at one time. If a corporation were found to play a "small part" in the extermination of Jews during the Nazi era would that be a sufficient excuse? What if "abortion services" were a large part of Planned Parenthood? Would it really matter to Weygandt? Certainly not.

Weygandt accuses LDI of invading "private medical and financial records." This was not much of an invasion. Planned Parenthood made the information known in one of its publications. Does this mean Planned Parenthood is guilty of violating someone's privacy rights?

LDI did not call into question anyone's competence. We sent a great deal of information about Planned Parenthood to be sure business owners were fully aware of what the deadly group is all about. Maybe Weygandt knew it all, but several business leaders were shocked to learn about Planned Parenthood's darker side.

It is wonderful that the Weygandts' adopted three children. We trust they never told the children that if their mothers had killed them it would have been done with their blessings. And just what have we done to support "the unwanted children of the world"? Well, first of all, there is no such thing as an "unwanted child." And even if there were such a thing, it would say something awful about the adult who has that appalling attitude; it would say nothing about the value or humanity of the child. Secondly, an untold number of pro-life people have done a great deal to support children in need. The difference is that pro-life people do not view death as a reasonable "solution" to adult-created problems. Besides, if every pro-life person did every possible thing to help "unwanted children," would this change Weygandt's mind about Planned Parenthood. Just like Planned Parenthood's abortion business constitutes a "small part" of the empire, this "what have you done for 'unwanted children'" talk is nothing but a dodge and an attempt to justify killing.

It is great that Weygandt cares about the planet. It's too bad she does not care about every human being, too. And what makes her think we are not "protesting the killing of thousands of Iraqis and Palestinians"? If every pro-life person were doing so would Weygandt change her mind about abortion? More justification and dodging. Why doesn't Weygandt protest the killing of millions of preborn human beings? As for LDI wasting resources, one person's "waste" is another person's "treasure."

Crush LLC (Portland, Oregon)

Yes, teens are having SEX. get [sic] over it you IDIOT!!

I support them even MORE after reading this. THANK YOU!

here’s [sic] your crap back.

-- unsigned

LDI COMMENT: The person who owns this business chose to express a viewpoint by scribbling messages across our letter and every piece of literature we had mailed to the company. Scribbled across the letter was the message above.