Buy a poinsettia, fund an abortion!

By WND Staff


When Christian churches flooded their facilities with poinsettias to celebrate the Christmas season, odds are that at least some of the money they paid for the blooms will be dedicated to paying for abortions, a new report reveals.

According to the Corporate Funding Project assembled and released by Life Decisions International, the Paul Ecke Ranch business of Ecinitas, Calif., has been added to its Boycott List because of its support for Planned Parenthood, the biggest abortion advocacy organization in the world and the largest U.S. provider in the abortion industry.

Other corporations newly added to the list are BBJ Linen, which produces home products, and Carlson Companies, including its travel agencies and brand names Country Inns & Suites, Park Inn, Park Plaza, Radisson and Regent, according to Life Decisions.

Also added to the list released this week are restaurant chains T.G.I. Friday’s and Pick Up Stix, auto services provider Midas and InterContinental Hotels, including brand names Candlewood, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn, Indigo and Staybridge, the group said.

Officials at Paul Ecke Ranch declined to return multiple WND messages requesting comment. But on their website, they boast “approximately 70 percent of all the flowering poinsettias in the USA and more than 50 percent worldwide get their start at the Paul Ecke Ranch in Encinitas, California.”

The organization says it ships “several million vegetative cuttings” to growers in four dozen nations “and finishes thousands of potted flowering plants for Christmas.”

Its website explains how the family ownership team saw the flowers growing wild in the early 1900s and worked for decades to connect the bloom to the Christmas holiday season to build their business, including working with set designers for Bob Hope’s shows to make sure they were included each Christmas season.

LDI, which was incorporated in 1992, is “dedicated to challenging the Culture of Death” and concentrates “on exposing and opposing the agenda of Planned Parenthood.”



It periodically updates and releases “The Boycott List,” which identifies corporations that are boycott targets due to their support of Planned Parenthood.

“As a direct result of the commitment, action and prayers of pro-family people, at least 160 corporations have stopped funding Planned Parenthood,” LDI President Douglas R. Scott, Jr., said in a prepared statement.

The group estimates the boycott has cost Planned Parenthood more than $40 million since the Corporate Funding Project began nearly 16 years ago.

“This should be a testament to those who believe it is impossible to change corporate philanthropic behavior,” said Scott.

Corporations that remain boycott targets from a 2007 list include AlphaGraphics, Basics Office Products, Wachovia, Nike, Time Warner, Bank of America, the Dallas Cowboys, CIGNA, Walt Disney, Johnson & Johnson, Lost Arrow, Chevron, Wells Fargo, Whole Foods Market and Nationwide insurance, among many others, the group said.

Whole Foods has distributed statements denying any Planned Parenthood contributions, and LDI officials told WND they were aware of the statements but were maintaining it on the list because of the company’s policy that allows individual parts of the company to choose to make donations.

The new list also expands its “Dishonorable Mention” section, which pinpoints charitable groups that are “associated with Planned Parenthood and/or its agenda.”

Those include the YMCA, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Rotary Clubs, Human Rights Watch, Kiwanis Clubs, Doctors Without Borders, the March of Dimes, Muscular Dystrophy Association, American Cancer Society, Camp Fire, Girls Inc., Girl Scouts and Amnesty International.

“This has not been some sort of ‘Jesse Jackson boycott’ where we make news for a few days and then go away,” Scott continued. “Corporate officials are learning that those who value life are among the most dedicated people on earth. We will not go away until corporate involvement with Planned Parenthood comes to an end.

“The Pro-Life Movement will succeed only to the extent that pro-life people are willing to be inconvenienced,” Scott said. “The very lives of children are worth that much – and a whole lot more.”

The group also runs other programs including “Celebrating Chastity,” which involves giving information to teenagers and young adults that challenges them “to take a mature, long-term approach to such issues,” as well as “Celebrity Watch,” which identifies public figures who support Planned Parenthood and its agenda.

The boycott list, which is available for purchase through the organization’s website, is both copyrighted and restricted, because of problems that can occur when inaccurate information is attributed to LDI as it is distributed.

“Since the inception of the CFP, several individuals have published lists that allegedly identify corporate supporters of Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion entities. Unfortunately, many of these lists include inaccurate information and, by so doing, have undermined our efforts,” the group said.

Likewise, individuals or groups publicizing such information sometimes have included errors, “which has resulted in LDI receiving calls from unhappy lawyers because their corporate clients have been unfairly maligned.”

However, the LDI list, developed with years of experience, and updated regularly, is recognized “by virtually all pro-life/pro-family organizations” as the source of information regarding support for Planned Parenthood.

“Many good pro-life people are unknowingly participating in abortion by their daily purchases,” a supporter, Ruth Enero, wrote the company. “Luckily, LDI’s research provides an effective vehicle for countering the massive corporate funding of the abortion industry. Because the widespread use of the LDI Boycott List can bring an end to abortion, I talk up this organization at every opportunity. …”

 


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