{"id":94836,"date":"2016-05-25T04:23:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T08:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=94836"},"modified":"2016-05-27T13:46:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T17:46:51","slug":"planned-parenthood-launches-new-propaganda-campaign-in-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-launches-new-propaganda-campaign-in-tennessee\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion leader Planned Parenthood launches campaign to promote abortion as not morally wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>On Tuesday, Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region and Planned Parenthood of Middle and East Tennessee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/news\/planned-parenthood-aims-to-combat-abortion-stigma-with-tennessee-stories-project--338a9551-135e-2328-380658491.html\">announced<\/a> a new initiative called the Tennessee Stories Project, which aims to normalize abortions by sharing positive testimonies of women who had them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Tennessee Stories Project rejects the premise that abortion is morally wrong or socially unacceptable and is working to promote a culture of compassion in Tennessee,&#8221; PP Greater Memphis Region CEO Ashley Coffield said. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In addition to hosting stories, the project&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/tnstories.org\/\">website<\/a> offers speakers for community events and encourages pro-abortion activists to host reading groups on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While one in three American women will have an abortion during her reproductive lifetime, many of them experience silence, fear, shame, and a sense of powerlessness,&#8221; Coffield continued. However, the original study the &#8220;one in three&#8221; claim came from actually said it was 30%, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.not1in3.com\/\">warned<\/a> even that was not intended to be taken as a \u201cprecise measure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee organizations partnering with Planned Parenthood on the project include Healthy and Free Tennessee, National Asian Pacific American Women&#8217;s Forum, National Council of Jewish Women-TN, the Sea Change Program, and SisterReach.<\/p>\n<p>The premise that opposition to abortion would cease if positive abortion anecdotes were more widespread is <a href=\"\/news\/medias-abortion-blinders-on-full-display-in-piece-about-satanists-abortion\/\">popular among pro-abortion activists<\/a>, but many similar attempts to the Tennessee Stories Project over the years have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/blog\/terence-p-jeffrey\/37-straight-gallup-polls-majority-abortion-should-be-illegal-all-or-most\">failed to make an appreciable drop in pro-life attitudes<\/a>, primarily because they fail to account for the perspective of the baby killed by abortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region and Planned Parenthood of Middle and East Tennessee announced a new initiative called the Tennessee Stories Project, which aims to normalize abortions by sharing positive testimonies of women who had them. &#8220;The Tennessee Stories Project rejects the premise that abortion is morally wrong or socially unacceptable and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":57362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[5942,19,8860,14,8859,6478,6614,2503,690,8858],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Planned Parenthood launches campaign to 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