By John Jalsevac
February 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a press conference yesterday Sarah Palin criticized the e-mail campaign that was launched in the lead-up to the election, in which people were urged to donate to the nearest Planned Parenthood in Sarah Palin’s name.
“I have boxes of thank-you notes from people associated with Planned Parenthood thanking me for the donations,” she said during a press conference. “It’s political theater—it’s great theater, I guess, for some.”
According to Clover Simon, Alaska vice president of Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest, the e-mail campaign, which Planned Parenthood says was not initiated by the organization itself, raised over $1 million.
The e-mail which was forwarded around said, “We may have thought we wanted a woman on a national political ticket, but the joke has really been on us, hasn’t it? Are you as sick in your stomach as I am at the thought of Sarah Palin as Vice President of the United States?”
“Make a donation to Planned Parenthood. In Sarah Palin’s name. And here’s the good part: when you make a donation to PP in her name, they’ll send her a card telling her that the donation has been made in her honor.”
Palin said that while she and Planned Parenthood may “agree on a mission here that we’d like to see fewer and fewer abortions, I, embracing the culture of life, have perhaps a different approach in how I would like to see that goal reached.”
The donations are “not going to change my views or the views of many other Alaskans who believe every life is precious,” Palin said.