Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards Is In The Business Of Offering Parenting Tips

Please excuse my millennial speak, but there’s simply no other way to put this. I CANNOT EVEN.

Dallas News recently ran a piece by Cecile Richards, and it’s titled– I kid you not– “10 parenting tips from Cecile Richards, head of Planned Parenthood and mother of 3.” The entire article is an excerpt from her book, “Make Trouble.”

10 parenting tips from Cecile Richards, who ran Planned Parenthood while raising 3 kids https://t.co/k6KzS2NYXS

— DMN Opinion (@DMNOpinion) March 28, 2018

The woman who makes a living by championing the MURDER OF INNOCENT BABIES is interested in giving us parenting tips. How lovely of her!

I can’t help but scoff at some of her “insights.”

When I told Kirk I was pregnant, we both just sort of sat there, excited and stunned. How could we make this work? Was I going to drive across Los Angeles visiting janitors and walking picket lines with a baby strapped to my back? (The answer, as it turned out, was yes.)

In the end we came to the same conclusion millions of people do: there was never going to be a “perfect” time to have kids, but just like everything else, we’d figure it out.

Um, why don’t you tell that to ALL girls who are looking for solutions? Instead, you and your disgusting organization encourage them to murder their babies.

It gets worse. Get a load of some of her “tips.”

Raising kids is the ultimate serenity prayer.

One lesson I learned immediately was how little impact parenting can have. You can do everything right, provide love and encouragement, and yet still raise a child who becomes a right-wing fanatic just to spite you — every progressive parent’s nightmare.

THAT’S a progressive parent’s worst “nightmare”– their kid being a conservative. Forget your kid falling into drugs or becoming a domestic abuser. Becoming a conservative– that’s the nightmare scenario.

Get comfortable making others uncomfortable.

I know all three kids secretly wished that at least once, on career day at Lafayette Elementary School, one of their parents was a firefighter or librarian or something they knew how to explain to their friends.

We were always going up against some tough adversary, and the dinner table conversation was usually about some injustice somewhere or our overwhelming frustration with the political scene in Washington.

One day Daniel came home and announced that his third-grade classroom had been talking about what they wanted to be when they grew up. He had decided he wanted to be a potter. Daniel had not shown the slightest talent or interest in anything artistic. “That’s great, Daniel!” I said. “What a fascinating thing to do. How did you decide that?” “Because, Mom, nobody doesn’t like a potter.”

A little bit of my heart broke that night, and I realized how much he and his sisters had internalized some of the toughest parts of life as an activist. That’s the life Kirk and I chose. As a result, the kids learned that not everyone is going to love you, and that’s okay.

Hey– if my mom was in the business of encouraging young women to murder their babies, I’d be utterly horrified too.

Someone always has to be the mom.

I know even as I write this that some people aren’t going to like it. But this is the truth: No matter how evolved you are, no matter your family makeup or the gender roles in your home, in any family with kids, someone has to remember birthdays, make lunches, keep track of doctor’s appointments, give pep talks, and coordinate after-school activities and holidays.

For most of history, and often to this day, the default expectation has been that those responsibilities are women’s work. There are all kinds of families. Sometimes “the mom” isn’t a mom at all. Sometimes it’s a dad or a grandparent, an uncle, an older brother, or a sister. The point is, someone has to keep the wheels on the whole operation.

Interesting how reluctant she was to say this, no? It’s almost as if the roles mothers and fathers take on are distinct and equally important or something.

Nothing is more motivating than seeing generational progress through your kids’ eyes.

Having a mom who worked for Planned Parenthood came in handy for my kids more than once. At the very least, by the time they were in high school, our apartment was where one could always find condoms.

And why exactly is that something to be proud of, might I ask?

There are some basic life skills every kid needs, whether or not they’re an activist.

At the end of the day, all we can do is make sure that once our kids are launched, they have the basic life skills that are necessary for survival and joy. Most of all, I hope my kids, and all kids, have the confidence and opportunity to follow their own paths in life — to take risks and do what makes them happy. And if, in the meantime, they change the world along the way, so much the better.

She hopes kids– who survive birth, of course– “have the confidence and opportunity to follow their own paths in life — to take risks and do what makes them happy.” Unless of course they’re a conservative. After all, that’s the nightmare. There’s nothing more horrific.

Her “tips” are laughable and only highlight her innate inability to be a good parent.

I am not interested in parenting tips from somebody who slaughters babies and hacks up their still-living little bodies to sell the parts for profit.

— June Swinford (@jallenecs) March 28, 2018

Rule 1 – Dont kill ‘em

— Conservatis Maximus Americanus (@IHateLeftists) March 28, 2018

What shocks me most about this is that she has 3 children: she actually let 3 live…

— HARyder ❤☘ (@HARyder) March 28, 2018

Noticeably absent from this list is “Don’t kill your children”.

The ignorance is strong with this one.

— Baron VonFezziwig of Pondwater-Upon-Gabardine (@BVonFezziwig) March 28, 2018

Alternate headline: “How to Raise Kids While Killing Kids”

— RUSSIAN BOT #221.8b (@MasturbatinPete) March 28, 2018

I’m sorry (no I’m not), but I cannot take parenting tips from someone who champions the slaughter of innocent babies.

h/t Twitchy