By Liz Townsend

As the people of Haiti try to deal with the aftermath of a disaster, pro-abortionists are busy raising money to restart their business. The International Planned Parenthood Federation Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR) is conducting an aggressive campaign to rebuild two abortion clinics destroyed during the January 12 earthquake, according to the Washington Times.

Pro-abortion groups have a history of using disasters to spread the culture of death to vulnerable women. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) offered free abortifacients to New Orleans women after Hurricane Katrina struck and to New York women after the attacks of 9/11. Although IPPF/WHR and PPFA are separate organizations, they are closely associated, the Times reported. PPFA included a link to the fundraising campaign on its Facebook page.

The Haiti clinics, run by a group called PROFAMIL, were located in Port-au-Prince and Jacmel, according to the Times. A fundraising appeal on IPPF/WHR's web site states that PROFAMIL has begun visiting temporary housing sites "to provide basic first aid, as well as obstetric care and family planning."

Pro-lifers are well aware that "family planning" is a common euphemism for abortion. Abortion in Haiti is officially legal only to save the life of the mother, but in practice abortions do occur for other reasons, according to the United Nations web site.

While pro-abortion supporters claimed that the fundraising effort would help provide obstetric care to pregnant women, pro-lifers were not convinced. "That's great spin, but it's not reality," Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, told the Times. "At a time when Americans are responding in a very compassionate way, Planned Parenthood is trying to go down there and create more victims by exploiting them at a very vulnerable time."