Contact: Day Gardner, National Black Pro-Life Union, 202-834-0844, dgardner@NBPLU.com

MEDIA ADVISORY, Dec. 4 /Christian Newswire/ -- National Black Pro-Life Union's Day Gardner Comments on Planned Parenthood's New Marketing Strategy to Give Gift Certificates for Abortions.

Every holiday season we look forward to warm and fuzzy feelings of love--sharing memories and meals with family and friends. Every Christmas we are celebrating a birthday! 'Tis the season for hot cocoa, and snow--for trees and holly--for joys and toys--for little girls and boys!

But while millions celebrate the birth of a child on Christmas--Planned Parenthood is doling out gift certificates to kill a child.

Betty Cockrum, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Indiana, characterizes the response to the gift certificates as "pretty robust, and generally very favorable."

She stated cheerfully that the "gift" certificates can be used to kill babies.

Clearly, Planned Parenthood is making a mockery of the birth of Jesus Christ.

Looking back to the very first Christmas I'm sure Mary, was a frightened young girl--unmarried and suddenly pregnant, yet she believed God had a plan for her and her child.

If she had not given birth to her son, Jesus Christ--there would be no such thing as Christmas--HE alone is the reason for the season that Planned Parenthood so adamantly disrespects.

The Bible says God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. Just as He had a plan for Mary and her baby, he also has a plan for every woman or girl who becomes pregnant. Every mother and every child is important and through Christ, God will bless and keep them both.

The Bible says children are a gift (I Samuel 1:11). Psalm 127:3, states: "Lo children are an heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is His reward!"

Planned Parenthood is a billion dollar, money grubbing, baby killing machine. And like the Biblical King Herrod, who tried to kill Mary's baby, Planned Parenthood is on a rampage to kill as many babies as possible while spewing "Happy Holidays."

Join me in prayer. Let's all work to defund Planned Parenthood. Let's pray ferociously for an end to the killing of innocent children--coming together in the name of Jesus--I bid you Merry CHRISTmas!

Day Gardner is president of the National Black Pro-Life Union which was founded to serve as a clearing house to coordinate the flow of communications among all African American pro-life organizations and individuals in order to better network and combine resources.