On My Mind: Why I Won't Eat Girl Scout Cookies Anymore

"THIN MINTS... TAGALONGS... SAVANNAH SMILES...

DO-SI-DO'S...AND ABORTION???

OH, NO! NO! NO!

I have always liked Girl Scout cookies.  I've have liked them since I

was a little girl, when my mother would bring home boxes of

delicious Thin Mints and the original Girl Scout Shortbread,

which she had purchased from our local Brownie troop,

-of which my older sister was a member- for only 50 cents a box.

I think I might be dating myself here by naming the cost of a box of GS

  cookies when I was a kid, but that's really not my point in writing this post.

As I have grown older and considerably wiser, ( At least I think so)

I not only recognize that the world has drastically changed since

my childhood cookie munching days, but, unfortunately, so has

 the motive behind the selling of these delicious once-a-year treats,

although now you can buy them year round via Amazon.

The annual selling of Girl Scout cookies starts in my area usually

 during the late winter months  and are as traditionally American 

as baseball, hot dogs,  apple pie, and Chevrolet.  

"On my honor, I will try: To serve God

and my country, To help people at all times,

And to live by the Girl Scout Law."

-The Girl Scout Promise

Two Girl Scouts grace the cover of the March 1933 edition 

of "Good Housekeeping" Magazine

The focus of the Girl Scouts use to be primarily

  about serving God, family, and country, which

    was once viewed as an important and noble undertaking

   for American girls, as well as learning, through both team work 

and individual accomplishments, how to make the right moral 

 and ethical choices of responsible citizenship and for life.

Unfortunately, in 21st century America this is no longer the case.

I stopped purchasing boxes of those decadent caramel-and-

coconut-laced Carmel de lites-formerly called Samoas-

on the grim day several years ago when I found out that 

 the GSUSA organization were actively promoting

a pro-abortion agenda and Planned Parenthood.

According to a recent article from the LifeNews.com website,

in November 2018, an article in "Tucson Life" featured a story about 
an Arizona scout and abortion-rights activist, Meghna Gopalan, 
seeking to obtain the Gold Award, which is considered the
highest honor bestowed by the Girl Scouts of America

 for her work on behalf of promoting "reproductive health justice".

 "REPRODUCTIVE... WHAT?

The website further reports: "Reproductive health justice" is merely

coded language for advocating unrestrained abortion-on-demand

throughout a woman's entire pregnancy, even up to the day

and hour of giving birth.

Is anyone with a conscience and a healthy fear and respect

for the Creator, who at this moment might be indulging unaware on a 

 Thin Mint with their morning cup of Joe starting to gag yet?

This young woman going for the gold has also taken it upon herself

to educate (indoctrinate) others to "destigmatize access to women's

healthcare" which is yet another way of saying that she is promoting abortion.

  I've been seeing my Ob/Gyn for many years now and

never once have I been denied a basic routine examination or

access to a yearly mammogram.  In fact, I have always

been encouraged by my doctor to have a mammogram every

year since I turned 40 whether I think I need to or not.

Pelvic exams and pap smears, breast checks and mammograms.

Receiving adequate care and council before, during and after pregnancy.

These are the procedures and protocol of real healthcare for women.

Abortion is not, nor should it ever be confused with
 or linked to women's healthcare.

Abortion is the willful and deliberate taking of a human life.

But I can clearly see that even with all the irrefutable proof due
to modern advances in medicine and technology that abortion

 stops a beating heart, not to mention the amazing sonograms of

an unborn baby in the womb, the GSUSA has chosen to turn

a blind eye and a deaf ear to the cries of justice and mercy 
 for the most defenseless members of our society.  Perhaps like

certain members of Congress, they believe that kittens

are entitled to more protection in the womb than human beings.

Neither do they care about how many of those innocent,

sweet-faced little girls standing out there in all kinds of weather
trying to sell cookies to passersby in front of supermarkets and

 chain stores, or even in the sanctuaries of churches,

 might have their lives easily destroyed through abortion.

Like anything else in this lost and fallen world we live and

 endure in, with both the Girl Scouts and Planned Parenthood

it's all about the money.

"BUT HEY, IT'S ONLY COOKIES!"

(Here's the skinny on these fattening treats and just

who really profits from the sale of them.)

According to Bradley Mattes, the President of Life Issues Institute:

"When you purchase Girl Scout cookies, you may think that the proceeds

stay local, but only 10-20% is given to the local troop selling them.

The regional council gets approximately 65-75%.

GSUSA gets a royalty fee for each box of cookies, which based upon

their most recent IRS 990 form was over nine-million dollars.

GSUSA won't allow you to give money directly to the local troop

instead of buying cookies.  If you do, the money will be directed toward

purchasing cookies that will be given to a food kitchen or shipped to

our military troops.  Regardless, the same royalty fee is applied.

The only difference is you won't be consuming the cookies...

Regardless whether or not your local troop or council is 

involved with the advocacy of abortion, part of your money

will support abortion on the nation and global levels."

According to Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel for the American
Center of Law and Justice, "Planned Parenthood takes the lives
of over 900 unborn babies every single day- over 330,000 a year.
At the same time, they take $563 million of our taxpayer dollars."

The sale of cookies has become a matter of life and death in America today.