Thought you were just getting low prices huh? Think again. Once again, Walmart proves it’s corporate citizenship.

Today is National HIV Testing Day. Planned Parenthood’s Teen Council, a group of young Tri-Cities Leaders, were scheduled to be outside of the Richland, WA Wal*Mart distributing information about HIV Testing and Prevention… until the extremist anti-choice group the American Life League stepped in!

Sad deal that Wallmart exec’s aren’t quite paying attention to one particularly glaring fact… HIV kills people. Testing and Prevention saves lives. And judging from the American Life League’s communications director, Katie Walker, they approve. The very first sentence of the recent post of ALL’s web site I find this…

Surfing through pro-abortion blogs and web pages, I’m always amazed at the twisted mentality that makes heroes out of killers.

I’m a bit confused… A group of kids want to promote education on aids and gets shot down by some anti-abortion group that convinces Walmart to ban them from providing testing and prevention information on Aids? Well, just a quick FYI for ALL… while your beef with Planned Parenthood over abortion will likely be ongoing (and there is little any of us can do about that), pregnant women get HIV too. It’s a virtual death sentence for both mother and child.

How the terms abortion and HIV get in a context of this sort of ideological dispute I can’t fathom. But if ALL is all about saving babies, they should be handing out HIV testing and prevention information themselves.

As far as Walmart is concerned, their own slogan appears to be the pinnacle of hypocracy…

Save money. Live better.

Nice…