Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards has joined her pro-abortion colleagues at NOW and NARAL in blasting John McCain’s selecton of pro-life Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate.

Richards claimed woen have no reason to be excited about her selection despite her status as the second woman to ever appear on a major party presidential ticket.

That’s because she worries Palin takes an even stronger pro-life stance on McCain and will be just one step away from becoming president.

“What might have been encouraging news for women was just the opposite — somehow McCain had managed to find a woman running mate even more conservative than he is on women's rights,” Richards compained.

Richards called the naming of a pro-life woman to the ticket “heartbreaking news” after an “inspiring” week at the Democratic convention that saw Democratic delegates officially nominate pro-abortion presidential candidate Barack Obama and his pro-abortion running mmate Joe Biden.

In the statement LifeNews.com obtained, Richards says there is no chance a pro-life woman can complete the mission of Hillary Clinton, who hoped to be the first woman to be elected as president or vice-president.

“Right now there is so much shameless rhetoric from the Republicans about breaking the glass ceiling, especially from McCain and his running mate. What good does it do to break a glass ceiling with a woman who wants government to control women's reproductive health,” Richards said.

Of Palin’s view that, instead of abortions, women be given pregnancy help, support and better alternatives, Richards said, “That isn't the world I want for my two daughters.”

The head of the nation’s largest abortion business admitted that she doesn’t just oppose McCain’s naming Palin as his running mate, she’s furious about the decision.

“I'm still having trouble expressing the depth of my anger about McCain's choice of a running mate,” she said. “This shameless pandering to women — with a woman who doesn't trust other women to make their own decisions about childbearing — has really got me going.”

Both sides of the abortion debate appear to agree that, with the Alaska governor on board and both tickets complete, that there is a considerable contrast on abortion
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“The stakes in this election just got unbelievably higher. More than ever before, the November 4 election is the most important vote for women's rights of my generation,” Richards said.

“If you can only do one thing, it should be to tell every woman you meet that McCain and Palin are the most anti-choice, anti-women pair imaginable. Don't stop at just telling your friends. You can bet that I'll be telling strangers in the checkout line at the grocery store, the women I see at the gym, parents at my kids' schools,” she encouraged abortion supporters.

In closing, Richards provided a preview of the kind of attacks McCain and Palin can expect over the next eight weeks that remain in the election.

“Women trust other women to tell them the straight truth — and the straight truth is that McCain and Palin would take us back to a time when women had absolutely no right to decide whether or not to have a child,” Richards alledged.

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