Abortionists for Sarah Palin
Friday September 19, 2008
Categories: Abortion
A reader passes along an e-mail he got from a liberal friend, asking people upset by Sarah Palin's elevation to donate money to Planned Parenthood in Palin's name. I've included the letter on the jump. It's tactically brilliant, I think,...
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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Would they send the card for a donation less than or equal to the postage necessary to send it? IE, give PP $0.25 so they'll spend $0.27 (plus the cost of materials) for a postcard?
If Planned Parenthood is paying for the postage, let's ship them bricks.
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I think the present moment calls for exactly this conversation! How timely!
This is one of the most childish, despicable things I've read in a long time. And badly written, too!
Margret E, why is it despicable? A contributor is simply informing McCain that Palin's selection has galvanized many to support Planned Parenthood.
"This is one of the most childish, despicable things I've read in a long time."
No surprise here. Why should we expect good taste or fair play from people who have crap morals? As someone said recently, "You can put lipstick on a pig..." or in this case, a whole herd of swine...
Got to hand it to PP, they know their demographics. And to think libs contend to be the party of compassion and empathy when all along their core reflexivism is based on smitery and pouring salt on wounds.
Leave it to backers of Planned Parenthood and supporters of Obama to bash the woman who could become the first woman Vice President. Now we know why talk of abortion being pro-woman or about woman's rights ist just that -- blabber. Abotion advocates clearly care more about abortion than about women. Women will break a key barrier if McCain and Palin win and they'd rather make sure an abortion business which brought in $1 billion last year gets more money. How hypocritical.
Steven Ertelt
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Don't you love the way they avoid saying "abortion", instead making a coy reference to "women's issues"? They know in their heart of hearts that their pet cause is revolting, so they try to dress it up as something benign.
Just more evidence the the so-called 'pro-choice/pro-woman' lobbyists are really anti-choice AND anti-woman. I'm not at all surprised.
They've been siding with the abortion industry instead of women for a few decades now, right? They claim they are 'pro-woman' because it helps them sell more abortions, cons potential customers into trusting them.
If Susan B. Anthony herself were running for office, they would oppose her (because Susan B. Anthony and the other women who started the women's rights movement were pro-life). Pro-aborts didn't start the women's rights movement - they infected it with a bad case of the bimbonic plague. They want 'abortion rights' so that females can behave as irresponsibly as the lowest of males. They only wanted equality with the lounge lizard type males. It's not mystery why the porn industry supports the abortion industry. REAL feminists know women can and should be expected to behave as responsibly as the BEST of males.
The pro-aborts would not have supported Victoria Woodhull, the first female presidential candidate either, because she was a strong opponent of abortion.
"The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus."
Woodhull's and Claflin's Weekly 2(6):4 December 24, 1870
The pro-woman pretense is just a marketing tactic.
Alice Paul, the author of the original Equal Rights Amendment (1923), opposed the later trend of linking the E.R.A. with abortion. A colleague recalls her saying:
"Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women."
Bashing Sarah Palin is just the latest example of so-called pro-woman (pro-abort) groups supporting the abortion industry INSTEAD of supporting women.
Planned Parenthood is more about birth control and education than it is about abortion. You conservatives are so concerned about women having no right to choose -- but then you want nothing to do with the problems that arise from unwanted children. I wouldn't wish the necessity of having an abortion on anyone, but I do think that each and every woman in this country should have the right to choose what's right for her.
If you are so against abortion, don't have one. It's as simple as that.
These are exactly the kind of nasty, childish tactics by Planned Parenthood, and exactly the kind of rageful, childish response by some of the above commenters, that we don't need in our country right now.
There are a lot of people out there like me who are pro-choice but who believe that "culture of life" issues are really important ethical and moral issues that we should be discussing like adults, not like squabbling children. Can't we please stop acting like bulls and charging every time somebody on the opposite side waves a red flag?
How about refusing to play that game and actually trying to have a civil and respectful discussion about our beliefs?
Perhaps it is easier to revert to Left Wing-Right Wing role-playing than to try and set aside our preconceived notions about each other, but it is a variation on "engaging in the same dysfunctional behavior and expecting a different result."
Planned Parenthood is not pro abortion. Both sides of the issue are pro life. Abortion should be the last resort, the first should be not getting pregnant. It boggles my mind that the anti-abortion people are also anti sex education in schools. Shhh let's not tell the kids about sex and then they won't know sex exists. Sarah Palin's daughter should be enough proof that abstinence teaching only doesn't work. I don't condemn her for getting pregnant. With well educated parents she must have known about contraception and chose to have unprotected sex anyhow. That's her choice. If a leader in our country can't get her own child to practice the very thing she is preaching (abstinence), how do you expect poorer less educated teenagers to do it. it is time to wake up and address the problem like the adults we are, not stick our heads in the sand and hope it goes away. We owe it to our kids to talk straight. Don't have sex if you are too young. If you end up having sex, use protection, not just to prevent an unwanted baby but for health as well.
I highly recommend the movie "Citizen Ruth," starring Laura Dern. Both sides of the abortion debate are skewered in a way that I found insightful and dead-on, and reminiscent of the old British Ealing Studios comedies (the ones that used to show the failings of both Capital and Labor, for instance).
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
John Stuart Mill
DGM, you are either a liar, ignorant, or just plain full of HU-HA. Planned Parenthood is absolutely pro-abortion. If that organization completely ruled the country, there would be abortion on demand up to the point when the baby was half-way out of the vagina.
Abortion is Planned Parenthood's number one revenue. An abortion costs between 600-900 dollars depending on the stage of the baby, oops I mean "fetus", oops I mean the "bundle of cells". Millions of abortions are done per year in USA alone. To calculate the overall revenue of abortion, one would just have to find out the exact cost of the "medical procedures" and get access to Planned Parenthood's total "surgery" stats. I'll double check whether abortion revenue is greater than the mass donations they receive.
It seems that pro-choice people list a list of problems from forcing people to be single mothers to having a lot of unwanted children in the world. I hardly ever see the pro-choice people engage the other side on the premise that the unborn child is a person. Perhaps it might interest you that most pregnant mothers determine that the unborn child is a person when they see a sonogram, and thus do not have the abortion.
Of course I am sure that there are some people that believe that the unborn are not people even though they do have their own DNA. I guess it's because they are not independent of the mother. That is to say they rely on the mother to get oxygen and nutrition. I suppose we should use the "dependence" explanation to justify infanticide since they are dependent on the Mother's Breast and just about everything else except for breathing. Moreover, I should be able to punch a pregnant women and not be charged for infanticide since it is not get a person. Or do my fellow opponents wish to tell me that the fetus is a person and not a person?
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