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Now is the Time to De-fund Planned Parenthood, More shocking videos

Thursday, February 03, 2011 1:10 PM Comments (27)

It’s time to finally de-fund Planned Parenthood. But we need to seize the moment. We need everyone’s help. The political climate is right and solid evidence has continued to mount:

Live Action has previously released more than a dozen hidden camera videos from ten states. This body of visual evidence shows several alarming patterns of illegal Planned Parenthood activities including cover-up of sexual abuse of minors, the skirting of parental consent laws, citing unscientific and fabricated medical information to manipulate women to have abortions, and Planned Parenthood’s willingness to accept donations earmarked to abort African-American babies.

Just this morning Live Action released yet another stinging undercover video (below) - yes, a different one than the new and completely shocking one I posted yesterday - that further confirms how extensive and corrupt the Planned Parenthood organization has become. These instances don’t appear to be anomalies, but seem to be fairly common occurrences throughout much of Planned Parenthood.

It’s time to de-fund them. No organization like this should be receiving over 300 million of our tax dollars every year.

Please blog about this, post to your Facebook, Tweet it, email it and contact your U.S. Senators and Reps. And then do it again tomorrow. There is enough momentum here that if we all give it the proper push, attention and outrage that it deserves we can get congress to take away Planned Parenthood’s U.S. tax payer subsidies. And any politician who defends Planned Parenthood or advocates for their funding should be run out of office. What an amazing victory this would be for all Americans. Women and their babies deserve much better than this. And we shouldn’t have to be complicit in it by helping to pay for it.

There is also an Expose Planned Parenthood Webcast, this Thursday (tonight), February 3rd at 8:30 PM, Eastern Time. Pro-life leaders will be discussing the next steps. Please tune in and get involved in fueling this important momentum to help women and their unborn children.

Watch the latest other shocking video here.

 

 

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Where are the other tapes from the other clinics? Could it be that this is a selective release of tapes?

If your logic is correct, then it’s also time to defund police departments when one policeman is caught on the take. Or, if a firefighter is caught as an arsonist, then all fire departments should be shut down.

Well - if you bother to click on the other link in the post that specifically talks about another incident…that’s two (and those were just released in the last two days). And if you follow links from the other post, it shows you a lot more from the past.

Additionally, you can just check here: http://liveaction.org/monalisa

That has over 8 examples caught on tape from the past couple years.

And to clarify, while I do believe that ALL PP’s should be shut down bc they do and support a lot of immoral things (such as abortions), here I was simply calling for OUR public tax dollars to cease from going towards such immoral and (quite clearly corrupt) activity.

By your “logic” Matt all catholic churches should be shut down due to priests f*%king children. At minimum the tax exempt status should be yanked because the whole organization is tainted from these clearly immoral acts.

ex catholic - I encourage you to seriously educate yourself…both on…


1) The difference between federal funding/subsidies and tax exemptions (allowing people/orgs to keep more of THEIR money)


2) And on the Catholic sex abuse scandal. If you’d like to learn more about the latter, I wrote more on that here: A Catholic Response to the Sex Abuse Scandal. There are numerous other resources as well if you ever decide to take a fair, educated, realistic view of it.


Peace be with you!

Now is the time to stand behind Catholic politicians like New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who is taking lots of heat for his excising of PP monies from the New Jersey State budget.  Interestingly, the key Senate proponent of funding PP in New Jersey, Democrat Joseph Vitale (“Catholic,” of course) from Woodbridge, represents the 19th district in which the Planned Parenthood clinic that was counselling abortion facilitators to lie about children’s ages (Perth Amboy) is located.  Let’s show we can support Catholic politicians who stand up for Catholic positions!

PP makes a lot of money on abortions; they don’t need the taxpayers subsidizing them at a cost of $300,000,000 a year.

Dear “Reformed Catholic” and “ex Catholic”—these tapes are not the reason to de-fund Planned Parenthood; they are merely the tragic icing on the cake.  The truth of the matter is that federal dollars are used to fund an organization which kills 3,000 children a day, and promotes a lifestyle which can only hope to increase its bloody revenue.

These are serious tax dollars, funneled thoughtlessly to a corrupt organization over the serious objections of millions of taxpayers.  If you think that these tax dollars are Matt’s only argument, then you’ve missed the entire 40 year long debate.  Open your eyes.

er. “tax dollars” = “these videos.”  Sorry about that.

The videos are very compelling, but do you know what happened after they stopped recording?  Do you know if the PP called the authorities? Just curious because I work in law enforcement and sometimes we’re expected to play along with the criminal to obtain valuable information that is used later in court to implicate them in the crime.  The more you engage them the more information you obtain. 


Don’t you have to pay for the abortions at PP I don’t think they are free?


Are there any other organizations that provide free pap smears for women who can’t afford them?  Pap smears save lives.

Wow, those free pap smears make it all okay.  I remember reading a German woman talking about how great the perks under Hitler were.  The parades, the vacations, the snazzy uniforms…  Evil is evil.  As Fr. Corapi says, “I’m not going to hell for anybody.”  Better to lose my life than my immortal soul.

I’ve taken your advice and blogged about this here:
http://acts17verse28.blogspot.com/2011/02/planned-parenthood-more-problems.html

We MUST let our Congressmen know that it’s time to stop using our tax dollars to fund an organization that has so little regard for the law. Even if I were pro-choice (and I’m NOT), I could never willingly lend any sort of support to an organization whose representatives would abet child sex slavery and performing abortion on demand for young children.

Delenda est Partu Meditato.

Reformed Catholic and Ex Catholic…Planned Parenthood is a corrupt organization.  According to the US State Dept, over 100,000 girls are trafficked into the US every year as part of the international sex slave trade.  Someone is supplying these girls with abortions.  It’s not an isolated incident.  LiveAction.org has been doing these videos for the last couple of years and in each incident, Planned Parenthood is more than willing to disregard the law when it comes to statutory rape.  Moreover, Kermit Gosnell, made 1.8 million dollars a year butchering women and killing live children.  Who was referring patients to him?  Uh…Planned Parenthood. In a time of huge deficits, de-funding Planned Parenthood is a no brainer.

I wonder why your initial reaction is to decrease funding instead of increasing accountability? Like it or not, planned parenthood does provide women’s health services to low income women who wouldn’t otherwise be able to afford them all across the country.  When I was a grad student with no healthcare coverage to speak of, the only place I could afford to take care of yearly exams was at a planned parenthood.

“I wonder why your initial reaction is to decrease funding instead of increasing accountability?”

LD, the reason is that PP makes plenty of money on abortions and can fund the services you received out of their profits and fund raising, without taxpayers being taped to subsidize their founding purpose - eugenics via abortion.

Three reasons to treat this as political kryptonite: Lila Rose, Andrew Breitbart and James O’Keefe. Pulling scams on one of the most liberal of liberals’ pets, Planned Parenthood isn’t the way to go, especially since they’re on to the antics of Breitbart and O’Keefe, especially.

The way to hit them hardest is to document the impact legalized abortion has had on the solvency of liberalism’s crown jewels of the social safetynet, which the rather creaky Paul Ryan grossly mischaracterized and slandered as a “hammock;” and I’m referring directly to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

This is one of Roe’s most damaging, albeit unintended, results since 1973. Yes, nothing can compare to the actual loss of the innocent children killed in abortuaries across the land. But a lot of elderly, disabled, widows, orphans and people relying on the two medical components of this safetynet have also suffered lately in terms of all the unnecessary worrying that these programs which they paid into will soon vanish at the hands of politicians with the souls of accountants ... Paul Ryan and his pals in Congress.

I’m very pro-life, but I’m also very much against the mean-spirited cheap attacks on the social safetnet and the good parts of the Affordable Health Care Act of 2010. I opposed it then, but now it’s the law of the land and bleeding it and other necessary components of this act and other programs designed to help mothers and poor families make the positive decision to bring their babies into the world must also never be sacrificed on the altars of Republican demagoguery about the need for “accountability, and personal responsibility” when their ideological donut hole resembles that of a gouged out hole in their Bibles and consciences where Matt. 25 should be.

I’m glad to see Planned Parenthood take it on the chin for once. But where the heck were all those bloviators and late-night opportunists who debated, or read their (very over the top descriptive) talking points ad nausem before when Planned Parenthood was picking our pockets for decades? We all knew the money was comingled, and yet when the Health Care Act was loudly debated, the issue of whether or not abortions would be funded was largely rendered moot thanks to the inattentiveness to what was already being funneled into PPF’s coffers as it had been for decades.

At least getting the Executive Order out of the most pro-abortion rights President in history might seem like slim pickings, but what did the so-called “pro-life” Representatives and Senators accomplish up to that point last March? Only one man, Henry Hyde, came as close. Barney Frank had so many “prolife” partisan bloviators in both parties and chambers nailed down when he said years ago that prolifers love the fetus before it enters the world, but then they have no compunctions in denying these children the health, nutrition, early education and other necessary programs to help them get fair shot in living healthier and fuller lives.

But Barney’s party is scared to death to admit what its slavish devotion to Roe has done to the programs these kids and so many members of the MOST SELFISH GENERATION are going to need eventually, what the GOP’s stingy “leadership” ... especially Paul Ryan, snidely referred to as a “hammock.” Hell of an example of a Catholic politician for our kids to look up to. Hell of an example, indeed.

And to think that the GOP couldn’t have come up with better strategies to argue their case against PPF in this most crucial of all domestic moral issues since ante-bellum debates over slavery, other than stale sound-bite talking points and relying on the skullduggery of Breitbart, Rose and O’Keefe. Hell of an example.

steven, your well written and thought out above comment deservers a much longer and better response than I am able to give because of surgery today that has my rt. arm in a sling that cannot be moved for 6 wks. And I’m rt. handed.

The public’s attention has to be raised to get it focused more clearly on the underlying issue.  That has not happened to until now.  And the murder of babies has not been sufficient to do that alone.  The exposure to those 3 you mentioned as gotten that attention.  Now, people are listening and are upset with what PP is, and are willing act.

Ryan’s phraseology was in context of a “safety net.”  He needs to make it in the context that the net is in shreds unless something is not done – and soon.

You should send a copy of your comments to him.

Thank you stillbelieve, and I hope your right arm heals quickly. I know that on the other comment thread (re: unions) I’ve given your hands, arms and head plenty of more reasons for hitting the ibuprophen bottle. YOur points about Ryan are right on, but there’s something about the guy that has me wondering when he uses that term “hammock” and comes up with this voucher plan to replace medicare. A “voucher”? Good Lord, the ultimate “don’t spend it in one place” deal if there ever was one. Until BlueCross/BlueShield is cleaned up and it’s turned into the non-profit it’s supposed to be, where CEOs aren’t compensated like Wall Street oligharchs, (which of course adds to the costs of premiums and certainly the lack of trust that’s bound to follow) it’ll be almost impossible to come up with a system that’s fairer than what we have now, and this is far from fair. These two articles are from today’s Boston Globe: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2011/03/05/blue_cross_at_the_trough/
and http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2011/03/05/no_wonder_health_costs_are_so_high/  Obama’s GOT TO CONTROL THIS and no matter how righteous Paul Ryan likes to come across, this rather unctuous pol who’s more at home schmoozing with the wealthy isn’t one I’d hold my breath in hopes of offering much more than the equal of a coupon for a MickeyD’s happy meal. It might buy you a coffee in a hospital snackbar. lol Best of health. And sorry I hadn’t gotten back to you sooner which would’ve helped me notice you were stuck with a recovery from surgery.

The right idea but inserted in the wrong string of amendments at the worst time. Even the House leadership is finding out what falling on the sword of the Pence Amendment can do to the rest of the nation’s business.
  Defunding PPF is necessary; but in this particular instance, it’s the wrong battle to pick at the worst possible time. What next, are enough prolife politicians going to get together and refuse to raise our national debt ceiling on this issue, thus forcing a cataclysmic economic crisis that’ll destroy our entire economy and how many lives will that save when we’re all reduced to the level of a Third World Banana Republic? Well, maybe the GOP is aiming for that all along. It’s always had a soft spot for the elitist social systems of the caudillos. Maybe the GOP should rename itself then the United Somozas of America. He was a real defender of the little ones. You betcha! And guess what happens after the people finally wake up and say no more to billionaire bailouts while cutting funds for child nutrition programs, Pell Grants, WIC, the EPA, and so forth? One day enough people will say, “No Mas” and we’d all better hope there’s no Sandinistas ready to take advantage of any power vacuum.
  But some folks just had to “make a point” and make the world more economically feasible for millionaires and billionaires. Pity the poor kids born into a world of such caring folks, who while lining their wallets with more redistributed tax dollars taken from the middle and poorer classes to pay for their tax breaks, are still crying crocodile tears for all that debt they’re trying to save our children and grandchildren from having to pay. Nary a word about having to pay for their $800B Christmas present last year. Nary. FDR was right when he said it’s awful that a full wallet groans louder than an empty stomach.
  And this bunch of “family values” pols has the nerve to call itself “prolife”?

@STEVE

“Defunding PPF is necessary; but in this particular instance, it’s the wrong battle to pick at the worst possible time. What next, are enough prolife politicians going to get together and refuse to raise our national debt ceiling on this issue…”


When is the best time to make serious cuts in discretionary deficit spending, especially easy calls like defunding PPH and the lefty NPR, and for that matter the $105 Billion the Democrats snuck into their Democrat party Obamcare legislation to fund that evil legislation, that if implemented, will bring about forced deaths.  If the government “shuts down” it will be because of the pro-abort Democrats, who don’t care a rip about doing what is right, they just want to keep on spending.  And besides, 40% of the federal government will continue to be funded, automatically, including Social Security and the military. 

Democrats don’t care about anybody other than themselves, and their power.  Just look at how the Democrats acted in Wisconsin - breaking into the Capital building, destroying property, threatening Republicans and their families with death, leaving a pig pen after they had to be carried out by police.  Even your devil Koch’s people, the Tea Party, were civil and respectful to people and property, cleaning up after themselves when they left.  No, Steven, the public is seeing what the real hearts of Democrats look like and it is not pretty.  But what would one expect from a party that thinks murdering babies is a woman and doctors right, and whose leader thinks infanticide is OK, too?  If the mainstream media covered the selfish, self center, bulling Democrats union thugs like they did the decent Tea Partiers, the American public would turn its back on the Democrats, even Catholics, but the media won’t expose their Democrat comrades in such light.

 

Steven, why are you soooo hostile and concerned about the wealthy?  Haven’t you heard about the sin of envy and coveting thy neighbors’ goods?

@stillbelieve. I don’t know where you got your reports re: Madison, but they’re the opposite of what I’ve received and those were a mixed bag of press sources and not one of them listed the things you came up with. Sounds like you’re sharing what that grossly unfair and often unhinged “news” network would come up with.
  As for your parting shot about envy with the wealthy. I don’t envy anybody who made billions by forming a huge conglomeration with his brother out of a firm that did business with Uncle Joe Stalin during the 30’s; the same said conglomeration that’s listed as the tenth worst polluter in the US at least. Sure couldn’t we all use extra money these days, but how much is enough as Bernie Sanders said during his Senate filibuster last December?
  For your information, there’s never enough to buy my soul. A quarter century ago while interning in Washington, I wanted very badly to land a job there. I was working in a college library, not a bad job, but certainly not earning what I was hoping to make if I could get a better paying job in DC. One informal offer came from a woman who noticed that since my senior senator was no less than Ted Kennedy, would I be interested in writing fund-raising letters, and you know what they’re like: attack jobs.
  I wasn’t then or later, one of Ted’s biggest fans by a long shot. But the very idea of taking an unpaid leave for three months to settle for taking what would’ve been basically a hatchet job to raise funds for some conservative pol or organization was beneath me; as it should be for any writer regardless of ideology. That could’ve led to other and better paying jobs perhaps, but it wasn’t worth 30, or how many pieces I might’ve been offered if I expressed further interest. Politely I declined, knowing full well I might’ve “blown it.” I’m not sharing this to point to any higher virtue on my part. And I’ll admit I can be very rough even for zilch.
  If I take on the rich, I do so because there are fewer people I find more detestable than the wealthy who’ve forgotten where they came from; wealthy who are born wealthy and feel almost entitled to their privileged status as if they were born to be born between third and home and see nothing odd with the fact their dads had the catcher hauled off the field well in advance. (What on earth else was that billionaire inheritance tax wipe out and other odious parts of that Christmas present for the uber-wealthy which the president unfortunately caved in on? Even if it really lasts only two years, how many kids could that have fed, helped to afford college, gone to states in order to pass further down the line so towns and cities can buy necessary replacements for old fire trucks, police cruisers and paratransit vehicles for the disabled and shut-in elderly? And of course, what about well-infant nutrition, Head Start and WIC clients, some of whom whose children we’re trying to save from the abortionists, have helped, too?) And I really detest many of the wealthy who were able to attend college due to government backed student loan programs; but whoa, as soon as they got a little taste of the good life, up went their drawbridges, mentally and fiscally speaking.
  Foolishly, when I was younger, I thought “trickle down made sense” until I realized how literal the wealthy and their well-heeled lawyers and lobbyists were taking the term. They whine “class war” whenever liberals or even moderates say “C’mon, enough’s enough” the moment they see how these shysters are able to make sure that there’s a lot more than a trickle flowing up to them at our expense. I hope you get a nice tax return. But if you don’t I wonder how you’ll feel knowing that Exxon received a nice fat one and it’s the world’s most profitable business. Exxon deserving of a tax refund as if it needed one to begin with? The middle class and poor in this country will never get their fair shake so long as they continue allowing just a handful of people to rob so many millions more. Well, maybe you don’t see the injustice of just four hundred families or individuals owning half of all the nation’s wealth; but most of us do. And most of us can see the danger this poses. Read up on Shays’ Rebellion, the French, Russian, Cuban and Nicaraguan revolutions. Thankfully only insurrection led to a positive resolution. And that was because the American merchants “got it right” in the aftermath of Shay’s Rebellion. Yes, our revolution was top-down affair, and so was the formation of the Constitution (following Shay’s wake up call) ... but I wouldn’t be so sanguine about our chances of surviving another wake up call; not after what today’s robber barons on Wall Street did after their bailout in 08.
  It’s not the wealthy that upset me; it’s the dumb and arrogant wealthy and the middle class’ too long history of going along for fears of losing their jobs if they speak out. They’ll lose a lot more if they don’t and damn soon.

@ Steven


Always amazes me how libs know how somebody else should be spending the money they earned.  What’s wrong with letting them spend it anyway they want, after all, it’s their money?  Your wanting to make them spend it the way you want is nothing less than coveting their money, one step short of stealing it.  If you don’t like that image of yourself, sorry, but that’s what I see, even if you don’t.  This non-coveting image of yourself, and your saying you didn’t see what I saw and heard in videos online from Madison WI, reminds me of an article I read a couple days ago dateline Oak Creek Wis. headline “Wisconsin Rifts Run Deep.”  It was about several people, family members that are divided in their positions on what was happening there.  This one husband and wife have been arguing for weeks about the Democrat Senators running out of the state; she’s a teacher and he’s a manager of a media-rating company.  She yells to him in another room, “How can you be saying what your saying when you’re married to a teacher?” He yells back, “You’ve got to look at the big picture!”  Another female teacher has a dispute with her siblings.  She emailed the four siblings to join her in Madison to protest Gov. Walker.  The siblings didn’t go.  The teacher didn’t return phone calls seeking comment.  But she did “defriend about 30 Facebook friends because of their views of the WI situation.”  She also commented in a doctor’s office waiting room when two people rolled their eyes seeing her Twitter from her Democratic rep.  They made a comment about the Democrats and she said: “We Democrats are polite people and Republicans are so divisive.”  Steve, Democrat just don’t see themselves: they couldn’t stand seeing how they really look.  That is why the Democrats mental illness called Projection.  They project on to their opponent their own negative images themselves and accuse their opponents of those negative images, while their view of themselves is like that teacher - that Democrats are polite and Republicans are divisive.”  Just look at how you describe the Koch family, you don’t even know them, yet you vilify their motives for doing what YOU say they are doing.

But enough of that.  Why didn’t you address the question I asked you about what you wrote, you know, about cutting spending?  I learn today that the American taxpayer is paying $4,000,000,000 A DAY in the interest on the national debt!  So, when do you think the Democrats should start being serious about cutting deficit spending, if not now, when?  Last year, the Dems owned the federal government, all of Congress and the Whitehouse.  But funny thing - they couldn’t, and wouldn’t, draft a budget for this year.  What kind of stewardship is that?  No wonder the taxpayers kicked their butts.

Taking a meat cleaver approach to cutting the budget across the board isn’t the way to go about it and that’s the way a lot of fiscal conservatives want to reduce spending. This rates down there with Pat Twoomey’s idea of cutting our deficit by telling our social security recipients and disabled vets “Sorry, but we have to pay China first, but don’t worry, we’ll eventually get around to you.” If you really want to nail the Democrats, hit ‘em where they’re softest by linking the deaths of 50 would-be working and tax-paying Americans whose presence would’ve surely enabled the government to have avoided the situation it finds itself now concerning the debt, deficit, losing programs (though PPF is VERY expendable, however bad the timing of the Pence Amendment was)and most importantly, the big social safetynet programs, SS, Medicare/Medicaid and the good parts of Obamacare. SOmebody’s got to tell them these programs need people to pay for them; and ghosts don’t pay.

Steven, SS is going to continued to be paid during a shutdown of govt..  Stop reading Dems propaganda. Medicare, and the disabled vets will continue,  too.  Medicaid is being dumped onto the states by Obamacare and the states don’t have the money.  But the $4 billion interest cost every day on the deficit has to be addressed and the Dems kicked the can down the street after dumping trillions down the drain protecting government union jobs and not helping the over all economy.  Time to pay the piper, and that means gov. unions have to be neutered.

@Steven

A Wisconsin radio show obtained this not-reported-by-the-liberal media email death threat:

“Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your families will be killed due to your actions [over] the last eight weeks. Please explain to them that this is because if we get rid of you and your families then it will save the rights of 300,000 people and also be able to close the deficit that you have created. I hope you have a good time in hell.”

Where’s the media outrage?

As NewsBusters reported, the media have routinely described Tea Party Conservatives as hostile, violent, and angry. Yet actual death threats made against Republicans aren’t newsworthy?

Go here for the full story and to take action with the MRC.


+ + Time Magazine Headline: “Dead Man Walker?” 
, following the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) in Tucson, the media sanctimoniously lectured the nation on curbing violent rhetoric and imagery.

Perhaps Time magazine didn’t get the memo?

On Saturday, they had the audacity to publish an article with the following headline: Wisconsin’s Governor Wins But Is He Still Dead Man Walker?

The article does provide a service in describing chalk outlines (the type TV police draw around murder victims) with Governor Walker’s name in them on the sidewalk around the Capitol.

@Stillbelieve. I never believed SS wasn’t going to be paid out because I knew it would be as it was in 95. My bringing up SS was to point out where liberals supporting both ROE and the social safetynet programs are doing themselves, and the nation as a whole for more than just safetynet programs over the long haul. And I think we can agree that a second-to-none military is the guarantor safetynet program to save all the rest.
  Newsbusters is hardly an unbiased source of news, just as Alternet, Salon and Mother Jones. As for Time, well ... even the biggies blow stories too. But Fox makes a habit out of doing this; an institutionalized habit, which for a major supposedly responsible media outlet, is supremely and colossaly stupid and the viewers catch on to this, just as readers have long lost any confidence in the New York Times, which only fits the stories it deems that its sychopantic pals in the upper East Side, Georgetown and academic towns across the country would agree are fit to print. Somewhere in the middle of all these competing ideological sounding boards, we’ll find the real truth of the matter on any issue. However, from everything I seen thus far about the teachers’ demonstrations in Madison, they’ve been by and large extremely peaceful and they never would’ve been able to get the support of the police and fire unions’ members to join along with them if they’d been anything but law-abiding and respectful. That a handful of troublemakers got in and messed things up is a shame. But, also remember what Walker was talking about in his conversation with the prankster who pulled the political wool over the greenhorn gov.
  We (meaning anybody reading and commenting along this particular subject thread, abortion) should be trying to come up with ways to get the media to see the wider scope of what the loss of 50 million people will mean to this country. We’re not a nation that goes along with the Stalinist mathematics where he said a death or two were “tragedies” but millions were but statistics. That’s not what we as Americans are supposed to stand for. It doesn’t require dragging up comparisons with the German Holocaust or even Stalin’s liquidation by enforced starvation of the Ukrainians prior to WWII. Even Mao’s millions of murdered victims rank differently because abortion represents what we as a nation, have legally allowed to happen during our lifetime all in the name(s) of one various inconveniences after another. And the people killed were innocent defenseless children.
  The most insidious reason given to defend Roe was and even remains: privacy rights. While it certainly gets ripples of laughter envisioning some lawyer defending polyamory, or any form of “consensual” acts adults wish to engage in ... it certainly becomes a lot more serious when one considers that giving people a blank check on privacy rights can allow a group of conspirators to gather in somebody’s house to plot criminal acts against the government or plot a hostile stock take over of a company based on information gathered from insider trading. Far fetched? I think not because if the law can justify a mother, be it on her own volition or through the manipulation and pressure of others, taking the life of her unborn child ... a lot of other horrible crimes can be dismissed on the grounds that the government has no rights when it comes to what people do in the privacy of their own homes. Wife beaters, molesters, people planting cell phones to surreptiously film sex acts for blackmail. Where does it end? Surely, a lot of these cases smacking of pure set-ups can be dismissed, but at what cost to the injured innocent victims? Remember the Rutgers student who jumped off the Geo. Washington Bridge last year? Regardless of how we feel about homosexual acts, in this cyber age which has at its disposal such an elastic ruling on privacy to allow people to put their unborn children to death, the prospects for abuse are terribly frightening.
  For those of us who are not lawyers, but concerned citizens, we must use the statistic of 50 million and put it in human terms; lest we become like Stalin and allow the supporters of Roe to continue getting away with their Stalinist equation. Many of them probably don’t even have a clue as to what this number means now and in the future. If we can get this number out and plaster it in such a way so as to say, LOOK AT ALL THESE PEOPLE WE LOST ... it might help to turn the battle.

@Steven -

“Newsbusters is hardly an unbiased source of news.”
“Time, well ... even the biggies blow stories too.”
“But Fox makes a habit out of doing this; an institutionalized habit, which for a major supposedly responsible media outlet, is supremely and colossally stupid and the viewers catch on to this….”

The trouble with your analysis of news outlets is that the most important thing they need to be able to do is report the truth.  So, your first quote is meaningless because they always report the truth.

Your second quote is Time, but time didn’t “blow” a story, they reported it in the context of their liberal position, using terminology that we thought was inappropriate according to our leader, President Obama.

But your worst misconception has to do with Fox.  If people want the truth and honest reporting, they turn to Fox.  That is why their ratings trounce those of all other news outlets, especially their cable 24 hour outlets.

As for your “LOOK AT ALL THESE PEOPLE WE LOST ...” that would not move those opposed to abortion, but may cause the rest to rethink how abortion impacts their lives.  Not necessarily the best way to reach them, but any port in a storm would do.

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