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The Oxymoron of Planned Parenthood

Three recent events have exposed the stark contrast between Planned Parenthood’s (PP) talk and their walk. The obvious contradiction between their name and their near-universal advocacy of abortion for every pregnant woman entering their office is apparently just the tip of the iceberg. Two cases in Ohio and an undercover investigation in California may drain the swamp at PP clinics, exposing secrets lying stagnant for decades. Why should you care? Because you pay their bills.

In Ohio, a 14 year-old-girl was the victim of sexual abuse by a 21-year-old soccer coach. He took her to a PP clinic where she used a school I.D. and he paid with a credit card, and showed his driver’s license. According to court records, the clinic employee failed to report the abuse to law enforcement as required by state law. There are similar cases in Kansas and Indiana.

Another Ohio teenager was sexually abused by her father for five years beginning at age 13, becoming pregnant at 16 when her father forced her to have an abortion.  The girl says she told a clinic worker her father had repeatedly raped her, but again the clinic failed to report the crime. The abuse continued for another year-and-a-half before the girl finally went to a school counselor who then reported the information to authorities. John Blanks, Jr. was sentenced to five years in prison for five years of raping his own daughter. The girl has now filed suit against Planned Parenthood saying she suffered nearly two years of abuse that could have been prevented if the clinic employee had obeyed the law and reported the abuse.

In California, Lila Rose, a female college student writing an undercover investigative story for a school newspaper secretly videotaped her interaction with a Santa Monica clinic employee. Rose told the clinic worker she was a 15-year-old who had been impregnated by her 23-year-old boyfriend. The clinic worker, required by California state law to report the pregnancy since the girl was under 16, told Rose to lie about her age by “figuring out a birth date that works,” to make her appear older and skirt the law. Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California President Kathy Kneer admitted the worker broke the law, but decided to show how concerned she is for women’s health by focusing on the method used to expose the crime instead of the crime itself. Kneer called the undercover methods “manipulative,” and has filed a cease-and-desist order to prevent Rose from further exposing the clinic’s actions.

All three of these clinics receive millions of dollars in federal grants every year. Glad to know my taxes are giving law enforcement something to do. I guess finding that “right” to abortion-on-demand in the Constitutional “penumbra” isn’t so bad after all. I mean, if taxpayers are forced to fund abortion rights, then maybe I can get federal money to fund my right to bear arms and use federal tax money to buy handguns from reputable dealers. That way I wouldn’t have to buy them in those scary back-alleys where Planned Parenthood says abortions used to be performed.

As these three cases unfold, more are coming to light. A group called Life Dynamics conducted a phone campaign in 2002, having a woman posing as a pregnant 13-year-old call clinics operated by both PP and the National Abortion Foundation. Life Dynamics said they’ve collected over 800 tapes with clinic workers saying things like, “[T]ell them your boyfriend is 16 or something because he could get in a lot of trouble," and, “I wouldn't advise you to say anything about your boyfriend being 22, because that's statutory rape."

Consequently, PP is now circling the wagons and resorting to the standard ploy of attacking the victims instead of addressing the problem, saying many of these girls are pawns of conservative organizations. But none of these girls went to political action groups with their stories; they went to law enforcement and private attorneys for help. Now that those officials have kicked the anthill, all kinds of things are turning up and PP officials are scurrying for cover.

Do these clinics have a right to exist? Sure they do. Do they have a right to our money to fund criminal activity that enables predators to abuse young girls for years? Absolutely not.

And guess what money Planned Parenthood will use to defend themselves in court?

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Liberals Can't Contain Themselves

I’ve noticed an amusing (and somewhat pathetic) trend in recent days. As the newly-minted Democratic congressional majority enters the last stages of settling in, liberals across the country feel emboldened to wave their flags proudly. Gone are the stifling days of conservative control with its high-sounding morals and musty absolute truth by which we were all judged. Enter the crisp days of freedom with their bracing winds of change bringing acceptance and equal treatment for all.

That’s what liberals would have you believe anyway, especially those grappling for the Democratic presidential nomination. But here’s the irony: The more emboldened they become to preach their brand freedom, the more they expose just how loony and out-of-touch they are with a majority of Americans, the very group they claim to represent. Try as they might, they just can’t conceal their true agendas for very long.

A few examples:

It seems Hillary’s campaign is trying to regain balance after slipping on loose gravel thrown in its path by the Family Research Council (FRC). After news leaked that Clinton accepted $800,000 dollars from a fund raiser hosted by misogynistic sleaze rapper Timbaland, FRC encouraged folks to contact campaign headquarters and voice their opinion, which they did. How did the campaign respond to complaints that Hillary accepted money from a profane performer? Apparently by using profanity themselves. The FRC’s Tom McClusky said he was on the receiving end of a string of F-bombs dropped by a campaign worker. Campaign leaders later said the worker's comments were not consistent with the kind of tone they’re setting. Notice the response did not condemn either Timbaland's or the campaign worker’s use of profanity, but merely said the language could have been communicated in a way more consistent with the tone of the campaign.
Hey Hillary, here’s a way to get those female votes; just use money from a crowd that enjoys hearing performers rhyme about various ways to use women as objects for sexual abuse.

Then there’s John Edwards, tap dancing his way to the bank while looking appropriately sympathetic for the poor. Edwards said the time he spent reaping from, I mean working for a hedge fund gave him an opportunity to learn how monetary markets relate to poverty. I guess the lesson being, “I’m rich and they’re poor. Yep, we’re different all right.” The millionaire candidate loves to trot out his father’s blue-collar occupation but neglects to inform his fellow “common man” just how much money sits in his account. He’ll fight for you all right, assuming the retainer is large enough.

Lastly, is a bizarre man who thinks the world can be saved by genocide. Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society says humans are a disease and their numbers should be reduced by more than five million. We’ve all heard kooky ideas like this before, most falling under the eugenics movement championed by folks like the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger and the liberal’s favorite boogey-man Adolf Hitler.
How come people who believe the human race should be smaller never think of starting with themselves, as an example to us all?

While it was a setback in the battle to restore America to her conservative roots, last November’s elections may have done more to advance traditional ideas than a continued Republican majority. If liberals will only keep talking, their true colors will be revealed. Time is on conservative’s side, because no one can double-speak forever.

Well, maybe Jesse Jackson.



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