Posted on 03/03/2016 7:42:46 AM PST by Kaslin
Allow me to make an extreme comparison.
Along with their murderous, barbaric policies and practices, the Nazis engaged in serious medical research, and some Nazi doctors, like Prof. Dr. Julius Hallervorden (1882-1965), a famous neurologist who became head of the Neuropathology Department of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research in 1938, continued to advance their medical research after the Holocaust.
Yet no person in his or her right mind would say, “I hate the fact that these Nazi doctors were involved in torturing and slaughtering so many people, but they helped a lot of people too, so I’m going to be balanced in my criticism.”
To highlight the absurdity of this, let’s consider Donald Trump’s post-Super Tuesday comments when he again gave qualified praise to Planned Parenthood. But here I’ll substitute “Nazis” for “Planned Parenthood” and “genocide” for “abortion.”
His comments would then read: “Look, the Nazis have done very good work for many, many — for millions of women. And I’ll say it, and I know a lot of the so-called conservatives, they say that’s really … cause I’m a conservative, but I’m a common-sense conservative.”
“We're not going to allow, and we're not going to fund, as long as you have the genocide going on . . . .”
To quote (with the same word-changes) from his most recent debate, “So you can say whatever you want, but they have millions of women going through the Nazis that are helped greatly.”
Can you imagine anyone making statements like these?
For all those who are offended by the comparison between the Nazis and Planned Parenthood and between genocide and abortion, please take a look at some abortion photos, consider the compelling evidence that Planned Parenthood traffics in aborted baby parts (despite a recent court ruling to the contrary), and remember that Planned Parenthood has covered up for men who sexually abused minors.
Note also that, according to the Heritage Foundation, “Despite a nearly 20 percent decline in the number of abortions in the country between 2000 and 2011, the number of abortions Planned Parenthood performed during that time increased from 197,070 to 333,964, thereby more than doubling its share of the abortion market from 15 percent in 2000 to 32 percent in 2011, the latest year for which national data are available.”
Put simply, can anyone who is in any true sense of the word pro-life praise the nation’s largest and most aggressive abortion provider, despite other services they perform?
To give another example, no one with a pro-life bone in their body would say, “Well, Dr. Kermit Gosnell helped a lot of women over the years, and we really appreciate that, but we’re upset that he killed living babies as well.”
No. They would excoriate Gosnell’s so-called “House of Horrors” and would say that it’s good he’s behind bars.
In the same way, it is absolutely ludicrous that Donald Trump would once more sing the praises of Planned Parenthood (with the exception of their abortion industry) at his Tuesday night, widely-televised, national press conference, despite all the innocent baby blood on their hands.
More absurd still, he called those who criticized him on this “so-called conservatives.”
What, Mr. Trump? Will you say that to the people who, as true moral conservatives, have sacrificially invested dozens of years of their lives to fight against Planned Parenthood? Would you say that they are “so-called conservatives” and you are the true conservative because you recognize all the good Planned Parenthood has done?
If women’s health care is an issue to you (and I believe it is), then let the government help out the countless thousands of non-Planned Parenthood healthcare clinics. These clinics massively outnumber the Planned Parenthood clinics and they do not have the blood of abortion on their hands.
For those who are still upset with me over the Nazi comparison (and I’m not claiming it is an exact parallel), let’s change the analogy for a moment.
Let’s say there’s a big hospital that has operated in your city for decades, saving thousands of lives over the years with its terrific healthcare programs. Unfortunately, it’s also infamous for euthanizing about one-third of its patients, both young and old, at the discretion of the doctors.
You would not say, “Hey, I would fund the hospital if not for all that euthanasia. You see, I’ve heard from thousands of people – I have letters from them – telling me about the great work they do. They’ve really helped a lot of people.”
Of course not.
You would say instead, “What a horror! That hospital needs to be shut down today and those doctors need to be charged with murder.”
So it is with Planned Parenthood, and if anyone needed proof that Donald Trump is still not a true pro-life candidate, his continued qualified praise of Planned Parenthood, coupled with the vilification of his conservative pro-life critics, says it all.
With the makeup of the Supreme Court hanging in the balance and with the absence of Justice Scalia already being felt, it is critical that we elect a true pro-life president.
Let’s do what we need to do while the options are still there.
I want to thank Kaslin for posting every single article Townhall produces, that way you can read the story without providing them ad revenue.
Precisely. It is unfathomable. Trump apparently has never taken the time to actually understand PP or the Pro-Life people who oppose it. This tells me he doesn’t care about the issue all that much, at the very least.
80% of something is better then 100% of nothing. This is one of the reason "Conservatives" continually fail. If you don't get 100% of what you want, you would rather get 100% of what you absolutely oppose with Hillary "Cult of Sanger and Abortion" Clinton.
That’s about the gist of it. Excerpt teasers and a Townhall.com link. NO comments, ideas or thoughts.
Townhall should lobby Drudge for a quick link on his page instead of depending on the OP to parrot a half dozen links every day.
Trump :“What I would do when the time came, I’d look at the individual things they (PP) do, and maybe some of the individual things they do are good. I know a lot of the things are bad. But certainly the abortion aspect of it should not be funded by government, absolutely.”
80% of something is better then 100% of nothing. This is one of the reason “Conservatives” continually fail. If you don't get 100% of what you want, you would rather get 100% of what you absolutely oppose with Hillary “Cult of Sanger and Abortion” Clinton.
If you want to be president and effect change you must innoculate yourself from attacks. The primary is over, Trump is running to win. Does PP do anything else besides abortions? Yes, they do. Why not acknowledge that? Did he change his mind on the abortion issue? Nope, he did not. TDS on full display here.
“I’m very pro choice”.
Depends. My mother died from breast cancer that spread and her friend from cervical cancer. If they are offering these others services to low income women, it is admirable.
We get it, Trump is Hitler, Hitler is Trump.
Another pathetic argument put forth by another so-called “conservative” who hasn’t conserved anything.
What has the “conservative movement” or “movement conservatives” actually conserved, and what do they actually want? I’ve also read lately about the “features of the Republican principals,” but there is no there there.
The conservative movement has devolved from wanting to improve the lot of the American people thru hard work, personal responsibility, and capitalism (sure, there is some of that left, but it’s fading fast) to something more like Open Borders, Cheap Labor, Endless Wars in the Middle East, and the hell with fly over country, they’re only a bunch of redneck racists and boobs, so who needs them?
“cause I’m a conservative, but I’m a common-sense conservative”
Common-sense conservative = RINO
Get rid of the abortion funding now. Deal with the non killing baby aspects later.
If you are actually pro life you will take that option. Not get in a personal vendetta war with PP as a whole, only to get stiffer resistance and then mired-down in “War on Women” crap, to then lose momentum, to then lose the whole battle, with them STILL getting abortion funding.
It isn’t about YOU, it’s about the babies.
Then you say you are "pro-life" when you run in "closed" primaries.
That's "The Donald's" way...........
Trump knows how to make deals. That’s what’s needed.
How has the standard GOP all-or-nothing approach worked out for us this far? Every time we try to shut down PP, they lament the fact that they “do much more than just provide abortions.” It’s a defense which has served them well.
Trump is playing their game, and will use it to defund them.
I’m all for the approach.
Lame excuse. Face it. Maybe he is trying to triangulate the issue. If so, even worse.
Not unfathomable at all.... Trump clearly differentiated between the two different sides of PP.
He also stated that regardless of any good the women’s health side does that PP must be fully de-funded.....
Yes, indeed PP does do things other than abortion, and what is good about pedaling birth control to teenagers? Planned Parenthood has never diagnosed one case of breast cancer...and the reason why we have cervical cancer is because Planned parenthood takes tax payer money to give contraceptives to women that do nothing to prevent STDs. Tell me again about all the wonderful things this organization uses my tax money for?
The “game” fails to do the one thing most needed: take an open, unambiguous, principled stand for all to see. This, not gamesmanship or “deals”, is the only thing that has resulted in progress on public support of the pro-life position in the past. Its not rocket science.
Trump’s plan is pretty simple.
1. Defund Planned Parenthood if it doesn’t stop doing abortions.
2. Fund Planned Parenthood if it DOES stop doing abortions, because funding pap smears, STD info, etc. is not funding any abortion.
Would you say the same thing about the immigration issue?
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