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Planned Parenthood strikes back
thehill.com ^ | 07/30/15 | Sarah Ferris

Posted on 07/31/2015 9:20:03 PM PDT by Morgana

Planned Parenthood is pulling out all the stops to preserve its federal funding in the face of an aggressive anti-abortion video campaign that shows no signs of slowing down.

With a half-billion dollars at stake, the drip-drip release of secretly recorded footage about Planned Parenthood’s fetal tissue program has plunged the group into a fight for its survival.

As the GOP’s effort to defund it gains momentum, Planned Parenthood is attempting to shift the debate to its opponent’s tactics, hoping to generate outrage while diverting away attention from the topic of fetal tissue recovered from abortions.

The group’s top leaders have sharpened their attacks against the Center for Medical Progress this week, calling the creators of the videos hostile “extremists” who engaged in illegal activity to obtain their footage.

Democrats in Congress are using a similar playbook to galvanize supporters, urging the Department of Justice to focus attention on the anti-abortion group rather than the practices of Planned Parenthood.

“I am concerned they’re not investigating the Center for Medical Progress, which looks like they may have violated laws in doing this kind of undercover investigation,” Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) said in an interview Thursday. "I'm waiting to hear from the DOJ. I think that’s the way it should be handled."


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: abortion; plannedparenthood; prolife
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sorry had to, is what that title reminded me of.

1 posted on 07/31/2015 9:20:03 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana
Lets put it this way:

Those senators and representatives and businesses that support or vote for your disgusting treatment of killing babies and the horrid way you treat women won't make it thru their elections, so your money is going to get cut of anyway....

Go over to ISIS and ask them for money to run your slaughterhouses, they will probably build you one of your own...

2 posted on 07/31/2015 9:24:29 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 (Send 'slob boy of the oval office' back to Kenya ASAP, and save America...)
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To: Morgana

Baby killing butchers “strike back”. The commie fags in the national “media” are so proud. Scumbags.


3 posted on 07/31/2015 9:25:46 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Stop the DemocRATS' War On Babies! Vote conservative.)
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To: Morgana

The whole PP controversy will probably go nowhere ... to much money involved.


4 posted on 07/31/2015 9:30:18 PM PDT by doc1019 (Blue lives matter)
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To: Morgana

Many country clubs have at least one member who has killed more people than Josef Mengele, and we respectfully defer to them as “Doctor.” Interestingly, Mengele supported himself in secret postwar exile as... an abortionist. These people are ghouls, as are the politicians who abet them. And if we don’t stop giving them half a billion dollars of taxpayer money every year, we will invite the righteous judgment of God.


5 posted on 07/31/2015 9:33:39 PM PDT by Always A Marine
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To: Morgana; All
Thank you for referencing that article Morgana. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

Planned Parenthood is pulling out all the stops to preserve its federal [emphasis added] funding … [emphasis added]

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

As mentioned in related threads, the states have ever delegated to the feds expressly via the Constitution, the specfic power to tax and spend for anything like Planned Parenthood.

The reason that Planned Parenthood gets federal funding is because the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Senate did not do its job to protect the states and helped the corrupt House to pass unconstitutional bills which appropriated funds for Planned Parenthood.

The ill-conceived 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and corrupt senators along with it.

6 posted on 07/31/2015 9:37:40 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Morgana

Sign the petition:

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/congress-must-de-fund-planned-parenthood-immediately/sign.html


7 posted on 07/31/2015 9:38:55 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Morgana

“The group’s top leaders have sharpened their attacks against the Center for Medical Progress this week, calling the creators of the videos hostile “extremists” who engaged in illegal activity to obtain their footage.”

“Democrats in Congress are using a similar playbook to galvanize supporters, urging the Department of Justice to focus attention on the anti-abortion group rather than the practices of Planned Parenthood.”

Right out of the O.J. “Dream Team” playbook.


8 posted on 07/31/2015 9:47:10 PM PDT by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: HarleyLady27

Compared to Planned Parenthood, ISIS really is the JV team.


9 posted on 07/31/2015 9:48:49 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: doc1019

This is sadly true. Stinkin Congress.


10 posted on 07/31/2015 9:59:14 PM PDT by KGeorge (Hell no- we ain't forgettin')
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To: Morgana

With Jeremy Renner starring as Cecile Josef Richards in
“Kill The Messenger, Redux”.


11 posted on 07/31/2015 10:02:51 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Morgana

So to continue their murderous rampage.


12 posted on 07/31/2015 10:34:15 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Morgana

So to continue their murderous rampage.


13 posted on 07/31/2015 10:34:16 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Morgana

In the next one they lose their other death star.

And the Emperor.

So we have some good things to look forward to.


14 posted on 07/31/2015 10:40:56 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Morgana

Hardly a strike back.

More of a commie pr diversion tactic they I am sure are down on their knees to Satan praying it works.


15 posted on 07/31/2015 10:41:37 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Morgana

I am part of a Dad’s group on facebook. Most of the loudest mouths in the group are liberal progressive types. The PP story came up and the bulk of the guys in the group think the videos are a hoax or they don’t have a problem with “tissue” harvesting. Agenda defeats reality for these people.


16 posted on 07/31/2015 11:36:45 PM PDT by FightforFreedomCA (...and I don't care.)
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To: Morgana
Democrats in Congress are using a similar playbook to galvanize supporters, urging the Department of Justice to focus attention on the anti-abortion group rather than the practices of Planned Parenthood.

Why are these Democrat agents of Satan NOT making sure that Planned Parenthood officials are in orange jumpsuits? Why are they protecting alleged felons and criminals? Why are they attacking the messengers? Why are they not confirming that the high level Planned Parenthood officials were indeed the ones in the videos?

Killing and processing millions and millions of babies already has exceeded the numbers in the holocaust. Can they not connect the dots?

17 posted on 08/01/2015 3:06:26 AM PDT by olezip
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