Posted on 08/11/2015 3:33:05 PM PDT by familyop
One week after calling for a government shutdown if necessary to defund Planned Parenthood, presidential candidate Donald Trump has expressed willingness to let the abortion giant receive federal tax dollars for non-abortion services, Breitbart reports.
In an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo, Trump said Planned Parenthood is “like an abortion factory, frankly” and professed to “feel strongly about” cutting off government funding for abortion. But he went on to say that as president he would “look at the individual things they do… I’m sure they do some things properly and good and that are good for women,” because “we have to take care of women.”
In addition, Trump reiterated his opposition to elective abortion, but clarified that he supports exceptions for rape, incest, and in life of the mother cases.
Breitbart’s John Nolte criticized Trump as accepting “a status quo many conservatives find unacceptable and immoral; also a typical federal government shell game to skirt around the law.” He noted that “If you give Planned Parenthood money for these so-called ‘other things,’ the abortion provider can shift money from those ‘other things’ to abortion.”
Live Action News has previously reported that Donald Trump described himself as “very pro-choice in every respect,” including support for partial-birth abortion, in 1999, but in 2011 claimed to have became pro-life after seeing friends grow to love a child they had initially considered aborting, an anecdote he reiterated in last week’s presidential debate.
Which, since they don't actually provide any.......
...you’ll be labeled a RINO uniparty supporter for pointing out this teeny weeny little flaw in god Donald’s answer.....
That is the right way to look at it but the problem is there is no way to separate money from no abortions to abortions. Closing down and restarting as a clinic with no abortions would be the best choice. All new ownership and closely regulated if getting tax finds. Sometimes the only way to clean up a corrupt organization is to eliminate and restart.
Of course, all Democrats support Planned Parenthood. Who would think that Donald Trump would think otherwise?
If you read the entire quote, i think it’s rather well said. Very few know that the majority of what PP does is abortions, yet they hear the PP talking points of Breast Cancer Screening, birth control, etc and may make the agreement that defunding the abortion parts would be the compromise they could agree with Trump on.
Of course he is.
He is a pretender and everyone who pays attention will know it.
I guess he just doesn’t get it.
Nothing quite like those rock-ribbed New York conservatives.
Free gubbermint money corrupts absolutely.
The gubbermint has no bizness propping up organizations that can’t survive on their own. Nor do they have any bizness funding organizations that can survive on their own.
Very good conservatives in New York, but they all live north of the Bear Mountain Bridge. That would not apply to Trump.
Trump, Bernie Sanders...their positions over the years on climate change, taxes, tariffs, healthcare, immigration, trade, and gun control are the same.
Only by people who know absolutely nothing of me.
(You'll have to excuse me. The pins are falling out of my Boehner, McConnell and Jeb VooDoo Dolls.)
Donald needs to understand its like funding ACORN because a part of that organization actually registered legitimate voters.
...doesn't matter, all that matters is that every single person who objects to Trump for any reason whatsoever is a RINO, a Jeb voter, a supporter of the uniparty, etc. Don't go bringing truth and logic into this debate - hell no, not THIS debate. Truth, logic and history haven't got a damned thing to do with this particular debate.
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