Posted on 04/23/2017 12:20:28 AM PDT by Pinkbell
Sen. Joe Manchin – who has claimed in the past to be pro-life – appears now to be supporting abortion industry giant Planned Parenthood.
The West Virginia Democrat appeared in a photo, tweeted by Planned Parenthood South Atlantic West Virginia, standing behind a poster that states, “I stand with Planned Parenthood.”
The tweet immediately drew the ire of national pro-life leaders who in the past have counted Manchin among members of Congress who support the rights of the unborn.
“Sen. Manchin used to call himself pro-life, but this is the last straw,” said Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser, adding that her organization “will work tirelessly in the months ahead to make sure West Virginians know of this profound betrayal of the unborn and their mothers.”
The national director of Priests for Life, Father Frank Pavone, also reacted, telling Breitbart News: “Would that Sen. Manchin spoke plainly about what ‘standing by Planned Parenthood’ means! Instead of following the bad example of his Democratic colleagues, who want to support abortion without talking about abortion, Sen. Manchin should stay on the pro-life path and tell his constituents what Planned Parenthood actually does and doesn’t do.”
Pavone added that his organization’s StopAbortionNow.org campaign would inform West Virginians of Manchin’s change in position.
“West Virginians supported President Trump last November and will face a choice next year as to whether to re-elect Sen. Manchin,” Pavone continued. “We have already communicated through Priests for Life to all the churches of West Virginia that Planned Parenthood needs to be defunded and that they need to let Sen. Manchin know where they stand on this before they make their voting decisions in the midterm elections.”
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No such thing as a good Democrat
Well, he’s a Democrat, so......that means he was an open supporter of anti-BAIPA Barry, so.....he lied like Obama.
And here he is doing it....
Spineless Czech hillbilly
Bully ..... there have been a few good democrats historically
Republicans have rarely been much better till Magnus and Barry
It’s a canard that political party self worth is static from our founding
It’s a logic for simpletons
Not you per se
I’m just trying to help....
Lyndon Johnson would never have been able to ram through his massively damaging agenda if it were not for the complicity of the Republican Party- too many of his own Democrats opposed him. Our dimwitted friends Rush and Hannity crow about the GOP role in it.
The 1965 Immigration Act may have done more to ensure the destruction of the historic American culture and people than any piece of legislation in our history.
“The 1965 Immigration Act may have done more to ensure the destruction of the historic American culture and people than any piece of legislation in our history.”
Agree.
Considering the Manchin father and daughter, I am not sure why you expected more. Between Epi pens and PParenthood I think there is not much to say except to get rid of both. No more public office for either.
Manchin’s been a fraud from day one. He helped put Obamacare over the top and stood by while Obama destroyed the coal industry.
“may have”?
I can’t think of any other piece of legislation that was SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED to dismantle the entire nation.
Joe Manchin is a whore. He blows with the wind.
Looks like Joe is writing off the Senate for the cushy life on K Street. Add one to the Republican column.
Curious as to why you pick on the Czech half of JM and not the Manchin Italian half ?
Even in my pro-choice days Planned Parenthood disgusted me. What is it with people helping this vile pseudocharity industry?
“Manchin’s been a fraud from day one. He helped put Obamacare over the top and stood by while Obama destroyed the coal industry.”
...and was front and center in pushing gun control after Sandy Hook. I remember that many here liked him, initially, when he ran. Seemed to be a conservative governor, at least for a Democrat. Now about the only time he’s with us is to save his own skin.
Manchin is always posturing, here trying to burnish his “democrat party credentials”. He is trying to live in that non-existent middle ground called the “conservative democrat”.
In Manchin’s mind senator is NOT his last political office. Manchin sees himself politically as the next “Bill Clinton”, “conservative democrat” from a small conservative semi-southern state. He is trying to do that “triangulation thing” to be the “moderate answer” to all those right & left wing extremists. I don’t think it will work. This is not 1992.
That wasn’t the brightest move, politically. It will probably be used against him in many ads in 2018.
No doubt he heard Tom Perez’s edict that no Democrat who supports pro-life will be endorsed or backed by the Democrat party. From now on it’s abortion on demand in the Democrat’s playbook and that is a universal edict.
No doubt he heard Tom Perez’s edict that no Democrat who supports pro-life will be endorsed or backed by the Democrat party. From now on it’s abortion on demand in the Democrat’s playbook and that is a universal edict.
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