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VANITY: Can Donald Trump state he is Pro-life and still support Planned Parenthood?
The space between my ears. | February 15,2016 | Idaho Cowboy

Posted on 02/15/2016 3:40:08 PM PST by Idaho_Cowboy

Donald Trump has "flatly stated" (as some have said) that he is Pro Life.

Donald Trump has also come out in support of Planned Parenthood (just not for aborition) stating they do wonderful things.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/14/trump-planned-parenthood-does-do-wonderful-things-but-not-as-it-relates-to-abortion/

I need not remind my fellow Freepers that Planned Parenthood's bread and butter is taking tax-payer money, dismembering babies, and selling those babies as parts.

To be fair to Donald he did go on record as saying Planned Parenthood defunded. This was back when Ted Cruz was fighting in the senate to defund the institution and Mitch, Boehner and company caved in again.

Trump has also released his position on abortion in which he said he was against except in cases of rape, incest, or the mother's life being at stake. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3397429/posts?page=18#18

My question is this: Is His Donaldness strongly Pro-life when he supports Planned Parenthood and abortion in some cases? Is it fair to say he has "flatly stated" he is Pro-Life ?

I know I'm not the only one curious what other FReepers think. Please don't take this as an attack on Trump. The facts are what they are. I'll support Trump in the general election over any Democrat if it comes to it. That said I want to get into and want people to think before they vote for a pig in a poke in the primaries.


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To: Idaho_Cowboy

*yawn*


81 posted on 02/15/2016 4:38:16 PM PST by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: Thibodeaux
you misstated the premise

You are purposely misleading the thread. Trump did not support the abortion mill that is planned Parenthood

Trump would allow the other programs that support women’s health


He said they do “wonderful things” His words not mine. You can take that to mean what you will, but I provided the link to his actual words.
82 posted on 02/15/2016 4:39:21 PM PST by Idaho_Cowboy (Ride for the Brand. Joshua 24:15)
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To: Idaho_Cowboy

I think it’s a stupid question.


83 posted on 02/15/2016 4:42:06 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: sauropod

Glad the lives of innocent children mean so much to ya.


84 posted on 02/15/2016 4:42:55 PM PST by Idaho_Cowboy (Ride for the Brand. Joshua 24:15)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

Exactly.


85 posted on 02/15/2016 4:45:16 PM PST by madmominct
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To: Idaho_Cowboy

IIRC, back in the mid to late 70s (maybe later), Planned Parenthood was birth control only & could only refer to abortion clinics.
The clinic that operated back then was south of the junior college I attended & advertised that they did sterilization procedures for both women & men. (They didn’t advertise that they did abortions, but it was a rumor that seemed probable).

I’m curious to know when (even if approximate) they began actually performing abortions & how/ why did that happen? Obviously, it had to have been under a democrat Congress, but I doubt it was Carter. because my SIL got her BC pills there in 1978 & 79.


86 posted on 02/15/2016 4:48:11 PM PST by KGeorge
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To: Idaho_Cowboy

Well let me say that I am not calling you dishonest. I am calling the proposition that Trump is for Baby killing and selling their little body parts. Trump has CLEARLY stated that he is not against women’s health care. Planned parenthood , to the extent that is helping women’s health and not killing little babies can easily be supported to help women. Right?


87 posted on 02/15/2016 4:49:30 PM PST by WENDLE (Trump is not bought . He is no puppet.)
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To: WENDLE

it’s ok to play the dishonesty card


88 posted on 02/15/2016 4:51:20 PM PST by Thibodeaux (leading from behind is following)
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To: WENDLE
Well let me say that I am not calling you dishonest. I am calling the proposition that Trump is for Baby killing and selling their little body parts. Trump has CLEARLY stated that he is not against women's health care. Planned parenthood , to the extent that is helping women's health and not killing little babies can easily be supported to help women. Right?

Fair enough. I don't think Trump intends to say he is for dismembering babies. I think he's trying to walk a fine line and appease both sides here. He wants to denounce the evil of the institution and try and support the myth of the good they do and it's tying him in knots.
89 posted on 02/15/2016 4:55:39 PM PST by Idaho_Cowboy (Ride for the Brand. Joshua 24:15)
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To: Idaho_Cowboy

I don’t believe that any sincere pro-lifer can support PP in any way. Anything good that they might do is outweighed by the evil of abortion.

I suppose that some person at PP might under some circumstance do someone some good. But a mass murderer might do you some good too, if, say, he pushed you out of the way of an oncoming bus.


90 posted on 02/15/2016 5:02:46 PM PST by jocon307
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To: Lib-Lickers 2

...”they used PP for birth control pills when they were young and hadn’t much money...”

I was young and didn’t have much money and I got my birth control at a pharmacy.


91 posted on 02/15/2016 5:08:28 PM PST by jocon307
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To: Idaho_Cowboy

Exactly. I think we all on one side or the other employ “smear campaign” to discredit our opponents in these races. We take a half truth and extrapolate it to the absurd. I am the worst at that ( and I am very good) . I justify it in watching the smear on my guy. But I will tell you a secret , we need to pipe down. It is like the Navy guys hating the Marines. We must defeat the communist left or we lose our entire country to riot and chaos and it will not be pretty.


92 posted on 02/15/2016 5:08:30 PM PST by WENDLE (Trump is not bought . He is no puppet.)
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To: Idaho_Cowboy

Trump is using the democrat definition of ‘pro-life’.


93 posted on 02/15/2016 5:25:54 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap")
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To: Idaho_Cowboy

Planned Parenthood is like a big old log of excrement.
Picking & choosing parts of it to “support” is like trying
to pick up that old log of excrement by the clean end.
As far as our tax money for that wad of nasty is concerned,
NO!

Trump is wrong on this and wrong on George Bush & Iraq.


94 posted on 02/15/2016 5:31:38 PM PST by Twinkie
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To: Idaho_Cowboy

Pf course not. He even repeated the lie that abortion is only 3% of their business.

As a businessman he has to realize that a 500M revenue stream buoys the entire enterprise. HE also think they provide valuable services that women have to have ( and presumably can’t get elsewhere), of course I have never heard of where an abortion saves the life of the mother or even heard of any unique non abortion service PP provides.

This spinning to justify funding non abortion services is cowardly. OTOH he is 69 and even well into his 60’s he favored Partial Birth Abortion like his sister the Federal Judge.


95 posted on 02/15/2016 5:32:34 PM PST by Leto
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To: Idaho_Cowboy

Trump is a liar. Apparently, almost a majority of republicans don’t care. They’re just tired of politicians in D.C. lying to them, I guess.


96 posted on 02/15/2016 5:34:41 PM PST by llmc1
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To: Psalm 73

The KKK does highway cleanup, PP cannot even be bothered with that!


97 posted on 02/15/2016 5:49:03 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Idaho_Cowboy
The Trump fanboys will just say it shows his outside the box thinking...he's a winner!
98 posted on 02/15/2016 6:13:19 PM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: Idaho_Cowboy

Trump can say ANYTHING and the Trumpbots just don’t care.


99 posted on 02/15/2016 6:14:19 PM PST by SeaHawkFan
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To: Idaho_Cowboy

Glad you have the ability to distinguish between the women’s health that PP provides and their abortuaries.

Your degrees of subtlety astound me.


100 posted on 02/15/2016 6:54:58 PM PST by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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