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Your petition will be used in the efforts to stop all Planned Parenthood tax funding.
We do of course, the people of the United States of America.
Our Republican United States Congress votes to fund Planned Parenthood every year. Title X, originally written by Congressman George HW Bush in 1969 and signed by President Nixon.
And just WHO in Congress VOTES to fund Planned Parenthood?
Why, our Catholic and Evangelical "pro-life" REPUBLICAN representatives and senators. And they vote for it every year. Isn't that nice of them? You know the pro life champions in congress like: Dr. Dave Weldon (R-FL), Chris Smith and Scott Garrett (R-NJ), Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL), Henry Hyde (R-IL), James Oberstar (D-MN), Dana Rohrabacher, Rick Santorum (R-PA). To name of few.
Planned Parenthood, took in $265 million in government grants and contracts in 2003-2004 and killed 244,628 unborn children.
The total amount received under the Clinton administration was $1,279,000,000
The break down by year is :
1993- $ 78,900,000
1994- $158,800,000
1995- $163,100,000
1996- $171,900,000
1997- $177,500,000
1998- $165,000,000
1999- $176,500,000
2000- $187,300,000
The largest amount received was $187,300,000 in the year 2000
The total amount (to date) received under the Bush(43) administration is $1,235,900,000
2001- $202,700,000
2002- $240,900,000
2003- $254,400,000
2004- $265,200,000
2005- $272,700,000
2006-
And the so-called, fiscal-responsible, pro-life Republican Party Supports this???!!!!!
American Life League 2006 - Who Was Margaret Sanger?
The Negro Project: Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Plan for Black Americans
Townhall.com::Marching for life and against the "Negro Project
American Life League presents STOPP International
HR 3010 – Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/T?&report=hr337&dbname=109
GovTrack: HR 3010: Text of Legislation
17 That of the funds made available under this heading,
18 $285,963,000 shall be for the program under title X of
19 the Public Health Service Act to provide for voluntary
20 family planning projects: Provided further, That amounts
21 provided to said projects under such title shall not be ex-
22 pended for abortions, that all pregnancy counseling shall
23 be nondirective, and that such amounts shall not be ex-
24 pended for any activity (including the publication or dis-
25 tribution of literature) that in any way tends to promote
US Congressman Scott Garrett Garrett Votes for Education Funding and for Planned Parenthood.
Title X, the birth & population control bill that funds Planned Parenthood, the nations largest provider of surgical abortions.
http://opa.osophs.dhhs.gov/titlex/ofp.html
Title X Funding History
FY 1971 - 2005
http://opa.osophs.dhhs.gov/titlex/ofp-funding-history.html
Planned Parenthood Kills over 250,000 children per year by "surgical abortion" , it's the largest abortion provider in the USA.
Funds abortifacient Killing using: birth control pills, Depo-Provera, Plan-b, etc.
Funds birth control to unmarried adolescents so they can continue to fornicate by engaging in pre-marital sex, even usurping parental authority if the adolescent's parents say "no" to government-funded birth control drugs and devices for their adolescent child.
Our tax money pays for this by the self-proclaimed "Pro-Life," "Pro-Family," "Pro-Abstinence" liars in the Republican-majority Congress. Wake up America.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll628.xml
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll321.xml
| Yeas | Nays | PRES | NV | |
| Republican | 206 | 10 | 14 | |
| Democratic | 44 | 140 | 18 | |
| Independent | 1 | |||
| TOTALS | 250 | 151 | 32 |
| Abercrombie Aderholt Akin Alexander Bachus Baker Barrett (SC) Bartlett (MD) Barton (TX) Bass Bean Beauprez Biggert Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (UT) Blackburn Blunt Boehlert Boehner Bonilla Bonner Bono Boren Boswell Boucher Boustany Bradley (NH) Brady (PA) Brady (TX) Brown (SC) Brown-Waite, Ginny Burgess Burton (IN) Buyer Calvert Cannon Cantor Carter Castle Chabot Chocola Coble Cole (OK) Conaway Costello Cox Cramer Crenshaw Cubin Culberson Cunningham Davis (IL) Davis (KY) Davis (TN) Davis, Jo Ann Deal (GA) DeLay Dent Diaz-Balart, L. Diaz-Balart, M. Dicks Doolittle Doyle Drake Dreier Duncan Ehlers Emerson Engel English (PA) Evans Everett Farr Feeney Ferguson Fitzpatrick (PA) Foley Forbes Fortenberry Fossella Foxx Frelinghuysen Gallegly |
Garrett (NJ) Gerlach Gilchrest Gillmor Gingrey Gonzalez Goodlatte Gordon Granger Graves Green (WI) Gutknecht Hall Hart Hastings (WA) Hayes Hayworth Hensarling Herger Higgins Hinojosa Hobson Hoekstra Holden Holt Hostettler Hulshof Hunter Hyde Inglis (SC) Issa Istook Jenkins Jindal Johnson (CT) Johnson (IL) Johnson, Sam Kanjorski Keller Kelly Kennedy (MN) Kildee King (IA) King (NY) Kingston Kirk Kline Knollenberg Kolbe Kuhl (NY) LaHood Latham Leach Lewis (CA) Lewis (KY) Linder LoBiondo Lucas Lungren, Daniel E. Mack Manzullo Marchant Marshall Matsui McCaul (TX) McCotter McCrery McHenry McHugh McKeon McMorris Meehan Mica Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Miller, Gary Mollohan Murphy Murtha Musgrave Myrick Neal (MA) Neugebauer Ney |
Northup Norwood Nussle Ortiz Osborne Oxley Pascrell Pearce Pence Peterson (PA) Petri Pickering Pitts Platts Poe Pombo Pomeroy Porter Price (GA) Pryce (OH) Putnam Radanovich Rahall Regula Rehberg Reichert Renzi Reynolds Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Ros-Lehtinen Rothman Royce Ruppersberger Rush Ryan (WI) Ryun (KS) Saxton Schwarz (MI) Scott (GA) Sensenbrenner Serrano Sessions Shadegg Shaw Shays Sherwood Shimkus Shuster Simpson Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Sodrel Souder Sullivan Sweeney Terry Thomas Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Thornberry Tiahrt Tiberi Towns Turner Upton Visclosky Walden (OR) Walsh Wamp Weldon (FL) Weldon (PA) Weller Westmoreland Whitfield Wicker Wilson (SC) Wolf Wynn Young (AK) Young (FL) |
| Ackerman Allen Baird Baldwin Barrow Berkley Berry Bishop (NY) Blumenauer Brown (OH) Brown, Corrine Butterfield Capps Capuano Cardin Cardoza Carnahan Carson Case Chandler Clay Cleaver Clyburn Conyers Cooper Costa Crowley Cuellar Cummings Davis (AL) Davis (CA) Davis (FL) DeFazio DeGette DeLauro Dingell Doggett Edwards Emanuel Eshoo Etheridge Filner Flake Ford Frank (MA) Franks (AZ) Gibbons Green, Al Green, Gene Grijalva Hastings (FL) |
Hefley Herseth Hinchey Honda Hooley Hoyer Inslee Israel Jackson (IL) Jackson-Lee (TX) Jefferson Johnson, E. B. Jones (OH) Kaptur Kennedy (RI) Kilpatrick (MI) Kind Kucinich Langevin Lantos Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lee Levin Lipinski Lofgren, Zoe Lowey Lynch Maloney Markey Matheson McCarthy McCollum (MN) McDermott McGovern McIntyre McKinney McNulty Meek (FL) Melancon Menendez Michaud Millender-McDonald Miller (NC) Miller, George Moore (KS) Moore (WI) Moran (VA) Nadler Napolitano Oberstar |
Obey Olver Otter Owens Pallone Pastor Paul Payne Pelosi Peterson (MN) Price (NC) Ramstad Rangel Ross Roybal-Allard Ryan (OH) Sabo Salazar Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sanders Schakowsky Schiff Schwartz (PA) Scott (VA) Sherman Simmons Smith (WA) Snyder Solis Spratt Stark Stearns Strickland Stupak Tancredo Tauscher Tierney Udall (CO) Van Hollen Velázquez Wasserman Schultz Waters Watt Waxman Weiner Wexler Woolsey Wu |
| Andrews Baca Becerra Berman Boozman Boyd Camp Capito Davis, Tom Delahunt Fattah |
Gohmert Goode Gutierrez Harman Harris Jones (NC) LaTourette Lewis (GA) Meeks (NY) Moran (KS) Nunes |
Reyes Rogers (AL) Skelton Slaughter Tanner Taylor (MS) Taylor (NC) Udall (NM) Watson Wilson (NM) |
| 00349 | 18-Nov | H.R. 3010 | On the Motion | Agreed to | Specter Motion to Instruct Conferees Re: H.R. 3010; Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 |
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00349 U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 109th Congress - 1st Session
as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate
| Question: On the Motion (Specter Motion to Instruct Conferees Re: H.R. 3010 ) | |||
| Vote Number: | 349 | Vote Date: | November 18, 2005, 11:27 AM |
| Required For Majority: | 1/2 | Vote Result: | Motion Agreed to |
| Measure Number: | H.R. 3010 (Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 ) | ||
| Measure Title: | A bill making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, and for other purposes. | ||
| Vote Counts: | YEAs | 66 |
| NAYs | 28 | |
| Not Voting | 6 |
| Vote Summary | By Senator Name | By Vote Position | By Home State |
| YEAs ---66 | ||
| Akaka (D-HI) Baucus (D-MT) Bayh (D-IN) Bennett (R-UT) Bingaman (D-NM) Bond (R-MO) Boxer (D-CA) Burns (R-MT) Burr (R-NC) Byrd (D-WV) Cantwell (D-WA) Clinton (D-NY) Coburn (R-OK) Cochran (R-MS) Coleman (R-MN) Collins (R-ME) Conrad (D-ND) Dayton (D-MN) DeWine (R-OH) Dodd (D-CT) Dole (R-NC) Domenici (R-NM) |
Dorgan (D-ND) Durbin (D-IL) Feingold (D-WI) Feinstein (D-CA) Frist (R-TN) Grassley (R-IA) Hagel (R-NE) Harkin (D-IA) Hatch (R-UT) Hutchison (R-TX) Jeffords (I-VT) Johnson (D-SD) Kennedy (D-MA) Kerry (D-MA) Kohl (D-WI) Landrieu (D-LA) Lautenberg (D-NJ) Leahy (D-VT) Levin (D-MI) Lieberman (D-CT) Lugar (R-IN) Martinez (R-FL) |
Mikulski (D-MD) Murkowski (R-AK) Murray (D-WA) Nelson (D-FL) Obama (D-IL) Reid (D-NV) Rockefeller (D-WV) Salazar (D-CO) Santorum (R-PA) Sarbanes (D-MD) Schumer (D-NY) Shelby (R-AL) Smith (R-OR) Snowe (R-ME) Specter (R-PA) Stevens (R-AK) Sununu (R-NH) Talent (R-MO) Thune (R-SD) Voinovich (R-OH) Warner (R-VA) Wyden (D-OR) |
| NAYs ---28 | ||
| Alexander (R-TN) Allard (R-CO) Allen (R-VA) Brownback (R-KS) Bunning (R-KY) Carper (D-DE) Chafee (R-RI) Chambliss (R-GA) Cornyn (R-TX) Craig (R-ID) |
Crapo (R-ID) DeMint (R-SC) Enzi (R-WY) Graham (R-SC) Gregg (R-NH) Inhofe (R-OK) Isakson (R-GA) Kyl (R-AZ) Lincoln (D-AR) Lott (R-MS) |
McCain (R-AZ) McConnell (R-KY) Pryor (D-AR) Reed (D-RI) Roberts (R-KS) Sessions (R-AL) Thomas (R-WY) Vitter (R-LA) |
| Not Voting - 6 | ||
| Biden (D-DE) Corzine (D-NJ) |
Ensign (R-NV) Inouye (D-HI) |
Nelson (D-NE) Stabenow (D-MI) |
| Vote Summary | By Senator Name | By Vote Position | By Home State |
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Thanks for the link -- Both my wife and I have signed the petition.
I have signed the petition and I will forward the link to my friends.
Me too!
Please FReepmail me if you would like to be added to, or removed from, the Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping list...
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Colorado Right to Life is hosting a workshop with Jim Sedlak of
STOPP (Stop Planned Parenthood) at the Doubletree Denver
Tech Center on September 30, 2006. Mr. Sedlak will speak
from 10 am to 12 noon. The workshop is free of charge.
For more information, www.coloradorighttolife.org
Our Light on Life Banquet, featuring Eve Sanchez Silver, is at 6:30 P.M.
Ms Sanchez-Silver resigned from Susan G. Komen Foundation
after learning that Race for the Cure funds are routinely given
to Planned Parenthood. She will discuss the abortion breast cancer link
and the racist aims of Planned Parenthood.
Reservations may be made on line.
BE, according to this, Hyde has supported PP, while Tacredo has voted against. Why again is Hyde a giant and Tancredo bad?
1. PP's complicity in the deaths of millions of human beings.
2. PP was founded by the despicable eugenicist Margaret Sanger.
3. On their site aimed at teenagers, they include a an article ("All About the Anus") which teaches kids that, "Some straight couples use anal sex as a way to preserve the woman's virginity." (3)
4. PP's defense of #5.
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6. PP's willingness to turn a blind eye to evidence of statutory rape.
7. PPNYC put a public plea on their Web site -- "Harry Potter: Prisoner of Hormones?" -- lobbying J.K. Rowling to write sex education into the next novel in the bestselling series. (4)
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9. Over the past 18 years PP has made a profit of $538 million, mainly off it abortion services.
10. Consumer Reports ranked their condoms the worst, failing tests that measured strength and reliability (they burst when filled with air). (10)
11. Over the last 6 years, the number of abortions performed at Planned Parenthood facilities have increased from 165,174 in 1997 to 244,628 in 2003. That's an increase of 48.1%.
12. Over that same time period, adoption referrals provided by Planned Parenthood have gone down from 9,381 in 1997 to 1,774 in 2003. A decrease of 81.1%.
13. Planned Parenthood is well aware that a fetus is a living human organism (click on fetus) yet they have no problem advocating the legal killing of these organisms.
14. They claim that the Supreme Court only supports Roe v. Wade by a "razor-thin margin" when only 3 (Scalia, Rehnquist, and Thomas) out of 9 justices have shown a willingness to overturn Roe.
16. They are "pro-choice" on whether women should be legally allowed to have abortions but are anti-choice when it comes to whether health providers and pharmacists should be able to refuse to provide abortion or contraceptive services.
17. They claim that The Number of Abortions after the First Trimester Is Relatively Small even though more than 100,000 abortion are performed after the first trimester every year.
19. They have no problem with judge shopping so teenage girls can get around parental consent laws.
20. Their complete denial that some women without prior psychological problems who abort an unintended pregnancy might be negatively affected emotionally by abortion.
[Thanks to the incomparable Dawn Eden, a one-woman PP watchdog, for all of the links.]
Update: Dawn has a new post on the PP and "safe" abortions.
STOPP International's plan for defeating Planned Parenthood
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is the nation's largest operator of abortion facilities and has admitted to committing over 3,000,000 post-implantation abortion procedures since it first started doing them in New York state in 1970. In 1993, PPFA operated 938 facilities across the country and announced an aggressive plan to have "2,000 clinics by the year 2000." In order to accomplish this goal, it said it was launching the largest fund raising campaign of its history.
The Negro Project and Margaret Sanger
Life Advocate Magazine Features -- Margaret Sanger's eugenics
Your devout Catholic and Born-Again Christian representatives in both the House and Senate approve H.R. 3010 which contains the George HW Bush Title X funding. The original Title X funding bill was co-written by G HW "rubbers" Bush. Every year your Christian representatives vote for PP which sponsors programs for Teens on How to have ANAL sex. Are your sons and daughters participating in Sodomy? If so, they most likely learned it from Planned Parenthood or their Health Teacher in school using Planned Parenthood materials, all paid for by the United States of America.
All About the Anus Sexuality and relationship info you can trust from Planned Parenthood® Federation of America
A major problem I have with the ultras here is the constant search for manufactured flawed grievances.
Tancredo is the poster boy for manufactured and quite unproductive flawed grievances. He is a publicity craving phony and his fifteen minutes are about up. Further, if you think border moonbattism has a positive future for conservatives and a shelf life beyond three years at max, you are kidding yourself. Note that Tancredo voted against the bill cited along with Rosa DeLauro, Gary Ackerman D-NY, Earl Blumenauer D-OR, Jesse Jackson, Jr., Weepy Walter PaleoCutandRun Jones R?-NC), Patches Kennedy D-RI (Ted the Swimmer's whelp), Dennis (Red Bad Yoda) Kucinich D-OH, Ron Paleopantywaist Paul R?-TX, Nancy Facelift Pelosi D-CA, Jan Schakowsky D-IL and Bernie Sanders (Socialist-VT).
With, ummmmm, all due respect, I suggest that this roll call hardly proves your apparent point but I will be sure to include this in my future attacks on Tommy Temper Tantrum, Weepy Walter and PaleoRonniePaul. I had thought that Weepy Walter and Ron Paul had only gone Demonnative on manhood and war. Apparently, they have other problems too. I had not thought that even Tancredo was voting with Rosa the Babyslasher on bills such as this but, if they voted the same way, Rosa has never cast a pro-life vote in her execrable life. I know her personally. You don't.
Bet that there is a lot more to this vote than meets the eye. Also, Nancy Johnson (R?-CT5) has been married for many decades to OB-GYN Dr. Ted Johnson, now retired, who was the primary abortionist in New Britain, CT for decades. Nancy Johnson is an enthusiast for abortion like the Dallas Cowgirls are for the Dallas Cowboys. The Cowgirls look a lot better of course. Nancy voted FOR this bill while DeLauro voted against it. The Planned Barrenhood funding was NOT the issue in this vote. Nancy Johnson and Rosa DeLauro are to Margaret Sanger's memory what Monica was to the Arkansas Antichrist.
COLEUS: Your #1 is a quite misleading post. I very much admire what you do here but Chris Smith and Henry Hyde are heroes as Rosa DeLauro and Nancy Johnson are not.
There is absolutely nothing misleading in Post #1, that is the official vote tally of the House bill 3010 which included Title X Planned Parenthood Funding and the big Title 1 pork bill. Their actions speak louder than words. The so-called pro lifers will have to answer and live by their actions. Their words mean nothing. Planned Parenthood is now fighting the South Dakota abortion law. Who funded Planned Parenthood? Smith, Hyde and company by HR 3010. "All about the Anus" is taught to teens. How did PP get the money to make this program? from the taxpayers. The Bush, Hastert, Hyde, Smith administration spent more on Title X planned parenthood funding than did the Clinton administration and there are still 2 more yrs. for the fiscal-conservatives to fund it even more.
Now, you could say that my clients did not do all they could do because the abortionists were not killed and their mills not burned or blown up. Forgive me. I prefer it that way. If Henry Hyde and Chris Smith, for two, are not pro-life heroes, I do not know what a pro-life hero is, but I think I do.
I will take second place to no FReeper and to no person in despising Margaret Sanger, Planned Barrenhood and all of their works and pomps, likewise Kate Michelman and Lawrence Lader and NARAL, or any of their ilk. I went to the assistance of clients in Wichita, Kansas, who had been arrested in an Operation Rescue action against Killer Tiller's mill.
All that having been said, and conceding that I would personally vote against the bill in question, Henry Hyde and Chris Smith have earned the right not to have their pro-life bona fides or their motives questioned by thee or by me.
I don't know you (solely from your posts) as well as I thought, apparently.
For those in England who hated slavery, it must have been wonderful to have utterly single-minded members of Parliament like William Wilberforce spend 50 years doing nothing but using their floor privileges and votes to highlight and dramatize the evils of slavery until finally, with Wilberforce on his deathbed, Parliament paid him tribute by abolishing slavery at last when he lay dying. I will take 435 Henry Hydes and Chris Smiths and we won't have to worry about Planned Barrenhood funding from Congress because there won't be any.
I participated in the New Right for decades. There were always those who thought they could prove themselves more worthy by being the furthest out on given issues. Condemning the Henry Hydes and the Chris Smiths from a pro-life perspective IS misleading. I'll take your word for it that the omnibus bill in question provided funds to Planned Barrenhood (as all too many government budgets do). The pro-lifers undoubtedly voted for the bill in spite of that fact and not because of it.
Abortion is my most important issue and, no doubt, yours. That does not mean that it is the only issue. You and I and other pro-lifers have not succeeded in making our most important issue a front-burner issue in Congress. There is little purpose in insisting on votes on constitutional amendments that even pro-lifers are not in agreement upon since there are many competing amendments (absolute or state's rights or with trimester considerations or whatever). We have not united our own movement but we should act as though we are entitled to have formal votes to expose the squabbling within????? That is not how the process works.
Also, Dubya is in the third generation of political Bushes, a family notorious for a political tin ear gene. The first generation was Senator and Mrs. Prescott Bush (the senior senator from Wall Street as he was known). That Mrs. Bush (Dorothy) was on Planned Barrenhood's national Board of Directors for many years with Peggy (Mrs. Barry) Goldwater. Dorothy Bush also was a militant in her attitude on the subject and denounced George Herbert Walker Bush (Bush the Elder and the second generation) privately for selling her out on abortion. His nickname in Congress was Rubbers for good reason. Like the Huguenot Henry IV (?) of France, GHWB decided that the Vice Presidency was "worth a Mass." Dubya is the third generation and, whatever his failings, he is the real deal much more so than his predecessors. Dubya and GHWB don't agree on Iraq either.
Since you brought up the discredited term "neocons" (liberales/palepantywaistese for actual conservatives), I must observe that I am delighted to see that Tancredo and the faux Republican paleopantywaists Ron Paul and Weepy Walter Jones are on the Rosa DeLauro/Emily's List side of the vote, whatever their excuse. Paul and Jones belong in the Demonratic Party on foreign policy, military action alone. Tancredo deserves a lifetime achievement award for isolating the border obsessive crowd, trying to redefine them as the GOP or the conservative movement AND alienating Hispanic voters (read prolife reinforcements until alienated) en masse.
National Right to Life Committee is a fraud. I agree with you that they fear nothing more than the possibility that they might not retire with 50-year pins and gold watches or that the paychecks might end. BUT, South Dakota was foolish to pass that pro-life bill before we got at least one more vote on SCOTUS. The law will probably result only in another Webster or Casey style decision that will make it MORE difficult with one more judge to override all of the dishonest stare decisis arguments.
The franchise on our issue is changing the personnel on SCOTUS. Effective politics is not an exercise in impatient self-satisfaction patting itself on the back for being right. Bill Buckley called antiwar demonstrations public incidents of mass political masturbation and he was right. Effective politics is the patience to serve the wine at its peak and not before (especially when the votes just are not there in Congress or in the courts). Saying I'll show them for killing babies by slashing my own throat in public and THEN they'll be sorry, ummmm, does not work.
Federal funding for crisis pregnancy centers is no answer. If we cannot fund them ourselves without gummint strings attached, you can see why South Dakota will not win in court, why we aren't winning in Congress and why, although pro-life is probably second only to abolitionism as a social/political movement without success, our enemies are still confident of their success. When pro-lifers were arrested, pro-life lawyers represented them without concern for fees. We did not use public defenders. We did not charge the clients. There are a lot more pro-lifers than there are pro-life lawyers. We can fund our own crisis pregnancy centers and we should. That would be, ummmm, fiscally responsible.
By analogy, we may look at the current antiwar despicability posing as a "movement." Jackass Murtha (a war "hero". He says so himself! What r=eason does Jackass have to lie???? Ummmmm, of course, every reason!) proposes that American soldiers assume the Demonrats' favorite posture for members of our military: tuck tails between legs and run like hell NOW!!!! Then thirty-seven or thirty-seven hundred other peaceniks come forward (Look at ME!!!! Look at ME!!!! No, No, Loooook at MEEEEEE!) each with his/her/its own nuances and denouncing everyone else's "plan" from instant surrender to surrender on the instllment plan, just so long as it ends in surrender.
Pro-life needs coherent strategy and unity. As General Patton said (in the movie anyway): This individuality crap promoted by the Saturday Evening Post has to go!
If you think that attacking Henry Hyde and Chris Smith is a priority, then you need new hobbies. Note that I am not pinging my friends.
We have to touch the very mind, heart and souls of these men, so that when this wrong is presented to them again they vote for rightousness, life and truth. They have the power to close planned parenthood and it's up to us to give them the strength to do so.
Spector is a reasonably honest if somewhat loopy (Scottish law) pro-abort who, due to a brain tumor, has one foot in the grave and one on a banana peel and he is very old. Faced with a genuinely pro-life challenge from a state legislator with actual pro-life credentials two primaries ago, Spector (one of America's 5 or 10 best trial lawyers) masterfully destroyed Anita Hill with the assistance of research provided by a lady (not his staffer but a White House staffer) then-named Lee Libermann who came up with the literary sources of Hill's lies about pubic hairs on the Coke can and something else. Spector voted for Clarence Thomas and his demolition of Hill made the difference in the confirmation vote.
Unlikely though it may seem at the moment, if Lynn Swann is elected Pennsylvania governor and Santorum re-elected (much more likely), Swann may well appoint Spector's successor. Otherwise Rendell will do the appointing of someone who will be defeated by the next GOP candidate. If you live in New Jersey and near Pennsylvania, you might devote your efforts to promoting Melissa Hart for that seat or more likely an Eastern Pennsylvania pro-lifer acceptable to Western Pennsylvania since Pennsylvania has a tradition of one senator from each of East and West.
A problem is that our candidates are neither nominated nor elected by pronunciamento (Euro for fatwa). It takes a lot more elbow grease than opinionating. It takes political planning and organizing. It takes money. It takes cooperation with folks who disagree with us on abortion but really care much more about freedom generally or guns or even honesty and integrity in public life. It takes the best of GetOutTheVote (GOTV) machines. It takes networking with groups who care about guns (as you do), taxes (as you do), jobs, economy, WOT, military spending, hunting and fishing rights, and a lot of other issues not directly pro-life.
BTW, we are both Catholic and 4th Degree K of C.
Actually, I want you and me and all of us prolifers to adequately prepare for our battles, not substitute bellyaching for the necessary hard work (you may well be working your backside off and that is not a personal attack on you), have the self-discipline to focus on what can be done and to prioritize in the war against our common enemies. We ought never to squabble in public for their entertainment or their excitement or their satisfaction or for any other reason. Maintain a solid deep wall of resistance to the pro-aborts.
Why doesn't the pro-life movement highlight Jim Sedlak's STOPP organization and force defunding Planned Barrenhood to the front burner? I don't disagree with your goals. I disagree with your strategy and your tactics if they include going after Henry Hyde and Chris Smith.
Politics is played in the real world. We will win in the real world. We will not win as a collection of self-directed individualists, each speeding along his or her own path. We will win as a political/religious movement, capable and determined to administering a disciplined political beating to our enemies.
Bump for later read.
Don’t be surprised to see that many of your most PRO-LIFE congressmen have voted for Planned Parenthood, Title X funding....These men claim to be 100% pro-life, they are not and play around with statistics.
Any rational person can see that the bill listed above is a spending appropriation and not a bill that outlaws abortion; however, the above bill has everything to do with abortion because it appropriates hundreds of millions of dollars to organizations like planned parenthood that kills 250,000 babies per year!
These Catholics and Evangelicals are liars and wolves in sheep clothing and continue to lie to their constituents.
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