Posted on 03/03/2016 1:22:18 PM PST by Morgana
Like some pro-life voters, Susan B, Anthony List president Marjorie Danenfelser has had enough. She’s tired of listening to Donald Trump, who had ostensibly run a reliably pro-life campaign up until recently, praise the Planned Parenthood abortion business.
As LifeNews has chronicled, Trump spent months last year making it clear he is pro-life, opposes abortion and would support defunding the Planned parenthood abortion business. Them Trump began saying, over the last few months, that the abortion company does “good things,” even “wonderful things” for “millions of women.” While maintaining that he would defnud Planned Parenthood if it doesn’t get out of the abortion business, Trump began holding up the parts of the abortion company he things are defensible — even beneficial.
Trump went further on Tuesday night and attacked pro-life voters who have been upset by his comments praising Planned Parenthood.
Trump dismissed the notion he is not a true conservative because he supports Planned Parenthood, insisting he is “just doing what’s right.”
“Look, Planned Parenthood has done very good work for many, many — for millions of women,” Trump said in a news conference Tuesday night. “And I’ll say it, and I know a lot of the so-called conservatives, they say that’s really … cause I’m a conservative, but I’m a common-sense conservative.”
Trump said he would not fund Planned Parenthood “as long as you have the abortion going on,” but noted the “millions of people — and I’ve had thousands of letters from women — that have been helped.”
“And this wasn’t a set-up. This was women writing letters. But I’m going to be really good for women, I’m going to be good for women’s health issues, it’s very important to me. Very important to me,” he said.
Now, in an email to LifeNews, Dannenfelser, who heads a political group promoting pro-life candidates, says Trump needs to stop. While asserting that Trump does have pro-life positions on key abortion issues, the SBA List president said Trump should stop pumping up the abortion company.
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“Mr. Trump has repeatedly said that, as President, he will defund Planned Parenthood so long as they continue to do abortions. We applaud him for this stand, but ask that he reconsider his repeated assertion that the group does ‘wonderful things’ beyond abortion. According to the group’s own annual reports, this could not be further from the truth. Planned Parenthood is a profit–driven, abortion-centered business – and a bad investment for taxpayers,” she said.
Dannenfelser continued: “A new Center for Medical Progress video released this week showed once again that Planned Parenthood’s highest executives are willing to engage in the harvest and sale of the body parts of aborted children. We ask Mr. Trump to watch this video series and urgently take off the rose-colored glasses he wears when talking about Planned Parenthood. Mr. Trump’s silence on this horror at the core of Planned Parenthood needs to end.”
At the same time Dannenfelser asked Trump to quit propping up Planned Parenthood, she also took the liberal media to task — specifically Rolling Stone, which ran an article claiming Trump is “running over the pro-life movement.”
Dannenfelser said: “Rolling Stone got it wrong. We may not like everything he says, but Donald Trump has committed to the pro-life movement’s top legislative priorities of stopping brutal, late-term abortions after five months and to defunding Planned Parenthood. Ms. Posner’s assertion that Trump is running over the pro-life movement is simply untrue and ignores the work we have put in to ensure every GOP presidential candidate is committed to our pro-life agenda.”
During Saturday night’s Republican presidential debate, Trump repeated a line that has had pro-life people concerned about his stance on taxpayer funding of the Planned Parenthood abortion company.
Though he repeated his line about supporting de-funding and opposing the abortion component of Planned Parenthood, Trump continued defending the abortion company in the most recent Republican presidential debate.
Trump stood firm in his defense of Planned Parenthood’s very few services other than abortion during Thursday night’s CNN Republican debate.
“I am pro-life, I am totally against abortion having to do with Planned Parenthood, but millions and millions of women, [with] cervical cancer, breast cancer, are helped by Planned Parenthood,” Trump said in the face of criticism from his rivals.
“You can say whatever you want, but they have millions of women going through Planned Parenthood who are helped greatly. I wouldn’t fund it, I’d defund it because of the abortion factor,” he added.
Recently, in what may be the last straw for some pro-life voters who support Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate once again defended his positive comments concerning the Planned Parenthood abortion business. In an interview on Meet the Press, Trump said that the women he knows who have gone to the abortion company understand it better than anyone else.
“I have many, many friends who are women who understand Planned Parenthood better than you or I will ever understand it,” Trump told Chuck Todd, the host of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” in an interview. “And they do some very good work. Cervical cancer, lots of women’s issue, women’s health issues are taken care of.”
Trump continues to claim that he opposes abortion and the abortion component of the Planned Parenthood abortion business and maintains he opposes federal taxpayer funding of the billion-dollar corporation.
“Planned Parenthood does a really good job at a lot of different areas. But not on abortion,” he said Sunday. “So I’m not going to fund it if it’s doing the abortion. I am not going to fund it.”
In February, for the first time, Trump has specifically promised he would sign a bill as president to de-fund Planned Parenthood. Trump has repeatedly indicated he opposes Planned Parenthood funding but has always stopped short of committing to sign legislation to stop the flow of taxpayer funds to the nation’s biggest abortion business.
In a new interview with David Brody of CBN, Trump made that promise. Although his promise will go a long way towards reassuring pro-life voters he would implement specific pro-life policy on abortion as president, Trump continued to praise Planned Parenthood — following up on his “good things” and “wonderful work” comments that have turned off some pro-life voters.
Meanwhile, Trump said he thinks the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case that ushered in an era of 48 million abortions was “wrongly decided.” Trump said he would appoint “very good judges” who would ultimately “change it” but he opposed Roe without specifically saying it should be overturned.
Yes I’d like to see him shut up about this too — it’s like saying Hitler built some nice buildings and did some good things for kids.
Think it means he needs the abortion votes!
There have been 50+ million innocent babies aborted and he is playing to the people that had them aborted.
Lot of votes!!!!!!!
He knows how to play the game!!! Both sides of the issue!!!
To the Christians, I am the best.
To Bible readers, No body reads the Bible more than me.
To the abortionists, You do good work.
He is a salesman!!!!!
Yep. It’s the art of the deal. He will run against Hillary as a centrist.
And all negotiations are fluid! Donald’s words!!!
May God have mercy while we watch the slaughter!!!!
And I should have added that I don’t care as long as neither the Hildabeast nor the GOPe wins which is an oxymoron.
If I want to see a contradictory claim about PP every day, all I have to do is read the supposedly well informed FR.
It’s like PP has become such a frightening monster that we can’t even figure out what it’s really doing, or something.
We need to be careful; PP has a front of spiritual warfare. Ephesians 6 tactics apply. If the belt of truth is needed with which to keep fighting garments on, a lot of FReepers have their pants down around their ankles, it seems, with regards to PP.
I don’t know the actual data, but I do know the whole affair (abortions and far more) came about as the brainchild of Margaret Sanger. She was no family friendly lady.
If Donald Trump is fooled, he’s in a BIG BIG boat of company here.
Personally I get the picture, whenever I have seen actual sourced data, that abortion is in increasing trouble. The baby parts sub-industry seems to be intended to try to keep it afloat and to give it some kind of legitimacy cover. I suggest we also should realize that it’s by far the worst part of Margaret Sanger’s legacy and it makes sense to concentrate on it first. Leave the jock itch clinics alone. They are the pea shooters in a war where abortion is nuclear bombs. If abortion is aborted as culturally acceptable once more, it will be forced into phone booths by mere issues of scale. Roe v. Wade didn’t so much create a problem as to uncover one in its full ugliness. What we know now as abortion cases used to be known as abandoned/neglected child and child abuse cases, and great progress is now being made on that front. Increase the scope of those ministries to deal pro-actively with parent issues, and abortion — the problem of hating your children so much you wish they were gone — will also dwindle.
A FRiend’s statement!!!
“When Jesus said “Suffer the little children to come unto me”....HE did not mean kill them so they can come sooner. “
Great statement!!!!!! And it agrees with The Word!!
We have FReepers from Utah who inform us that their Planned Parenthood facilities perform exactly ZERO abortions. And they DO provide actual healthcare for women — “wonderful things”.
Don’t accuse me of being pro-abortion, ‘cause I’m not. The money DH and I donated to our former city’s pro-choice Women’s Resource Center could feed a small country for a year. I’m just giving info on this particular post.
Good God. Really. Abortion clinics are closing right and left all over the country. Get over yourself.
This is sort of what I figured. We need to get over these scary devils that keep on dancing around as though it were yesteryear. Devils tell lies by definition and they are tricky. If they can get us to think the battle hasn’t progressed, that will tempt us to lose our courage.
Or like this...
An interview that Trump gave to Playboy in 1990 has just come to my attention. If I’m the last to know about it, forgive me. Trump was asked about Gorbachev — who was nearing the end of his time in power. Trump said, “Russia is out of control and the leadership knows it. That’s my problem with Gorbachev. Not a firm enough hand.”His interviewer asked, “You mean firm hand as in China?”
Trump answered, “When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak … as being spit on by the rest of the world –”
OK, an older article, 1 data point, wild discrepancy between what PP and STOPP say, so wild one could wonder if there is some unstated condition, some unexplained elephant in the room. I just don’t get huge vibes of reliability, only two agencies both saying “trust us” and caring little about truth and facts because they both want to project an image.
Just my thoughts..
Donald has been far too immersed in just being himself to really know what’s what here.
Probably all he “knows” is second-hand.
I think I’ll just leave it up to Sessions or Palin or some other of his more knowledgeable ones to educate him.
That is to wince at all right, although to be fair, in the gospel discourses Jesus is known to have used examples of things that were immoral or outrageous as examples of gospel principles.
China strong (at least of the Tiananmen era) stank; US strong usually smelled pretty good. And it should stay that way.
And to buy a field in order to get a pearl that is in it, without telling the owner, sounds like a classic case of unjust enrichment. But someone forgot to tell that to the author of the gospel. Maybe He didn’t care! He knew that those who would get the point would get it, and those that caviled were already looking for trouble.
I would think the point Trump might have wanted to make, is that US power when needed should be astounding. Shock and awe, as was put in another era. Not that it should be unprincipled as in Tienanmen.
Oh good gosh. Trump is right - PP clinics do have some good services for women. If they didn’t do abortions and sell baby parts there would be no issues with them. We must not condone baby killing with taxpayer money - Trump says he will defund them if they don’t stop doing abortions (which they claim is only 3% of their business so it shouldn’t be a big deal for them) which, like so many of Trump’s pronouncements, exposes the PP people as the evil lying hypocrites they are. So he’s giving them a length of rope to hang themselves with - what’s wrong with that?
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