In a First, Planned Parenthood Backs Kerry

NewsMax.com ^ | 4/23/04 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

The political arm of taxpayer-supported Planned Parenthood Federation today threw its support to Sen. John Kerry. It's the first time the group has ever endorsed a candidate for president, according to the Associated Press.

Planned Parenthood Action Fund said it would focus on bringing single women to the polls in November.

While Kerry rallied today with Planned Parenthood and other abortion organizations, his campaign reacted to the Vatican's new warning about pro-abortion "Catholic" politicians by citing what it called the constitutional "separation of church and state," a phrase that appears nowhere in the U.S. Constitution.

"The decisions he will make as president will be guided by his obligation to all the people of our country and to the Constitution of the United States," stated Kerry's spokesman David Wade. "Every American - whether they be Jewish, Catholic, Protestant or any other faith - must believe their president is representing them."

Judy Brown, president of American Life League, said Cardinal Francis Arinze's directive today "should reinforce for the bishops that they must enforce canon law" by denying Communion to the hundreds of pro-abortion "Catholic" politicians in America.

"My impression is that the vast majority of bishops do not enforce the law," she noted.

As for Kerry's claim that he is personally opposed to abortion but would appoint only pro-abortion judges: "There is no such thing in the Catholic Church as personal morality. There's only right and wrong," Brown said.

[kattracks]

While Kerry rallied today with Planned Parenthood and other abortion organizations, his campaign reacted to the Vatican's new warning about pro-abortion "Catholic" politicians by citing what it called the constitutional "separation of church and state," ....

Except when used for Dim photo ops.

BTW, has Kerry ever mentioned this to the Dim preachers down south when he appears at their churches?

[sarasota]

My how Kerry's handlers make it up as they go along. Is there anyone left who's buying into this drivel?

[areafiftyone]

Kerry is officially dooomed among Catholics. We need to hound him every time he sets foot inside a Catholic Church.

[South40]

Planned Parenthood = pro-abortionists

John Kerry = pro-abortionist

Where's the story?

[ServesURight]

Where's the IRS on this? They should yank their non-profit status and force them to get money from liberal celebrities like other left-wing groups do.

[theDentist]

Same people who have been buying it since the days of Carter...

[JFC]

SUPRISE, SUPRISE, SUPRISE.......
I never would have predicted that one. ;)

Adds votes to Bush...

They are about like having Larry Flynt endorse you.

[So Cal Rocket]

Absolutely... Planned Parenthood should lose their status as a Charitable Organization... donations to PP must no longer be tax deductable, as they have now officially become a Political Organization.

[The kings dead]

Planned Parenthood Action Fund said it would focus on bringing single women to the polls in November.

Despite all the leftist propaganda, married women aren't interested in the "right" to kill babies.

[King Black Robe]

A mother should never choose to kill her own child.

[gdani]

Where's the IRS on this? They should yank their non-profit status.......

Excpet that this is PP's Action Fund. In other words, a PAC that is permitted under IRS regs to endorse candidates.

The PP Action Fund is a legally separate organization from Planned Parenthood itself.

Hundreds, if not thousands, of organizations are set up the same way.

[Dan from Michigan]

Time to quit funding the bastids with my tax money. Let Soros pay for it himself.

[GulliverSwift]

Most women are not, if you look at the polls. Men are more likely to be pro-abort. Which makes sense considering that they reap the benefits far more than women do.

[Redbob]

Kerry's "separation of church and state" thing sounds more like he's trying to come up with a way of separating his actions from morality.

I'd bet the Church has a policy on that...

[Campion]

citing what it called the constitutional "separation of church and state,"

When did John Kerry become his own state? What is it called, "Kerryland"? And if he's the Chief of State of a foreign country, how can he run for POTUS?

Kerry: L'etat Kerryland, c'est moi!

[DManA]

It's their POLITICAL wing ( wink wink ). Unlike their operational wing, the political wing doesn't kill anyone.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

"There is no such thing [...] as personal morality. There's only right and wrong," Brown said.

Hear, hear.

(As a universal truth, not just a RCC truth)

[uncitizen]

I believe that many of the women who have undergone abortion have regretted it. I believe it has impacted their lives profoundly. And I believe that recently (last decade) those women have begun to admit that their abortion is a major regret of their respective lives. As these women have passed on those regrets to the next generation of women, many women now understand that abortion is not simply a procedure, but a major event in a woman's life. This has already begun to be reflected in the number of abortions performed in the US. Numbers were the highest thru the 80's and began to fall after 1990 (according to CDC).

So Planned Parenthood may be trying to rejuvenate the abortion issue by conjoining it with "Laci Peterson's Law" and attempting to scare women that they will lose their abortion rights. But i don't think that people feel as strongly about this issue as they used to before they knew the unintended lifetime consequences of abortion.

[GulfWar1Vet]

Mmmm..I wonder what the LORD thinks?

[Fedora]

Ping.