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Posted on 04/03/2007 7:54:01 AM PDT by Antoninus
Planned Parenthood Heroes
LA mayor honored by local and national Planned Parenthood groups for helping defeat parental notification initiative; UFW’s Dolores Huerta also given award
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who describes himself as a “Catholic,” was given Planned Parenthood’s “Hero Award” on Friday, March 30, for his role in the defeat of Proposition 85, the Parents’ Right to Know and Child Protection Initiative.
“The Honorable Antonio R. Villaraigosa, mayor of the City of Los Angeles, was honored with the Planned Parenthood Hero Award for his support of Planned Parenthood’s mission and contribution to the defeat in November of Prop. 85, a parental notification measure that endangered the health of teens,” said a Planned Parenthood news release. “This is the first year this award has been given.”
Villaraigosa recorded a widely distributed anti-85 message in Spanish on the eve of the November 2006 election at the behest of Planned Parenthood after polls showed widespread support among Latinos for the parental notification measure.
“Antonio Villaraigosa is a phony Hispanic because Hispanics value the family and parents,” said Albin Rohmberg, erstwhile spokesman for the Yes on 85 campaign. “Planned Parenthood specifically targets Hispanic women for abortion, and Villaraigosa purports to be a Latino leader. He’s a Judas who should be repudiated.”
Villaraigosa opposed Prop. 85 despite the support of California’s Catholic bishops and a specific appeal that Catholics -- especially Latinos -- vote in favor of the measure by Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles.
But the “Catholic” identity of the Los Angeles mayor has been buoyed by Cardinal Mahony himself, who led an “interfaith service” at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels hours before Villaraigosa’s inauguration at LA City Hall on July 1, 2005. The cardinal also joined a procession from the cathedral to City Hall on inauguration day, and gave the invocation at the inaugural.
Among those attending Villaraigosa’s inauguration events were former governor and current attorney general Jerry Brown, former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, then U.S. Rep. and current Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, former Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, then state treasurer and later failed Democratic candidate for governor Phil Angelides, and United Farm Workers leader Dolores Huerta.
Huerta was given Planned Parenthood’s “Margaret Sanger Award” at the same March 30 event, an award named after Planned Parenthood’s founder, an advocate of eugenics who favored openly racist public policies to reduce the number of African-Americans and Latinos.
Planned Parenthood’s news release described the March 30 awards ceremony as a “star-studded gala” sponsored by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Los Angeles. “The gala was hosted by Lauren Graham, Golden Globe Award-nominee for the television series Gilmore Girls and co-star of the recent romantic hit comedy movie, Because I Said So, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America Board of Advocates member; Neil Patrick Harris, star of the CBS hit series, How I Met Your Mother; and Stanley Tucci, Golden Globe- and Emmy Award-winning actor and co-star of the Golden Globe-nominated film, The Devil Wears Prada and Planned Parenthood Federation of America Board of Advocates member.”
Ping.
Planned Parenthood’s news release described the March 30 awards ceremony as a “star-studded gala” sponsored by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Los Angeles. “The gala was hosted by Lauren Graham, Golden Globe Award-nominee for the television series Gilmore Girls and co-star of the recent romantic hit comedy movie, Because I Said So, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America Board of Advocates member; Neil Patrick Harris, star of the CBS hit series, How I Met Your Mother; and Stanley Tucci, Golden Globe- and Emmy Award-winning actor and co-star of the Golden Globe-nominated film, The Devil Wears Prada and Planned Parenthood Federation of America Board of Advocates member.”
WAIT! WAIT! WAIT A MINUTE!!!
Don't the feminists say that men shouldn't have a say because they will never be faced with the hardship of abortion? Shouldn't that statement go double for openly homosexual men?
Neil Patrick Harris has already voluntarily removed himself from the breeding pool and determined that sex is solely for fun and not for the purpose of reproduction. Small wonder he would support exterminating the messy byproduct of heterosexual relations.
Neil Patrick Harris aka Doogie Houser M.O.
bookmark for later printing.
Don’t criticize the guy.
In another few years, this pro-abort mayor could be the Republican nominee for president and we would have “conservatives” falling all over themselves to support him.
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Just another chance for media whore Mayor Reconquista to shove his toothy mug in front of a television camera.
What a tool.
Amen.
how old is Mahoney?
why 20?
Do you mean it’ll take that long to clean house?
ok...I’m from diocese of Rochester....I understand.
“Prop. 85, a parental notification measure that endangered the health of teens,” said a Planned Parenthood news release. “This is the first year this award has been given.””
Sure, and abortion doesn’t endanger the health of teens? A parent has to know before their child recieves any prescriptions or operations but not a procedure to kill their grandchild. How odd.
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