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Planned Parenthood Scared by Tea Party Success
LifeSiteNews.com ^ | September 23, 2010 | By Kathleen Gilbert

Posted on 09/23/2010 3:09:13 PM PDT by topher

Thursday September 23, 2010


Planned Parenthood Scared by Tea Party Success

By Kathleen Gilbert

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In addition to discontent with out-of-control spending and government expansion, the American Tea Party movement is motivated by a strong devotion to the right to life of the unborn - something that appears to have caught the pro-abortion establishment, including Planned Parenthood, off-guard.

In a Facebook post Monday, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America expressed frustration at the burgeoning popularity of thoroughly pro-life candidates who have shot to stardom thanks to Tea Party momentum.

"It's easy to laugh at some of the crazy statements made by the newest Republican U.S. Senate candidate, Christine O'Donnell and others running on extreme anti-abortion platforms," wrote the group. "But did you know that the day after O'Donnell's primary victory in Delaware, she raised $1,000,000 online?"

The grassroots Tea Party movement, while largely dismissed by mainstream media and Democrat leaders early on - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously wrote off the movement as "astroturf" – has grabbed the attention of both parties after Tea Party senate candidates snatched the GOP nomination in seven states earlier this month.

The Republicans' "Pledge to America," a document released Thursday outlining a congressional agenda for the party, clearly aimed to please Tea Partiers. Party leaders, distancing themselves from "politicians in Washington," promised to shrink government, reform Congress, and in general facilitate "listening to the American people and fielding their concerns and ideas for turning things around."

In its statement, PPFA lamented that the Tea Party has ushered in "a groundswell of support across the country for these anti-choice candidates." "They're everywhere, raising money and support," it said, and urged supporters to help the abortion giant "fight them, stop them, and defeat them."

On Wednesday, the Washington Examiner noted that the Tea Party's impact in the upcoming midterm elections will mean trouble for pro-choice incumbents, particularly those among the GOP.

Examiner columnist Timothy P. Carney noted that the four top casualties of Tea Party furor - Lisa Murkowski, Mike Castle, Charlie Crist and Arlen Specter - were all pro-choice members or former members of the Republican Party. In contrast, all of the successful Tea Party candidates for Senate are strongly pro-life.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2010midterms; elections; moralabsolutes; plannedparenthood; prolife; prolifevote; teaparty; teapartyrebellion
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To: topher

“...did you know that the day after O’Donnell’s primary victory in Delaware, she raised $1,000,000 online?”

They noticed. :-)


21 posted on 09/23/2010 3:55:12 PM PDT by Heart of Georgia
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To: tet68
Stop Abortion, save the life of a taxpayer. Think about the revenue generated by 50 million.

Thank you. You are the only person I've ever heard (seen) make that argument. For years I've been making that argument. The fact that the dems ignore it shows they love death even more than money. Sick, twisted, evil souls. We must vote them out.

22 posted on 09/23/2010 4:02:18 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman (Extremism in defense of Liberty is sometimes necessary...)
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To: MissyMack66
I know many many Tea Party members, including myself, and not one of us has any issue with Planned parenthood. In fact, its the movement is about taxes, not birth right.

Planned Parenthood is an abortuary where they murder babies. And you have no problem with them?

23 posted on 09/23/2010 4:03:15 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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To: Eagle Eye

I don’t know. Was Auschwitz considered an act of terrorism?


24 posted on 09/23/2010 4:06:18 PM PDT by BenKenobi ("Henceforth I will call nothing else fair unless it be her gift to me")
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To: topher

So are the Democrat and Republican Parties.


25 posted on 09/23/2010 4:07:52 PM PDT by sport
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To: MissyMack66

How many Tea Party members do you know?


26 posted on 09/23/2010 4:10:16 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: topher

Planned Parenthood (every one of them) should be in fear for the day that they meet St. Peter and he points Down, down, down as the Pearly Gates slam before them and thunder and lightning flashes and crashes.


27 posted on 09/23/2010 4:23:44 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic (Southeast Wisconsin, Zone 4 to 5)
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To: Eagle Eye
If the unborn could speak I'd wager they would agree with the terrorist label.
28 posted on 09/23/2010 4:25:29 PM PDT by Apercu ("Mongo only pawn.......in game of life")
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To: Eagle Eye
PP is killing but isn’t terroristic in their methods

Really? What do you call dismembering and scalding a baby with saline?

29 posted on 09/23/2010 4:25:57 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic (Southeast Wisconsin, Zone 4 to 5)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Let’s not forget Obama’s personal crusade to protect the doctor’s ability to “complete the procedure” if an infant actually survives the abortion, and/or is viably outside the womb (either from slipping out, surviving the cuts, or general medical incompetence).


30 posted on 09/23/2010 4:28:21 PM PDT by Teacher317 (remember dismember November)
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To: Outlaw Woman
For years I've been making that argument.

Me too. Furthermore, SS would not be in trouble if those 50,000,000 people were working and paying taxes. There are better reasons to oppose PP, but that is also a good one.

31 posted on 09/23/2010 4:31:10 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic (Southeast Wisconsin, Zone 4 to 5)
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To: Eagle Eye
If the unborn could speak I'd wager they would agree with the terrorist label.
32 posted on 09/23/2010 4:36:07 PM PDT by Apercu ("Mongo only pawn.......in game of life")
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To: topher

Hopefully, they’ll be panicked by the election results.


33 posted on 09/23/2010 4:48:01 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Obama's more worried about Israelis building houses than he is about Islamists building atomic bombs)
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To: Apercu; Eagle Eye
If the unborn could speak I'd wager they would agree with the terrorist label.

Yes.

Eagle Eye, you disgust me.

34 posted on 09/23/2010 5:29:28 PM PDT by Jean S
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To: EternalVigilance

While it might make you feel good to equate terrorism and abortion, the fact is that the two are different and just because you feel that they are similar doesn’t make them so.

Both are evil.

But they aren’t the same.


35 posted on 09/23/2010 6:04:37 PM PDT by Eagle Eye (A blind clock finds a nut at least twice a day.)
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To: BenKenobi

I guess you and others don’t know that terrorism actually has a definition.


36 posted on 09/23/2010 6:06:45 PM PDT by Eagle Eye (A blind clock finds a nut at least twice a day.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic; Apercu

I’m astonished at your ignorance!

Terror and terrorism are not the same.

Terrible acts and terrorism are not the same.

Terrorism has a definition. Look it up and stop displaying ignorance.


37 posted on 09/23/2010 6:08:35 PM PDT by Eagle Eye (A blind clock finds a nut at least twice a day.)
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To: Jean S

I disgust you because you cannot read English with proper understanding?

Sounds like your problem.

What PP does does not fit the definition of terrorism.

It would seem that accuracy and truth should disgust you as well.


38 posted on 09/23/2010 6:10:54 PM PDT by Eagle Eye (A blind clock finds a nut at least twice a day.)
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To: MissyMack66

This isn’t a Tea Party website.

Pro Life conservative is what we are.

Many also go to Tea Parties.


39 posted on 09/23/2010 6:13:48 PM PDT by dforest
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To: All
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/terrorism ter·ror·ism    /ˈtɛrəˌrɪzəm/ Show Spelled[ter-uh-riz-uhm] Show IPA –noun 1. the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes. 2. the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization. 3. a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government. And that is just a simple google search without even getting more technical. This thread is like dealing with Liberals who feel what is right regardless of what the facts are.
40 posted on 09/23/2010 6:15:49 PM PDT by Eagle Eye (A blind clock finds a nut at least twice a day.)
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