Planned Parenthood Scared by Tea Party Success

LifeSiteNews.com ^ | September 23, 2010 | By Kathleen Gilbert

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Thursday September 23, 2010

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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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[Eagle Eye]

Nice try but it doesn’t work.

Care to pervert the English language any more?

[Jean S]

You are such a liar! Wow. Open, bald faced liar. And those are probably your best qualities. So caught up in your demagoguery that you have totally lost tough with reality.

I appreciate your reply, it confirms my opinion of you.

[Eagle Eye]

Coercion by violence is a perfectly proper definition for application to the practice of abortion.

Who is the object of coercion and what is the political ideal?

Unborn aren't coerced and they don't vote.

As tragic as abortion is, it isn't terrorism as commonly practiced.

[DJ MacWoW]

He’s simply a disruptor that trolls looking for a fight. It’s what he does on these threads.

[Eagle Eye]

I’m sure that roach I squished the other day didn’t think that much of me either.

As far as I can see, you’d prefer to wallow in error and insult me than change your mind and enjoy the truth.

It must really be sad to be in your skin and all I can do is pity you.

[Jean S]

He’s not worth replying to if he has to resort to personal attacks to defend his position on abortion.

[DJ MacWoW]

And that post to you was a nasty personal attack. And uncalled for.

[Eagle Eye]

You are both hypocrites. You can say extremely nasty things about me and feel good about yourselves but hate your reflections in the mirrors I put in front of your faces.

And I don't blame you for hating your own reflections!

[Jean S]

Doesn’t bother me at all. I don’t think he’s used to being called out on his comments, class of ‘98. We all 98ers think we’re invincible. We’re not.

[Jean S]

Oh come on, now you’re just sounding silly.

[Eagle Eye]

Troll = someone who understands his position better than you understand yours?

[Apercu]

Try the mothers, fathers and who says it is a strictly political definition?In fact it IS also a political & moral issue of the highest magnitude - every day to those who experience it and each election cycle to those who debate it.Coercion is the use of force, psychological and/or physical to gain compliance.The unborn, the parents & families are all subject to some degree of coercion with the unborn child bearing the brunt.You can play all the semantics cards you want - abortion is a form of terrorism against those who can't defend themselves.

[DJ MacWoW]

When I first signed up there were a lot of “Class of 98” posters who were helpful and informative. I learned a lot from them. And then there were the “others”. ;-)

[Eagle Eye]

Definitions are not semantics. Re read your twisting of terms to suit your purposes to see semantic gymnastics in action.

Terrorism example - a bomb or bombings designed to make the government look impotent and to coerce or intimidate the population to bend to the will of the perpetrators.

Abortion - normally a voluntary act by a woman who wishes to end her pregnancy by killing the fetus. Frequently done in secret.

There are many terrible and terrifying acts perpetrated on people that are not correctly termed terrorism.

Either words mean something or they don’t.

[Eagle Eye]

Said the hypocrite.

[Jean S]

“Class of 98” posters who were helpful and informative

Alamo-Girl was a huge help to me when I first signed up. She hadn't been at FR that long but she knew everything about the site and gave me advice on what should or should not be posted on FR.

Check it out, she's still listed on FR's homepage!

[BenKenobi]

It is relevant. There are many similarities between what happened at Auschwitz and what happens in abortion clinics today.

The only difference is that one happened in Germany, and the other is happening all over the world.

The question, btw isn’t trying to ‘trap’ you or whatever nonsense, but to make this point 100 percent clear. I actually expected you to answer no, but clearly you fear the question, which is why you’ve not answered it.

So be it.

[Eagle Eye]

Yeah, tens of thousands are marched into US abortion clinics and treated the same way Auschwitz internees were.

Yeah, that pretty much disgraces everyone that went to any of those NAZI extermination camps by comparing them to women who voluntarily kill their unborn babies.

Epic Fail.

[DJ MacWoW]

Yep. She's one of the Freepers that I respect too.

I was very timid at first and Summer told me to just jump in and post. She was very kind. I'd been getting bashed around on other boards for being conservative. That tends to make one button their lip. The older signups taught me how to debate and backup what I said with links.

[Apercu]

Now you are trying to find flysh!t in the pepper. Definitions & semantics are not mutually exclusive - they both encompass meanings of words and use of language.I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.