Defunding Planned Parenthood Not the Same as Repealing the Right to Abortion

Townhall.com ^ | August 5, 2015 | Jonah Goldberg

[surroundedbyblue]

It’s been awhile since I read the constitution, but I don’t recall seeing a “right to abortion”. I do, however, remember something about the right to life.

[IC Ken]

Defunding is a good start.

[Fido969]

OK, no, objecting to babies bodies being chopped up and sold is EXACTLT the same as being against women’s health.

[Louis Foxwell]

The best argument I have read asks about protecting the woman’s life who lies, dismembered, in a lab tray. If it were about women’s health it would be about women’s health, not early pregnancy termination.
We are slaughtering humans by the tens of millions to avoid the hysteria of unwanted pregnancy. How asinine.

[JudyinCanada]

I never understood the women’s health narrative. Aren’t about half of the little babies being slaughtered women?

I say offer a compromise - extend funding to all PP facilities which do NOT offer abortion, or referrals.

[Sacajaweau]

Abortion is murder. We ALL know murder is a crime. >To permit it, as being some right, against a defenseless human being is an abomination.

LIFE, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

[Eddie01]

Where are the GD indictments?

[nathanbedford]

If the left has found a way to get you and me to pay them a profit for carving up babies for their parts, should we be surprised that the left has found a way to make us pay for virtually every notion that comes into their collective heads?

We pay for propaganda organs they call education institutions. We pay for vast federal bureaucracies to control our private property, to shut down our power plants, to federalize our suburbs, to nationalize our police forces, to declare veterans potential terrorists, to subsidize tuition for illegal aliens, to subsidize public service unions so they can finance Democrats' election campaigns and the list goes on and on and on limited only by the imagination of the left to create a crisis, identify a victim group or conjure up a new "right."

If our national government cannot restrain itself from subsidizing the carving up of babies for profit, it is unlikely that it can restrain itself from anything that adds to an $18 trillion national debt.

[Kaslin]

Bump

[precisionshootist]

What if the baby being murdered is female? What a out her health?

[precisionshootist]

I agree, defunding is being used as a diversion. Planned parenthood employees should be arrested now. Defunding should be part of the cleanup process.

[Thank You Rush]

Good one - thanks for finding and posting.

[UCANSEE2]

IF abortions are only a small part of PP’s daily business, then why don’t they quit doing abortions and only allow HOSPITALS to do abortions for cases of INCEST or RAPE ?

[RJS1950]

Very true. The long ago decision didn’t determine a “right” to an abortion, but left that up to the states which was the correct decision. That is why individual states continually pass anti-abortion laws.

The problem is that the democrat federal judges incorrectly rule against the state laws when they have no real standing. That it is left to the states is the reason why the left continually runs scared that the states will push the test button on these federal decisions. They would not be still fighting the fight for abortion if the states had no real say.

[UCANSEE2]

We are slaughtering humans by the tens of millions to avoid the hysteria of unwanted pregnancy.

IF we could just figure out how these UNWANTED PREGNANCIES happen, maybe we could eliminate the need for abortion.

[pgyanke]

“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”

-- Thomas Jefferson, 1802

[TBP]

The Planned parenthood videos are the latest factor that has turned the millennials pro-life.

The liberal Supreme Court probably suspected that such a day would come, so they toik away the possibility of protecting life by declaring an absolute right to abortion.

It will not stand.

[4Liberty]

[Louis Foxwell]

Probably closer to 2/3 killed babies are female. Abortion is the primary misogynistic, anti woman and racist, anti black movement in our culture. Leftists have outdone themselves. They are demonstrably destructive.