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Donald Trump suggests he’s open to keeping taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood
Live Action News ^ | Aug 11, 2015 | Calvin Freiburger

Posted on 08/11/2015 3:33:05 PM PDT by familyop

One week after calling for a government shutdown if necessary to defund Planned Parenthood, presidential candidate Donald Trump has expressed willingness to let the abortion giant receive federal tax dollars for non-abortion services, Breitbart reports.

In an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo, Trump said Planned Parenthood is “like an abortion factory, frankly” and professed to “feel strongly about” cutting off government funding for abortion. But he went on to say that as president he would “look at the individual things they do… I’m sure they do some things properly and good and that are good for women,” because “we have to take care of women.”

In addition, Trump reiterated his opposition to elective abortion, but clarified that he supports exceptions for rape, incest, and in life of the mother cases.

Breitbart’s John Nolte criticized Trump as accepting “a status quo many conservatives find unacceptable and immoral; also a typical federal government shell game to skirt around the law.” He noted that “If you give Planned Parenthood money for these so-called ‘other things,’ the abortion provider can shift money from those ‘other things’ to abortion.”

Live Action News has previously reported that Donald Trump described himself as “very pro-choice in every respect,” including support for partial-birth abortion, in 1999, but in 2011 claimed to have became pro-life after seeing friends grow to love a child they had initially considered aborting, an anecdote he reiterated in last week’s presidential debate.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; carolshilby; fascism; trump; tyranny; ztaxmanredux
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To: editor-surveyor

“You mindless Trump supporters never cease to twist reality”

How did I twist reality?


41 posted on 08/11/2015 4:16:50 PM PDT by odawg
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To: brothers4thID; C. Edmund Wright
"Use nails next time :P"

This is my new favorite one.

I call him "Karl."


42 posted on 08/11/2015 4:19:39 PM PDT by shibumi ("Cover it with gas and set it on fire.")
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To: editor-surveyor

Why do you oppose Trump so? Everyone knows about Trump so do the candidates and any who are watching his run....and let me add what’s the worst that could happen if he DID win? Do you think he’s going to cow tow to the Demorats?

He’s going to do what HE thinks He can do regardless which side of the aisle people are on....this man has no “side”. HE is what he is as he is.


43 posted on 08/11/2015 4:20:13 PM PDT by caww
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To: chris37

Some of them for sure!


44 posted on 08/11/2015 4:21:31 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: familyop
We can trust him. Right? He's only 69 years old and wouldn't be set in his ways.

Donald Trump on Gun Control
http://www.ontheissues.org/donald_trump.htm#Gun_Control
"For assault weapon ban, waiting period, & background check. (Jul 2000)"

And by the way,...

Ben Carson on Gun Control
http://www.ontheissues.org/Ben_Carson.htm#Gun_Control
"Semi-automatic weapons ok in countryside, but not cities. (Mar 2013)"


45 posted on 08/11/2015 4:21:33 PM PDT by familyop ("Survey Monkey:...pistol whipped unconscious...laying face down on the group.")
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To: shibumi
Planned Parenthood Admits It Does Not Do Mammograms
46 posted on 08/11/2015 4:21:57 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))
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To: odawg

It’s not just Trump people jump quick on it’s everybody they’re not supporting.....vetting is one thing...feeding off the media buzz is another.


47 posted on 08/11/2015 4:22:15 PM PDT by caww
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To: C. Edmund Wright; shibumi
"...doesn't matter, all that matters is that every single person who objects to Trump for any reason whatsoever is a RINO, a Jeb voter, a supporter of the uniparty, etc. Don't go bringing truth and logic into this debate - hell no, not THIS debate. Truth, logic and history haven't got a damned thing to do with this particular debate."

Today someone said it was time to ditch the Constitution and install Trump as a dictator.

Yes, it was a serious post.

48 posted on 08/11/2015 4:24:33 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))
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To: editor-surveyor
Thanks for the ping. The highlights of the Trump campaign thus far have been -

- Who is the latest meanie who dissed Trump, and how well did Trump put the said meanie in their place.

- How well Trump performs in a verbal internet brawl.

- Initially he took elements of the Cruz campaign platform and broadcast it five times louder.

In the mean time, the issues that need to be focused on are being ignored. The liberals will love the issues not being discussed, and their record not being publicized.

49 posted on 08/11/2015 4:24:39 PM PDT by Moorings
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To: re_nortex

bump!!!


50 posted on 08/11/2015 4:24:45 PM PDT by GeronL (Cruz is for real, 100%)
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To: caww

He has no chance of winning.

He is well aware that he has no chance of winning.

He is looking to buy a Turd party to run from, not to win, but to siphon off enough votes to give Hillary a possible chance.

Hillary’s downward spiral may change his plan soon.


51 posted on 08/11/2015 4:24:50 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: familyop

Trump doesn’t understand that there is no such thing as earmarked funds?


52 posted on 08/11/2015 4:24:57 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: caww

“...vetting is one thing...feeding off the media buzz is another.”

You make a good point.


53 posted on 08/11/2015 4:26:58 PM PDT by odawg
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To: editor-surveyor

Almost all of them.


54 posted on 08/11/2015 4:27:57 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: CatherineofAragon

That was my point.

They have no business other than abortion.

Whatever other “referrals” they make, it’s only a miniscule portion of their budget. If we cut funding based on the percentage of non-abortion services, they’d essentially get next to nothing in Fed Funds.

Certainly not enough for a Lambo.

(Maybe a rusty Fiat 850.)


55 posted on 08/11/2015 4:28:19 PM PDT by shibumi ("Cover it with gas and set it on fire.")
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To: shibumi

IMO Trump is saying what he thinks conservatives want to hear.
Being uninformed and not conservative himself, it’s bound to not come out right.


56 posted on 08/11/2015 4:35:21 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))
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To: CatherineofAragon; C. Edmund Wright
"Today someone said it was time to ditch the Constitution and install Trump as a dictator."

Men like Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus are in the history books because their kind *are* history - as in not to be found in this day and age.

It's the same as trying to install Plato's Republic.

You first need a populace capable of understanding it.
Then you need that same populace to produce men capable of *doing* it.

By the way, Sheila Jackson Lee suggested essentially the same thing with The Usurper.

She wanted to send ideas to the White House (straight from the CBC) and bypass Congressional Legislation by using only executive orders.

57 posted on 08/11/2015 4:36:53 PM PDT by shibumi ("Cover it with gas and set it on fire.")
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To: re_nortex

We should not be surprised that Donald Trump is one of these crowd. But, people are listening to what they want to hear and they don’t care that he is lying through his teeth.


58 posted on 08/11/2015 4:49:12 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: shibumi

I seem to remember that coming from Lee...heifer that she is.


59 posted on 08/11/2015 4:49:12 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))
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To: editor-surveyor

I don’t believe you’re right on those notes....he’s way past this now....and certainly could win......and there’s no way the guy’s going to give anything to Hillary....he’s running now to win and we know that....

so what are you using to build the case you have in your mind?

You can’t go by his past...he has no special allegiance to any party now....and look at the people he’s placed around him....they are not left leaning either.


60 posted on 08/11/2015 4:50:19 PM PDT by caww
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