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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: JediJones
The gubbermint has no bizness propping up organizations that can’t survive on their own.

Nor does the governmment have any "bizness propping up organizations" that simply launder taxpayer money on its way to the Democrat party.

81 posted on 08/11/2015 5:27:04 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: caww
It's not allegiance to party that's worry me, FRiend. It's allegiance to political principle. Cruz has a defined, clearly stated principle in how he thinks politically.

Trump, like Schwarzenegger, has zero political principle. However, like Arnold, he is, I believe, a patriot, he is sincere, and he has a gifted knack as entertainer/showman to reflect to people what rouses them emotionally -- politically incorrect brassiness that sounds conservative on the surface and which is gratifies folks angry with the status quo; Trump looks to them like he's "taking it to them" for the little guy.

Because Trump has no essential political compass, it's easy for people to project their own political assumptions and principles on Trump, like I know I did on Schwarzenegger, for whom I voted with enthusiasm, naïve in retrospect.

It's kinda hard to project political assumptions on a guy like Cruz, whose standards are the constitution, limited government, Christian conservatism. Just knowing that a guy embraces limited government principle, means you know where he stands on a whole slew of issues.

Trump has zero political principle, so where he stands on any given issue is a crap shoot.

Vote for him at your own risk, and see my tagline. :^)

82 posted on 08/11/2015 5:35:59 PM PDT by Finny (Be ready to own what you vote for. Voting "against" is pretend. You can only vote "for.")
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To: familyop

“But certainly the abortion aspect of it should not be funded by government, absolutely.”


83 posted on 08/11/2015 5:38:33 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: caww

Thanks for honoring me with the re-post, C!


85 posted on 08/11/2015 6:19:02 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: editor-surveyor
"Trump suggests he’s open to keeping taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood"

Donald's agenda doesnt quite live up to his hype does it...

"Donald is just alright with me, Donald is just alright, oh yeah

Donald is just alright with me, Donald is just alright

I don't care what they may know

I don't care where they may go

I don't care what they may know"

as sung by the Meshuge Brothers



86 posted on 08/11/2015 6:23:59 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: sf4dubya

I wonder if he would bolt to the Democrap party if given the perfect opportunity.

Hillarys Servers been seized by the FBI...so she’s about done....


88 posted on 08/11/2015 6:44:31 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: shibumi

Would it be terribly un-Christian of me to suggest a few pin placements?

;)


89 posted on 08/11/2015 6:54:28 PM PDT by brothers4thID (Be professional, be courteous, and have a plan to kill everyone in the room.)
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To: CatherineofAragon

Where, on DU?


90 posted on 08/11/2015 6:55:20 PM PDT by brothers4thID (Be professional, be courteous, and have a plan to kill everyone in the room.)
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To: sf4dubya
one of the few fitting tributes Ive been able to concoct for the Donnie




92 posted on 08/11/2015 7:09:30 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: sf4dubya

when He becomes President.....I will gladly meet with him to discuss his IRS issues


94 posted on 08/11/2015 7:35:23 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: brothers4thID

No. Right here.


95 posted on 08/11/2015 8:16:41 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: HiTech RedNeck

I’m wondering if trump is going for some of the feminist vote.


96 posted on 08/11/2015 9:51:29 PM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Arthur McGowan

If Trump continues making pro-abortion statements,


What pro-abortion statement?


97 posted on 08/11/2015 9:52:12 PM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: cuban leaf

Trump is blowing it.

Instead, he should be the one on top of this EPA debacle in Colorado, that was a missed opportunity.


98 posted on 08/11/2015 9:52:31 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: cuban leaf

Giving ANY money to PP is a pro-abortion act, because money is fungible.

You think he could make a donation to the Nazi Party or the KKK, and get away with saying: “I gave it to that soup kitchen they run”?


99 posted on 08/11/2015 10:12:37 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: familyop

Any way the wind blows huh Donald?


100 posted on 08/12/2015 10:44:08 AM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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