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Planned Parenthood's Latest Tactic: 'Brilliant, Slick and Unscrupulous'
Christian News Wire ^ | Feb. 5, 2010

Posted on 02/05/2010 9:13:33 AM PST by Between the Lines

Christian Newswire/ -- For several weeks, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) has been sitting on the sidelines while its cohorts attacked CBS Television for agreeing to air a pro-family commercial during the Super Bowl. It seems the hierarchy of the abortion-committing group did not want to come off looking as ridiculous and petty as their counterparts. Just in time, two former pro-abortion leaders, Frances Kissling of "Catholics" for a Free Choice and Kate Michelman of NARAL Pro-Choice America, have come to the rescue of the rarely silent PPFA.

 
In an opinion piece published in The Washington Post, Kissling and Michelman chided their pro-abortion contemporaries for opening their mouths before thinking and failing to see a failed strategy when they were in the midst of the debate. The pair argued that "picking on Tim Tebow and his mom is not the way to go." They said that instead of criticizing or trying to censor the ad, "the pro-choice movement needs its own Super Bowl strategy."
 
"Pam Tebow was indeed courageous and had the legal right to choose," Kissling and Michelman conceded. However, they argued that those who choose abortion are equally courageous, and this is the key point that should be made when talking about the ad. They offered up a specific suggestion:

We'd go with a 30-second spot, too. The camera focuses on one woman after another, posed in the situations of daily life: rushing out the door in the morning for work, flipping through a magazine, washing dishes, teaching a class of sixth-graders, wheeling a baby stroller. Each woman looks calmly into the camera and describes her different and successful choice: having a baby and giving it up for adoption, having an abortion, having a baby and raising it lovingly. Each one being clear that making choices isn't easy, but that life without tough choices doesn't exist.

Pressure from fellow pro-abortion activists and the wise words of Kissling and Michelman led PPFA President Cecile Richards to release a statement, which was primarily used to attack Focus on the Family and draw attention away from the point of the commercial. Shortly thereafter, PPFA released two videos responding to the ad:

One video features former college and professional football player Sean James and Olympic gold medalist Al Joyner:

In the other video, Richards does a great job utilizing the strategy suggested by Kissling and Michelman:

"The new tactics being employed by pro-abortion leaders is brilliant," said Douglas R. Scott, Jr., president of Life Decisions International, a Planned Parenthood watchdog organization. "The James/Joyner video is slick. Like Tim Tebow, the men are articulate and come across as sincere, caring individuals." Scott said the Richards video is also good, but "merely espouses the quintessential argument that has been used by abortion apologists for decades. It has just been softened a bit and repackaged."

While Scott is impressed by the PPFA videos, he points out that the words spoken by the trio demonstrate just how unscrupulous the group can be. "This is nothing but nice-sounding rhetoric that evades the real issue. Moreover, the videos do not show the public the extreme nature of Planned Parenthood's agenda."

"James, Joyner and Richards do not want to talk directly about abortion. Every word that leaves their mouths presents a 'let's all get along and let everyone do whatever they want to do' and 'let's celebrate and praise the decisions of those who choose to kill their children just as we might celebrate and praise those who choose to bring a new life into the world.' As usual, the crux of the matter is ignored," Scott said.

"This is not a question of trusting women; it is a matter of life and death. The bottom line is that if Pam Tebow had followed the advice of her doctors and those who support 'reproductive choice', Tim would have been killed. And this would have been a tragedy if he had grown up to become a janitor, a clerk, a teacher, a car salesman, a president, or even a football star. 'Choices' are not equal. Choosing death for another should never be 'celebrated', 'praised', or 'respected'. While we should always give others the basic respect due anyone created in the image of God, we can never 'respect' the opinions or actions of those who support evil."

Both PPFA videos may be viewed by clicking here for James/Joyner and here for Richards.


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1 posted on 02/05/2010 9:13:33 AM PST by Between the Lines
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To: Between the Lines

As long as brave men and women will stand up to the horror that is abortion and their priests of death there is no way they can win this argument. Left has a hard time winning any argument provided we don’t allow them to silence us through political correctness. They fear open debate. They have to set the field to their advantage to win. We have made great strides on the issue of abortion, we have made great strides against the big government/world government insanity that is global warming, we have held the line against the radical homosexual agenda (though we need to do more and quit being afraid of the pink mafia). I don’t care what they put out as commercials there will always be the reality of what abortion is to shock people back to reality.


2 posted on 02/05/2010 9:19:58 AM PST by Maelstorm (We are umbilicaled to a parasitic beast that feeds off one man so to enslave another to dependency.)
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To: Between the Lines
African American Men for Planned Parenthood? Chappelle's Blind Black White Supremacist Lives!
3 posted on 02/05/2010 9:20:43 AM PST by mlizzy ("Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person" --Mother Teresa.)
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To: Between the Lines
'Brilliant, Slick and Unscrupulous'

Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama

4 posted on 02/05/2010 9:22:25 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (Kenya tell me where Obama was born?)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

LOLOLOL!


5 posted on 02/05/2010 9:33:13 AM PST by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: Between the Lines

In the 30 seconds this counter-commercial runs... statistically how many babies will have never been born because of abortion? Human life. THAT’s what I’m thinking about, and I hope the two guys on the commercial someday see the light and learn to love life.


6 posted on 02/05/2010 9:33:21 AM PST by Made In The USA (Home Depot should begin stocking up on pitchforks and torches.)
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To: Between the Lines

A true counter-ad would be about a woman who had an abortion saying, “My child never had a chance to live because I had it killed in the womb. But I can continue living my life.”


7 posted on 02/05/2010 9:35:10 AM PST by Georgex
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To: Between the Lines
Just in time, two former pro-abortion leaders, Frances Kissling of "Catholics" for a Free Choice and Kate Michelman of NARAL Pro-Choice America, have come to the rescue of the rarely silent PPFA.

It should instead read "Frances Kissling of Catholics for Murder." But I do not think that there are any such "Catholics" or even Christians that support murder of the unborn.

8 posted on 02/05/2010 9:35:58 AM PST by olezip
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To: Between the Lines

Planned Parenthood completely misrepresents the issue - not surprisingly. Please - women need to exercise the “right to choose” BEFORE getting pregnant. But then PPFA wouldn’t be able to rake in the money they receive from abortion mills.
This group does not represent women’s interests and they need to be exposed.


9 posted on 02/05/2010 9:43:17 AM PST by ElayneJ
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To: Between the Lines; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne; genetic homophobe; ...
RE :”. Planned Parenthood trusts every woman to make her own important personal medical decisions. Pam Tebow weighed medical and moral considerations and decided what was right for her and her family. And she did so in private and without government interference. That's exactly what we want every woman to be able to do.

This sounds like an ad against Obama-care. But what if we can get ALMOST everyone ‘covered’ and cut some entitlements, raise some taxes, set some price controls??? Wouldn't that be worth giving up the ‘right to choose’ personal medical decisions in private and without government interference as PP says they are for??

This type of anti-collective thinking is dangerous. Obama says we are all in this together. Wasn't this pro-abort group PP FOR Obama care?

10 posted on 02/05/2010 10:07:26 AM PST by sickoflibs ( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is spending you demand stupid")
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To: Made In The USA
In the 30 seconds this counter-commercial runs... statistically how many babies will have never been born because of abortion?

There is one abortion every 24 seconds in the US.

11 posted on 02/05/2010 10:07:30 AM PST by Between the Lines (AreYouWhoYouSayYouAre? Esse Quam Videri - To Be, Rather Than To Seem)
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To: sickoflibs

“Wasn’t this pro-abort group PP FOR Obama care? “

ALL of them!


12 posted on 02/05/2010 10:11:00 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINO's!)
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To: sickoflibs

you are confusing the issue with yer facts Sir...8^}


13 posted on 02/05/2010 10:21:43 AM PST by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: Gilbo_3

But it was fun pointing it out.


14 posted on 02/05/2010 10:25:43 AM PST by sickoflibs ( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is spending you demand stupid")
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To: Between the Lines
JOYNER: I want my daughter to live in a world where everyone's decisions are respected.

Where is it written that anyone has to respect, illegal, immoral, unethical, or just plain dumb decisions?

A person may have a right to make a decision but nothing says that anyone has to respect that decision.

15 posted on 02/05/2010 10:28:14 AM PST by Eagle Eye (The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.)
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To: Eagle Eye; sickoflibs
everyone's decisions are respected.

screaming babies dont count as 'everyone' in libtardville...

16 posted on 02/05/2010 10:36:26 AM PST by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: Between the Lines

That’s one too many.


17 posted on 02/05/2010 10:38:48 AM PST by Made In The USA (Home Depot should begin stocking up on pitchforks and torches.)
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To: Eagle Eye
I want my daughter to live in a world where everyone's decisions are respected.

Yet they will continue to demonize those who have pro-life position. Two "nice" commercials can not make up for years and year of demagoguery.

18 posted on 02/05/2010 10:50:23 AM PST by Between the Lines (AreYouWhoYouSayYouAre? Esse Quam Videri - To Be, Rather Than To Seem)
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To: Gilbo_3; Eagle Eye

I am still wondering why the only medical decisions we can be trusted to make is abortion(and maybe conventional birth control) , and even that lone liberty goes only to women.


19 posted on 02/05/2010 11:27:31 AM PST by sickoflibs ( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is spending you demand stupid")
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To: Maelstorm

As the Bible says, even Satan appears as an “angel of light.” He’s REALLY slick about candy-wrapping his bloody messages.


20 posted on 02/05/2010 12:48:22 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege ("When I survey the wondrous cross...")
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