The Donald: (6:19) “let’s say there’s two Planned Parenthoods, in a way. You have it as an abortion clinic. Now, that’s actually a fairly small part of what they do, but it’s a brutal part, and I’m totally against it, and I wouldn’t do that.
I figure it will be about 10 seconds after I hit the post button for one of the Donald Drones to come on and tell me that this is a brilliant strategic move that will sew up the women's vote.
But what I really see is a candidate who is clueless about the actual nature of PP. Per Rich Lowry:
The 3 percent factoid is crafted to obscure the reality of Planned Parenthood’s business. The group performs about 330,000 abortions a year, or roughly 30 percent of all the abortions in the country. By its own accounting in its 2013–2014 annual report, it provides about as many abortions as Pap tests (380,000). The group does more breast exams and provides more breast-care services (490,000), but not by that much.
The 3 percent figure is an artifice and a dodge, but even taking it on its own terms, it’s not much of a defense.
The 3 percent figure is derived by counting abortion as just another service like much less consequential services. So abortion is considered a service no different than a pregnancy test (1.1 million), even though a box with two pregnancy tests can be procured from the local drugstore for less than $10.
By Planned Parenthood’s math, a woman who gets an abortion but also a pregnancy test, an STD test, and some contraceptives has received four services, and only 25 percent of them are abortion. This is a little like performing an abortion and giving a woman an aspirin, and saying only half of what you do is abortion.
Such cracked reasoning could be used to obscure the purpose of any organization. The sponsors of the New York City Marathon could count each small cup of water they hand out (some 2 million cups, compared with 45,000 runners) and say they are mainly in the hydration business. Or Major League Baseball teams could say that they sell about 20 million hot dogs and play 2,430 games in a season, so baseball is only .012 percent of what they do.
Beginning of the flameout.
Trump has no idea what he’s talking about - but he talks anyway.
The Donald really doesn’t do his homework sometimes.
Trump is using an old Clinton tactic....
Triangulating the issue...
I refuse to believe he that ill informed about PP...
Saddest part of your post is that the average American has been hoodwinked into believing PP lies. I have been an RN for 35 years and have long been appalled at the ignorance of the majority I discuss this with. The MSM didn’t even mention the recent videos. Everyone including Trump should pay enough attention to see the lie. Never heard of a medical practice that offered sliding scale women’s services as an alternate though so PP has many women without a good alternative to the other needed services. America could do far better on education and healthcare and still shut Magaret Sanger’s slaughterhouses down. Offering a firm plan as an alternative along with PP shut down would be great from a candidate.
Trump is a liberal. Why don’t people understand this. If it was ANY other candidate in the GOP that said this, they would be crucified. But Trump says it, and it’s brushed aside as being politically “smart”.
I’m fairly certain that even 1% is too much spent on the slaughter of innocent children.
Trump is painting himself into a corner on this issue. He likely wasn’t prepared to deal with it either considering his pro-life conversion occurred at the same time as all of his other about faces.
If he had been smart he would have said that he would defund PP and spend the same amount that had been allocated for PP on female oriented clinics and medical facilities that don’t provide abortions. It would allow him to take a stand against barbarism while making it hard to claim that he’s against women’s health.
I’m a Cruz-bot and not a Trump-drone, but Trump is here using PP’s own words against it. PP claims — not someone else — that abortion is a ‘very small part’ of what they do.
Trump is using that against them and saying, let’s defund that part that they talk down and leave them with their pap smears and breast exams and birth control pills, since THEY say that’s the heart of their business.
BUT, if they won’t give up abortions, then we defund them.
Sounds pretty brilliant to me, actually.
Excellent points. He was obviously misinformed. Let’s see if he gets updated, informed properly and self-corrects.
I’ve been supportive of Trump so far but this shows weakness. This is why Trump needs Cruz.