“While Planned Parenthood is engaging in the despicable practice of abortion - in addition to then selling aborted baby body parts to the highest bidder - the organization should receive no taxpayer dollars. The liberal left wing always claims that Planned Parenthood isn’t about abortion and that it’s about other general areas of women’s health. I am totally in favor of women’s health and if they can put their money where their mouth is, and stop the abortion services at Planned Parenthood entirely, we can talk about government funding for many of the other aspects of the organization that do a lot of good.” — Donald J. Trump
Except for abortion.
Don’t let the truth get in the way though.
The proof is in the recent budget continuation resolution that passed both GOP led houses.
Note to Ericsson and Cruz, your party loves abortion and the selling of baby parts. Trump has nothing to do with it.
These Christian organizations are going to lose the election for Cruz. They pounce on anything they think can sink Trump making headlines out of nothing.
Trump has said repeatedly since the beginning of the race that Planned Parenthood does some great things for women and they do, cancer screenings, diagnosing and treating std’s and other things.
He has also said he would defund anyway based on abortion alone.
Fine, if Abortion is no longer federally funded, than I could care less what P P does.
[Moderator] STRASSEL To Trump:
You have made a lot of promises and you have also - you’re the only candidate who has said he would not touch entitlements.
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has estimated that your ideas would cost an additional $12 trillion to $15 trillion over the next 10 years and that we would have to have annual economic growth of anywhere from 7.7 percent to 9 percent annually to pay for them.
I said it on the debate thread, but it’s worth saying again -
Trump’s remarks about Planned Parenthood are the moral equivalence (for me) of claiming we should keep on a pedophile teacher because he does a good job with his 3rd period English Lit class. Planned Parenthood is about abortion - period.
That was a bizarre performance.
The GOPe & Conservatives in Congress are the ones who provided the budget funding for Planned Parenthood. Some people like the talk even though it is not back up with action. Suckers.
Watching Trump in the debates sometimes make we wonder: “Who let the democrat in?”
He said: "Friends of mine years ago were going to have a child, and it was going to be aborted. And it wasn't aborted. And that child today is a total superstar, a great, great child. And I saw that. And I saw other instances."
Now, I'm one who cheers whenever someone publicly switches from supporting abortion rights to supporting human rights for all - including the unborn. I am glad to see people like Norma McCorvey, the "Jane Roe" of the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion, or Bernard Nathanson, founder of the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws, become pro-life activists.
But I find it difficult to cheer Trump's conversion, because the reason he gives for being pro-life doesn't correspond to the pro-life ethic.
Trump says he is pro-life because of a "superstar" child who could have been aborted.
Consider how he responded to a reporter who wondered if he would have become pro-life had the child been a "loser": "Probably not, but I've never thought of it. I would say no, but in this case it was an easy one because he's such an outstanding person."
To summarize Trump's view: "I'm pro-life because we shouldn't abort fetuses that may grow up to be outstanding people."
But opponents of abortion take a different position: "I'm pro-life because we shouldn't kill innocent human beings, no matter who they might grow up to be."
Trump's reason for being pro-life depends on the potential outcome of the child in the womb, rather than the fact that there is a child in the womb. But the pro-life ethic is grounded in the inherent worth of all humanity. It is wrong to commit violence against innocent human beings. Full stop.
And that's where, ironically, Trump's position sounds similar to the pro-choice idea that the human fetus is "potential life" or that the value of the unborn depends on whether or not the child is "wanted."
Extending Trump's logic leads to more problems. If we adopt the position of abortion opponents merely because of what a child may grow up to be (a "superstar!"), then why should we care if 67 percent of Down syndrome children are aborted after a prenatal diagnosis? What would Trump say if he were told there's a better chance an "unwanted" child from an impoverished or minority neighborhood would grow up to be involved in crime? ..."
http://www.religionnews.com/2016/01/26/problem-trumps-change-heart-abortion-commentary/
He wants to impeach GW Bush but believe me, if he is elected he will be jumping to help Obama and the libs. Why do Repubs allow non-Repubs to run on their ticket?? Because they want to be libs too.
Years ago there was something called the Platform. Now we get Libertarians, left wing idealogues, anyone who wants to regardless of what they believe running in the Repub party.
“It does do wonderful things but not as it relates to abortion.”
Name three.
He is using the leftists argument— that Planned Parenthood does “good” things, outside of abortion. I don’t want to hear this argument from someone who is in the Republican Primary. Planned Parenthood is about abortion. All of the other “women’s health issues” as Trump says in his rallies, are covered in O-care. There is NO need for PP. NONE.
This just is stomach turning, and so are all the justifications for this horrible position. No thank you.
Not that gullible here, I hope. Not that easily fooled by slick tycoon talk and red meat for the war weary masses fed up with Obongo and therefore with a short-sighted prediction to abandon good due diligence and honest common sense when choosing a leader. I hope instead to follow the (donation) money this man has given.
Objective Performance Indicators.