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Trump Peddles Bogus Statistic to Defend Planned Parenthood
Weekly Standard ^ | February 26, 2016 | JOHN MCCORMACK

Posted on 02/26/2016 7:57:32 PM PST by GodGunsGuts

After undercover videos released in July showed that Planned Parenthood was involved in the trafficking of aborted baby body parts, Donald Trump said he wasn't sure if the Planned Parenthood should lose all of its federal funding. He later shifted, saying: "I wouldn't do any funding as long as they are performing abortions."

Trump has stuck to that line, but he has also offered a lot of aid and comfort to Planned Parenthood by arguing it does "wonderful things." At Thursday night's debate, Trump said that "millions and millions of women — cervical cancer, breast cancer — are helped by Planned Parenthood." Trump did not mention the fact that community health centers could easily provide non-abortion services to those women and that Planned Parenthood has been caught falsely claiming that it performs mammograms.

Trump went on to say that he would defund Planned Parenthood "because of the abortion factor, which they say is 3 percent. I don't know what percentage it is. They say it's 3 percent." If Trump took the time to Google that statistic before repeating it on national television, he would have learned that it is wildly misleading.

Planned Parenthood commits more than 300,000 abortions per year. Abortions generate more than a third of the billion-dollar non-profit's revenue. You end up with the "three percent" figure only by treating the dispensing of birth control pills the same as the dismembering a human child.

"Practically every defender of the organization, fighting to preserve its federal funding, reverts to the 3 percent figure," Rich Lowry wrote in August. "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. Only Planned Parenthood would think saying that they only kill babies 3 percent of the time is something to brag about."

"How much credit would we give someone for saying he only drives drunk 3 percent of the time, or only cheats on business trips 3 percent of the time, or only hits his wife during 3 percent of domestic disputes?" Lowry asked.

Perhaps we don't want to know how Donald Trump would answer those questions.


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To: Neu Pragmatist

Why does hearing the truth put you in agony? WHY?


41 posted on 02/26/2016 9:16:17 PM PST by aquila48
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To: GodGunsGuts

A typically Establishment thing to do, but not something you do if you’re pro-life.


42 posted on 02/26/2016 10:02:36 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: GodGunsGuts

Hillary has said abortions should be “rare, safe, and legal”.

Truth is that either someone is truly pro-life philosophically, or they are not.

Unfortunately Trump is not. He may keep his word to conservatives who support him, but I have more confidence in Cruz or even Rubio on this issue.


43 posted on 02/26/2016 10:15:38 PM PST by unlearner (RIP America, 7/4/1776 - 6/26/2015, "Only God can judge us now." - Claus Von Stauffenberg / Valkyrie)
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To: GodGunsGuts

trumpsters repeated that false number too. Suddenly PP is wonderful on FR!!


44 posted on 02/26/2016 10:27:00 PM PST by RginTN (Donald J Trump- why would the people of Ky want a rookie senator when they have Sen Mitch Mcconnell)
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To: GodGunsGuts

Trump is right about Planned Parenthood. I was at a debate watching party, and several WOMEN (all conservatives and two FReepers) said that ‘he gets it.’ Many women have a friend or relative who has used PP for a Pap smear or cheap gyno exam. Ted Cruz would never get a single penny defended, as conservatives never have by simply denouncing everything PP does. Trump is brilliantly conceding they do ‘some good’ and will build a consensus around ‘defunding the bad.’ Of course the secret is that by doing so, the entire house of cards will collapse, and PP would be done for.


45 posted on 02/26/2016 10:31:28 PM PST by montag813 (NO MORE BUSHES (or Clintons) EVER...Put it in the Constitution.)
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To: Theo
You are a liar. Trump is in FAVOR of continuing to fund PP.

No, you are a liar, because you deliberately left out his requirement that they no longer provide abortions.

Stop being such a jerk, and stop lying.

46 posted on 02/26/2016 10:32:51 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: montag813

Make sure you keep Trumpeting all the good Planned Parenthood does as loudly and as often as possible.

I doubt the 330,000 babies they murder every year would agree with you.


47 posted on 02/26/2016 10:41:39 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

[[Planned Parenthood commits more than 300,000 abortions per year. ]]

And how many of those 300,000 are black babies? probably the majority- and trump thinks pp is a great organization? liek i said in another thread- saying pp is a great organization because they ‘help women’ in ‘other areas’ is liek saying a serial rapist is a great guy because he helps his mother once in awhile go grocery shopping, or waves hello to women on the streets sometimes


48 posted on 02/26/2016 10:50:50 PM PST by Bob434
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To: GodGunsGuts

Remember that Trump said he never approved of abortion.


49 posted on 02/26/2016 11:00:50 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Folks, if you're reading this, you know what needs to happen.
It doesn't take a big contribution. Pick your comfort level and
please join others to help put the FReepathon to rest. Thank you.

The above note was first presented to you on 02/25 at around 11:00.
The goal shortfall at that time is depicted to you on the left.
The graphic on the right reveals our status as of 02/26 22:30.
We can finish this by Sunday night. Let's do it.

Let's give Jim, his crew, and us a full month to rest up.

Jim, his crew, and every other FReeper thanks you.

50 posted on 02/26/2016 11:03:47 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: GodGunsGuts

Here is how much PP funding was cut under the amnesty brothers, Cruz and Rubio....$0.


51 posted on 02/26/2016 11:32:18 PM PST by patq
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If it’s Hillary vs. Trump, we’ll have two candidates who think Planned Parenthood does wonderful things.


52 posted on 02/27/2016 12:17:50 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: austingirl

>>he does not speak in full sentences

You’re too kind. He’s incoherent and rambles on trying to take all sides of any issue.


53 posted on 02/27/2016 12:19:28 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: montag813
>>used PP for a Pap smear or cheap gyno exam

Are we really going to have to support PP to support the GOP nominee? Is that where we're headed?

"Defunding Planned Parenthood would free up over half a billion dollars a year that could go to a myriad of health-care service providers — community health centers, primary-care physicians, hospitals, and others – that provide a broader range of health services than Planned Parenthood ever has..."

"..women will go to federally qualified health centers, which provide all the services Planned Parenthood does and more, except abortions."
If Planned Parenthood Goes, Where Do Women Go?


54 posted on 02/27/2016 12:32:11 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: Hoodat

>>>Any funding of Planned Parenthood funds Planned Parenthood abortions. They don’t have two sets of books. Rent, utilities, administrative costs - these all go towards performing abortions.

And, we should not forget, taxpayer funding goes from PP to contributions to liberal pro-abort politicians.

This is abhorrent.


55 posted on 02/27/2016 12:38:33 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: Salvation

That is a lie.

He most certainly was pro-choice....
http://youtu.be/tsOlXidHXRE

I personally believe he still is and is lying on the issue to get elected.


56 posted on 02/27/2016 3:53:26 AM PST by plewis1250 (The pecking order: Christian, American, Conservative)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

TN passed regs on PP that would make them follow hospital inspection codes, have a doctor do them not some nurse or PA, and they called it eliminating abortions and fought tooth and nail to stop it. You would have thought they’d want the safety issues enforced, just as if you were having a hospital procedure done.


57 posted on 02/27/2016 6:28:50 AM PST by GailA (any politician that won't keep his word to Veterans/Military won't keep them to You!)
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To: GailA
You would have thought they’d want the safety issues enforced, just as if you were having a hospital procedure done.

So, they're saying baby-killing (murder) should be regulated differently than real medical procedures.

58 posted on 02/27/2016 2:56:44 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

There are no medical regulations on PP clinics, TN was one of the first to do so and PP fought tooth and nail against those regs saying we were taking their bogus right away. It’s still in the court system as they are still fighting it. It was a way to shut down the worst of those clinics that were killing women and babies.


59 posted on 02/28/2016 5:22:49 AM PST by GailA (any politician that won't keep his word to Veterans/Military won't keep them to You!)
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To: GailA
There are no medical regulations on PP clinics

Well, there should have been.

It was a way to shut down the worst of those clinics that were killing women and babies.

Good!

60 posted on 02/28/2016 1:38:19 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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