“PP has performed pap smears that have detected cancerous conditions in some women early enough to save their lives”
Any free clinic in the country can do pap smears, this is no justification for funding Planned Parenthood abortion mills.
“But Trump has stated emphatically and without equivocation that PP should be defunded if they continue to do abortion on demand.”
ONLY after he caught holy hell for trying to justify continuing to fund them based on the false “they do good work” excuse. He was forced to backtrack to that position, it wasn’t the one he wanted to take.
Out of context...His actual statement was, “...they ALSO do good work...”
PP does the same as many other clinics including free clinics.
We are not asking the question here of whether PP should be shutdown, they should be shutdown but that’s not the question.
The question is ‘are there any good things’ that happen in the PP clinic hellholes, and the answer is yes. There are a few good things, hardly enough for them to be funded by taxpayers.
So Trump was technically right. But his position against abortion is solid and he calls for defunding PP if they continue to do abortions.
Believe it or not, there are a substantial number of women who believe PP does good things besides abortion. It would be foolish for a political candidate to flip a finger at those women even though the candidate is strongly against abortion on demand and against funding PP if they continue to do abortions on demand.
So Trump’s position is the correct one both politically and morally.
Trump did not backtrack. His view of abortion began to change in 2010 and has solidified since. Like many Americans, he had a superficial view of the life of the unborn and he has come around. This is no different than what happens to thousands and thousands of Americans each day.
In speech after speech, press conference after conference, question after question, Donald Trump has stood strongly for life and for protection of the unborn.