Trump offers Planned Parenthood funds if it halts abortions

If one can't, that person has no conscience.

PO2 (Join to see) Good Morning. The data was obtained from the this http://liveaction.org. You may disagree with the data. That is obviously your're right. Nonetheless, via their own annual report one can determine that Planned Parenthood gets at least a third of its clinic income—and more than 10 percent of all its revenue, government funding included—from its abortion procedures. Ask anyone who runs a for-profit business or nonprofit charity if something that brings in one-third of their revenue is “central” to their endeavor, and the answer is likely to be yes. So yes, Planned Parenthood's own data reveals that abortion is central to what Planned Parenthood does.

SGM Erik Marquez - I had responded to this statement - "
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And that tells us what this is all about. There and many, many providers of those other services but very few providers of abortions. If you know something is legal and constitutional and you still want to get rid of it, just make it so there are no providers of the service then no one can exercise what the SCOTUS has determined is a legal right."

Since he described abortion as a "right"; and the SCOTUS described abortion as a "right" per Roe v Wade; and a woman does have a right to determine what she decides to do medically concerning procedures for her own body, which is what an abortion is in the first and second trimesters as provided in Roe v Wade and subsequent "viability" court cases; then if Congress doesn't fund Planned Parenthood they take away a woman's right to abortions by removing the locations that offer abortion services for them, even though those services aren't paid for by federal tax money. If women can't get those services at other locations, defunding the locations where the services are provided in order to shut the services down is in essence limiting their Constitutional right to those services.

It's no different than the Fed. govt requiring gun registration or limiting the type of guns one may own, or limiting ammunition sales or the number of rounds in the magazine as a way to enact gun control, which limits or removes the right to own guns; or says that one can't show pictures of the Virgin Mary with blood on her, or put displays of Jesus in a public place, or publish cartoons of Mohammad in the newspaper which takes away the right to free speech - you're not directly taking those rights away, but in essence by those rules you are limiting their Constitutional rights.

Deborah Gregson - In their strident defense of the "right" to abortion (or more accurately the termination of a human life) the DNC has become diametrically opposed to egalitarianism and human rights. Recall that this same Democratic predilection toward denying humans basic rights was also by slaveholders in the antebellum South who cited their "rights" and their culture's "peculiar institution" when opposing abolition. It is interesting to note the glaring similarity of logical conclusion and purpose as the DNC and Planned Parenthood stridently scream "WOMEN'S RIGHTS!" "CHOICE!" and "EQUALITY!" when any mention of abortion is made. Furthermore, just as the Nazis termed Jews "untermensch" (German for "sub-human" or "less than human"), most of today's liberal Democrats scream "NOT HUMAN!" "FETUS!" and "PRODUCT OF CONCEPTION “MASS OF CELLS”, “BLOB OF TISSUE” and “NOT A PERSON” in defending their privilege to kill infants who they deem inconvenient. Specifically, in 1936, the Reichsgericht declared Jews to be non-persons and thus the Nazis declared that they were making their society better by getting rid of inferior … i.e., unwanted … people; referring to Jews and other Non-Aryans as rats, pigs, vermin and untermensch. Additionally, in the 1857 SCOTUS decreed in Dred Scott v. Sandford,; that slaves were "chattel" (property) who had "no rights which the White man was bound to respect," including the right to sue in U.S. courts for their own freedom. The court decided that “among the whole human race,the enslaved African race were not intended to be included…[T]hey had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” In other words, persons of African origin did not “qualify” as human beings for purposes of protecting their natural rights. It was held that, since the white man did not recognize them as having such rights, they didn’t have them. The implication was that Africans were property—things that white persons could choose to buy and sell. In contrast, whites did “qualify,” so government protected their natural rights. The second time the Court failed in a case regarding the definition of “human” was in Roe v. Wade in 1973, when SCOTUS rt arrived at the identical conclusion. At what point in time “…does a human being exist, the state of Texas asked…” SCOTUS refused to answer - using the tortured logic that: “We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and theology are unable to arrive at any consensus, the judiciary, at this point in the development of man’s knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to the answer.” In other words, the Court would not “qualify” unborn children as living persons whose human rights must be guaranteed - in effect classifying them as "untermensch". How convenient and how reminiscent of 1936, the Reichsgericht decision cited above. The resultant carnage from Roe v Wade has was termination of FIFTY-SEVEN MILLION unborn children since 1973. For comparison, an estimated SIX million Jews died in the Holocaust. So under the guise of a Constitutional Right our society has terminated with extreme prejudice the lives of MILLIONS more unborn children as Nazis did Jews and other untermensch. Furthermore, Planned Parenthood and the DNC have consistently justified this slaughter of the unborn as nothing more then women just exercising their right to "choose"; effectively regulating the consequence of the act of abortion to irrelevance. An interesting choice of words to be sure. To review; slaveholders held humans in bondage and Nazis slaughtered millions by exercising their right to "choose" as well by referring to their victims as "untermensch" and "chattel"; thus freeing them from the consequence of their actions as said actions were relegated to irrelevance - a parallel not lost on many of us the abhor the wanton slaughter of unborn children. Furthermore, Planned Parenthood's own research arm, the Alan Guttmacher Institute reports that 21% of all pregnancies that do not miscarry end in abortions. Non-Hispanic Black women (who comprise less than 12% of the US population) account for a full third of abortions. On their own Fact Sheet web page, the Guttmacher Institute does not even list rape or incest as a reason women have abortions. The only justifications that the Guttmacher Institute stipulate are a preference in family sizes and/or financial burdens.

LTC Orlando Illi - Great stats, thanks. I’m blessed God supernaturally spared me an abortion when I was in the military and now I have 40 yr old daughter who calls me daily and makes me laugh. And 6 gkids!

Excellent post, COL. lots of amplification on what I have been saying.