Senators call to abort Planned Parenthood funding
Following the lead of 60 pro-life/pro-family groups who on October 24 sent a letter to every US senator and congressman asking them to suspend federal funding of Planned Parenthood, US Sen. Sam Brownback and 12 other senators sent a letter Tuesday to chairmen of both the Senate and House Appropriations Committees. asking the same:
We write to urge you to suspend funding… for organizations that promote abortion. While an amendment to this effect was not adopted in the U.S. Senate last month, we believe recent findings warrant such a suspension pending further investigation….
One recipient of such funding is the Planned Parenthood Federation of America which receives more than $300 million in taxpayer funding each year. According to a 107-count complaint filed in Kansas’ Johnson County District Court two weeks ago, Planned Parenthood is accused of performing illegal late-term abortions in violation of state law. It is also accused of falsifying documents and failing to comply with medical reporting requirements.
Unfortunately this is just one example of a troubling trend….
The other senators signing the letter, Republicans all, were John Barrasso (WY), Jim Bunning (KY), Elizabeth Dole (NC), Mike Enzi (WY), Chuck Hagel (NE), James Inhofe (OK), Jon Kyl (AZ), Trent Lott (MS), Mel Martinez (FL), Pat Roberts (KS), John Thune (SD), and David Vitter (LA).
While naysayers will dismiss all this, consider the following, from July:
Congressman Mike Pence (R-IN) tried to eliminate a sizable portion of Planned Parenthood’s government grants, sponsoring an amendment that would have ended funding of the organization under Title X, the federal government’s family planning program.
The House… defeated Pence’s amendment in a 231-189 vote in July, meaning Planned Parenthood remains the largest recipient of Title X funding.
The action, however, marked an apparent first. There had never been such an “up-or-down vote” on funding for Planned Parenthood, Jim Sedlak, vice president of the American Life League, said….
That was a strong vote. Had only 22 gone our way who didn’t, and it would have passed.
Keeping banging the door.
Here’s an example of Planned Parenthood Title X funds at work. The video is entitled, “Complementary Waterballoons From Planned Parenthood,” and was put up on YouTube a week ago:
{HT for Brownback letter: Operation Rescue via reader Angela]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Glad those kids could frolic with “water balloons”.
Shouldn’t they be studying for an exam or something?
We used condoms for a water balloon fight in high school. Even though my friend explained that she wasn’t sexually active, the doctor gave her two dozen of them. When I asked her why she said something like, “I guess she thought I might have been lying.”
They were durable condoms though and bounced right off the competition unbusted. They must not have been Planned Parenthood condoms.
Got to love Brownback and Pence. I am particularly proud of Pence because he’s my representative. :) This summer, I saw him in a local parade and I shouted out at him about working to pass that bill. Granted, it had already failed at that point, but he pointed at me and said, “We’ll get it done.” There must be something about “Mikes.” LOL Praise God for the character of Mike Pence and Mike Huckabee!! We need more men like this representing America!! Here’s to hoping that Mike Huckabee is our next president!!! :)
If you’re looking for an alternative — after all, despite all the massive evil they do, PP does provides some health care services and thus is able to justify its existence — look here.
Carol Everett used to run a string of abortion mills in the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex area. She used to help get PP into the schools because she knew the sex-ed talks would bring business to her abortion clinic.
Now, with The Heidi Group, she’s going head-to-head against Planned Parenthood, offering a real, viable alternative.
And if Carol, who was so careless and so money-focused that she sent a woman home to bleed to death from an easily treatable cervical laceration, could turn around, there’s hope for everybody busy in the abortion business. God willing, a lot of those PP workers will one day be setting up facilities like the ones Carol is spreading in Texas.
Here’s to hoping that Mike Huckabee is our next president!!! :)
Posted by: Melissa at November 8, 2007 4:43 PM
Yes, Huckabee would be great! A guy who fights to get murdering rapists released from prison who then go on to commit more murders and rapes would make an excellent president!
Even if the funding doesn’t get cut, at least these fine men and women will be dragging a lot of what PP does in darkness into the light.
We write to urge you to suspend funding… for organizations that promote abortion. While an amendment to this effect was not adopted in the U.S. Senate last month, we believe recent findings warrant such a suspension pending further investigation.
One recipient of such funding is the Planned Parenthood Federation of America which receives more than $300 million in taxpayer funding each year. According to a 107-count complaint filed in Kansas’ Johnson County District Court two weeks ago, Planned Parenthood is accused of performing illegal late-term abortions in violation of state law. It is also accused of falsifying documents and failing to comply with medical reporting requirements.
Unfortunately this is just one example of a troubling trend….
Who cares what Planned Parenthood is being accused of? Anyone can accuse anyone of anything. It would be like a group of liberal senators asking the appropriations committees to suspend funding of all anti-abortion groups because they’re accused of fraud and incompetence.
An accusation is not a finding. An accusation is not a trend. An accusation is not a guilty verdict. All 107 counts will most likely wind up being thrown out, but that won’t stop you people from making more baseless accusations and pretending they’re true.
Yeah, cut funding to Planned Parenthood, the people who provide low-cost health care! Then stop stem cell research, and then get that silly SCHIP bill for children’s health vetoed!
Is it me, or are “right-to-life” Christian Conservatives try to kill everybody?
Planned Parenthood is accused of performing illegal late-term abortions in violation of state law. It is also accused of falsifying documents and failing to comply with medical reporting requirements.
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Accused?
ACCUSED?
Heck, we KNOW that Fundie ministers snort meth with gay prostitutes, that Republican congressmen solicit young boys on the internet and hire call girls, and that many priests have molested children.
Why don’t we remove tax exempt status and funding to THOSE groups?
Laura said, “Heck, we KNOW that Fundie ministers snort meth with gay prostitutes, that Republican congressmen solicit young boys on the internet and hire call girls, and that many priests have molested children.
Why don’t we remove tax exempt status and funding to THOSE groups? ”
Laura, I totally agree with you! In “my perfect world” I would like to have everyone have a flat tax…Then, once a year when filing taxes, there’s this form with alot of “charitable organizations” on it…you would check off who you want your tax $$$’s going to. That way, no one can cry about where their tax $$$’s go anymore!
…and then I woke up!
I love it that David Vitter – the Louisiana senator who recently copped to frequenting two different prostitutes – is listed as one of the twelve “pro-family Republicans.”
Laura,6:48pm
Who are these groups and how are they funded by the taxpayer?
Yeah, cut funding to Planned Parenthood, the people who provide low-cost health care! Then stop stem cell research, and then get that silly SCHIP bill for children’s health vetoed!
Is it me, or are “right-to-life” Christian Conservatives try to kill everybody?
Posted by: Laura at November 8, 2007 6:40 PM
1. Abortion is NOT health care (low cost or not)
2. Stop creating and killing embryos (LIFE). I noticed you did not put the term embryonic in there.
3. SCHIP is a duplication of coverage that is already available to a majority of the people it “supposedly” covers.
I think people are smarter than the Kool-Aid drinkers are.
Does anyone know what to do if a small dog ate a large amount of chocolate? My little Shih-Tzu just ate some haloween candy, (dumb dog!) and isn’t moving much…she just threw up, but still isn’t moving much…
That national healthcare thing really cracks me up. Seriously. WHY do we want the government to do everything for everyone again? Maybe the government should wipe our butts for us everytime we take a crap now too.
PL Laura,
I would put down lots of newspaper.
Elizabeth,
Don’t give them any ideas. They’ve already tried regulating the water content of our toilets. Believe me, nothing is sacred.
Mary,
Thanks, but she likes to shred paper & sometimes eat it, too….
It doesn’t sound like she’d be up to that. Your only other alternative is a poopy floor.
I think you’re right…I’m definately gating her in the kitchen tonight. I hope she doesn’t die, though…she’s not looking so good & not moving hardly at all :(
Elizabeth,
Singer Cheryl Crow suggested we be limited to one sheet of toilet paper. I’m not certain how this is supposed to save the planet. I just wonder who will enforce this rule, the toilet paper police? We already had the toilet police.
Elizabeth, what you suggested may not be so far fetched after all!
In the meantime, I wouldn’t shake hands with Cheryl.
PL Laura,
Well you wouldn’t either if you ate all that candy. Only we wouldn’t keep you gated in the kitchen.
Limited to one sheet of toilet paper huh? That’s pretty freaking disgusting. What WILL they think up next?
tp, if you don’t mind the fact that they kept up with the off-label use of RU-486 even after being chewed out by the FDA, resulting in two more needless patient deaths, by all means act as if PP is some beacon of light.
I prefer women alive. But that’s just because I’m one of those freaky people who believes in a right to life, I guess.
One of the saddest things about the Pence Amendment is that two Republican representatives from the Chicago area voted against it; Judy Biggert and Mark Kirk. You can thank them directly for bringing the largest Planned Parenthood facility in North America to Aurora. If Planned Parenthood didn’t have money to burn, I’m sure they wouldn’t have built this clinic here.
If you live in the area and wish these representatives had sided with Pence, I’d suggest you write to them and let them know that you aren’t very happy with their idea of what “conservative” means. If you read the congressional record on what the Pence Amendment was, it was as cut and dried as it could be; no funding under Title X for Planned Parenthood.
I learned after this that Mark Kirk is so “conservative” he even got an endorsement from Planned Parenthood :
http://www.ppaction.org/ppilvotes/endorsements.html
Not exactly my idea of a model republican, or even a good fiscal conservative if he thinks $300M to Planned Parenthood is a good use of government funds.
Laura, disagreeing about HOW to do something doesn’t mean you disagree about whether or not it should be done.
If you want to fly to Los Angeles, and your friend wants to drive, do you scream at your friend about what a slimebag killjoy she is that she hates Los Angeles and doesn’t want anybody to ever go there?
Conservatives don’t think that the programs liberals espouse actually accomplish any good. If we SUPPORTED them, thinking as we do that they are damaging the very people they purport to help, THEN you could complain about us, because we’d be openly doing something we considered hurtful.
PL, get the dog to the vet NOW! Chocolate can be fatal! Prayers for your dear little pooch.
Does anyone know what to do if a small dog ate a large amount of chocolate? My little Shih-Tzu just ate some haloween candy, (dumb dog!) and isn’t moving much…she just threw up, but still isn’t moving much…
Posted by: PL Laura at November 8, 2007 9:40 PM
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Chocolate poisoning in dogs manifests itself in hyperactivity, ataxia, and seizures. It doesn’t sound like your dog is poisoned.
Only REALLY good quality chocolates contain high levels of cocoa anymore (they usually advertise the percentage on the pacckage, ie Ghirardelly 60%) Read the candy labels. I bet it’s all just chocolate flavoring.
Figure that it takes 1oz. of really high quality chocolate per pound of dog to even make the animal ill. If she’s puked she’s home free…
Yeah, cut funding to Planned Parenthood, the people who provide low-cost health care! Then stop stem cell research, and then get that silly SCHIP bill for children’s health vetoed!
Is it me, or are “right-to-life” Christian Conservatives try to kill everybody?
Posted by: Laura at November 8, 2007 6:40 PM
1. Abortion is NOT health care (low cost or not)
2. Stop creating and killing embryos (LIFE). I noticed you did not put the term embryonic in there.
3. SCHIP is a duplication of coverage that is already available to a majority of the people it “supposedly” covers.
I think people are smarter than the Kool-Aid drinkers are.
Posted by: Charles at November 8, 2007 9:29 PM
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What is your prejudice against Kool-Aid drinkers?
Abortion most certainly is health care. Do you believe that the procedure magically changes according to your personal judgement of when or when not you think one should be performed?
Why do you consider an embryo to be the quintessential example of ‘LIFE’? God murders millions of them every day.
I learned after this that Mark Kirk is so “conservative” he even got an endorsement from Planned Parenthood
Mark Kirk is a rare bird, and one that just must drive you antis crazy: a pro-choice Republican. In his district, he wouldn’t last long if he went anti, and he may still lose in the next election, to a Democrat.
One of the senators calling for defunding PP is DAVID VITTER, the WHORE-MONGER.
You’d think he’d try to keep a low profile.
Somg, I’d think that after all of those lies you were caught telling, you’d want to keep a low profile.
What does SOMg do best? He pastes pictures from rotten.com, and he expects shock value.
*oops* meant to say..and he expects us to be shocked.
Not rotten.com, from The Lancet. That’s the most respected medical journal in the world.
Someone should ask David Vitter : “Sir, if one of your prostitutes got pregnant by you, should she be allowed to get an abortion, or should she be forced to bear your illegitimate baby?”
What does SOMG do when he is asked to post facts????? He leaves the blog!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Heather has been drinking again.
What does SOMG do when you post true facts about corrupt abortionists? …………. He makes death threats directed at Paul Hill’s family!!!!
What does SOMG do when someone knows more than he does?……………He accuses them of drinking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SOMG declares that he is PC. Where do you draw your choice line? My body, my choice. What if I want to drink? Isn’t it my choice?
*poof* be gone!
Of course it’s your choice to drink dear.
It’s also your choice to be stupid.
Jacquie and Elizabeth,
(Bobby, I blame you for the mustache…I sent him your link)
Question #2:
q2: is it okay, as the Godfather, to have a handlebar mustache and a
mohawk for
your nephew’s baptism?
What is your prejudice against Kool-Aid drinkers?
Abortion most certainly is health care. Do you believe that the procedure magically changes according to your personal judgement of when or when not you think one should be performed?
Why do you consider an embryo to be the quintessential example of ‘LIFE’? God murders millions of them every day.
Posted by: Sally at November 8, 2007 11:54 PM
I think you are misconstruing the term Kool-Aid drinker. You may want to google it.
If abortion is health care, then who is it for, the mother or the baby. Each time, the baby is killed and the mother’s health is NOT improved from a “health” perspective.
If an embryo is not “LIFE” then show me a human that did not originate from an embryo.
God does not murder life, people having abortions do – as they make this choice – not God.
Thanks all for the advice for my dog….Laura, I was able to sleep better after your post. Thanks again! It was a Take 5 she ate. She is feeling better this morning. Thanks again, all!
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer
P.O. Box 957133, Hoffman Estates, IL 60195
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Press Release
Contact: Karen Malec
For Immediate Release
Date: November 30, 2004
Bioethics Journal Charges Lancet, Scientific Community with Cancer Cover Up / CBS and Associated Press, Nevertheless, Represent Lancet Article as Authoritative
The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer notes an editorial by Editor Ed Furton, MA, Ph.D. in the December issue of a bioethics journal, Ethics and Medics. [1] Furton charged that a widely reported “review” of the abortion-breast cancer (ABC) studies published in the Lancet was seriously flawed for having omitted 15 studies reporting risk elevations “for no good reasons” and using an “inappropriate control group.”
The Lancet reported a statistically significant 11% risk elevation among retrospective studies and a significant 7% risk decrease among prospective studies. [2]
Furton accused the Lancet of allowing its pages to be “used as a political platform,” and setting aside “objective standards of scientific research.” He accused the Lancet of “picking conclusions ahead of time, and arranging the evidence to support them.” He chastised scientists for failing to “speak out against the shoddy research that is being advanced by those who deny” the link because they fear ostracism and the loss of grants.
Furton’s editorial follows a November article by Associate Professor of Surgery Angela Lanfranchi, MD, FACS who identified the Lancet’s flaws. [3] Furton’s and Lanfranchi’s articles are published at .
The Associated Press and CBS Evening News featured stories about pending informed consent legislation. [4,5] Both cited the Lancet article and a statement from the U.S. National Cancer Institute as authoritative. CBS was informed about the Ethics and Medics editorial one day before its story aired.
Ironically, the same CBS program featured another story challenging the government’s credibility as a reliable source of health information because its scientists moonlight as consultants for pharmaceutical companies.
Both news outlets represented ABC research as if there were consensus in the medical community that there’s no ABC link.
Karen Malec, president of the coalition, declared “Every journalist who cited the Lancet as authoritative is morally obligated to inform women that: 1) Ethics and Medics’ sharply criticized the Lancet; 2) Five medical groups recognize a cause-effect relationship; and 3) A sixth organization called for “full disclosure” of a “highly plausible” relationship. [6,7]
When asked if they would protect women’s health by alerting women to these facts, CBS declined to comment. AP reporter Laura Meckler responded by disingenuously claiming that it’s against AP policy to publish “opinion pieces” (although she also has Lanfranchi’s factual analysis).
“I doubt the AP has never published quotes from scientists who’ve criticized published research,” objected Mrs. Malec. “Protecting the abortion industry, even if it costs women their lives, is the number one goal for the AP and CBS.”
CBS interviewed coalition board member Jeanette Joyce, but censored her credentials. She’s a medical educator, a lecturer, and a registered mammography technologist who has spent many years writing and researching about breast imaging. CBS identified her only as a cancer survivor named “Jeanette” who’d had an abortion. CBS falsely claimed she didn’t want her last named used.
“Is it customary for CBS to interview experts and then to conceal their identities as experts?” asked Mrs. Malec. “Apparently, CBS News has no intention of repairing its reputation after Dan Rather’s use of forged documents.”
The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer is an international women’s organization founded to protect the health and save the lives of women by educating and providing information on abortion as a risk factor for breast cancer.
References:
1. Furton E. The corruption of science by ideology. Ethics and Medics (December 2004) Vol. 29, No. 12.
2. Beral V, Bull D, Doll R, Peto R, Reeves G. Collaborative Group of Hormonal Factors in Breast Cancer. Breast cancer and abortion: collaborative reanalysis of data from 53 epidemiological studies, including 83,000 women with breast cancer from 16 countries. Lancet 2004;363:1007-16.
3. Lanfranchi A. The abortion-breast cancer link revisited. Ethics and Medics (November 2004) Vol. 29, No. 11.
4. Meckler L. Women wrongly warned cancer abortion tied. Associated Press, November 9, 2004.
5. CBS Evening News, November 25, 2004.
6. Medical groups recognizing a cause-effect relationship include: the National Physicians Center for Family Resources, the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the Catholic Medical Association, the Polycarp Research Institute, and the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute.
7. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons issued a statement in November 2003 calling for “full disclosure” of a highly plausible” link.”
Somg, and it is your choice to be stupid also, dear.
7. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons issued a statement in November 2003 calling for “full disclosure” of a highly plausible” link.”
Posted by: heather at November 9, 2007 9:04 AM
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Oooooooh!
Isn’t tha the same pay-to-publish rag that said that HIV doesn’t cause AIDS, that carbon dioxide doesn’t cause global warming, and that evolutionists were trying to suppress the word of Jehovah?
These losers are attacking “The Lancet?” Maybe they should read the extensive report about breast cancer from Harvard.
Lancet Iraq Study Flawed: Death Toll Too High
Friday, 20 October 2006, 10:36 am
Press Release:
Lancet Study Fundamentally Flawed: Death Toll Too High
October 19, 2006 ?V 1 page ?V
For immediate release:
Researchers at Oxford University and Royal Holloway, University of London have found serious flaws in the survey of Iraqi deaths published last week in the Lancet.
Sean Gourley and Professor Neil Johnson of the physics department at Oxford University and Professor Michael Spagat of the economics department of Royal Holloway, University of London contend that the study??s methodology is fundamentally flawed and will result in an over-estimation of the death toll in Iraq.
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->?nThe study suffers from “main street bias” by only surveying houses that are located on cross streets next to main roads or on the main road itself. However many Iraqi households do not satisfy this strict criterion and had no chance of being surveyed.
->?nMain street bias inflates casualty estimates since conflict events such as car bombs, drive-by shootings artillery strikes on insurgent positions, and market place explosions gravitate toward the same neighborhood types that the researchers surveyed.
->?nThis obvious selection bias would not matter if you were conducting a simple survey on immunisation rates for which the methodology was designed.
->?nIn short, the closer you are to a main road, the more likely you are to die in violent activity. So if researchers only count people living close to a main road then it comes as no surprise they will over count the dead.
During email discussions between the Oxford-Royal Holloway team and the Johns Hopkins team conducted through a reporter for Science, for an article to be published October 20, it became clear that the authors of the study had not implemented a clear, well-defined and justifiable methodology. The Oxford-Royal Holloway team therefore believes that the scientific community should now re-analyze this study in depth.
The team can be reached for comment at;
Gourley: s.gourley1 @ physics.ox.ac.uk mobile:+44 (0) 7733113558
Johnson: n.johnson @ physics.ox.ac.uk
Spagat: M.Spagat @ rhul.ac.uk
Is The Lancet really the most respected medical journal in the world? I can’t seem to find that.
PL Laura,
Chocolate is poison to dogs. If your dog continues to act funny, take him/her to the vet.
Heather, The Lancet is no slouch – I’m no expert but I think it’s similar to the New England Journal of Medicine in the US.
And Brownback still looks like he’s gritting his teeth through some severe pain and trying to smile….