Despite highest negatives, Planned Parenthood CEO named to Time’s Top 100
Time magazine unveiled its 2012 Top 100 Most Influential People in the World today, and I wasn’t surprised to see Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards’ name once again, despite her bleak poll results.
In fact, of the 25 on Time’s list who had more negative votes than positive, Richards scored the lowest by far, with 45,395 no’s. Mitt Romney came in second with 14,003. Pro-lifers made it clear the Planned Parenthood brand remains vastly tarnished, and abortion remains as controversial as ever.
Additional stats, from LifeNews.com:
This year, Richards placed 84th in the most influential list. Last year, Richards clocked in at the 69th most influential spot.
Time chose Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke, who gained fame after Rush Limbaugh called her a slut for complaining that her Catholic institution wouldn’t pay for her contraceptives (and who was also nominated to the Top 100 but lost), to pay tribute to Richards:
Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards, 54, is a role model for all of us as she leads women in pursuit of unfettered access to health care and reproductive freedom. She is also my advocate and that of every woman in America, as I learned firsthand when I was publicly disparaged for speaking out on an issue she has been working on every day for years.
Our most basic health care needs – needs that impact our families and our larger economy – are still being questioned. As we look to inspire the next generation of women to join this fight, we’re fortunate to have Cecile as our mentor. There is no better advocate.
Of course Richards is certainly no advocate for “every women in America” unless that means advocating to kill them.
Pro-lifers were rooting for Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who made the list, as did Tim Tebow. Both had positive poll results: Dolan 42,796/23,653; Tebow 11,502/8,999.
[HT: LifeNews.com]
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.
At least Cardinal Dolan was higher on the list. Not at all surprised that TIME ignored the poll results for Richards. Surely there has to be some exchange of money there somewhere.
Yeah she’s got some sleazy liberal poor-choicer on TIME staff rooting for her obviously… (rolls eyes)
The irrelevant attempting to be relevant.
This angers me to no end as Cecil Richards most certainly does not represent Heart Of Purity Evangelism, HOPE, nor does she represent a lot of people yet for some reason she is one of the topp 100 most infulincial people in America. To whom I would ask? We as Christians need to get on our knees humble ourselves before our God and repent for being so silent for so long and then He will heal our land! Just curious where Jesus would be on this list according to Time Magazine.
Disappointed, but not surprised.
I can at least be pleased that Cardinal Dolan made it. Not surprised about the reigning monarch of murder, but thank God Cardinal Dolan was there. Who else, besides her and Sandra “I’m an entitled, spoiled brat 30-year old law student disgrace” Fluke made it on the list and espouses hateful positions?
Like it or not, Cecile Richards is among the most influential people. She is not missing from the HHS Mandate or the attack on Susan G. Komen Foundation or all of the Administration’s push to increase contraception and abortion access in our country – and in other countries. She is, indeed, a force to be reckoned with! Nevertheless, it is rather telling that the online poll TIME had was worthless as it didn’t matter in the end – at least not with regard to this candidate.
Cecile Richards is not a force to be reckoned with.
Post abortive mothers and fathers who have been hurt by abortion and every single prolifer out there READY and WILLING to fight the good fight against the evil of abortion are a force to be reckoned with!!
RAWRRRRRRRRRRRR!
(Every single woman I know that bought the lies that PP sold them is ready to go toe to toe…..bring it!!)
Time’s influential people/Person of the Year features have never been about “good” people. After all, Hitler, Stalin, Putin, etc. have all been on the list in the past. Unfortunately, Cecile Richards has a lot of influence, and her being on the list does make sense (especially with all the votes, positive and negative, she did get).
That introduction sure is nauseating, though…aren’t Fluke’s 15 minutes of whining long up?
That’s too bad. Better luck gaming the system next year.
Cecile Richards does not advocate, speak, or lobby on my behalf. I reject her, and everything she stands for, completely and entirely.
Does anyone else feel sick reading Ms. Fluke’s ringing endorsment of Cecile? I really thought I was going to vomit on my computer screen.
“Role model for us all.” Yes cuz making a huge chunk of money killing babies is such a good role to model.
“We’re fortunate to have Cecile as our mentor.” Gag me. No thanks. I don’t want her anywhere near me to mentor me.
“She is also my advocate and that of every woman in America” I am a women and I’d rather become a man that to ever have Cecile as my advocate. Women deserve more than abortion. They deserve an advocate who actually cares for women and not one who does everything in her power to discredit other people and organizations simply because they tried to go against her organization. Case in point: When Texas defunded PP she and the Obama admin got all bent out of shape about it. Obama went so far to cut off funding for the Family Planning program because PP wasn’t going to be funded. Alternatives were and are available. Does that matter to her or Obama? Not at all. She doesn’t care about women, she cares about her business and her money. She’s not getting the money which makes her mad. If she truly was an advocate for women she wouldn’t care where women got their help as long as they got the help they needed. Unfortunately she cares about money and not women. The only right business is her business: Planned Parenthood.
This is why she and the other abortion goonies discredit CPCs. CPCs have helped many women during times of need, not only during pregnancy but even after. Where is Cecile? They so often say that we pro-lifers don’t care about the women and that we just care about seeing the “blob of cells” born. They say that once it’s born we are nowhere to be found. I call bull on this. I would ask her where is she when the women decides choose life? I don’t know how many times I have read a story where a woman went into PP thinking with a name like Planned Parenthood they would be able to help them. When they told the staff they wanted to keep the child, the staff either kept pressuring them to abort or basically told them that they are on their own as they do not do pre-natal care. Now there are a few that do but not many…
Likewise where is Cecile when a women does abort and she has guilt and regret and needs someone to turn to. PP certainly isn’t there. They don’t even believe abortion regret is a real thing. You can go to their website, they mention it briefly but it is mentioned almost in a way as if to say “this is rare. most people don’t experience this.” I wouldn’t want a women who claims to be pro-choice but really has only once choice to offer as my advocate.
It is the pro-lifers who help both the women and children as long as they need help. Not just till birth but after as well. They help with getting baby supplies, they help organize parenting classes as well as vocational classes, they help with adoptions if the birth mother feels that she cannot care for the child herself, and if a women does go through with an abortion, they are also their if she feels regret and she needs someone to turn to. THAT is who I want to be my advocate, not Cecile.
“Our basic health care needs are being questioned.” When is birth control and abortion “basic healthcare”? I am pretty sure birth control is not a necessity to live. If it is, I must be a miracle cuz I’ve been living my whole 25 years of life without it. I know that bc is sometimes prescribed for other things other than preventing birth but still, often other alternatives have been found to have worked as well.
As for abortion? I’m pretty sure most people could survive without abortion. Literally, people would survive, they wouldn’t be killed in utero. Thus abortion is not basic healthcare. (Yes, there are rare cases where the mother’s life is literally in jeopardy should she continue the pregnancy. I say try to save them both first, and then if you cannot, one life should be saved rather than losing both)
Amen Kristen M!!!
Thank you for your comment!!
She’s not a role model, and certainly not an advocate of EVERY woman in America!
I’m sick of the stupid phrase “Reproductive Freedom”. This is AMERICA…you HAVE the right to reproduce! Cecile Richards and her ilk don’t want the freedom to reproduce, they want the freedom to KILL what they’ve reproduced!
Don’t speak for ME, Ms. Flake..err..Fluke.
Once again, I’m pretty sure Cecile Richards isn’t an advocate for this woman.
Looks like Time’s Top 100 is about as relevant as the Nobel Peace Prize and Oscar’s Best Picture!
Ms. Richards bares an uncanny resemblance to the White Witch as portrayed in the movie Narnia. In similar fashion she reigns with an arrogant power fully hell-bent on death.
Since when does influential = admired?
Kate hit it on the head – Time’s goal of the list isn’t the top people in the world, or the nicest, or anything else. It is influential. And there are bad influences in life.
I wonder what ritual inside a burning pentagram under a full moon one must undergo to be inaugurated as president of PP? What are the odds it involves umbilical blood and a chalice?
Their unholy mass is enacted in an unending vigil of death.
TIME magazine and their list is not influential. Nothing changes, if Cece had fallen off the list.
Whether we like it or not, Cece really is influential. She has a hotline to the White House. She can get a few dozen Senate Democrats to write a nasty letter to Susan G. Komen Foundation. She can activate an impressive social network of vicious bullies.
She’s got strings that she can pull, and so she rightfully belongs on the list. Just as Cardinal Dolan belongs on the list. And even Tim Tebow.
Sandra Fluke does not belong on the list.
Time Magazine itself is pretty irrelevant and non influential. Who do you know reads it? mmmmm okay, I thought so.
Navi says Once again, I’m pretty sure Cecile Richards isn’t an advocate for this woman.
Thanks for that, Navi. I knew who Gianna was, but had never heard that story. Awesome.
On another topic…
Fake victim
Left wing activist
Used by the Dems
Kissing Cecile’s @$$
Evil minion
What could 9000 people possibly have against Tim Tebow?
The only place I ever seen Time magazine is in a doctor’s or dentist’s office,,,maybe a library. No one I know subscribes to it.
Courtnay, the fact that he’s a pro-life Christian is pretty much it…its not like he’s ever actually done anything worthy of dislike.
Influential doesn’t always mean that the influence is positive. It can be negative, too.
Andy, I agree totally. The only time I see this ragazine is in the dentist or doctor’s office. As for influential — who does that Pippa Middleton person influence? Certainly not me or anyone I know!
Phillymiss: who does that Pippa Middleton person influence?
When a man sees her walking the other way…. Just sayin’…. ;)