Put another way, “Cecile, would you still get your $400k salary if Planned Parenthood were stripped of its $500 mil in fed funding?”
After the presidential debate Tuesday night, The Daily Caller’s Nicholas Ballasy caught up with Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards in the media spin room.
Ballasy asked a good question: “Do you think that that’s appropriate to get federal funding when you take such a high salary?” Richards earns over $400,000 annually.
Richards’ response: “None of my salary is paid for by the federal government and Planned Parenthood is reimbursed for health care services and, quite frankly, we provide more health care for lower cost than any women’s health care provider in the country.”
Ballasy’s follow-up question should have been: “Let’s put it this way: Do you think you’d still get a $400k salary if Planned Parenthood didn’t receive $500 million in federal funding annually?”
But it’s a start.
A couple other points. Note the blue sign behind Richards. This means she is an official surrogate of the Obama campaign. Objectively speaking, the blatant support by a nonprofit recipient of federal funds for a particular candidate and party is stunning. But no one in the media questions it.
Second, as I’ve noted before, if “frankly” were removed from Richards’ lexicon, she frankly wouldn’t be able to complete an intact sentence.
[HT: David D. from Live Action]
Today! “Call Planned Parenthood to Schedule Your Imaginary Mammogram Day”
During Tuesday’s debate, President Barack Obama advanced a falsehood:
Millions of women all across the country who rely on Planned Parenthood for not just contraceptive care. They rely on it for mammograms, for cervical cancer screenings.
Of course, it is a documented fact that Planned Parenthood does not perform mammograms. Not only did a Live Action investigation expose the ruse last year, the Department of Health and Human Resources confirmed it, and finally, so has Planned Parenthood itself. (Jump to 1:35 on the video.)
But either the president hasn’t received the memo, or he doesn’t care. And Planned Parenthood made no effort to publicly correct the president after the gaffe.
So our friends Abby Johnson and Lila Rose have come up with a great idea: “Call Planned Parenthood to Schedule Your Imaginary Mammogram Day” – today!
Instructions are at the link, including a script. But basically the plan is for everyone to call their local Planned Parenthood today and attempt to schedule a mammogram.
Report your findings here!
[Graphic via Andy Moore on Facebook]
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews: Right to life position “almost like Sharia”
… [T]here’s a grand canyon of difference between Obama, who’s very pro-choice, and, for example, the Republican ticket this year, which would give 14th Amendment rights, whatever that means, life, liberty, and property rights, to a fetus that had just been – or rather, an egg that had just been fertilized, right after sex, if you will.
And to have that notion that that would be a person under this personhood thing that [Paul] Ryan’s pushing, and under the 14th Amendment rights, the platform that [Mitt] Romney’s running on.
This is extremism!… [I]t’s almost like Sharia. You’re saying to the country, we’re going to operate under a religious theory, under a religious belief. We’re going to run our country this way, to the point of making a woman’s decision to have an abortion, her reproductive rights, as criminal, perhaps murderous.
~ MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, ranting (inaccurately) against pro-life Republicans prior to Tuesday’s presidential debate, as quoted by Newsbusters, October 17
Pro-life video of the day: Bodily autonomy
by LauraLoo
Abortion rights supporters used to advocate that the unborn aren’t human beings in order to justify abortion. Obviously, that has been long disproven due to science. Now they must find another excuse to justify killing the unborn, namely ”bodily autonomy.” But is it really true that you have the right to terminate a life that is dependent upon your own?
Meet Tatiana and Krista in a video recently released by Secular Pro-Life:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9954BajOh4[/youtube]
These twins are amazing! Despite the challenges they must overcome in life, they look like incredibly happy little girls. May God continue to bless them and their mom!
Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions.
[HT: Kelli]
Obama, Big Bird, and Planned Parenthood
In the history of the United States there has been and there never will be a bigger supporter of Planned Parenthood in the White House than President Barack Obama.
People may wonder whether Obama actually likes Israel, but they will never, ever wonder whether he likes Planned Parenthood.
In fact, truth be told, Obama would obviously rather wear an “I ? Planned Parenthood” pin instead of American flag pin if he could get away with it.
Last night during his debate against Mitt Romney, Obama invoked his sacred cow, Planned Parenthood, five times:
- “We haven’t heard from the governor any specifics [on budget cuts], beyond Big Bird and eliminating funding for Planned Parenthood, in terms of how he pays for that.”
- “When Governor Romney says that we should eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood, there are millions of women all across the country who rely on Planned Parenthood for not just contraceptive care. They rely on it for mammograms, for cervical cancer screenings. That’s a pocketbook issue for women and families all across the country.”
- “You know, there are some things where Governor Romney’s different from George Bush. George Bush didn’t propose turning Medicare into a voucher. George Bush embraced comprehensive immigration reform. He didn’t call for self-deportation. George Bush never suggested that we eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood.”
- “But you should pay attention to this campaign, because Governor Romney’s made some commitments as well, and I suspect he’ll keep those, too. You know, when members of the Republican Congress… said, we’re going to cut Planned Parenthood funding, he said, me too.”
Of course, Planned Parenthood does not perform mammograms, but Obama apparently pays as little attention to detail during his daily Planned Parenthood briefings as he does his daily security briefings.
Obama’s mash-up of Big Bird and Planned Parenthood was comical, exemplifying the worst ridiculosity of politics.
Obviously, despite the pro-life movement’s best attempts to expose Planned Parenthood’s underbelly, Obama’s internal polling must show Planned Parenthood’s brand still scores well with American women.
Either that, or Obama is so obligated to Planned Parenthood for help with his reelection (or PP has something on him), he is continuously compelled to promote the abortion behemoth.
Actress Hilary Duff happy with motherhood
It’s really wonderful. There are no words to describe it. I mean, to say “It’s wonderful” sounds minuscule.
When you get to see your baby for the first time, and they put him on your chest, and you’re looking into each other’s eyes, this feeling just washes over you and there are really no words.
~ Actress Hilary Duff just thrilled that she’s a mommy, in an interview posted in the October 2012 issue of Parents Magazine
[HT: Laura Loo]
Pro-life blog buzz 10-16-12
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN and Kelli
We welcome your suggestions for additions to our Top Blogs (see tab on right side of home page)! Email Susie@jillstanek.com.
- Big Blue Wave shares a video from Alliance for Life Ontario, which the Advertising Standards Council of Canada claims is “demean[ing] and denigrat[ing to] women.” The ASC plans to penalize the pro-life group for refusing to amend or withdraw the ad:
- At National Review, Michael New notes the critical flaws in the recent study in favor of free contraception:
[T]here are at least five reasons why this study greatly overstates the impact of no-cost contraception.1) No control group… 2) Limited impact on repeat abortion rate… 3) Exaggerated impact on overall abortion rate… 4) The weighting mechanism overstates effectiveness of contraception program… 5) The results are not generalizable to a large population….
All in all, the pro-life movement receives plenty of criticism from the mainstream media and supporters of legal abortion for not being more contraceptive-friendly. However, in reality there is little evidence that supports the effectiveness of contraceptive programs. Separate studies from both the Guttmacher Institute and the Centers for Disease Control both indicate that a low percentage of sexually active women forgo contraception due to high cost or lack of availability.
- Accepting Abundance also comments on the free contraception study:
Caring for women is not the real agenda. Saving the taxpayers money or reducing abortion is not the real agenda. The real agenda is about power. How do you gain power? You convince people they need you to take care of them. You convince them you can save them. You convince them you are god. Works every time, right? - 40 Days for Life provides updates from several cities at the halfway point of the campaign. Pro-life speakers David Bereit, Abby Johnson, and Rev. Walter Hoye paid a visit to the Nashville gathering.
- FRC Blog responds to an article that attempts to paint the pro-life as something it isn’t:
When working through policy issues with my interns, I often remind them to make sure they know the real principles guiding any discussion. Being pro-life is about valuing life because it is God-given and necessary for all other human experience on earth.It is NOT about being pro-opportunities and pro jobs or any other such thing. No dead people have jobs, enjoy art, or get a good education. Being pro-life means you don’t want innocent people to be murdered. A little state charity doesn’t make a platform of murder more palatable.
If a man ran for office, ended all poverty, gave everyone an ideal education, but every day stood outside the White House and presided over the legal killing of innocent Americans, no one would vote for him. That is what happens in America, only it is labeled “choice.” Innocent people are killed and not a single one of them gets a good education or a chance to have a good life. It is the first liberty without which the others can’t be exercised.
[Photo via proliferesources.blogspot.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.