Jivin J’s Life Links 4-15-11
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- Wesley Smith writes on a proposal in Switzerland to legalize assisted suicide in nursing homes.
- At the Weekly Standard, John McCormack notes how taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood helps them subsidize their abortion activities. Take note of Cecile Richards’ supposed total hours of work per week:
While pro-choice advocates argue that the law already prohibits Planned Parenthood from paying for abortions with tax dollars, the law actually does nothing to prevent tax dollars from subsidizing abortionists. “Separation of Title X from abortion activities does not require separate grantees or even a separate health facility,” according to the regulation issued by the Clinton administration. The regulation allows Title X programs and abortion clinics to even share the same staff.
- In addition to underwriting abortion facilities and staff, federal dollars free up funds to pay for PP’s political activities and lavish salaries. During the 2004-2005 fiscal year, PP president Gloria Feldt [pictured far left] raked in over $900k as the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the tax-exempt “non-profit” organization with a billion dollars in assets. That same year, Feldt earned about $24k as the president of PP’s political arm, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, an operation that takes in around $10M per year in order to defeat pro-life Republicans, parental consent laws, and other pro-life measures.
- Speaking of how our tax dollars subsidize Planned Parenthood’s abortion business, PP of the Heartland has announced plans to build 12 new clinics in IA and NE over 5 years after getting commitments of $7 million dollars. They will also begin performing abortions in Omaha.
PP’s current president Cecile Richards [pictured above, immediate left] makes about $340k per year – double the salary of a U.S. senator – for working 32 hours a week for PP’s nonprofit arm, according to the organization’s tax forms. She takes in about $37k annually for working 40 hours per week for the PP Action Fund. So, taxpayers subsidize PP’s abortion-performing arm, which in turn subsidizes PP’s political operation.
- US Sen. Joe Manchin (pictured right) from West Virginia (who signed pro-life legislation as W VA’s governor) is looking for a way to explain his vote against defunding Planned Parenthood. Pro-life groups aren’t buying it:
Manchin said he offered the so-called “Title X Transparency and Verification Act” as a means of raising public scrutiny of family planning funding and guaranteeing money spent under the program is reported to the public….
In Morgantown, West Virginians for Life’s communications director, Mary Anne Buchanan, said the Manchin proposal wouldn’t do anything.
“The bill that Sen. Manchin wants to put forth really is irrelevant,” she said.
“It’s just a cover. We really feel that he doesn’t want to defund Planned Parenthood. He just put this up as his means of saying, “I want to do something to take care of this problem when really it’s not going to help at all.” PP are the abortion giant in this country. 1/3 of their revenue comes from abortions. They perform about 27% of all the abortions in this country. 1 out of every 8 people who walks into a PP clinic comes out with an abortion.”
[Photos: Feldt via emergeamerica.org; Richards via blogs.rj.org; Manchin via nndb.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.
Cecile Richard’s salary is pretty standard for the executive director of a national non-profit.
“During the 2004-2005 fiscal year, PP president Gloria Feldt [pictured far left] raked in over $900k as the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the tax-exempt “non-profit” organization with a billion dollars in assets. That same year, Feldt earned about $24k as the president of PP’s political arm, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, an operation that takes in around $10M per year in order to defeat pro-life Republicans, parental consent laws, and other pro-life measures.”
“PP’s current president Cecile Richards [pictured above, immediate left] makes about $340k per year – double the salary of a U.S. senator – for working 32 hours a week for PP’s nonprofit arm, according to the organization’s tax forms. She takes in about $37k annually for working 40 hours per week for the PP Action Fund. So, taxpayers subsidize PP’s abortion-performing arm, which in turn subsidizes PP’s political operation.”
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It ain’t rocket science, just simple math.
I am for more money and less taxes for everyone.
I don’t have a problem with what America’s whore house chain chooses to pay her ‘madam’.
I have a problem with the pimps stealing my money to pay her.
I reserve the right to determine which whores I will or will not give my money.
It is time to break her plate and tell her to get out and make it on her on, if she can.
Caitlin,
Check the salaries of the prolife non profit world. Many, of us take NO salary. Our friends on the front lines of hell ~ actually rescuing babies from the abortionists knives ~ take NO salary.
Most CPC directors and staff are mainly volunteer.
What?She’s the director of a NATIONAL non-profit. It’s her career, she is getting a standard industry-wide salary. Bully for you and your volunteer job.
“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.”—Isaiah 5:20 (New American Standard translation)
“Who justify the wicked for a bribe, And take away the rights of the ones who are in the right!”—Isaiah 5:23
America has a massive amount of innocent blood on its hands. America has become a culture of death. Many of its leading institutions—education, entertainment, political; even business and religion—are either dominated by or heavily infiltrated by people who do not want any moral restrictions placed upon themselves. In many instances they are aggressively using various institutions, organizations and especially an ever growing powerful government to force all citizens to subsidize evil.
Our nation might be beyond redemption and beyond spiritual, moral, cultural, political and financial repair. I do not know. But it is important that a dedicated remnant—both individually and collectively—does not surrender to the decadence all about us.
Caitlin did not come here to present a ‘balance view of abortion.’ First, it’s murder and there is no balance view of slaughtering innocent developing human children.
Second, her posts are getting more and more snarky. She’s just another troll here to pick a fight.
I have never met an abortion advocate either in person or on the ‘net that actually did have a balanced view. Eventually, their true feelings emerge: feelings of superiority over others. How often have trolls like cc come here to comment that they are so smart and it’s so educated and progressive to kill people. Abortion, they say, is the answer to all the world’s problems. And yet, I’m old enough to remember life before Roe v Wade. I can tell you from first hand observation that killing over 54 million American children has not solved a single problem in this country, or anywhere else in the world. I look around and I see that in Britain, France, India, China, the US, and all over the world the abortion-wrought utopia is NOWHERE to be found.
I’m not a troll, I’m getting increasingly snarky because this site is [edited by moderator] annoying and everyone involved in the pro-life movement is the dumbest human I’ve ever encountered. Show me a smart pro-lifer, and I’ll switch sides.
Seriously, just one.
Caitlin,
Give me a criteria that I can reasonably satisfy to your desire over the internet to convince you that I am smart and I will do it.
Someone that does not take idiotic propaganda pro-life blogs seriously.
Suppose I don’t take this or any other pro-life website seriously, but that I still am pro-life. Would you convert in that case?
In fact, you know what Caitlin, I will completely disavow any ties I have with jillstanek.com . I will quit as a moderator and never return to her site again if you would genuinely convert and become pro-life. I’m 100% serious. If I do that, I will have fulfilled your criteria to be a smart pro-life person. Will you hold to your word and become pro-life?
Bobby,
That would require some calculating on Caitlin’s part and, though she may possess the ability, she lacks the desire, because Caitlin is smart enough to know she just fell into the pit she dug with her own words.
I call that a bias towards action:1. Ready, 2. Fire, 3. Aim.
Caitlin, if you ask the moderator he/she will delete your ill advised comment.
May be you might want to take some time and exercise some neurons and take another run at that windmill with a little bit better plan of attack.
You would have at one point taken this blog seriously, so no, the disingenuous denouncing of the jill stanek blog would not count.
I can never be smart then. No one can ever convert from pro-life to pro-choice and be smart. So, according to your criteria for what it takes to be smart, Caitlin, everyone who converts from pro-life to pro-choice is not smart. Well, I suppose there is one place where we can agree.
“You would have at one point taken this blog seriously”
Also, I’d like to point out that this was not mentioned in the original criteria for what it takes to be smart.
I said “Someone that does not take idiotic propaganda pro-life blogs seriously”
if you just cut ties just to try and convert me, this would not be a genuine distaste for this blog, it would be you cutting ties just to prove a point.
And I said “show me a smart pro-lifer.” That has nothing to do with pro-choicers.
Caitlin,
Perhaps consulting a dictionary and/or a thesaurus would be helpfull.
There might be a better word than ‘smart’ to convey the ‘sentiment’ that is rolling around in your mind.
I read somewhere if you are having difficulty recalling just the right word and it’s right there on the periphery of your consciousness, taking a brisk walk will get the blood flowing and it might just be enough to pull that word back into the reach of the gravity of your intellect.
Ah, in such a short time our new troll has already descended into profanity. Oh, by my very accurate abortometer, she should be bashing the church in about 5 or 6 minutes.
“And I said “show me a smart pro-lifer.” That has nothing to do with pro-choicers.”
You know what? You’re right. I got completely caught up and lost my train of thought. My bad.
An abortometer, huh? Sounds fancy.
Why would I bash the church? Because I swear? I was raised in a strict Irish Catholic family, and they’re all pro-choice. You might want to take that abortometer into the repair shop.
Second, her posts are getting more and more snarky. She’s just another troll here to pick a fight.
You seem to have hit the nail on the head, ninek.
Guess all people who actually believe humans reproduce after their own kind are just idiots.
Oh, and Caitlin – I see your own words regarding the mammograms yesterday caused you to avoid addressing my previous comments.
I guess pro-lifers don’t have to be geniuses – they just have to catch pro-aborts in repeated lies.
I addressed your comment regarding the mammograms. Some clinics offer access to mammograms, and others do not. The pro-life group that made those phone calls targeted ones that they knew did not offer mammograms.
“Take note of Cecile Richards’ supposed total hours of work per week: [32].”
The ‘bent one’ is always on the the job, but her/his/it’s miens and lackeys have to have their downtime.
The upside: It is four hours less a week that Cecile Richards can devote to killing pre-natal children.
yor bro ken, do you work 36 hours a week?
Caitlin says: April 15, 2011 at 3:26 pm
“The pro-life group that made those phone calls targeted ones that they knew did not offer mammograms.”
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Jill,
Would you contact Mark Crutcher and ask him if Caitlin’s accusation is correct?
And I have one additonal question.
Did Crutchter not include tapes of calls made to PP offices where they did offer cancer screening and mammograms?
I belive I know what the answer to both questions will be based on my experience with pro-lifers like Crutcher.
But I will wait to hear what Crutcher has to say.
I addressed your comment regarding the mammograms. Some clinics offer access to mammograms, and others do not. The pro-life group that made those phone calls targeted ones that they knew did not offer mammograms.
Caitlin, you never addressed your OWN comment re: mammograms, which was:
It doesn’t mean that Planned Parenthood doesn’t offer mammograms, it means that those specific ones that were chosen for phone calls didn’t offer them, and the “investigators” knew that in advance.
Yesterday you claimed pp offered mammograms. Not access to mammograms. Every health care provider can refer for mammograms, but providing them and referring to a hospital for them are two completely different things. If you don’t believe me, wait till the EOB comes from insurance. :D
Caitlin,
I seldom work 40.
But whether it is 32 or 48, there are not dead bodies in my wake.
If Cecile is getting her manicure and pedicure then she proabably isn’t lobbying anyone but the beautician.
Re: Ninek @ 2:31 PM
Right on!
They offer access to mammograms, I stand by that.
Inside their own clinics, Caitlin?
They offer access to mammograms, I stand by that.
You mean pretty much like any health care provider can refer to an outside source for mammograms?
In other words – you were wrong yesterday (according to the article YOU posted from the WaPo) when you said they offered mammograms.
Hey, the yellow pages offers access to mammograms too! For free!
Bethany, you almost made me spit my water out, lol!
My vet can tell me where to get a mammogram too and that doesn’t mean my vet’s office offers ‘access.’ I’m so weary of the verbal acrobatics and baloney!! Ah, thank the living God it’s Friday.
Caitlin: I know people who belong to mensa that are pro-life, I know people who have multiple doctorates that are pro-life, I know board certified physicians who are pro-life, I know genius-level IQ holders who are pro-life….some of them read pro-life blogs (possibly even this one I’m not sure), I’m sure others of them would if introduced. Maybe you need to reevaluate your working definition of the word ‘smart’, despite what you seem to think ‘smart’ doesn’t mean ‘on the same side as me’. There are many, many highly intellegent (that means ‘smart’) people who are pro-life. There is probably someone who regularly comments on this blog who has a genius level IQ (140 or above) or holds a phd or is in mensa…if you’d like to meet a dictionary-defined member of the smart pro-life club I’m sure they’re plenty around! And if none of them are willing to deal with you i’d be happy to ‘meet’ you in cyberspace, as I am easily defined as ‘smart’ in the actual meaning of the word, I am easily contact-able via my blog, just click on my name.
Gee, Caitlin….let’s see. I have three degrees, attended grad school on three scholarships, and my pro-life views are secular, scientific and based on logic. I am also a vocal gay rights advocate, especially on this board. I have met lovely pro-choice people who were, at heart, pro-life when we got down to brass tacks. You have contributed nothing to this board, and if it upsets you so much, why bother coming here at all? What do you want? To justify your abortion? You’re doing that fine on your own. Do you need our approval? Forgiveness? Do you want to convert us? It won’t work, just like we will never convert you. We are at an impasse. Go back to abortion blogs and talk about how stupid we are. Have a ball. We don’t really care what you think.
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Also, I was the assistant to the president of a prominent non profit in the Northeast. My employer’s salary was maybe a third of Cecile’s. Sure PP is a national non profit, but her salary and perks are beyond belief. Outrageous.
I believe we have determined what kind of woman Cecille Richards is.
Now we’re just haggling over her price.
“Wesley Smith writes on a proposal in Switzerland to legalize assisted suicide in nursing homes.”
What comes after voluntary assisted suicide?
Caitlin: I know people who belong to mensa that are pro-life, I know people who have multiple doctorates that are pro-life, I know board certified physicians who are pro-life, I know genius-level IQ holders who are pro-life….some of them read pro-life blogs (possibly even this one I’m not sure),
Caitlin, I graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, a school that has been known to admit reasonably intelligent people. All the Ivies have pro-life groups. I like Princeton’s motto: Condiscipulorum Absentia Gratia — For Our Missing Classmates:
http://www.princeton.edu/~prolife/college.html
Isn’t Christopher Hitchens somewhat prolife? He’s not dummy either, and by no stretch of the imagination is a “religious zealot.”
Caitlin is pre-cognizant of what abortion is. And judging from her picking at the “pre” pre-fix in the Tina Fey thread, that would mean she doesn’t know anything.