The GOP Health Care Assault On Planned Parenthood Exposes The Hypocrisy Of The Pro-Life Movement

[steven johnson]

Pro-life forces can desire to protect the life of the unborn by sacrificing the life of the already born, the mother.

Conservatives want to be pro-gun and pro-death penalty but still claim to be pro-life.

This is hypocrisy,

. . .people who are so profoundly committed to the pro-life movement seem to lose all care, concern and compassion for that life once the child is born into the world.

Nowhere is this hypocrisy more prominently on display than in the current war being waged by the GOP on Planned Parenthood – the organization that spends 97% of their efforts and money providing millions of impoverished American women with critical front-line health care, essential medical testing to discover disease before it is too late to successfully treat a patient, and the very family planning and sex education services that might help women avoid an unwanted pregnancy and thus moot the question of abortion.

Yes, the remaining 3% of the Planned Parenthood budget is dedicated to providing abortion services but, contrary to what the anti-abortion forces would have you believe, not one cent of taxpayer money – federal or state – pays for so much as an IV needle used in an abortion procedure. The legal prohibition against taxpayer money being spent on abortions is as clearly enforced as the Roe v. Wade decision that confirms a woman’s right to choose in the United States.

Despite the important work done by Planned Parenthood – and the lives they save – the GOP has made it a cornerstone of their social agenda to put this vital service to the working and non-working poor out of business.




The GOP Health Care Assault On Planned Parenthood Exposes The Hypocrisy Of The Pro-Life Movement

[ljm2002]

1. They are not pro-life, they are forced-birth...

...yes I know I am a broken record on this, but we need to use a short, accurate term with a negative connotation that carries some emotional punch. "Forced-birth" is a 100% accurate description of what this so-called movement all about. It has nothing whatsoever to do with being "pro-life", as the cited article points out. Their whole agenda is to force women and girls, once impregnated, to carry that baby to term and deliver it regardless of circumstances.

I do realize that this term "pro-life" was used for the Forbes article and simply repeated by the OP. But still the point needs to be made: as long as we keep calling them what they wish to be called, we only hurt ourselves. If we accept that they are "pro-life", then what does that make us? For obvious linguistic reasons, the phrase that springs to mind is anti-life. But that is not accurate at all. And calling them "anti-choice", while true, carries no emotional punch.

It is 2011 and we are going backwards. 10 states out of 50 have enacted laws that make it difficult for women to get even early-term abortions. Clinic availability has been going down in many of the other states, and in some places doctors who provide abortions risk assassination. The regressives are winning this battle, and it makes me heartsick to watch it happen.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. The Republicans are worse than hypocrites on this issue.

I really have no words for how vile these scumbags are.

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