Planned Parenthood Defunding: Family Planning's Not a GOP Family Value?

If the truth were known, the majority of Americans would get behind the GOP plan to defund Planned Barenhood. It is another blatant misuse of our tax dollar by democrats.

PB is the largest abortion profiteer in the nation. Another dirty little secret about them is they were founded by Margaret Sanger, a racist and proponent of the Eugentics Society.

Active in exposing them, I often was invited to radio or tv programs, or to various colleges, to debate them. Since I always exposed there roots, and what PB was all about, it reached the point that once a PB executive director found out that he/she was to debate me, they backed out of the event or tried to get a replacement. So much for any pretense of being an upright organization - they cannot survive when a light is put on them.

Born into a large, middle class family in England, Sanger subsequently moved to America and married Armand Hammer - and into enormous wealth. She used her wealth and social contacts to spread support among other elitist of her warped views. Sanger felt that "minorities" consisted of all people of color and Whites from Ireland and certion sections of Germany and Spain - who she said had less brain functionality.

Among her most startling quotes is, "Minorities are like human weeds. They should be pulled up and destroyed." Sanger wrote a book and published a magazine that openly discussed her twisted views. One such idea was her plan to sterilize all minorities and send them to "farm camps" in the midwest where they could live out their lives, and leave more spoils for for the wealthy.

She even went as far as to tell parents with children that the "best thing they could do for their children is to kill the youngest". Of course her speeches and writings were favorably received by Hitler. He once sent two Nazi doctors here to accompany her on a speaking tour.

Her personal life was one of total debauchery. Hammer even looked the other way as she made it a career to bed a litany of men. She openly advocated abortion and artificial birth control - both banned by Jewish and Christian tradition up to then. Realizing that it would be more practical to first promote arificial birth control, then ease into abortion advocacy, she encouraged her followers to "first work with the Black ministers, who may be more open to money" to start her campaign to push for artifical birth control.

Her strategy worked as, one by one, reacting to social pressure various Christian denominations succumbed to accept her views about artificial birth control and abortion.

Make no mistake, abortion is the deliberate killing of a child in the womb. Abortion apologists do not want a pregnant mom to see her sonogram, and they use a term such as "fetus" to dehumanize the baby who is merely maturing in the womb. They fail to mention that the medical term comes from the greek and means "the living one".

Character limits - Bye!

The GOP budget cuts do not want to do away with birth control or end abortion. They want to eliminate the huge amount of taxpayer money that is wasted - such as funding 1/3 of the budget for the largest abortion profiteer in the country. Planned Barrenhood, in addition to supporting aborticide up to the time of delivery, scams the taxpayer in other ways. (They do not commit late term aborticide, they refer a pregnant mom in her 7-9th month to other abortuaries that do the more grisly partial birth procedure.)

I once helped recover personal patient records that one particular PB abortuary callously, and illegally, dumped into a huge dumpster. Our examination of these confidential records, over 100,000 of them, gave tremendous insight into taxpayer abuse routinely committed by PB.

For example, and I am not at home and hence don't have access to the book that was published about this - written by Robert Ruff - so my figures are guesstimates, but close. If a cash paying PB visitor bought a particular birth "control" pill, she was charged $39. If the visitor was "poor", PB billed the feds under Title X funding, for $97. for the same pills.

Further, some birth "control" pills are actually arbortifacients that cause a chemical abortion.

PB pushes an image of a woman's help group, and pretends they are needed as women have no other place to go - which is nonsense. There are "free" clinics in every city, doctor's offices, drug stores, and other abortuaries. PB is strictly a money making entity that consistently cons the public.

Because of the racist views of their founder they generally operate their killing facilities in poorer neighborhoods, or near colleges to entice unknowledgable school girls.

Use of taxpayer money must be stopped.

3% of Planned Parenthood­'s money goes to abortions. more that 30 % goes to cancer prevention­.

First they cut funding to children living in low-income households and now they want to defund the program that prevents more low-income couples from having children. Balancing the budget, or an attempt at creating a large class of uneducated workers?

Killing is not the answer.

A child is born with a social security number. He or she is a future taxpayer. Using Tax Dollars to eliminate future Taxpayers is just wrong and as Spock would say is not logical as long as Taxes are our means of securing our freedoms and our future.

I am not responsible for the irresponsibility of people who wish to have unprotected sex and then want someone else to pay to get rid of the child. Keep abortion legal but if they need funds to support their irresponsible acts tell them to go to their own families, uncles, aunts, cousins, siblings to provide the funds for the death of this embryo. There are the elderly and those invalids, military injured I want my money to go to; stupid people who can't take care of themselves are not my problem.

Those who feel that tax payers should not be funding Planned Parenthood clinics must have flunked math in school. It is cheaper for taxpayers to help pay for birth control than for unwanted pregnancies and to raise these kids who will most likely be recieving assistance in one form or another. It is cheaper to provide cancer screening tests to poor women than to prohibit access to these services, so that by the time these women find out they have cancer, it is too late to treat with less expensive treatments and a fortune is paid out in chemo, radiation treatments, etc. As the old saying goes "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!"

The article begs the central question: why should taxpayers be funding a private "corrupteration"? Argument over what PP does or does not do is irrelevant. The question is, "Should PP be doing whatever for thirty-some years with taxpayers' money?" My answer would be in the negative. Otherwise, shouldn't the Catholic Church be getting such funding for their services in this regard?

The problem I have with the GOP is they refuse to fund programs to help children. We have 1 million children sleeping on the street every night. Until we are willing to pay money to ensure every child is fed, housed and schooled it comes across to me as the GOP being evil and playing God. They feel they can condemn poor babies to lives of misery. It is gross and it is sick. And it is why the GOP is not the party of God but the party of the Devil.

I personally wish we could return to a time when people believed that they should wait for marriage to have sex ( and in practice, waited at least a little longer than now, and took sex more seriously). But we all know that is not how things are today. If we can ever effect that social change, it will take time. In the meantime, we have to face reality. The best way to prevent abortion is to prevent unwanted pregnancies. The way to prevent unwanted pregnancies must include making contraception available and cheap to those who want it. Furthermore, we all benefit as a society by testing for, and treating, STDs and other reproductive health problems, so that our population is healthy and fit to function economically. Planned Parenthood is the health care provider that even poor women can turn to in confidence. To defund Planned Parenthood is not only a war against women, it is a war against the poor.

What we are seeing today is a group of conservatives making a religiously-based argument that everyone must follow these conservative ideas. Some of them even define contraception as abortion. The United States is a pluralistic democracy, not a theocracy. Each of should remain free to practice the ethical/religious beliefs that we ourselves hold. None of us should try to impose our ethical/religious beliefs on our neighbors and fellow citizens.