Compare Planned Parenthood to “unstable” terrorist gunman. Act surprised when “unstable” people who believe the comparison take action against “terrorists” being allowed to operate with impunity. Rinse and repeat.
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One party is engaging in acts that are legally permissible in the USA, while the other party engaged in a blatantly illegal, criminal act. I wonder if Rep. Franks can understand that.
If he’s so concerned about abortions, it’s really simple. Work to change the laws and work to change people’s hearts and minds to reduce the number of abortions performed. And if he’s unsuccesful at that, he really ought to ask yourself why that is.
In general, if you’re solution to this is to resort to intimidation and violent acts and to play games with doctor’s healthcare privileges, then you’ve lost the thread, not to mention your professed values. And, in the long run, you will lose because violence never works in the long-term. I would have thought true Christians would engage people with open hearts to persuade them, but that’s apparently not their strong suit.
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It is hard to believe that people like this could have any respect for themselves…he could not possibly understand the work that planned parenthood does beyond the small % of their resources dedicated to abortions…the majority of their efforts are related to women’s health. We already know GOPers like Franks have an overt hatred for women and they have demonstrated this peculiar proclivity countless times
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Yeah Trent, health care for women is a bad thing. Riiiight. I’ll remember you said that come the next election.
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Except somehow the people who are against abortions are overwhelmingly also against contraception, against prenatal care, against the rights of women to say no to sex with their boyfriends/husbands, against the economic and social equality that would give women the power to say no without risking loss of job/home/safety. It’s almost as if their opposition to abortion was about hating women rather than a real concern for embryos that might eventually become citizens.
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It’s exhausting living in a reality-based world when so many pols seems to just float like a butterfly above it all.
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Evil Triumphs When Good People Do Nothing
These are elected officials. The GOP elected officials are elected due to some possibilities.
A. They cheat their way in, for the most part. In that case, then the U.S.is in the same situation as the Dominican Republic in 1971.
B. There are more people eligible to vote who favour Republicans.
C. You see where I’m going with this…
The United States will not be saved from rule by Republicans by the Canadians. Or the Germans. Or the British.
No outside force will save it. Only people eligible to vote.
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"It should only increase our commitment to defund organizations … that further this non-ethic of disregarding the sanctity of human life,” he added.
Does that include the DoD or the Chicago PD?
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As ugly on the inside as on the outside.
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“And to stop rapes, women must learn to not incite men. And to stop racism, minorities must not get uppity and call attention to themselves. And to promote profit and job creation, workers must not expect to earn a decent living. To protect your freedoms, you need to be under constant surveillance.”
Welcome to “Blame the Victim.” You want to play? Sorry, no choice but to.
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If they actually believed in this “life begins at conception” crapola they would have funerals for all miscarriages.
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Is this a religious thing for Franks? Or does his soul just disagree with the idea of a health clinic that happens to benefit the less fortunate and overwhelmingly women?
I say, let Franks lay out the better plan along with the other ‘conservative pro-lifers’ then lets see if they can apply their plan evenly in all situations. I’m thinking that they would save fetuses, kill many mothers, backslide hard regarding war and gun deaths, then decide that really, they just don’t like helping ‘those’ people.
Is that going to be Cop Killer’s defense? That Planned Parenthood shot the police officer?
We gave the government to people like this in 2010 and 2014. We’re still handing it over to them on a local level even worse than in Congress. This is what we get when we stay home, waiting to be ‘excited’ by a candidate, sulking because our candidates messed up on some pet issue or another. There are more of us than them, people, and I’m getting excruciatingly tired of articles revealing the awfulness of the twits who occupy Congress. There is no bloody excuse for this.
"It should only increase our commitment to defund organizations … that further this non-ethic of disregarding the sanctity of human life,” he added.
Says the man who routinely votes to prevent the EPA from saving innocent lives through reductions in harmful emissions.
For example:
House Amendment 88, tacked on to House spending bill H.R. 1, prohibits the Environmental Protection Agency from spending any money to enforce its standards regarding the reduction of mercury emissions from cement plants in the United States. After a considerable number of scientific studies and dozens of public hearings and comment periods, the EPA determined that American cement plants release enough mercury dust into the atmosphere to kill between 1,000 and 2,500 people every year. The cement industry in America can afford to make the fixes EPA proposes in order to prevent those 1,000-2,500 deaths each year: the industry is profitable and resisting imports, which are now as low as they have been for 19 years. Those who voted for H.Amdt. 88 voted to prevent the fixes to cement plants that would protect the environment and save American lives.
Rep. Franks has followed a conservative course by voting for this bill.
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We all have the potential to be dead. Doesn’t mean that we should be treated as though we were already dead. So much for the argument for treating a developing fetus on the basis of ‘potential’.