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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Brent Bozell :: Townhall.com Columnist
Poor Planned Parenthood?
by Brent Bozell
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In 2005, Kline was demonized by glossy national magazines like GQ as the man "who will do anything to stop abortion." In that GQ article, his local Planned Parenthood adversary, Peter Brownlie, was allowed to make the ridiculous claim that "Planned Parenthood, by its efforts to prevent unintended pregnancies, has prevented more abortions than any anti-abortion group that has ever existed. They talk. We do."

So pro-lifers should applaud Planned Parenthood -- for not killing every baby it encounters.

Now comes another ABC News story on its Website, with a fresh liberal tilt. ABC's Emily Friedman began by suggesting Kline was "either an agenda-driven prosecutor operating outside the law or one of the best friends the anti-abortion rights movement has ever had."

Not only are pro-lifers not "pro-life," they're not even "abortion foes." They're now -- in a news report, remember -- "anti-rights." Friedman unloaded the critical comments of liberals: not just Planned Parenthood's Brownlie, but Kansas professor Burdett Loomis (whom even she noted was a strategist for the Democratic governor of Kansas in 2004) and Kim Gandy, the boss of the National Organization for Women, who lionized Dr. George Tiller, the champion of hideous third-trimester abortions, as "one of the very few who has the courage to do this kind of work."

A Kline spokesman tried to rebut the claims of "critics," but it was hopeless. The overall tone of the piece was how Kline is not only ruining the "choice" of third-trimester abortions for desperate women, his pro-life agenda is ruining the Republican Party on the plains. ABC's expert analyst? Loomis, the Democrat, who concluded the article: "I think even within the Republican Party, this is a guy who has probably outlived his welcome."

Planned Parenthood is a formidable force in national (and state) politics. One major reason is networks like ABC, news outlets that don't really care whether this corporation plays by the rules, as long as the abortion assembly line keeps running.

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Reply # 1
Date: Nov 1, 2007 - 2:22 PM EST
Flaming Liberal Multiculturalist 29, 20

Yours and my lists of the "qualities of a human" may not be identical, but those qualities are blatantly obviously not all present at the time of conception. They develop over the ensuing weeks and months. And if and when enough of them seem permanently missing from your accident victims, we pull their plugs.

DESKJOCKEY WRITES

There certainly is lack of consensus on both points today. Our SC claimed they didn’t know when life began. Yet we adopted a common law from England that said from conception initially.

Also, we don’t pull the plug if the victim has a living will to express his desire for life. In the absence of such the state makes such determination as to a mercy for the victim. However, abortion is not a mercy killing, but a convenience.

Anyway we argue the wrong issues of dates. Natural Law, the foundation of societies, did observe abortion as a perversion of the highest and best purpose of sex. John Locke our man of reason and natural law said abortion was wrong.

Flaming Liberal Multiculturalist

deskjockey:
"Anyway “multicultural” is an oxymoron."

(*Sigh*) And you were so on point up to here...

DESKJOCKEY WRITES

I just hate abusing language to subvert society. When I go to Sweden I want to see those good looking trim blond heads with their colorful outfits and all their culture. When I go to Africa I like to see Africans with black skin in their culture. When I go to Japan, I don’t want to see Swedish & African culture but Japanese culture. Unfortunately the UN has become so effective at destabilizing the cultures we can now pluralize a singular word.

How many times were you born? Oh I had multi-births. How many times did your dad die? Oh he had a multi-death. Some singular words are best left that way for the sake of the culture and the language.
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Reply # 2
Date: Oct 29, 2007 - 1:45 PM EST
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deskjockey:
"It is very conceivable..."

(pun intended?)

deskjockey:
"...that a fertilized egg will be grown outside of the mother... .Will you permit the women to abort this to a Petri dish so the human can continue its life?"

At the Woman's discretion, certainly. I've never advocated forbidding the woman anything, that's the business that you are about.

deskjockey:
"Do you agree with John Locke copied by T. Jefferson that our rights come form our Creator and they are life, liberty and property. "

Personally, yes, I do. In view of the establishment clause, as an American Citizen I concern myself with ensuring that all Americans enjoy these rights as opposed to Philosophizing over their origin.

deskjockey:
"The mother is only providing food for the baby, all the qualities of a human are present and need nothing further from her, no different than when folks are in car accidents and go on intravenous feeding for weeks on end."

Yours and my lists of the "qualities of a human" may not be identical, but those qualities are blatantly obviously not all present at the time of conception. They develop over the ensuing weeks and months. And if and when enough of them seem permanently missing from your accident victims, we pull their plugs.

deskjockey:
"Anyway “multicultural” is an oxymoron."

(*Sigh*) And you were so on point up to here...

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