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Sep 28, 2015

No.

The two issues are totally unrelated, which is why the fervor over it has been so fundamentally dishonest.

If there's a few bad apples in the organization who did criminal activity, fire them. If the whole organization was a criminal enterprise, destroy the organization. But the fact that defunding has been the proposed solution has demonstrated the bankruptcy of the efforts from the start. It was obvious that at the very worst a few people did either unethical or criminal things but that the whole organization wasn't involved because only a tiny fraction of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion.

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Feb 17, 2016

Abortion, is a very small part of Planned Parenthood, but even if it was proven that Planned Parenthood illegally sold organs and tissues, don't forget that Planned Parenthood is allowed to "sell" fetal tissue to researchers for use in scientific studies as a middleman and abortion clinics are allowed to receive compensation for the time it takes to collect the tissue, transport it, and store it, it wouldn't make since to defund all the other services that they do. Odds are they did nothing illegal. I am also betting if I interview someone for 12+hours and edited it, I could make any group look bad.

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Jan 15, 2017

Does this same "pro life" crowd care what happens to people after they die? Maybe it's a "sin" for them to sell their organs? Maybe "god" wants these people stuck in the ground complete? Of course not - who cares - you're dead, that's it, time's up, game over - if you're in the box you really don't care.

Here's the average moral person's reasoning: planned parenthood is a concept that "goes against the teachings of god" because it allows unborn children to be killed... and god doesn't like that.

A) your god, not mine.

B) god and government - actually forbidden by the law (it's called the Constitution - look it up)

C) if you have a huge problem with unborn "children" being "murdered", do you also have a problem with governments sending people to war, with the death sentence, or with allowing another nation's people to die from disease/starvation? Think about your answer and think about commandment #4 - "thou shalt not kill"... do you see any caveats on that rule? No, you don't. You start applying that rule across the board and then we can talk about how much say you have in someone else's life.

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