Posted on 03/03/2016 7:42:46 AM PST by Kaslin
Allow me to make an extreme comparison.
Along with their murderous, barbaric policies and practices, the Nazis engaged in serious medical research, and some Nazi doctors, like Prof. Dr. Julius Hallervorden (1882-1965), a famous neurologist who became head of the Neuropathology Department of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research in 1938, continued to advance their medical research after the Holocaust.
Yet no person in his or her right mind would say, “I hate the fact that these Nazi doctors were involved in torturing and slaughtering so many people, but they helped a lot of people too, so I’m going to be balanced in my criticism.”
To highlight the absurdity of this, let’s consider Donald Trump’s post-Super Tuesday comments when he again gave qualified praise to Planned Parenthood. But here I’ll substitute “Nazis” for “Planned Parenthood” and “genocide” for “abortion.”
His comments would then read: “Look, the Nazis have done very good work for many, many — for millions of women. And I’ll say it, and I know a lot of the so-called conservatives, they say that’s really … cause I’m a conservative, but I’m a common-sense conservative.”
“We're not going to allow, and we're not going to fund, as long as you have the genocide going on . . . .”
To quote (with the same word-changes) from his most recent debate, “So you can say whatever you want, but they have millions of women going through the Nazis that are helped greatly.”
Can you imagine anyone making statements like these?
For all those who are offended by the comparison between the Nazis and Planned Parenthood and between genocide and abortion, please take a look at some abortion photos, consider the compelling evidence that Planned Parenthood traffics in aborted baby parts (despite a recent court ruling to the contrary), and remember that Planned Parenthood has covered up for men who sexually abused minors.
Note also that, according to the Heritage Foundation, “Despite a nearly 20 percent decline in the number of abortions in the country between 2000 and 2011, the number of abortions Planned Parenthood performed during that time increased from 197,070 to 333,964, thereby more than doubling its share of the abortion market from 15 percent in 2000 to 32 percent in 2011, the latest year for which national data are available.”
Put simply, can anyone who is in any true sense of the word pro-life praise the nation’s largest and most aggressive abortion provider, despite other services they perform?
To give another example, no one with a pro-life bone in their body would say, “Well, Dr. Kermit Gosnell helped a lot of women over the years, and we really appreciate that, but we’re upset that he killed living babies as well.”
No. They would excoriate Gosnell’s so-called “House of Horrors” and would say that it’s good he’s behind bars.
In the same way, it is absolutely ludicrous that Donald Trump would once more sing the praises of Planned Parenthood (with the exception of their abortion industry) at his Tuesday night, widely-televised, national press conference, despite all the innocent baby blood on their hands.
More absurd still, he called those who criticized him on this “so-called conservatives.”
What, Mr. Trump? Will you say that to the people who, as true moral conservatives, have sacrificially invested dozens of years of their lives to fight against Planned Parenthood? Would you say that they are “so-called conservatives” and you are the true conservative because you recognize all the good Planned Parenthood has done?
If women’s health care is an issue to you (and I believe it is), then let the government help out the countless thousands of non-Planned Parenthood healthcare clinics. These clinics massively outnumber the Planned Parenthood clinics and they do not have the blood of abortion on their hands.
For those who are still upset with me over the Nazi comparison (and I’m not claiming it is an exact parallel), let’s change the analogy for a moment.
Let’s say there’s a big hospital that has operated in your city for decades, saving thousands of lives over the years with its terrific healthcare programs. Unfortunately, it’s also infamous for euthanizing about one-third of its patients, both young and old, at the discretion of the doctors.
You would not say, “Hey, I would fund the hospital if not for all that euthanasia. You see, I’ve heard from thousands of people – I have letters from them – telling me about the great work they do. They’ve really helped a lot of people.”
Of course not.
You would say instead, “What a horror! That hospital needs to be shut down today and those doctors need to be charged with murder.”
So it is with Planned Parenthood, and if anyone needed proof that Donald Trump is still not a true pro-life candidate, his continued qualified praise of Planned Parenthood, coupled with the vilification of his conservative pro-life critics, says it all.
With the makeup of the Supreme Court hanging in the balance and with the absence of Justice Scalia already being felt, it is critical that we elect a true pro-life president.
Let’s do what we need to do while the options are still there.
“I question the thinking of people who would compare planned parenthood to Auschwitz because of ONE aspect of the organization.”
Abortion is not just one aspect, it is the primary function of the organization. Abortion is Planned Parenthood’s raison d’etre. So, to continue your analogy, what you are doing is equivalent to saying “Sure, Auschwitz murders jews, but that is just ONE aspect of the camp. They also provide important labor to key war industries!”
You’re blowing it. Bigtime. Suggest you cease and desist IMMEDIATELY!
But I am fanatically pro-life and an extremist. Only wish there were more of us.
Exactly. If it were up to me every facility they have would be burned down and the ground salted. It's an effective way of dealing with evil - as opposed to making excuses for them and lamely claiming they do good. Evil never does good.
No, you are defending the most genocidal organization in the history of the world.
I defend certain aspects of an organization which has done a world of good around the world for almost one hundred years.
Killing babies, promoting eugenics and endorsing promiscuity and homosexuality ARE NOT GOOD.
It seems by doing so I reap the wrath of those who wish to ignore that good.
You sound just like Hillary Clinton.
You wish to destroy the entire organization instead of simply demanding they be defunded if they continue abortions, which Donald Trump has suggested.
Yes, I want to DESTROY Planned Parenthood as surely as we destroyed the Nazis.
Tell me why you same people don’t demand the destruction of the United Nations en toto.
Conservatives DO DEMAND the end of the UN.
You are all over this thread supporting an evil organization rather than admitting that your candidate is wrong on this issue.
The GOP and Dems have used the same playbook to win elections (and stay in power) for decades....so why change how you play the game if the electorate "falls for it" every time?""""".....
Can't argue with that, Trump has mastered it for sure. His trouble he can't remember what he said to which group on what date. Liars always have that problem.....
The ghouls at Planned Parenthood are mass murderers.
Mass murderers are not praiseworthy.
Trump is an reprobate liberal, whose true colors are showing.
If you'll defend this, you'll defend literally anything. Anything at all.
I used to think that some Trump supporters would only draw the line at illegal aliens and amnesty, I'm not so sure anymore that would even sway them.
PP is the extension of Joseph Mengeles Extermination Experiment, and should always be referred to as just that.
No reason for them to exist. There are other venues that will do Womens Health care.
Oh, but what will the low income women do for health care??? What they have been doing forever anyway (& before PP) they go to the ER..., and other free services available. Heck fire they know all to well all the FREE stuff places anyway.
Better yet.......teach the kids morality for a change. Can't be done? NONSENSE with GOD all things are possible.
JESUS said: "Suffer the little children to come unto ME", HE did not mean to send HIS gift back ASAP.
Ding. We have a winner.
Republicans in closed primary states aren’t buying the Trump is pro-life lie... he is 0-3 in primaries where Democrats don’t have a chance to pick our nominee.
Great post!
We need God to counter the jihad... and the 3000 dead on September 11th are a great reminder that this country... the greatest on earth murders 3000 babies every day via abortion.
It’s 9/11 every day... we only notice when there are planes flying into buildings.
Playing both sides.
“I am against abortion but FOR funding PP”
“We will kick them all out then bring the good ones, which is many of them, right back”
Tough but compassionate...
Just pick what you want him to say from his menu of different positions.
There are many of us...problem is we get screamed at constantly by the fanatics who condone murdering little babies......
PP aka The Extension of the Joseph Mengeles Extermination Camp Experiment........ JMECE.
Regarding Cruz... What are we up to? Half a dozen eligibility cases... all losers.
Trump knows it... you know it.
The real issue is... are you OK with Larry Tribe, and other liberals, advising Trump on his Supreme Court nominees?
There’s a reason Trump supporters love Planned Parenthood and sound like Hilary.
They are Democrats.
Yours exactly right there, we don't buy anything he sells.
All Republican primaries need to be closed primaries..., but alas how would a Democrat get elected?
They are Democrats.""""".....
Nailed it......not much doubt about that anymore.
“I honestly don’t know. I just assume these folks are going to act like rabbits...”
Bad assumption. When people know that having sex will lead to babies they will have to struggle to support themselves, they have a lot less sex and with a lot fewer partners.
When they have the illusion that they can avoid the consequences of sex, or get someone else to pay for those consequences if they do happen, that is when they start acting irresponsibly, because they think they can get away with it.
When there are consequences, it encourages people to ask responsibly. No consequences encourages irresponsibility. Therefore, the development of birth control, legal abortion, welfare, etc, only increases irresponsible behavior.
Hillary is also HOT HOT HOT on the Jihadist migrant (or
any migrant) issue, so long as they’re Democrat votes.
SHE has armed security . . . for now at least; until
they’re storming her iron gate & her security guards leave
her to guard their own families!
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