Posted on 09/23/2005 3:20:12 PM PDT by Crackingham
Republicans who support abortion rights should take back their party, the grandson of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger told a Peoria audience Thursday. Alex Sanger, 57, spoke at the 40th anniversary celebration and awards dinner of Planned Parenthood Heart of Illinois at the Hotel Pere Marquette.
"Reproductive freedom is in the hands of the Republican Party," he said. "No freedom, no right is safe if one party platform opposes it."
Sanger said polls show 73 percent of registered Republicans support abortion rights in at least some circumstances.
"The Republican Party is pro-choice," he said. This group must be encouraged to "show up in primaries and precinct meetings and vote that way."
Sanger, the married father of three adult sons, lives in New York City, and is an author and activist in the reproductive rights movement. He wrote "Beyond Choice: Reproductive Freedom in the 21st Century," chairs the International Planned Parenthood Council and serves as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund. His grandmother's greatest achievement, he said, was to make birth control respectable and discussed by everyone.
"We failed to do that with abortion," he said.
The debate should be reframed, he said, and not in the way the Democratic Party has in mind. "We've got to be rid of the shame. We should be asking why we should have reproductive freedom."
The answer, he said, is to put reproductive freedom in a biological context, "about wanting children, healthy babies and grandchildren," so that all children are wanted.
"The vast group in the middle," the 60 percent of people who support abortion rights in some or most circumstances, can be reached in this way, he said,
Obviously it is better to have as few abortions as possible, but what how would any form of abortion be illegal if a woman could lie and say she was the victim of rape or incest. Who defines a "fetus" (a word I've noticed the Left uses to imply an inanimate object rather than a human) as not being human, other than a poorly decided 1973 decision? I'm not saying you are any less pro-life, but one needs to be consistent with what he defines as life worthy of protection. Peace, brother.
Where is "not a person" in those definitions?
I'm not sure a negation qualifies as a definition, in dictionary parlance...
Does sonny sanger know why his granny invented Planned Parenthood?
Wouldn't we have to ask him directly? Or was that a rhetorical question?
Man. He looks like the guy in a Lifetime movie who tries to pressure his mistress (the hero) into getting an abortion.
Polls show that 73% of what anyone at Planned Parenthood says is a lie.
Really? Where? Where is this happening?
Abortion is murder; people who practice it should be imprisoned.
I agree with you.
In the case of rape and incest, the child is paying for someone else's crimes with his/her own life.
In the case of grave danger to the mother's life, for me, it's acceptable in the 1st trimester.
Ronald Reagan once said "I didn't leave the Democratic party, it left me". With unbridled spending, open borders, massive welfare give aways, and going wobbly on abortion I am afraid I will soon be saying that about the republican Party.
Wonder if Sanger's 3 sons believe in euthenasia of the elderly?
I'm tempted to say you should get out more often. But really, if this were not the case, would we be having this discussion?
I'm tempted to say you should get out more often. But really, if this were not the case, would we be having this discussion?
The biggest misconception out there remains the lie that if Roe v Wade is overturned by the supremes abortion becomes illegal. I have spoken to many people both young and old, who think that is what would happen throughout the country. When you make it clear to them that it would be up to each state, they seem surprised and no longer think its a big deal. Obviously many states would keep abortion legal, and I think very few would ban it outright. I'm sure that planned parenthood can provide buses to drive women to states where it will remain legal.
Was she related to Arrianna Huffington?
Actually, they should be executed, but it will have to be made illegal first.
That wasn't me who said that.
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