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PLANNED PARENTHOOD: Good deeds documented
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| Saturday, Jan 31, 2009
| FATHER PAT BELL
Posted on 02/16/2009 12:04:22 PM PST by narses
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posted on
02/16/2009 12:04:22 PM PST
by
narses
To: narses; informavoracious; larose; RJR_fan; Prospero; Conservative Vermont Vet; ...
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posted on
02/16/2009 12:04:41 PM PST
by
narses
(http://www.theobamadisaster.com/)
To: narses
"...my point of view there is no "we" or "they."
A perfect statement of the "we" generation. There is no "they," because "we" kill them.
May hell open wide for this hypocrite.
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posted on
02/16/2009 12:08:14 PM PST
by
farmer18th
(If I weren't so extremely intelligent, people would mistake me for George Clooney)
To: narses
RESPONSE: Writer has it all wrong
Posted: Saturday, Feb 07, 2009 - 07:11:16 pm PST
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I was totally floored reading the letter to The Press by Father Pat Bell published Feb. 1 as "Good deeds documented."
It is not my intent to attack the good father, as he did Mr. Neumann, but Father Bell is very, very wrong in asserting that there are no "we" or "they" when it comes to the issue of killing children in the womb. There is a tremendous division when it comes to pro life vs. pro choice Americans. For you to say that Planned Parenthood urges the "client" to take the middle (neutral?) ground is disingenuous at best.
At least a full one-third of PPFA's revenues for the year 2006 (2007 and 2008 stats are unavailable) were from abortions performed in their clinics. The other "services" performed by PPFA are barely incidental. Prenatal care? There were 96 abortion patients for every four receiving prenatal care at PPFA clinics in 2006. Adoption? The same year saw abortions vs. adoption referrals at Planned Parenthood at a 120 to one margin. Infertility? There was a total of only 316 infertility patients from all of PPFA's clinics for the same year, yet there were 289,750 abortions performed at clinics associated with Planned Parenthood Federation of America. These are your figures taken from PPFA's annual reports and tax returns.
Did you really mean to say, father, that "... at Planned Parenthood our focus is on health care and prevention?" I would contend that figures cited above are evidence that PPFA isn't much more than an abortion mill.
Father Pat, you are in a most enviable position right now to do God's work. You sit as a board member on Planned Parenthood of the Inland Northwest. Why don't you use your position to urge your fellow board members to consider giving up this vile, detestable practice of killing children and concentrate PPFA's efforts in all of the other areas that seem to shine for PPFA? Then again, with revenues looking to be in excess of $1 billion for 2009, of which more than one-third will come from your clinics, I guess I'm just dreaming.
I'll close with this shocker, father. Since it was God who said "I knew you before you were in the womb," it may very well be that He is a pro lifer. In fact I'll bet my life on it, just as you have.
RICHARD E. ALBERTS
Hayden
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posted on
02/16/2009 12:08:24 PM PST
by
narses
(http://www.theobamadisaster.com/)
To: narses
Hans Neumann may want to focus on abortion, but at Planned Parenthood our focus is on health care and prevention. Is there really anyone out there who is against the breast and cervical cancer screening we do, the testing for and treatment of sexually transmitted infections, the testicular cancer screening, the annual exams for women who are often too financially disadvantaged to afford anything but the sliding scales we offer to both Washington and Idaho residents? I trust not.Strawman arguments are all the abortion lobby has left in their repertoire, it would appear.
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posted on
02/16/2009 12:08:43 PM PST
by
mvpel
(Michael Pelletier)
To: narses
“However, we never try to convince someone who opposes abortion they are wrong. Instead, we trust people and seek the middle ground.”
What kind of “middle ground” can there be? Isn’t this kind of like saying, “We never try to convince someone who is opposed to genocide that they are wrong. Instead, we trust people and seek the middle ground”?
To: narses
Leviticus 18:21
Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God.
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posted on
02/16/2009 12:10:27 PM PST
by
tx_eggman
(I own two rare photos. Houdini as he locks his keys in his car and Norman Rockwell beating a child.)
To: narses
SMOKE SCREEN ALERT!!!!!!!!!
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posted on
02/16/2009 12:12:49 PM PST
by
LiteKeeper
(Beware of socialism in America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
To: narses
I can envision this guy saying something like this whilst pressing the button for the gas chambers at some “Anti-Human Being Concentration Camp” run by the DNC.
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posted on
02/16/2009 12:13:28 PM PST
by
jdfromny
(At what point are we officially "North Americans"?)
To: narses
“Father Pat Bell” is an Episcopalian, if anyone was wondering.
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posted on
02/16/2009 12:15:17 PM PST
by
Campion
To: narses
Planned Parenthood supports keeping abortion legal because it protects women’s health and lives.
_____________________________________________
DUH...
Half the lives that are lost in abortions are women’s lives...
HELLOOOOO
To: narses
Where’s the barf alert for this article?
PP is the biggest abortion provider in the country. That’s how they make the bulk of their money. So stop with the cervical screening crapola, they can go other places for that stuff, and to doctors and midwives who do NOT do abortions.
To: narses
Unfortunately, many churches and members of the “religious” community have rationalized their support of PP. The fact that our taxpayer dollars are going toward the murder of innocents is something that should eat at every American with a conscience.
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posted on
02/16/2009 12:29:55 PM PST
by
Faith
To: Faith
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posted on
02/16/2009 12:31:16 PM PST
by
Faith
To: deannadurbin
In my area, PP was one of the lowest cost womens health clinics in the area and a help to those broke and/or without insurance.
I did go there when I was fresh out of college and without insurance and they provided a ton of cheap health care and birth control to a lot of people I know (including myself), so this guys argument is not entirely without merit.
They caught and treated my friends cervical cancer - she couldn’t afford a regular doc and would have been in deep doodoo without treatment.
In no way do I approve of the abortion side of their business, but at least in my AO they’ve likely prevented more unwanted pregnancies than they’ve ended (from the local stats I’ve seen re: # of abortions vs # of women treated and provided w/BC).
I’m no more a fan of abortion than you guys are but PP does have some value in its non-abortion services and discounting those ends up undermining the cause and makes people discount your arguments.
And some of those non-abortion services prevent the unwanted pregnancies that would be in danger of being terminated if they happened.
LQ
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posted on
02/16/2009 12:33:18 PM PST
by
LizardQueen
(The world is not out to get you, except in the sense that the world is out to get everyone.)
To: LizardQueen
And the Third Reich inspired and built the autobahn and the VW. Evil is still evil.
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posted on
02/16/2009 12:34:24 PM PST
by
narses
(http://www.theobamadisaster.com/)
To: narses
So the fact that they provide services that prevents the evil from occurring in the first place means nothing to you, then.
Talk about throwing the baby out with the bath water.
I’d rather see them just shut down the abortion side and keep the other side of the business open.
The common sense solution to abortion is to prevent the unwanted pregnancies from happening in the first place.
LQ
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posted on
02/16/2009 12:40:06 PM PST
by
LizardQueen
(The world is not out to get you, except in the sense that the world is out to get everyone.)
To: LizardQueen
So the fact that they provide services that prevents the evil from occurring in the first place means nothing to you, then.
You talk about "services that prevents the evil from occurring in the first place" - meaning conception is evil?
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posted on
02/16/2009 12:42:10 PM PST
by
narses
(http://www.theobamadisaster.com/)
To: narses
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posted on
02/16/2009 12:42:43 PM PST
by
RobbyS
(ECCE homo)
To: narses
No, the abortion is evil. But if someone who would have an abortion if they got pregnant avoided getting pregnant in the first place, how is that a bad thing?
LQ
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posted on
02/16/2009 12:43:41 PM PST
by
LizardQueen
(The world is not out to get you, except in the sense that the world is out to get everyone.)
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