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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment

Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”

[farmer18th]

"...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.

[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

[mvpel]

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.

[tx_eggman]

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.

[LiteKeeper]

SMOKE SCREEN ALERT!!!!!!!!!

[Campion]

“Father Pat Bell” is an Episcopalian, if anyone was wondering.

[Tennessee Nana]

Planned Parenthood supports keeping abortion legal because it protects women’s health and lives.
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DUH...

Half the lives that are lost in abortions are women’s lives...

HELLOOOOO

[deannadurbin]

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.

[Faith]

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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I won't bother. It's too hard to talk to a nitwit let alone trying to reason with one. Thanks anyway.

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[SuziQ]

Is there really anyone out there who is against the breast and cervical cancer screening we do...

So is this why the Susan Komen Foundation gives money to Planned Parenthood?

[FDNYRHEROES]

Abortions have consequences...

[Gene Eric]

>> As a clergyman for most of my adult life,...
>> Planned Parenthood supports keeping abortion legal because it protects women’s health and lives.

So until the female becomes a woman, its life is not worth protecting?

The division between my Faith and the clergy folk who claim the right to its representation grows deeper every day. But who cares what this clergy guy thinks - abortion is first and foremost a humanitarian concern. You don’t need ‘religion’ to figure that out.

[MountainFlower]

EXCUSE ME? This is a priest backing PP? Did I read that right?? No freaking way! IF all PP did was those types of screening no one would bother them or care.