Posted on 11/30/2015 2:55:07 PM PST by markomalley
Ilyse Hogue, president of the abortion advocacy group NARAL Pro-Choice America, derided pro-life activists David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress and Troy Newman of Operation Rescue after they condemned the Friday shootings at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood.
Hogue implied that the shooting was a consequence of their pro-life work, saying that while they had freedom of speech, they “are not free from the judgment of the consequences of your hate-filled rhetoric.”
“Sorry, David Daleiden. You don't get to create fake videos and accuse abortion providers of ‘barbaric atrocities against humanity’ one day and act shocked when someone shoots to kill in those same facilities the next,” Hogue wrote.
David Daleiden is the founder of the Center for Medical Progress, which released a series of undercover videos over the summer showing Planned Parenthood’s harvesting of aborted baby parts and allegedly selling those organs. The Center for Medical Progress issued a statement following the shootings.
“The Center for Medical Progress condemns the barbaric killing spree in Colorado Springs by a violent madman,” the statement reads. “We applaud the heroic efforts of law enforcement to stop the violence quickly and rescue the victims, and our thoughts and prayers are with the wounded, the lost, and their families.”
Hogue went on to blast the president of Operation Rescue, writing, “And you, Troy Newman -- using Operation Rescue to call for state-sanctioned execution of doctors who serve women -- and then crying crocodile tears when someone takes that vision into their own hands.”
“It's America. You are free to have your speech. The language you choose matters. You are not free from the judgment of the consequences of your hate-filled rhetoric,” Hogue concluded.
Newman also condemned the shootings in a statement Friday.
“Operation Rescue unequivocally deplores and denounces all violence at abortion clinics and has a long history of working through peaceful channels to advocate on behalf of women and their babies. We express deep concern for everyone involved and are praying for the safety of those at the Planned Parenthood office and for law enforcement personnel. We pray this tragic situation can be quickly resolved without further injury to anyone,” Newman wrote.
Hogue was likely referencing comments in a 2000 book, “Their Blood Cries Out,” co-authored by Newman, and which Australian MP Terri Butler recently invoked to deny Newman’s visa for a speaking tour on character grounds.
The Guardian reports that Butler pointed out this passage of the book: “In addition to our personal guilt in abortion, the United States government has abrogated its responsibility to properly deal with the blood-guilty. This responsibility rightly involves executing convicted murderers, including abortionists, for their crimes in order to expunge bloodguilt from the land and people.”
“Newman has never advocated violence against abortion providers or facilities and has instead adamantly encouraged pro-life activists to work through the legal, legislative, and justice systems to bring abortionists who are breaking the law and harming women to justice,” Operation Rescue replied in a September statement.
Hogue was not alone in blaming the “rhetoric” of pro-life activists following the shooting. Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountain CEO Vicki Cowart also blamed “hateful language, hateful speech” as part of a “negative environment” that encourages people to target Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood also tweeted Sunday: “To all of the trolls who spew hatred and lob attacks at us, PP family, or supporters online, you are a part of the problem.”
Mother Teresa, at the 1994 National Prayer Breakfast attended by the pro-abortion President Bill Clinton and first lady Hillary Clinton, called abortion “the greatest destroyer of peace today.”
[I]f we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?” said Mother Teresa. “Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love one another, but to use any violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion.”
It’s AMAZING that now the BABY BUTCHERS are the victims.
BLM hate rhetoric led to murder of cops.
Satan is speaking thru NARAL. It knows its an evil org. Projection.
Hogue grew up in Dallas, but debate team practices drove any trace of an accent from her voice. She studied environmental science at Vassar College and the University of Michigan but found that she was too social a creature to spend her days collecting soil samples or working in a lab.
The daughter of engaged — if not particularly political — parents, she shifted into international human rights and ecology work, happily building a life and career based in San Francisco. But the Iraq war and the 2004 elections galvanized her into applying her advocacy skills here at home, so she joined the team at the progressive organization MoveOn.org. Hogue’s bosses entreated her to move to Washington before the 2008 elections and ultimately appointed her MoveOn’s director of communications and political advocacy.
She met her now-husband, communications strategist John Neffinger, at the U Street bar Local 16. And, she says, she developed, “a pretty sharp understanding, even reluctantly, of the dynamics in Washington.â€
Bite me, unconvicted murderer.
Baby killing crybabies
Mentally ill beyond help
Prior to her work for NARAL, Hogue worked for MoveOn.org, Greenpeace, Rainforest Action Network, Media Matters for America, and the Friends of Democracy super PAC, a campaign-finance reform group founded by Jonathan Soros. She serves on the board of Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice, a Jewish social organization.
Ilyse Hogue is president of NARAL Pro-Choice America and a columnist for liberal magazine The Nation and CNN.com. She has previously worked with liberal groups such as MoveOn.org and Media Matters for America.
She has and still does work for Jonathan Soros, son of George Soros, Soros started and funded Friends of Democracy PAC, a hybrid political action committee and super PAC designed to push sweeping campaign finance reforms that would mandate a robust public financing system for all federal elections. Soros’ organization was described as an “anti-super PAC super PAC” by the Washington Post. Soros has worked with MoveOn.org and other political advocacy groups. He is a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and a member of the board of directors of the New America Foundation and the Open Society Foundations. He is a donor to the Democracy Alliance.
AMEN!
They did send out a fundraising email over this. Bodies aren't even buried and they are trying to make money off of them.
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