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Malcolm wrote:An interview with an ex-techie, perhaps with an axe to grind, with no evidence except hearsay.

GORDON wrote:

Malcolm wrote:An interview with an ex-techie, perhaps with an axe to grind, with no evidence except hearsay.

The first quote was from a PP Employee of the Year. Big axe.

In 2009, a year after being named “Employee of the Year” at her clinic, Johnson, 35, said she witnessed a doctor performing an abortion on an ultrasound and quit her job.

If PP were the only place a woman could get an abortion from a real doctor, I wouldn't argue this point so much.

GORDON wrote:It's weird that so many doctors wont do them since all smart people recognize that it isn't a baby or a life, it's just a parasitic cluster of cells.

He [Republican Gov. Rick Scott.] ordered the inspections after stealthily recorded videos showed Planned Parenthood officials discussing how they provide aborted fetal organs for research. Abortion opponents say the videos show the organization is illegally harvesting and selling organs. The videos brought congressional scrutiny including calls to withdraw federal funding from the organization. Scott called the videos troubling and has previously said it's illegal to sell body parts.

[Executive Director Laura] Goodhue has said Florida doesn't have a tissue donation program.

The videos came as a horror to the many Americans who didn't have the full story. That's because they haven’t seen the unedited version of the secret footage as well. There is a stark difference in how the two videos portray Planned Parenthood. The unedited version includes more comments from Nucatola, where she explains that Planned Parenthood isn't selling tissue. “Affiliates are not looking to make money by doing this. They’re looking to serve their patients," she says.

They're not really concerned about fetal tissue trafficking; if they were, their videos probably wouldn't be so misleadingly edited. This is all just a guise to hide under so they can get what they really want: stop abortions.

Brent Bozell, chairman of ForAmerica, told the AP that Sanger believed eugenics could be used to “sterilize out of existence the poor, the blacks.”

In "The Morality of Birth Control," a 1921 speech, she divided society into three groups: the "educated and informed" class that regulated the size of their families, the "intelligent and responsible" who desired to control their families however did not have the means or the knowledge and the "irresponsible and reckless people" whose religious scruples "prevent their exercising control over their numbers." Sanger concludes "there is no doubt in the minds of all thinking people that the procreation of this group should be stopped."

From 1939 to 1942 Sanger was an honorary delegate of the Birth Control Federation of America, which included a supervisory role—alongside Mary Lasker and Clarence Gamble—in the Negro Project, an effort to deliver birth control to poor black people. Sanger wanted the Negro Project to include black ministers in leadership roles, but other supervisors did not. To emphasize the benefits of involving black community leaders, she wrote to Gamble "we do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."

Sanger wrote, "we [do not] believe that the community could or should send to the lethal chamber the defective progeny resulting from irresponsible and unintelligent breeding."

Malcolm wrote:PP sues Louisiana because Jindal's whoring himself out for more votes.

<s>profit</s> supporting your fourth amendment rights, no matter what, even if the state you live in makes it practically unfeasible

Around 3:30 AM on Friday morning, the Planned Parenthood health center in Pullman, Washington was set on fire.

he same day the GOP-controlled House Judiciary Committee held a hearing to "expose" Planned Parenthood's "horrific abortion practices," members of another House committee announced that their federal investigation into the family planning provider has so far turned up no evidence of wrongdoing.
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Planned Parenthood was not invited to testify at the hearing.
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The Judiciary Committee, meanwhile, did not appear to be concerned with the facts of the Planned Parenthood investigation. Lawmakers instead used the hearing as an opportunity to decry abortion in general. An emotional Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) called abortion "the worst human rights atrocity in the history of the United States of America."

"What is so liberating about brutally and painfully dismembering living, helpless human babies?" Franks said.

Company spokeswoman Karen Denning tells the Chicago Tribune ( http://trib.in/1Kb5StR ) that Office Depot prohibits the copying of material that advocates "the persecution of certain groups of people," among other criteria.

The conservative House Freedom Caucus, with more than 40 members, on Thursday vowed to oppose any spending bill that includes Planned Parenthood funds.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been the leading Republican opponent of demands to link an end to Planned Parenthood’s funding with the government-funding measure.

“If you really want to solve the problem, get a pro-life president in 18 months,” said Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) “In the interim, I think we can make some progress and do some good things, but the hearings are an important part of educating the public.”

He also said it was a bad idea to tie a shutdown to the anti-abortion rights movement because Planned Parenthood has a strong base of support.
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Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), a centrist, agreed a shutdown would be a “tactical and strategic blunder.”