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U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman is doing his darndest to run interference for the abortion giant Planned Parenthood.
In conjunction with Rep. Diana DeGette, the California Democrat recently penned a letter denouncing a congressional probe into Planned Parenthood’s use of taxpayer dollars. Putting aside the irony of his claim that Planned Parenthood does “life-saving work” (305,310 of those “works” in 2007 alone), Waxman said that Republicans are issuing “burdensome” requests, are on a “vendetta,” and are engaged in harassment.
Forgive me if I don’t cry a river. You see, aside from being the nation’s leading abortion provider, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, or PPFA, culled $363 million in government funds for the 2008-2009 fiscal year. Regardless of your beliefs about abortion, wouldn’t you like to know where those funds actually went? Isn’t that a key purpose of congressional oversight committees? That’s particularly relevant in the age of ACORN and Solyndra.
Legitimate questions have been raised about Planned Parenthood’s misuse of financial resources and failure to comply with the law.
Waxman’s complaint is in response to an investigation launched by U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns, chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Investigation. Stearns asked PPFA for copies of internal audits, state-agency initiated audits, official documentation that ensures taxpayer dollars aren’t funding abortions, and a summary of how Planned Parenthood affiliates detect criminal conduct and report sexual abuse and human trafficking.
How those requests constitute a burden, particular for an organization that receives hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, is a mystery known only to Waxman, DeGette, and their ultra-liberal cohorts.
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DaveD| 9.28.11 @ 11:23AM
I've never figured out why it makes a difference whether money given to Planned Parenthood directly funds abortion or not.
Suppose that I am an alcoholic. A good Samaritan comes along and hands me $50 to buy food and makes me promise not to buy booze. I'll take it in a heartbeat. Having the $50 for food frees up the $50 I was planning on spending on food to buy booze. The net result, I get $50 worth of food and $50 worth of booze.
So explain to me exactly how putting strings on the $50 gift didn't result in increasing my ability to buy booze?
Al Adab| 9.28.11 @ 3:14PM
Planned Parenthood has become nothing more than a State sponsored religion which sacrifices children to the godess Choice. Its funding should be eliminated and frankly it would be better for us and our society were that agency to RIP. That is a better end than its many victims.
J.C.Eaton| 9.28.11 @ 3:43PM
Hear! Hear! And can I have an Amen!?
Dan T| 9.28.11 @ 10:05PM
RACIST AND EUGENICIST STATEMENTS
BY MARGARET SANGER, THE FOUNDER OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD:
"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with
social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most
successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal.
We don't want the 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."
-- Margaret Sanger's December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255
Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. Original source: Sophia Smith
Collection, Smith College, North Hampton, Massachusetts. Also described in
Linda Gordon's Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth
Control in America . New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976.
"Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying
... demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism ...
[Philanthropists] encourage the healthier and more normal sections of the
world to shoulder the burden of unthinking and indiscriminate fecundity of
others; which brings with it, as I think the reader must agree, a dead
weight of human waste. Instead of decreasing and aiming to eliminate the
stocks that are most detrimental to the future of the race and the world,
it tends to render them to a menacing degree dominant ... We are paying
for, and even submitting to, the dictates of an ever-increasing,
unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born
at all."
-- Margaret Sanger. The Pivot of Civilization , 1922. Chapter on "The
Cruelty of Charity," pages 116, 122, and 189. Swarthmore College Library
edition.
"Today eugenics is suggested by the most diverse minds as the most
adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and
social problems.
"I think you must agree ... that the campaign for birth control is not
merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims
of eugenics ... Birth control propaganda is thus the entering wedge for the
eugenic educator.
"As an advocate of birth control I wish ... to point out that the
unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,' admittedly
the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the
inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes. In this
matter, the example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded,
the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken classes, should not be
held up for emulation.
"On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and
discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective."
-- Margaret Sanger. "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda."
Birth Control Review , October 1921, page 5.
"Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population
their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization."
-- Margaret Sanger, April 1932 Birth Control Review .
"The third group [of society] are those irresponsible and reckless
ones having little regard for the consequences of their acts, or whose
religious scruples prevent their exercising control over their numbers.
Many of this group are diseased, feeble-minded, and are of the pauper
element dependent upon the normal and fit members of society for their
support. There is no doubt in the minds of all thinking people that the
procreation of this group should be stopped."
-- Margaret Sanger. Speech quoted in Birth Control: What It Is, How It
Works, What It Will Do. The Proceedings of the First American Birth
Control Conference . Held at the Hotel Plaza, New York City, November 11-
12, 1921. Published by the Birth Control Review , Gothic Press, pages 172
and 174.
"In passing, we should here recognize the difficulties presented by the
idea of 'fit' and 'unfit.' Who is to decide this question? The grosser,
the more obvious, the undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be
discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind. But among the
writings of the representative Eugenists [sic], one cannot ignore the
distinct middle-class bias that prevails."
-- Margaret Sanger, quoted in Charles Valenza. "Was Margaret Sanger a
Racist?" Family Planning Perspectives , January-February 1985, page 44.
"Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race."
-- Margaret Sanger. Woman, Morality, and Birth Control . New York: New
York Publishing Company, 1922. Page 12.
"There is only one reply to a request for a higher birthrate among the
intelligent, and that is to ask the government to first take the burden of
the insane and feeble-minded from your back. [Mandatory] sterilization for
these is the answer."
-- Margaret Sanger, October 1926 Birth Control Review .
"[Slavs, Latin, and Hebrew immigrants are] human weeds ... a
deadweight of human waste ... [Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a] menace to
the race."
"Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent
Multiplication of this bad stock."
-- Margaret Sanger, April 1933 Birth Control Review .
"[Our objective is] unlimited sexual gratification without the burden
of unwanted children ... [Women must have the right] to live ... to love
... to be lazy ... to be an unmarried mother ... to create ... to destroy
... The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order
... The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members
is to kill it."
-- Margaret Sanger (editor). The Woman Rebel , Volume I, Number 1.
Reprinted in Woman and the New Race . New York: Brentanos Publishers,
1922.
Anti-Christian Statement from Margaret Sanger
"[Because of birth control], child slavery, prostitution, feeble mindedness, physical deterioration,
hunger, oppression and war will disappear from the earth. There will come a Plato who will be
understood, a Socrates who will drink no hemlock, and a Jesus who will not die upon the cross.
These and the race that is to be in America await upon a motherhood that is to be sacred because
it is free." {Margaret Sanger. Woman and the New Race . Brentanos, 1922, page 161}
Tell me why we publicly fund this vile institution of death again?
With God all things r possible| 9.28.11 @ 10:54PM
Jesus could have been speaking to all the Democrats and not a few Republicans in the U.S. Congress:
"You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies." - John 8:44 NIV
That is why.
jacky | 9.29.11 @ 2:47AM
Here's what I took away from this story.
With God all things r possible| 9.29.11 @ 6:41AM
Please forgive me if I misunderstand your quip, but if you "hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil," are you a monkey?
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