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What Would Democrats Do If Abortion Was Bad For Womens Health?
New Hampshire used to have a significant number of female state Senators, including 11 Democrat women, all on the take from the abortion PAC’s abortion PAC, Emily’s list. Most of the rest of New Hampshire’s Democrat women suffer from a similar ailment, including Jeanne Shaheen, Carol Shea Porter, Anne McKluster and so on. So they all defend abortion from conception to birth because, they are told to say, it essential to a woman’s health. It is sometimes a woman’s reproductive health, but they have since changed it to just "women’s health". They also added ‘Freedom’ to "Reproductive," giving us the phrase reproductive freedom, which has nothing to do with reproducing and everything to do with not producing anything, something the observant among us will note is identical to their jobs programs and most, if not all, of the Democrats economic policies.
If you are a Democrat, destroying production is where it’s at.
This might explain these same un-aborted lumps of womb tissue toeing the Democrat party line on the environment. (And of course environmental rights means they take something away from people.) Each of these Democrat women, and damn near the entire Democrat party
support things like RGGI, cap and trade, and have no problem telling people who assume they live in a relatively free society what energy to use, what light bulbs to buy, what car to drive, how far to drive it, what fuel is best, that their breath is poison, and so on. And they will insist that they are doing this for our own good, based on the slim chance that human activity might warm the earth a fraction, and on the even flimsier assumption that this small increase might not in fact be beneficial.
Recent revelations demonstrating wide spread fraud among un-aborted members of the pro-anthropogenic climate science community have not deterred the lefts "experts" and line-toers alike, from continuing to insist we waste billions of other peoples dollars to prevent something that is not happening. This may well have something to do with being on the receiving end of the "billions we are wasting" yet not a one of them thinks that a conflict of interest. (See also "public sector unions support democrats" for a similar unresolved conflict.)
Proof that the IPCC report on which the bulk of this fraud is substantiated is nothing more than a collection of biased assumptions and wild guesses, collated by un-aborted, Eurotrash-socialist politicians, to advance a specific, destructive, high-tax-grow-government agenda, have not deterred them from emulating this policy path.
And despite the mounting (actual) scientific evidence, that warming is natural and driven by factors other than un-aborted human activity, these same left-wing Democrats insist we should continue to take millions of dollars from hard working taxpayers every year so that they, their taxpayer-funded experts, and hordes of un-aborted-unaccountable bureaucrats, can finance policy to examine and correct the non-problem indefinitely.
Why? Because they claim to be convinced that there is some slim risk, despite many unknowns and contradictory research, that this might cause harm to someone, somewhere, someday.
But would they feel just as much of a commitment to save lives, specifically women’s lives, if we had more proof that abortions are detrimental to a woman’s health, and quite a bit more so than global warming? This abortion thing is all about women’s health after all and we are talking about women protecting women’s health, and if that is true then health should come before abortion, yes?
SUPPORTING ABORTION THROUGH ARBITRARY USE OF FEDERAL POWER
“The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” ~Margaret Sanger, founder, Planned Parenthood How corrupt is a private organization that will literally stop at nothing to get its own way? Such is the case with Planned Parenthood of New England. When PPNNE failed to prevail on … Read more
Meet Bob “Bathroom Bill” Perry (Reprise)
With the Strafford 3 special election tomorrow, I thought it fitting to revisit this post about democrat Bob ‘Bathroom Bill’ Perry. His voting record epitomizes what the left is and wants for you and your children. You must not forget what they stand for.
Executive Council’s Defunding of Planned Parenthood Is Sinister
“The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” ~Margaret Sanger, founder, Planned Parenthood
Kate Lancor, former Moultonborough welfare director decries the Executive council’s recent vote to defund Planned Parenthood. In her Union Leader Opposite Editorial entitled, Women need the services Planned Parenthood provides, Ms. Lancor characterizes the council vote as, “A pathetic lack of creative thinking in this [sic]country’s elected bodies that even allow such choices to be made.”
While giving readers a thumbnail history of Planned Parenthood and extolling its “community virtues,” Lancor admonishes, “Don’t politicize this, and make it an abortion issue, but rather a health care issue for millions of needy women. Buried underneath the portrayal of Planned Parenthood by lobbyists and politicians as trained abortionists lies years of providing family-planning education and much-needed affordable healthcare to millions of women and men.”
Lancor nails the talking points flawlessly in stating that, “Planned Parenthood provides contraceptives; breast, cervical and testicular cancer screenings; pregnancy testing and counseling; testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases; comprehensive sexuality education, menopause treatments; vasectomies, tubal ligations and abortion.” Kate Lancor paints us a picture of a multi-faceted, healthcare-focused organization that is invaluable to communities. Now who could possibly argue with that? Indeed, Ms. Lancor makes the case for its virtues. Ms. Lancor however overlooks the many problems with Planned Parenthood as an organization. So I’ll take them up where Ms. Lancor has conveniently left off.
Planned Parenthood is a corrupt organization. Despite repeated requests, Planned Parenthood will not open its books. Planned Parenthood spent more than $1 Million dollars in the 2010 election cycle supporting their candidates.
Planned Parenthood has provided services to men characterized as traffickers in the sex trade. Planned Parenthood has been the defendant in lawsuits charging the organization covered up the rapes of under-aged girls. Finally, numerous media reports detail clinics that overbilled by millions.
An apologist’s defense for funding Planned Parenthhood.
Executive Councilor Chris Sununu has an op-ed in the UL this morning defending why he voted to let a contract to biggest abortionist organizations in the United States, Planned Parenthood. However, without even exploring the issue of abortion, he should really listen to his own words for the advice he should really implement. The relevant portions:
Let me be clear that I am not fan of Planned Parenthood. From their excessive administrative costs and political lobbying, to its attempts to thwart parental notification, there is no shortage of issues I have with this organization. Like most Americans, I have never supported the public funding of abortions. But contrary to popular belief, that’s not what this contract is about.
As to the first – the financial point; he should vote no. He is already admitting that he has already voted once to give money to an organization that cannot spend our money wisely – and now is on the cusp of doing it twice? Isn’t that the primary mandate of the Executive Council, to see that contract money IS spent correctly? So why vote to spend more money than what is necessary? At the very worst, why not make the demand that PPNE make structural changes as to its internal costs? After all (heh!) if Obamacare can do that to healthcare insurance company administrative costs, why can’t NH do a similar thing to healthcare providers?
In any case, while you are concerned with health providers in your district, a lot of your constituents put you into place because your predecessor spent too much. They will be remembering their top concerning, unwise spending, your own words "excessive administrative costs" and wondering: really?
"Thwart parental notification" – to the second which is the political point. So you have an organization that forcefully and vigorously not only campaigns against a pillar of the Republican platform, and this does not concern you? You have voted for an organization that is openly supportive of those that would throw you out of office (as well as your fellow Republicans)? After all, you just pointed out that they do political lobbying – is this part of the re-election calculus?
So why are you letting a contract with fungible money only to see it used for political purposes? Some of the commentors at the UL talk about ideology – why should we give contract money to an organization that has demonstrated an ideology that is counter to most NH people?
Executive Councilor Sununu, all you have to do is to listen to your own words as to listening to good advice.
He continues on – the third point: structural point:
So why must it be Planned Parenthood? Why not some other provider that doesn’t have the scrutiny of this group? That’s the exact question I asked Health and Human Services Commissioner Nick Toumpas prior to the initial vote. Unfortunately, these contracts do not overlap geographically. Every provider is assigned specific towns to ensure that disadvantaged women (many of whom don’t even own a car) don’t have to travel great distances to get their care.
You are an MIT trained engineer – as your Dad pointed out to me…
Rather lame, Steve Trombly of Planned Parenthood!
In today’s Laconia Daily Sun (P.10), we see an "advocacy" group, a "social services" organization, doing what most seem to do when their gravy train gets yanked – complain and hurt the ones they "serve". Here, we see the titular head of Planned Parenthood of New England skewering innocents as "payback" to the NH Executive … Read more
Lynch Veto of Parental Notification Overriden! (and other good news)
The New Hampshire House and Senate have just overridden New Hampshire Governor John Lynches veto of the parental notification bill
John Lynch Vetoes Are A Political Shell Game
“He is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation…” –Adlai Stevenson
Governor Lynch’s vetoes show him for who he really is: A big government, big spending, social liberal. And not an honest one either. His vetoes of these bills clearly prove that.
Lynch’s veto of HB109 is a slap to working families all across this state. In a time when home values are on a downward spiral and fewer working families can afford to purchase a home, the Governor paves the way for local bureaucrats to impose a costly regulation on working families. “I believe that the decision of whether or not to require fire sprinklers for new or renovated residential development should remain a local one.” This is class warfare by another flair.
How does Lynch assert sensitivity to a working families’ pursuit of purchasing a home by effectively shoving that cost further out of their financial reach? How does Lynch reconcile his class warfare by proxy by putting a regulation in place that clearly and effectively will exclude working families from obtaining a home? His veto effectively and potentially removes some affordable housing from the market. I personally know of several fire chiefs around the state who have been pushing and lobbying for local ordinances requiring sprinkler systems.
Governor Lynch’s veto of HB 218 is demonstrative of the larger mentality that the interests of a few friends should be served so that at some point for rail expansion, the rail authority can pick the pockets of New Hampshire taxpayers. Lynch grossly misrepresents the intent of the bill, implying that its sponsors are anti-rail. Fact is, proponents of rebuilding the rail infrastructure sought to maintain the option of receiving taxpayer funded subsidies and Lynch was more than willing to oblige.
Finally, Lynch’s veto of HB 329, commonly referred to as “Parental Notification,” shows him to be the consummate dishonest politician he truly is. When he did not support the Granite State’s original parental notification law, he did so under the pretext of its lack of a medical exception.
Vulnerable Teenage Girls
The Nashua Telegraph, in reprinting (as a guest editorial) the left wing blathering of the Concord Monitor, has just reassured sexual predators who want to abuse young girls in the state of New Hampshire, that their secret is probably safe.
Is Pregnancy Still John Lynches “Exception” To Parental Notification?
Given the facts ‘on the ground’ will pregnancy continue to be the “exception” to parental notification in John Lynches New Hampshire or have parents earned the right to have a voice in what happens to their underage daughters?
The pro-abortion “dodge” – “…young women”
I had previously posted out on FaceBook, concerning Republican NH State Senator Nancy Stiles’s speaking against Parental Notification and her subsequent vote of against: So, she believes that Govt has the right to put themselves in between parents and their children. That will play well. Bluntly put, this is a vote affirming that Society allows … Read more
The War on Womanhood
This young woman is so amazing and so perfectly articulates how abortion is a horrible tool in the War on Womanhood. Abortion proponents have managed to convince women that it empowers them, when in fact, it destroys our daughters, discriminates against our mothers, and allows men to defraud our women.
Is The Teenage Mother’s Life Really at Risk?
In the 20th century, deaths from complications of pregnancy have dropped from 850 per 100,000 pregnancies in 1900 all the way down to 7.5. That’s quite impressive. What has to annoy liberals is that most of that improvement occurred by 1982 and without unlimited access to “life saving abortions,” and without the state or federal pro-abortion democrats hindering parental consent before they were performed on minors.
Parental Notification: It’s Not Really About ‘Choice,’ Is it?
House Bill 329. A law that will require the notification of parents for unemancipated minors prior to the performance of an abortion procedure, will get it’s public hearing tomorrow before the Senate Judiciary committee. Most certainly, that public hearing will segue the militant hit-parade decrying this often-called, “anti-choice” legislation.
Planned Parenthood, making quick use of our tax dollars to lobby against this piece of legislation, gives us indicia that should the bill pass the Judiciary and Senate, Planned Parenthood might sue to block its implementation as they did in Alaska. In fact, Planned Parenthood has made concerted efforts all over the Country to block such legislation with various court challenges. Planned Parenthood shows their resolve and that they will not be deterred. In 2005, for example, A Minnesota court ruled that St. Paul Planned Parenthood violated a parental notification law when an abortion was performed on a 17-year-old girl without prior notice to her parents. History instructs us that Planned Parenthood not only actively opposes these laws, but that they are willing to simply disregard them.
In today’s Union Leader story, Gary Rayno reports that opponents of the bill say, “(This bill) will needlessly put the lives and health of young women at risk…” Seriously? opponents all say this, but they never tell you exactly how. Or if opponents tell how, they give anecdotal examples of extreme abuse, rape or incest. If one accepts that logic, one also has to first admit that all of the other systems and precious safety nets they so ardently champion and advocate for have failed. In cases of abuse, where was DCYF? and why did they not intervene?
An Inconvenient Life
According to reporting in the Washington Times, Out of the 340,276 pregnant clients 332,278 received an abortion. So when a pregnant woman goes to planned parenthood for “family planning” services, 97.6% of the time the plan ends with the death of an unborn child.
Democrats, Frat Boys, And Pimps, Oh My!
So the democrats were prepared to shut it all down to defend one big, international rent seeker. To pigeonhole women’s health issues to sex parts and intercourse. And to defend a major campaign contributor (the abortion industry) at all costs? Using women’s vagina’s for cash? Doesn’t that make them a bunch of pimps?
Ask Ray & Kathy…About Incest
Question: If consensual sex (without coercion) between any two adults is a protected right, (gay sex is defended on these grounds) does the state have a right to prohibit sex between adult relatives, regardless of how closely related?
The Shower Muse Asks An Important Question About the Left Wing
Inspiration comes in strange places. Dots connect, ideas coalesce, thoughts combine. These kinds of events are most common for me in circumstances where it is almost impossible to write them down. I often get revelations driving and have to pull over to write them down. But the other morning it was in the shower.
I was getting ready to head up to the Nullify Now Tour event at SNHU in Manchester, on Saturday, when I had a thought. It wasn’t a new thought, but somewhere between rinse, lather, and repeat what had previously been random musings got together to form a new way to present the idea and I was soaking wet with neither paper nor pencil anywhere nearby–not that I could use them in the present circumstances.
So I figured the thought was doomed. Thousands of other things would crowd my mind, mug the thought, and leave it to die in an ally. There it would lay slowly bleeding to death, unable to survive on the insubstantial life support of short term memory, unless I found it and resuscitated it.
Writing it down usually allows me to preserve the thought so hours or days later, when I find it in my pants pocket while folding laundry fresh from the dryer, I can look at the pulpy looking turd with a furrowed brow and try to recall what the hieroglyphs meant when I committed them to writing.
(Sometimes the pulpy pocket turds are yellow; shout out to 3M for inventing Post-It notes.)
Well this thought must have been made of sturdy stuff. Days later it was still alive.
So what was it?
If “Reproductive Rights” means…
Word games are fun so let’s play some…
If by “reproductive rights” the left means that a woman has the right to destroy a person just because it is still in her womb…