A Must Read from Ms. Green
It’s not about choice. It’s about money.
Murder is a lucrative business.
Just in case you haven’t seen the latest reports on Planned Parenthood’s profits for last year, take a moment to absorb these figures.
Last year it grossed $882,000,000 (882 million), with a net profit of $63,000,000 (63 million).
Follow the link for all the gory details...
This why I added her to my blogroll. She knows how to cut to the quick.
from the mind of... Eric | 12:13 AM
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Don't you just love it when someone like MS. Green "pops" in?
Planned Parenthood is a nonprofit. Those "profits" are simply revenues in excess of expenses, and are put back into services and facilities (and, sadly, security because of constant death threats).
I have a friend who works for a Planned Parenthood clinic in a small town. They operate on a shoestring budget and depend on volunteers.
Whatever you think of their mission (and honest people can disagree on that), this criticism is not a valid one.
Of course the tit for this tat is to find some grossly profitable Conservative Christian Group and say that they have no morals and only care about money. But that's not the real issue is it. No this post and the referenced on are like the Zarqawi Memo. Someone bemoaning that maybe their fight isn't going the way they want.
Ms. Green, EL, D.Dad and like would maybe prefer that when children begin school they be fitted with chastity belts, so that they wouldn't be able to engage in activity that Ultra-conservative Christians consider immoral. They problably would only want the belts taken off as part of a public marriage ceremony. That way people who never marry woudn't be doing other immoral activities with their "dirty parts."
This arrogance from a group of people that their beliefs are not only so perfect that everyone should live by them, but also that the government should enshrine such ideas in law, makes me sick.
Bent,
Never consider the FACT that immoral, irresponsible behaviour creates problems that moral, responsible people end up paying for.
A person doesn't have the right to be immoral if that immorality impacts other people's rights to live peacably!
That's not conservative, Christian--just common-sense!
But the left wants to have their cake, eat it too, and leave others to clean up the mess!
How utterly shameful!
Immoral, irresponsible behavior like getting raped?
OK. D.Dad is saying that people avoiding/aborting unwanted pregnancies costs him. His post suggests that it costs him more money in taxes to support a non-profit organization helping people avoid/end unwanted pregnancies than it would cost him in taxes for the government to raise those avoided/ended children. Because make no mistake, there are not enough foster families to raise all these avoided/unwanted children, so the only answer would be federal orphanages. Is that what D.dad wants?
"Immoral, irresponsible behavior like getting raped?"--Sol
Typical liberal tactics--use a miniscule fraction of the population to attempt to support a percieved point.
The statement, however Sol, is very much related to that of your compatriot, Bent.
"OK. D.Dad is saying that people avoiding/aborting unwanted pregnancies costs him."--Bent
Neither of you have ANY respect for the life you encourage to be snuffed out.
I say that the PERSON who another person wishes to MURDER should have a say.
But if you wait long enough for that LIVING PERSON to put his/her two-cents worth in it will be too late to forestall any inconvenience created by irresponsible, immoral behaviour, right?
You people are frauds.
You don't care about people--yopu care about the right to do whatever-the-heck you want without having to face any consequences.
Besides, I said IMMORAL behaviour--funny how you would assume I was talking exclusively abouot abortion.
The truth comes out if one waits long enough.
Even liberals, when they have an unguarded honest moment, believe that abortion is immoral!
It costs the American taxpayer loads of money--abortion issue aside--to take care of the untold number of kids whose families have been torn apart by their parents' irresponsible--immoral behaviour.
IMMORALITY costs everyone.
I shouldn't have to clean someone else's crap up when they knew better to crap in the first place!
Every living human-being has the RIGHT to live without another snuffing his/her life oput for purely selfish reasons.
I don't believe in abortion in matters concerning rape.
I do believe in adoption in thiose cases.
Who has the moral high-ground, really, in this argument.
The one stressing the importance of morality or the ones negating the importance of morality?
I an on the side of righteousness, here, guys. No credible way for you to deny that!
Dad, In my perfect world, there would be no abortions. But there would also be no unwanted pregnancies. Neither is 100% achievable in practice.
But as I said, honest people can disagree. What we differ on is that I don't consider the moral standing of a fetus- especially a collection of cells at the early stage of development- to be equivalent to that of a fully formed human.
I understand how someone can believe differently, and I respect that belief.
We should all act to reduce abortions. But outlawing them doesn't work, as I've pointed out in other posts- you just get more unafe and illegal abortions, like in some Latin American countries, along with many unnecessary deaths of mothers.
Also, as an ethical issue, I don't think the government has the right to force a woman to carry to term.
Sexual education does help to reduce unwanted pregnancies, and thus abortions. It's ironic that Christian conservatives may actually be increasing abortions by opposing education about and access to birth control.
Everyone who doesn't agreew with D.dad is a "fraud." He says so himself.
Everyone who accuses others of being evil then pretends to be Jesus Christ himself, Reverend--I do consider a fraud.
I disagree with a lot of people. Most of whom I agree with on many points.
You don't know mw well enough to say what you did. It is completely dishonest of you to say it!
Evidence of your fraudulent sataus!
Every accusation I've made toward you has been based on your positions on key issues.
I've had ample evidence to say what I've said about you, Rev.
You rely on hasty generalizations to attack me--have done several times. Then you deny you havve done so.
So, yes! You are a fraud and everyone who reads you knows it!
If I didn't care for you--I wouldn't throw the truth you despise so much in your face.
You're offering fraudulent "christianity" to others. The bad thing is that from what I've read of you--in almost EVERY post you make--you seem to be using your "christianity" to promote your political agenda.
Yes, Reverend Redneck, I believe YOU are a fraud.
I've also used "fraud" to describe those who insist they don't speculate by leaps and bounds to reach a suitable recipe for the evolution lie.
None of you have answered my simple question: Has any pathogen or any virus EVER been observed to mutate into something other than a virus?
But this thread isn't about evolution.
It's on an organization that your church" supoports==probably with funding as well as encouragement. An organization dedicated to helping women solve their self-generated problems by ending the life of a living human-being....LEGALLY.
I think it is clear who is in error in relation to God's intent, Right Reverend, between you and I.
I have never exhibited hate towards anyone. Yet you have accused me of doing so.
I have not lied once about any of your posts.
But you have about the ones you have recently deleted from your own soap-box.
Who's the demonic one, pal.
Did you ever take that purple-lined robe off and look in the mirror, Rev?
I doubt it. Too dang comfortable, I reckon!
Melodrama has it's place BenT, but not here. Chastity belts? give me a break! The only chastity belt children need are upon their sense of self-esteem... their sense of self-worth.
the fact is, sex IS better left for marriage. There's less risk of STD's, Pregnancies-- though still unwanted on occasion --then have a greater chance of going full term. And the heinous act of killing an unborn child is greatly reduced. Do I think all pregnancies should be allowed to go full-term? Absolutely! Is that ever going to happen? Obviously not.
Furthermore, there is nothing "dirty" about human sexuality. It is not arrogance to want to see millions of lives a year spared the butchery they face, 9 times out of ten, when their mothers walk into a Planned Parenthood facility... or any other abortion clinic for that matter.
"...make no mistake, there are not enough foster families to raise all these avoided/unwanted children, so the only answer would be federal orphanages."
The mistake is your conclusion... with nothing to back it up. The fact IS, thousands of couples desperately want to adopt children. They even go so far as to fly to foreign countries to adopt. Why? Because adoption laws in the U.S. make it very difficult to adopt any child.
Education is the answer. Not education sponsored by Planned Parenthood; the only education children will then get is what they're already getting, which leads us no where except more of the same.
Abstinence needs to be taught. Self control needs to be stressed. Personal dignity, and self respect need to be instilled in every child. They need to believe their lives are worth more... Deserve more... Than pre-marital sex, early pregnancy, and single motherhood. Young women need to be taught how to respect themselves.
If this is what you meant by Christian morals, I couldn't agree more.
I have a button at the house that I need to dig out.... "1 out of every 2 people who enter an abortion clinic don't come out alive"
Daddio--
I do not recall EVER reading ER declare himself to be Christ. Seriously. You and I disagree with ER on a number of points, but honestly, ER has never claimed to be Jesus Christ.
EL,
"Abstinence needs to be taught. Self control needs to be stressed. Personal dignity, and self respect need to be instilled in every child. They need to believe their lives are worth more... Deserve more... Than pre-marital sex, early pregnancy, and single motherhood. Young women need to be taught how to respect themselves."
We agree. This is exactly what my PP friend would say. She also teaches abstinence-based sexual education (as opposed to abstinence-only sex ed, which includes no discussion of birth control and obfuscates many facts about STD's).
I say, teach 'em abstinence, self respect, responsibility, and self control, but also make sure they have the facts. Anything less is a disservice.
I did not say he claimed to be Christ, EL. I said he pretends to be Jesus Christ, himself. There is a difference. And my statement is backed up by reams of posts I've read by him.
Piousness is no virtue, EL.
Patronization is not civil-behaviour.
Condescension is elitest.
Reverend Redneck dislays all of these in his writings.
I've NEVER made an accusation towards him that was not backed up by his own words.
Daddio--
Then I misread you. My apologies.
Solomon--
On that we ARE in agreement. My objection is abortion. Period. There are quite a few zealots out there who will damn everyone to hell for believing abortion to be a viable option for unwanted pregnancies. I AM a zealot, but I am not allowed to condemn anyone... Only point to the truth. Anyone can be forgiven. Anyone.
Bless you, D.dad.
Oh, is that what you mean by "pretending to be Christ"?
Surely you're not actually that simple-minded. No. I refuse to believe it.
But just in case: May God bless you, D.dad.
Really.
I may have been wrong about you, ER!
Because God has blessed me. I am blessed. I expect His blessing.
Just don't expect me to credit YOUR prayer for God's blessings in my life.
My prayers are dirt. I would never expect anything of the sort.
ER, if you are a child of God, your prayers are not dirt.
Have mercy!
It was a joke, guys. An attempt to break the tension, you know?
I appreciate any genuine prayer on my behalf.
Cheers, ER.
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