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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Aug 19, 2015, 07:18 PM Aug 2015

Kirsten Powers: I've got news for Democrats. It's a baby!

Democrats on wrong side of history when it comes to Planned Parenthood's crimes against innocent unborn.

Democrats like to talk about the importance of being on the “right side of history.” This phrase was invoked frequently during the same-sex marriage debate. Yet when faced with a series of videos detailing grotesque human rights abuses against unborn children by Planned Parenthood Federation of America doctors, Democratic Party forces have eschewed all concern for historical or moral rightness.

Pope Francis has correctly described the unborn as “the most defenseless and innocent among us.” But in the sordid tale of strategic crushing of the unborn to better harvest their hearts, lungs and livers, many Democrats have incredibly cast an organization with a roughly $1.3 billion annual budget in the role of the innocent and defenseless. Hillary Clinton emerged as Planned Parenthood’s highest profile protector Monday, decrying the “assault” against her allegedly helpless campaign donors.

The Democratic Party shilling for barbarism — whether by politicians, liberal media outlets, union officials or unrestricted abortion advocates — is not likely to be viewed favorably by future generations. These Democrats will be remembered for demonizing the activists who lifted the veil on a previously sanitized process and for seeking restraining orders to silence truth tellers. They will be remembered for publishing dehumanizing decrees — as The New Republic did — that people stop criticizing Planned Parenthood because as a medical matter, “The term baby … doesn’t apply until birth” (that thing on your sonogram is nothing more than a “product[] of conception.”) And they will be remembered for demanding investigations into citizen journalists for meticulously exposing atrocities in our midst.

I don’t use the word atrocity lightly.

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/08/05/planned-parenthood-democrats-baby-column/31101983/

Kirsten Powers writes weekly for USA TODAY and is author of the upcoming The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech.
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Kirsten Powers: I've got news for Democrats. It's a baby! (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2015 OP
Who? haikugal Aug 2015 #1
The author of this article BainsBane Aug 2015 #6
Ok...Kirsten Powers didn't say these things? I'm not sure about your inference. haikugal Aug 2015 #7
My inference is BainsBane Aug 2015 #10
That article is written by Kirsten Powers, interesting.... haikugal Aug 2015 #12
Ok, now I understand... haikugal Aug 2015 #14
And they deserve birthright citizenship to boot! Erich Bloodaxe BSN Aug 2015 #2
unhinged.... n/t haikugal Aug 2015 #5
Who is Kirsten Powers Aerows Aug 2015 #3
^^ This. Atman Aug 2015 #17
kristen powers is currently being lauded in GDP by certain BS supporters. nt msanthrope Aug 2015 #21
Two sentences was more than enough of this hifiguy Aug 2015 #4
^^ And this. Atman Aug 2015 #18
LOL - I see what you did here. OKNancy Aug 2015 #8
Kirsten is a really nice person. But... stevenleser Aug 2015 #9
Does that mean she votes dem or that she's republican? haikugal Aug 2015 #15
I have no idea how she votes. She supports the conservative position everytime I have dealt with her stevenleser Aug 2015 #16
I haveknown and know people like that... Wounded Bear Aug 2015 #19
Alright. Thanks..I'll settle for conservative. nt haikugal Aug 2015 #20
Kirsten Powers? Tarheel_Dem Aug 2015 #11
Fuck her. PeaceNikki Aug 2015 #13

haikugal

(6,476 posts)
1. Who?
Wed Aug 19, 2015, 07:21 PM
Aug 2015

Wow...so she's a democrat that doesn't believe women should have a free choice regarding their healthcare? I wish I could say I'm surprised....the democrates just aren't who we thought they were, or are they?!

We're coming unzipped!

Here is her wiki

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsten_Powers

haikugal

(6,476 posts)
7. Ok...Kirsten Powers didn't say these things? I'm not sure about your inference.
Wed Aug 19, 2015, 07:51 PM
Aug 2015

Is the author questionable in some way?

I happen to think it's a real mistake to not have more debates as soon as possible and I don't like to hear dems talk about a womans choice in this manner. Women need to have free choice without shame or explanation and that seems to be bothering some people who consider themselves democrats. Yes?

BainsBane

(53,003 posts)
10. My inference is
Wed Aug 19, 2015, 08:19 PM
Aug 2015

that people are all too comfortable using right-wing media when it suits their purposes. That article is not about what you happen to think about the debates. It's yet another RW hit job.

haikugal

(6,476 posts)
12. That article is written by Kirsten Powers, interesting....
Wed Aug 19, 2015, 08:34 PM
Aug 2015

So she worked for the Clintons but is now a RW shill? Hmmmm....

haikugal

(6,476 posts)
14. Ok, now I understand...
Wed Aug 19, 2015, 08:36 PM
Aug 2015

I'm going back and forth washing the dog etc. so I didn't catch that you were answering my question of who she is.

LOL...😛

NOW I get it.......

Atman

(31,464 posts)
18. ^^ And this.
Thu Aug 20, 2015, 10:29 AM
Aug 2015

I barely made it through the first paragraph. My first thought was "I know where this is going -- and who the hell is this person and why does she have an article in USA Today?"

 

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
9. Kirsten is a really nice person. But...
Wed Aug 19, 2015, 08:18 PM
Aug 2015

I've been on TV with her and had her on my radio show, and she has always agreed with the non-Liberal position whenever we have discussed an issue.

FWIW

 

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
16. I have no idea how she votes. She supports the conservative position everytime I have dealt with her
Thu Aug 20, 2015, 10:25 AM
Aug 2015

Supposedly this is not always true, but it's pretty often.

Wounded Bear

(58,440 posts)
19. I haveknown and know people like that...
Thu Aug 20, 2015, 10:51 AM
Aug 2015

Self proclaimed 'non-partisan centrists' who always seem somehow to logically fall to the right wing side of every issue.

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