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HardWorkingDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 09:03 PM Original message |
Can someone explain the right's logic in attacking Planned Parenthood? Is it just abortion? |
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DURHAM D (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 09:06 PM Response to Original message |
1. No - the issue is women. |
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haikugal (476 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 09:12 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. They want to put women in their 'place'... |
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Iris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 08:52 PM Response to Reply #2 |
72. No kidding. They don't want those uppity bitch teachers making more than $18K a year. |
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RedCloud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 09:43 PM Response to Reply #2 |
77. except for Coulter geist. She exercises her liberal rights each day. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 12:43 AM Response to Reply #1 |
25. +1000 more than just correct |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 09:15 PM Response to Original message |
3. Right now? I think they're attacking PP because they have no jobs solution. |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 09:22 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. It's not a diversion. |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 09:33 PM Response to Reply #6 |
12. Of course they are misogynists. |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 04:40 PM Response to Reply #3 |
44. No, they've been trying this for a very long time. I know, I used to work for |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 09:20 PM Response to Original message |
4. The patriarchy is the basic building block of authoritarian hierarchy. |
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david13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 09:21 PM Response to Original message |
5. A witch hunt. Sexism. A diversionary tactic. Bible thumping gone |
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Guilded Lilly (960 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 09:23 PM Response to Original message |
7. The Republicans cannot hide behind abortion anymore... |
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brewens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 09:26 PM Response to Original message |
8. It's part of their system of oppression of the working class. It's |
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riderinthestorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 09:29 PM Response to Original message |
9. There is a subtext of Rethugs who want to eliminate easy access to contraception. |
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Zebedeo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 09:30 PM Response to Original message |
10. So far |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 09:34 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. So you deny that outlawing contraception is a core plank of the "Pro Life" movement? |
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Zebedeo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 09:43 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Your reply |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 12:02 AM Response to Reply #14 |
18. Why don't you ask them? Does "Democrats for Life of America" support the so-called HLA? |
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bettyellen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 12:26 AM Response to Reply #14 |
21. Wrong! you only know of one pro life group, and they are Dems |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 12:13 AM Response to Reply #10 |
19. They would rather many women die, much STD's passed around, than 1 woman get an abortion |
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Zebedeo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 03:14 AM Response to Reply #19 |
38. You are doing a nice job |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 04:23 AM Response to Reply #38 |
40. If anti-choicers were really about reducing abortions, they would support contraception. |
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Zebedeo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 01:13 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. I support contraception |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 04:34 PM Response to Reply #41 |
43. Then like I said, you don't really understand much about the anti-choice agenda. |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 04:55 PM Response to Reply #41 |
52. zebedeo, get up to speed on this. Here's where to go for the |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 05:33 PM Response to Reply #41 |
55. Do YOU wish to end federal taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood? |
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Zebedeo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 05:43 PM Response to Reply #55 |
59. I have no position on it |
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bettyellen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 08:38 PM Response to Reply #59 |
69. but you are parroting the RW spin, by downplaying the RWers position against contraception Dishonest... |
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Zebedeo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 09:39 PM Response to Reply #69 |
76. The OP asked for the RW logic on this issue |
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bettyellen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-22-11 12:36 AM Response to Reply #76 |
82. RW logic on the issue of Planned Parenthood- you are the only one in this thread making it solely... |
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Zebedeo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 01:43 PM Response to Reply #82 |
88. I am the only one in this thread |
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BobbyBoring (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 04:43 PM Response to Reply #40 |
45. Ah, But you must remember |
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Withywindle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 01:01 AM Response to Reply #10 |
27. What do you know about PP's other services? |
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sudopod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 01:27 AM Response to Reply #10 |
30. Then they've never heard of the Hyde Amendment. |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 04:48 PM Response to Reply #30 |
48. I eagerly await Zebedeo's reply to this. -nt |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 04:55 PM Response to Reply #48 |
53. So do I. Zebedeo, tell us what you mean since the Hyde amendment already prohibits |
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Zebedeo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 05:41 PM Response to Reply #53 |
58. see your own post #51, uppityperson. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 07:46 PM Response to Reply #58 |
63. "Even if you are staunchly pro-abortion and fiercely supportive of PP"? What. The. Fuck? |
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Zebedeo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 08:08 PM Response to Reply #63 |
64. Well? |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 08:14 PM Response to Reply #64 |
65. What does "Even if you are staunchly pro-abortion" mean? |
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Zebedeo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 08:23 PM Response to Reply #65 |
66. I will not be diverted. You are being intentionally obtuse. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 08:26 PM Response to Reply #66 |
67. You started that example using that term. Explain it please and I will be able to respond. |
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Zebedeo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 08:44 PM Response to Reply #67 |
70. OK I will hold you to your word |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 08:58 PM Response to Reply #70 |
74. Who believes that infanticide is fine? Who? Thank you for showing your true colors. |
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Zebedeo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 12:46 PM Response to Reply #74 |
87. You are avoiding the point of the question |
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bettyellen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-22-11 12:39 AM Response to Reply #70 |
83. infanticide? really- where do you get this bullshit? |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 08:36 PM Response to Reply #66 |
68. You won't clarify so I can answer, use offensive terms yet wonder why we can't come together. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 04:54 PM Response to Reply #30 |
51. Info on what the Hyde amendment is: barring use of certain fed funds to pay for abortion... |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 03:01 AM Response to Reply #10 |
37. The "actual argument" is bullshit. eom |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 04:49 PM Response to Reply #10 |
49. OK, that is "the reasoning of the right". What's yours? |
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Zebedeo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 05:50 PM Response to Reply #49 |
61. I understand |
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Book Lover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 08:59 PM Response to Reply #10 |
75. Do you think ... |
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Zebedeo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 10:11 PM Response to Reply #75 |
81. Could be |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-22-11 03:03 AM Response to Reply #81 |
84. It is very true. Can you be convinced of it? |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 09:31 PM Response to Original message |
11. No. They want to institute Biblical Law and outlaw non-procreative fucking. |
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tavalon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 02:47 AM Response to Reply #11 |
36. That's what the fundies want |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 09:44 PM Response to Original message |
15. it empowers women |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 09:58 PM Response to Original message |
16. Hating Women has no logic |
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BobbyBoring (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 04:45 PM Response to Reply #16 |
46. A Big Amen Brother! |
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burrowowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 10:39 PM Response to Original message |
17. They don't like women |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 12:19 AM Response to Original message |
20. Abortion is murder while denying access to contraception, std/hiv tests, mammograms, other lab test |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 12:29 AM Response to Original message |
22. When I interviewed him, Frank Schaeffer told me abortion |
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HEyHEY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 12:35 AM Response to Original message |
23. Genitals are evil. That's all there is to it. |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 12:42 AM Response to Original message |
24. They want women to go back to a time when they had no information. |
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Withywindle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 12:52 AM Response to Original message |
26. Agreed with the first poster, the issue is women. |
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upi402 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 01:03 AM Response to Original message |
28. red meat to the rabid, distraction and avoidance cuz they have no real plan. |
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Motown_Johnny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 01:18 AM Response to Original message |
29. Women, Abortion, Poverty, Abstinence Only ..... |
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blogslut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 01:37 AM Response to Original message |
31. It's easier to tell people what to hate and fear |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 01:47 AM Response to Original message |
32. two-fold, they need cannon fodder and they need to exercise dominion. |
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BrightKnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 01:59 AM Response to Original message |
33. Life begins at ejaculation? I can't understand why they are going after title X! |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 10:02 PM Response to Reply #33 |
79. I like Stephen Colbert's take: "For this guy life begins when you first think about having sex. " |
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tavalon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 02:41 AM Response to Original message |
34. Women are a fantastic wedge issue |
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tavalon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 02:45 AM Response to Original message |
35. The Republicans are sucking up to the fundies |
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BlueMTexpat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 03:53 AM Response to Original message |
39. It's everything that has been mentioned by other posters above. |
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HardWorkingDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 01:56 PM Response to Original message |
42. To further add to my confusion.... |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 04:48 PM Response to Original message |
47. Money |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 04:52 PM Response to Reply #47 |
50. Getting cancer is a consequence of a life choice? Hypothryoid also? |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 05:39 PM Response to Reply #50 |
56. That's exactly how they've explained it to me. |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 05:32 PM Response to Reply #47 |
54. I see you're in agreement with this Republican initiative, then. -nt |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 05:39 PM Response to Reply #54 |
57. I think it's rather bizarre that you could come to that conclusion from what I wrote. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 07:42 PM Response to Reply #54 |
62. How did you get an agreement from an explanation? I don't see that at all. |
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jtown1123 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 01:49 PM Response to Reply #47 |
89. Uhh abortions are 3% of what PP does. It provides health care, STD testing and other |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 05:49 PM Response to Original message |
60. They serve women, the poor, and the worst is they serve poor women. |
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WhaTHellsgoingonhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 08:50 PM Response to Original message |
71. It's more than women. It's scapegoating... |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 08:54 PM Response to Original message |
73. not only women but poor woman..... |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 10:00 PM Response to Original message |
78. They hate anything that might actually, you know, help someone. |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 10:05 PM Response to Original message |
80. You need this explained? |
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demmiblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-22-11 03:07 AM Response to Original message |
85. It is about a cadre of conservative boys that have their willies in a bunch. |
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demmiblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-22-11 03:17 AM Response to Reply #85 |
86. Forgot to add that... |
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