Tennessee Lawmakers Clash with Planned Parenthood Officials over Undercover Footage
Lila Rose of Live Action Films again exposes Planned Parenthood's reckless counseling practices. This time, Rose posed as a 14-year-old girl, who was impregnated by a 31-year-old man. Rose, in her dialogue with the Planned Parenthood counselor, mentions:
My boyfriend said he could pay for everything--But he shouldn't come here to pay 'cause you'll see him, right?" the counselor replies, "It doesn't matter. As long as your parents are not here and can't identify him, he can just pay and that's it. He could be like your older brother or whatever."
Tennessee law mandates that a minor must have parental consent before undergoing an abortion. Since the video has been released, two Tennessee state legislators, Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey and Sen. Jack Johnson, have introduced legislation that would defund Planned Parenthood.
"Why would citizens tolerate paying the bills of an organization that protects statutory rapists and victimizes young girls? This is the sad result of the careless abortion-first mentality that has persisted at Planned Parenthood for decades."
Is Planned Parenthood becoming the Fountain of Youth?
Live Action's Lila Rose investigates yet another Planned Parenthood (Memphis, TN this time) , which yields what's becoming an all-too familiar result -- people's ages being mysteriously lowered by clinic workers:
What do you call an American citizen who objects to one of President Obama's most radical nominees? "Verbal terrorists," according to "Hardball's" Chris Matthews. The MSNBC host, who last night addressed the controversy surrounding Kathleen Sebelius, took a gratuitous swipe at the pro-life community for opposing the Governor's radical positions. "Is she going to get through the anti-abortion people?" Matthews asked. "Yes. I think she's going to do that. I mean, verbal terrorism? Yeah, she'll get through that."
Give me a break! Educating Americans on Sebelius's record isn't "terrorism," it's activism, no, it's realism! As a candidate for one of the most influential posts in Obama's Cabinet, Sebelius's public positions matter--particularly if they're as far outside the mainstream as hers have proven to be. Before Sebelius is confirmed, Americans deserve to know where she stands. They should know that the Kansas governor supports late-term abortions, filthy, roach-infested abortion clinics, government as the final authority on children's health, the killing of innocent abortion survivors, and socialized medicine. Despite what Chris Matthews believes, standing up for the defenseless and the vulnerable is what public officials are supposed to do. This is just an attempt to shift the focus off the extremism of Sebelius' record.
How do you know that you know way too much about Washington bureaucracies and how they "work"? Here's how. When you hear CNBC's Rick Santelli calling for a Chicago Tea Party tax protest this summer, you immediately start to wonder whether he'll need to get permits from some government entity like the Environmental Protection Agency. And then you wonder whether Illinois permits will be needed also. Well, I plead guilty to having had such thoughts last Thursday.
Fortunately, I am not alone and not nearly as bad off as Scott Ott of the D.C. Examiner appears to be. Ott has written a brilliant, hilarious piece entitled, "EPA Arrests Rick Santelli, 'Chicago Tea Party' Cancelled." (See Feb. 24, 2009 ed., p. 14.) The satirical article contains the following slam from President Obama's press secretary, Robert Gibbs, commenting on Santelli's arrest for threatening to pollute Lake Michigan: "I don't know where Mr. Santelli lives, but apparently, like most conservative critics, he has a callous disregard for the lives of the waterfowl, sturgeon and fresh-water mollusks that inhabit the Lake Michigan watershed."
That's funny, but I wouldn't be surprised if Santelli really could be arrested for dumping tea or "derivative securities" (paper) into the Great Lakes. Well done, Mr. Ott.
Andie Coller of The Politico observed today that Gibbs "dismissed [Santelli] as a know-nothing derivatives trader out of touch with Main Street." Coller then noted that "[a] Rasmussen poll released Monday found that 55 percent of those surveyed thought federal mortgage subsidies to those most at risk of losing their homes would be 'rewarding bad behavior.'" If I were the White House I would be very careful about trying to roll out a campaign of intimidation and bullying against journalists, in general, and a journalist, in particular, who is very much attuned to public sentiment, is an expert in the numerous cross-cutting markets traded in Chicago, and is the most popular figure on America's #1 financial news network.
