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I'm afraid I don't see the explicit racism being stated by the caller as proof of anything.

The person receiving the call is obviously not happy with the reason given- and I can see the idea of taking money for a cause you believe in regardless of why people are offering as not being evidence of immoral purposes.

Accepting money from a racist for your cause is not evidence you are a racist.

The outrage being expressed over the above issue is obscuring the real outrage:

You can designate the race of the abortion your money will fund.

There is no need for anything extra, or any forced explicit racism to be rather... well, weirded out by the fact that Planned Parenthood allows monies to be directed towards aborting babies of a specific race.

I mean- that is just whacked, and not funny whacked- that's disturbingly sick and wrong whacked.

that indeed the black community has self inflicated themselves with genocide.....and all she had to do is market it as progressive.

Freedom of Religion not Freedom from Religion

I mean, how can they think it's racist to exercise some of the most fundamental rights of a woman's body? It should be thought of as a pro-African-American sentiment. They're so confused by all their conflicting obligations.

It's a lot like this primary, pro-Obama folks are anti-woman, pro-Hillary are racist, and somewhere, some lib's head is exploding trying to figure out which identity group he is obligated to support.

whitehouse 08 I find this whole story disturbing. It saddens me to hear how this country uses abortions for birth control. Obama say's he does'nt want to see his daughters punished by having a baby. The whole thing saddens me. No morals or values are taught to are children today. Anything go's. No responsibility is taught. Everything is about meeeee.

Given Margaret Sanger's dedication to eugenics, this expose' is only the tip of the iceberg.

Read about the founder of Planned Parenthood here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger

http://theconservativerevolution.com

The UCLA law student James O'Keefe who planned this whole bait and smear of Planned Parenthood ought to be ashamed of himself - but the reality is he isn't, because he's one of the luddites out with an agenda to malign Planned Parenthood. Whether you agree with PP or not, the tactics he uses are the most highly constructed and calculated attacks.

I know this kid. I went to college with him, where he would pull the same stunts, baiting so called 'liberal' professors to say something dumb and running with it to the bank or his neoconservative, fascist buddies. His publication, "The Centurion" was the worst 'conservative' journal of thought I've ever read -- and sullies the very great word it used to be.

is what Libertarians do best.

This reminds me of an argument I got into a few months ago (one of those where I was the rightmost guy in the room) and it was on the subject of abortion.

Now, as you know (or could probably have guessed from the "Libertarian" a few lines up), I am pro-choice. How much disagreement could we get into where I was the guy who was the rightmost in the room?

I'm glad you asked.

It has to do with stuff like racism (and sexism, even).

I started from the position that I think that abortion is morally (for lack of a better word) wrong but it should not be illegal. I gave a small and rambling essay about the limitations of state power, the proper role of police, the Right to Privacy, so on and so forth. I'm sure you're all familiar with the arguments, I needn't bother repeating them.

And the response I got that pretty much sums up the opposition was something to the effect of "Why do you bother thinking it's morally wrong? Are you hedging your bets for when you stand before God?"

Now, as I have mentioned from time to time before, I am also an atheist (albeit a Protestant Atheist. Southern Baptist Atheist, if you really want to put a point on it). I said that if I were called to account before God someday, I'm sure that there would be bigger fish to fry than my political views (I assure you, there is a veritable Pike Place Market to deal with before we get around to "opinions held").

I spent a good long time trying (and failing) to explain to this person that this was not "hypocrisy" on my part and it was, in fact, possible to think both that "X is wrong" and "It's not the business of the Government to prevent you from doing X".

One of the avenues I tried to go down was I asked this person about abortion for sex selection, say. She explained to me that I was a sexist for bringing it up. I conceeded the point. I then asked the question again.

I got this person to admit that abortion for sex selection was, in fact, wrong. This person then went on to explain to me that it should be illegal. I went on to ask the questions that I am sure are now arising in your brains right now. How would you measure whether a crime might be committed? What is the role of the doctor in this? What is the role of the police? I finished up by telling this person to get their government out of my uterus.

All that to say, the people who argue that there isn't anything wrong with abortion are screwed up in the head to the point where they are in deep, deep denial over what they are really supporting. They aren't "pro-choice". They're pro-abortion.

And that is a seriously screwed up mindspace.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. --Voltaire