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Nancy Pelosi: Republicans Think Women Don’t Think

By: Tabitha Hale (Diary)  |  April 14th, 2011 at 07:30 PM  | 

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You can click here to watch the entire 5:32 minute video, if you think you can make it through.

Planned Parenthood is not in the business of helping women, and has a knack of constantly reminding us. We can rehash exposé after exposé, and discuss the list of horrors and deception that seems to grow with every investigation. Most of us have seen them by now.

The Democrat impulse to justify these things for the “health” of women across America is horrifying. The amount of damage that they have inflicted on young girls and women is incalculable, and to apply public funds to an institution that hides domestic abuse and statutory rape is unconscionable. Where is the outrage for the young women that will never have their abuse cases brought to light because Planned Parenthood didn’t feel like filing the proper paperwork?

Women deserve better than what Planned Parenthood offers. This conversation goes beyond being pro-choice or pro-life; it is about forcing the public to fund horrors like those found in Philly. The idea that my tax dollars would fund an institution that goes against everything I believe in infuriates me beyond anything I could effectively express with written language.

To clarify something that Ms. Pelosi seems to be slightly confused about, this is not about outlawing abortion or overturning Roe v. Wade. It’s not even about shutting down Planned Parenthood. The drama invoked by the Former Speaker of the House in this instance is completely irrational.

At around two minutes in she declares that this is not funding for abortion, and acknowledges that Federal dollars cannot fund abortions, as it is the “law of the land.” Unfortunately for the former Speaker, this claim is categorically false – because Planned Parenthood performs abortions, money that goes to Planned Parenthood funds abortions. In the event that government funds are properly allocated to other Planned Parenthood services and not directly to abortion services, they are freeing up other Planned Parenthood funds to – yes, that’s right – cover abortion services.

The tone that she takes in the first 3 minutes or so of this floor speech implies that she believes she speaks for all women. She refers to the Republican desire to cut funding for “women’s health” as though this is the only place women are able to receive medical care. Ms. Pelosi, I can assure you that nothing you said on that House floor today speaks for me. In fact, it is the very antithesis of what many women in this country think. I, for one, am glad the Republicans were willing to try to save my tax dollars from the nightmare that is Planned Parenthood.

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  • altexas

    I do think some women, well, at least one, cannot read. She has to pass bills to see what is in them.

  • rcatheart

    Because I would walk up to her and say, “Do you think I’m stupid?”

    People get away with saying this kind of stupid junk because they can throw it out there in a twitter thing or press release or whatever, and never have to actually be face-to-face with people who are grossly offended.

    I’m so sick of the name-calling and insults coming from these people, who seem to have no desire even to be civil to those with whom they disagree.

  • marshmom

    Neither do some men. Some prefer to have the democratic party lay out talking points so they can regurgitate them at a moment’s notice.

    Some take everything a politician tells them as gospel instead of doing their own research on a matter. Planned Parenthood is one of those grossly misrepresented organizations by the democrats.

    Nancy Pelosi is no more my ally than Satan himself just because she is a “woman”. I can’t believe the woman actually tries to say “the word” is her favorite “word” and goes to church but is Okey-Dokie with murdering babies. What a flaming hypocrite!

  • http://breadandcircusesforamerica.blogspot.com/ butteredbiscuit

    but you see this Planned Parenthood is an example of how government funded healthcare can advance the health of women and free everyone up for other things.
    PP only made a million dollars last year (for each abortion they performed.)
    Factory healthcare…we are not cars.

  • http://www.riversedgealliance.org Robin Smith

    In my most southern voice, I offer Ms. Pelosi a correction. It’s Democrats and Liberals who think Republican women don’t think. This is evidenced by the rabid criticism of any conservative female who views a baby as a blessing and not a burden.

    In reality, the Democrats treat all women as a herd of cattle that should respond at certain words, “abortion”, “reproductive rights”, etc.

    Get it right, Nancy. In the meantime, bless your heart.

  • nivlem

    We cannot reach the voters if we do not cone up with a clear reason for defunding PPH. They don’t even convince me, and I am a strongly pro life.

    I mean, really…..what is our side thinking….we cannot blame the Pelosi’s, Snowe’s, etc., if we cannot even sell our our own platform.

  • merryj1

    A couple dozen lawsuits by (lawyers for) young women whose sexual exploitation (read abuse) while under the age of consent (ie, Statutory Rape victims) was/(were?) facilitated by PP; the crimes covered up by PP and the criminals aided and abetted by PP, would certainly help.

  • http://theminorityreportblog.com Repair_Man_Jack

    They spend so much time debating Pelosi that their perspective is jaundiced.

  • runner12

    does NOT speak for me. On the contrary, I think she is an embarassment to the gender.