Rebranding

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Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

President Obama celebrated the 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade with one curious omission – he never mentioned the word “abortion.”

Instead, he dwelt on access to health care, reproductive freedom, right to privacy, safe and healthy communities, opportunities to fulfill their dreams . . . what a snooze.  That same litany of mushy feel-good platitudes could roll across the Teleprompter any day of the week.  We’re here to talk about killing babies, something like 50 million of them since the decision was issued.  And according to Democrats, that’s a good thing. Fine, then say so.

It’s almost as if the President is afraid to speak the plain truth, for fear people will recoil from it.  Perhaps we haven’t been de-sensitized enough.  Might be time to recycle some Dead Baby jokes from my junior high school days.  Remember those?  Can’t remember the last time I heard a Dead Baby joke.  Perhaps with 50 million of them piled up, it’s not funny anymore.

Joe Doakes

One can hope.

How many Planned Parenthood executives does it take to change a light bulb?

None.  They just declare darkness a woman’s right.

38 thoughts on “Rebranding”

  1. in 2012 10,701 abortions were performed in MN
    MN has a white population that comprises 86.5% the total population
    MN has a black population that comprises 5.5% the total population

    of those 10701 abortions in 2012:
    39.13% of MN abortions killed the baby of a non-white woman
    23.39% of MN abortions specifically killed the baby of a black woman

    does that disparity suggest anything other than racism?
    why are MN feminists genocidal racists.

  2. I see that the Republicans/conservatives remain laser–focused on the most critical problems facing the Republic.

  3. Fact: Using government force to stop abortion is very unwieldily in reality.

    All you can do is make the moral case.

  4. This blog is laser focused on whatever I am interested in between 5:30 and 7AM.

    If we save the Republic, cool.

  5. Here’s another question: to what extent can you force someone to not mess up the prenatal care? Who defines minimum standards? What effect do these minimum standards have on the baby?

    When are people typically punished for damaging prenatal care?

    Just asking.

  6. Emery,
    This:
    “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, …”
    is the mission statement of our republic.

    Every one of those 10,701 babies should have the same government secured opportunity for liberty and protections before the law that the rest of us enjoy instead of becoming the victims of state sanctioned extermination.

  7. QUOTE: Every one of those 10,701 babies should have the same government secured opportunity for liberty and protections before the law that the rest of us enjoy instead of becoming the victims of state sanctioned extermination.

    “should”

    I think using government force to stop abortion is as idealistically foolish and impractical as any Lefty idea is.

  8. TFS, I’m suggesting that the state NOT sanction abortion which is what Roe currently does.

  9. The other nice side effect of the war on abortion is the Planned Parenthood fixed overhead issue.

    When you shame it (or whatever) out of gynecologist offices and hospitals, it gets driven to PP. Then PP builds abortion factories with permanent, fixed overhead. You also have semi-variable scale up/down overhead.

    So they have to “sell” abortion to just break even, to get government subsidies.

    The gynos and hospitals wouldn’t have this mathematical inevitability.

    What a country!

  12. Think of all of the executive staff, administrative staff, and lobbying staff dedicated to Planned Parenthood.

    What a country!

  14. TFS And therefore what?

    If Roe did not exist then abortion could be treated as a privilege.

    Every abortion represents a direct, and permanent, financial loss to the state. Of the 55 million babies terminated since Roe fully 30 million of them would currently be in the workforce paying taxes to federal, state and local entities. Without Roe for instance, the feds could tax abortions, something like the equivalent of the FICA you paid the year before(or that your parents paid in the case of minors). These abortion taxes could be paid into Al Gore’s social security “lock box” to help keep Social Security solvent. And each individual state could levy their own taxes – I’m sure the MNSure folks could find a use for that revenue. Think of it in the same way that you think of tobacco taxes, there never was a Democrat that didn’t want more taxes.

  15. kei:

    I LOVE THAT.

    We are in one hell of a fix and that mirrors it perfectly http://bit.ly/LdCHPI

    PROCREATE TAX P A Y E R S FOR THE LBJ GREAT SOCIETY ACTUARIAL GULAG OF DOOM! DO IT FOR YOUR COUNTRY! DO IT FOR OUR STUPID AND VENAL LEADERS!

  16. As a side note, unfortunately, due to the Fed, Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Nixon, Bush 43 and Obama, the state really does have to promote the procreation of tax paying slaves.

  17. “I see that the Republicans/conservatives remain laser–focused on the most critical problems facing the Republic.”

    There are dozens of historic Supreme Court opinions. They don’t all get annual recognition. Nobody throws parties on the anniversary of the Slaughter-House cases.

    President Obama chose to mark the anniversary of the most famous abortion case in history – but didn’t say the word ‘abortion.’ He’s afraid to say the word of the very thing he’s celebrating. That’s like throwing a party when your friend turns 50 but carefully avoiding ‘birthday,’ instead saying “successful reproduction day.”

  18. “He’s afraid to say the word of the very thing he’s celebrating.”

    That tiny, gossamer shred of shame is all that stands between infanticide loving leftists and anus sniffing mongrel dogs. And for the sand is food crew it fails even that.

  19. Irony: The former Planned Parenthood building in St. Paul’s Highland Park is being renovated. According to the banner, the new tenant will be New Horizon Child Care.

  20. The irony is lost on infanticide loving, leftist mongrels, Loren. The former was for hoiking out bothersome clumps of cells that would intrude on one’s right to party on, Garth. The latter is for children with a right to public subsidies.

  22. My take here is that if we defund agencies like Planned Parenthood, which is something that “The FedSucks” can (as a libertarian) endorse, we’ve done a LOT to reduce the availability of prenatal infanticide. You’d probably have little or no availability in about a third of all the states.

    And TFS, it is prenatal infanticide, and hence the government can have a role here. Punishing murder is (Genesis 9:6) the original justification for government.

  23. PP won’t go out of existence with no government funding. No way.

    You will still have abortion without Planned Parenthood.

    Women will flock to the Democrat party for legal abortion protection.

    Drop the threats, and make the moral case. What is wrong with that? Get more GOP voters make the GOP more libertarian and make the world a more prosperous place. so we can afford bigger healthy families to become slaves to LBJs Great Society Theft Machine.

  24. TFS, 45% of Planned Parenthood’s funding comes from one level or another of government. They might not completely disappear, but if we weaned them from the welfare teat, they would be greatly changed. And quite frankly, while most “procedures” (by which PP refers to everything from handing out a condom to a third trimester abortion, it appears) are not prenatal infanticide, we would be fools to assume that they’re not using their other “services” to feed the prenatal infanticide case.

    And here’s your moral case; is it not morally repugnant to coerce taxpayers to provide funds for purposes they consider abhorrent? I believe Jefferson said something to that effect.

  25. I am not talking about the tax subsidy.

    They will get the money, somehow. They can consolidate operations. they can down size. I doubt this is insurmountable.

    I mean moral in the sense of banning abortion legally, not the tax funding. Most people can scrounge up the money for an abortion, no matter what.

    I am just talking about letting off the government force peddle. No police powers stopping abortion. Make the moral case.

  26. 55M slaughtered since R v W became law. Makes me wonder what the body count would be if abortion had remained a crime (as it should have).

  28. You make the moral case step by step, TFS. Ending subsidies would be a great start, and the ugly reality is that entities that grow dependent on them do really, really badly when they’re withdrawn. Spending controls do not just “happen” during a financial crisis, as many former athletes and entertainers can tell you.

    And regarding an overall ban, well, where have you been? National Right to Life and a host of other organizations have been making that argument for 40 years.

  29. The Republican Party needs to shut up about abortion and let someone else make the moral case. I am taking about persuasion and discussion.

    I have a feeling talking about ending the subsidy to PP isn’t going to get more GOP power. JUST A FEELING.

    Just drop it.

    Get people to think ahead about sex, and just “sell” adoption.

    Force is very limited in how and when it works.

  30. This is a matter for the states, not the feds.
    If Roe V. Wade was overturned, that’s where we’d be.
    Making abortion a federal crime would energize the Left the way that Roe V Wade energized the right.

  31. Which brings me to my point.
    While I respect everyone’s right to posture on the the subject of abortion. I can’t remember the last time the MN GOP attempted abortion restricting legislation. With all this heated rhetoric posted in the comments today, it makes me wonder why there’s been no push from GOP legislators .

  32. What part of Article Three of the United States Constitution do you not understand Emery?

    Sound it out son, use your words, we’re here to help.

  34. Swiftee, are you able to cite specific legislation that MN GOP state legislators have proposed to restrict abortion? Feel free to include the Pawlenty period as well….

  35. Oh and Tom; feel free to include any vanity or symbolic (like congress) legislation as well.

  36. Did the Article 3 comment go over your head, Emery?

    The United States Supreme Court has decided abortion cannot be outlawed by state legislatures. Any attempt by Minnesota Republicans to do so would be instantly struck down as unconstitutional. Proposing such legislation would be pointless.

    We need to change the Supreme Court, not the Minnesota legislature. The way to do that is to persuade the public to pressure the President to appoint conservative justices. The way to do that is to speak the plain truth about Roe v. Wade by using the words “55 million abortions” because it would appall the average moderate voter. That’s why the President is careful NOT to speak the plain truth, even though he’s giving a speech celebrating those abortions, and the case that made them possible.

    Shameless.
    .

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