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Planned Parenthood murdered 327,653 babies in 2014, using $528.4 million taken forcibly from you by your own government. That’s an average of $1,612 for each murder.

What’s interesting is that in 2012 PP did 333,964 abortions, offered prenatal services to 5,398 women and adoption referrals for only 841 women. Abortions were obviously the main thing they did. It was estimated then that abortion comprised 97% of their “services”. But PP wanted to pretend they were more than just baby murderers.

So, like magic, last year, they started counting their “services” differently. Suddenly they claimed they did 378,692 pap tests, provided 1,440,495 emergency contraception kits, 4,470,597 STD tests, and an amazing 487,000 “breast exams” when not one single PP affiliate would actually admit that they did mammograms. Abortion is now “only 3%” of the services they offer, they claim. Yet they didn’t expand from 2012 to 2014, in fact they have fewer clinics. So how were they able to pull this off?

Simple.

327,653 women went to Planned Parenthood for abortions. All they’d need to do is make a half-dozen or so medical and STD tests a routine addition to each and every abortion, and the number of “services” multiplies like magic. Then when the women leave, give them several “emergency contraception kits” and some birth control pills (counting each individual pill as a separate “service”) and the numbers keep adding up. And the breast exams, easily done, also as part of the abortion. A mammogram and a breast exam are not the same thing. If a doctor feels a woman’s breast, that’s a breast exam, in fact the way PP does their math, it’s most likely two breast exams*.

To get the abortion percentage down to 3% all they needed to do is add around 33 additional “services” to each abortion they provide. A smattering of tests, some kits and a packet of birth control pills would easily reverse the percentage and allow any idiot, Liberal “journalist” to regurgitate their lies.

Look at it this way. Let’s say a store is accused of being a porn shop, but they claim that pornography is only a small percentage of their business. The way they get around this is to add a pack of matches to each purchase of porn. Each individual match is an item, so one porn video plus 20 matches makes porn less than 5% of the items in that transaction. Therefore they claim porn is less than 5% of their business, when it’s actually 100% of their business. (NOTE: If we’ve offended any low-life, smut peddlers by comparing them to Planned Parenthood, we sincerely apologize)

*Yes, at 487,000 “breast exams” that’s not twice 327,653. We must assume not every woman getting an abortion wanted the abortionist to grab the second breast.

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Just two years after Obamacare’s implementation, a Louisiana nonprofit insurer that received nearly $66 million in taxpayer-funded loans is closing its doors.

On Friday, the Louisiana Department of Insurance announced that the state’s consumer operated and oriented plan, or co-op, would be discontinuing its operations at the end of 2015. Louisiana’s is the second co-op created under to Obamacare to close.

According to the Department of Insurance, the Louisiana Health Cooperative will not be offering plans to consumers next year, but it will continue its coverage of the 17,000 Louisiana consumers currently receiving health insurance through the co-op.

Many of those consumers purchased their plans with the Louisiana Health Cooperative on the federal exchange, HealthCare.gov.

“It is a difficult time for health insurers of every size,” Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon said in a statement. “The onerous burdens of Obamacare have shocked health insurance markets and caused instability in pricing and predictability, and as a result, we’ve seen premiums spike upward

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The long-simmering disconnect between the Republican Party’s conservative base and its leaders in government has degenerated into a full-blown schism.

While President Obama accelerates his increasingly radical agenda, the GOP, despite its congressional majority, can barely muster an objection, let alone block his momentum.

Other than to offer a toothless public rebuke of Obama’s destructive schemes, what was the point of the 2014 GOP congressional landslide? It’s no longer just a small percentage of conservatives questioning the GOP. Our people are furious — and rightly so.

Let the elites look down their superior noses at us commoners. Be advised, though, that Trump is not the only one railing against the pervasive insanity, including the role that the GOP leadership is playing in it. Sen. Ted Cruz has set his sights on the “Washington cartel” — the quasi bipartisan ruling class that is presiding over the disgraceful dismantling of the United States as we know and love it. Candidate Carly Fiorina is also speaking eloquently about bringing “outside-the-box” changes to Washington to make a real difference, as opposed to merely slowing down the devastating Obama juggernaut.

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The debate over the revelation of the referral to the Justice Department of Hillary Clinton’s email activities as Secretary of State missed several important points, particularly the preferential treatment she has been given so far.

Any other federal employee found to have discussed high-level, sensitive government business in her personal emails, including possibly classified materials, would not have been treated with such kid gloves.

After this referral hit the news on Friday, a dispute erupted over whether the request by the inspector general of the intelligence community to open an investigation of Clinton’s handling of information classified as “secret” was a “criminal” referral or not. At first, a Department of Justice official said the “investigation was criminal in nature,” according to the Wall Street Journal, but the department “reversed course hours later without explanation.”

As the former head of the National Security Division of the Justice Department, Lisa O. Monaco, who is now an assistant to the president for counterterrorism, explained in testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in 2012 (before the public knew about Clinton’s personal server) that the intelligence community must report the unauthorized disclosure of classified materials to DOJ.

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A new video released by the Center for Medical Progress digs deeper into what appears to be a wide-ranging fetal organ trafficking scheme overseen by Planned Parenthood. At the beginning of the video, an ex-employee of StemExpress confessed that the company helps Planned Parenthood harvest and sell body parts ripped from aborted babies.

“I thought I was going to be just drawing blood,” Holly O’Donnell, a former StemExpress technician, told the Center for Medical Progress. “Not procuring tissue from aborted fetuses.”

“We were asked to procure certain tissues like brain, livers, thymus, pancreas, heart, lungs, and pretty much anything on the fetus. It’s basically a huge trafficking of fetal tissues,” she explained. “StemExpress is a company that hires procurement techs to draw blood and dissect dead fetuses and sell the parts to researchers.”

O’Donnell discussed in great detail the process by which StemExpress and Planned Parenthood work to harvest the most valuable organs and parts from aborted babies. On her first day, O’Donnell witnessed her colleagues placing cut up baby parts in “pie dishes” and passing them around for review.

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The assembly at Brandon High School in May 2014 began with a prayer led by local Methodist pastor Rev. Rob Gill. Although not mandatory, the assembly honored the district’s students who scored higher than a 22 on their ACT college tests. One student objected, and sued the school.

U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves said it defied his prior order barring prayers school events. Reeves fined the school $7,500 and awarded the student $2,500. Reeves also ordered the district to pay the student’s legal fees, an amount that will be determined at a later date, and threatened a $10,000 fine for any future infractions of the order.

Attorneys for the school district have argued that Gill’s prayer did not violate the 2013 orders or the student’s First Amendment rights because attendance at the assembly was optional. Reeves, however, believes the district has been trying to indoctrinate students with Christianity.

In a statement issued by an attorney, Rankin County Superintendent Lynn Weathersby said that despite the court’s ruling, students and teachers will continue to pray.

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In a move unprecedented in the history of the House of Representatives, a Republican lawmaker filed a motion Tuesday to remove House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, from his post, in another sign of dissatisfaction with Boehner’s leadership by a number of House conservatives.

Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., filed the resolution — a “motion to vacate the chair” — late Tuesday, claiming that he “has endeavored to consolidate power and centralize decision-making, bypassing the majority of the 435 Members of Congress and the people they represent.”

The proposal was referred to a committee stocked with leadership loyalists, and therefore unlikely to emerge.

The motion says that Boehner has caused the power of Congress to atrophy, “thereby making Congress subservient to the Executive and Judicial branches, diminishing the voice of the American People.”

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The latest video released by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) shows a Planned Parenthood technician sorting through “tissue” collected after a first trimester abortion. As LifeNews previously reported, this is CMP’s third undercover video showing the abortion company negotiating the sale of aborted babies’ body parts with actors posing as buyers from a human biologics company.

The footage features Dr. Savita Ginde, who is the medical director of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains (PPRM). Currently, PPRM is one of the largest and wealthiest Planned Parenthood affiliates and operates abortion facilities in Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Nevada. Dr. Ginde tells the actors that she wants to charge per “tissue sample” because that will bring in the most money. She said, “I think the per-item [pricing] works a little better, just because we can see how much we can get out of it.”

However, now the abortion giant is trying to stop news stations from airing the recent footage because it supposedly violates patient privacy. In a letter to TV stations in Minnesota, South Dakota and North Dakota, they attacked CMP by calling them an “extreme activist organization whose sole mission is to prevent women from accessing health care and to destroy Planned Parenthood.”
Unfortunately, for Planned Parenthood, editing only goes so far and CMP released the full, unedited videos with their clips. The truth is Planned Parenthood doesn’t want the truth to come out about their abortion business and will do whatever they have to in order to stop it.

Here’s a portion of their threatening letter:

When your network decides whether to consider this story newsworthy, or whether to use any of this footage at all, we urge you to keep this in mind: The extremists who entered Planned Parenthood labs under false pretenses violated research protocol, and, worse, violated the privacy of patients involved. Those patients’ privacy should not be further violated by having this footage shared by the media.

The storage and examination processes that CMP used to get this footage are medically necessary. It is necessary medical professionals ensure an abortion is complete so that patients do not get an infection. When tissue is donated for medical research, these steps are also necessary for the donations to be completed. It is also medically necessary that researchers evaluate the laboratory procedures of a medical provider for safety standards and best practices.

Some of the conversations and protocols that occur in medical settings and among professional peers can sound jarring when taken out of context. While this can be difficult to hear or watch, it should not be used as an excuse to defund Planned Parenthood.

CMP gained access to Planned Parenthood facilities under false pretenses and filmed without securing approval from the Planned Parenthood staff being filmed or the patients whose privacy is compromised by this secret videotaping. The material should not be aired.

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) pledged Tuesday to hold a vote to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, using a budget resolution that could be passed in the Senate with a simple majority vote of 51 to 49, according to a statement released Tuesday.

“Earlier this year, Senate Republicans passed a balanced budget, and with it the necessary procedural tools – via the budget reconciliation process – to bring an end to the nightmare of Obamacare,” McConnell said in the joint statement with Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah).

“Americans have faced skyrocketing health care costs, rampant fraud and more government between them and their doctors. And Republicans are united in working to repeal the broken promises of Obamacare and allow our country to start over fresh with real health reform that Americans deserve,” he added.

“We will continue our effort to use reconciliation – as the budget makes clear – to fulfill the promise we made to our constituents,” McConnell pledged.

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CONCORD, N.H. – Protests against Planned Parenthood took place nationwide today in light of three undercover videos released by the Center for Medical Progress showing senior Planned Parenthood executives discussing the sale of fetal organs.

The third video, released today, shows Planned Parenthood staffers dissecting the remains of an aborted fetus and discussing the sale of its organs.

Planned Parenthood has denied that its affiliates profit from their “tissue donation” program and has condemned the Center for Medical Progress for using “heavily edited” videos to take Planned Parenthood staffers’ words out of context.

The Center for Medical Progress has also released several videos of its full meetings with the executives.

Students for Life of America organized “Women Betrayed” rallies nationwide to protest taxpayer funding for the nation’s largest abortion provider.

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Lawmakers across the country are calling on Congress to defund Planned Parenthood after undercover videos surfaced showing their top executives negotiating the sale of fetal body parts collected from abortions. Ultimately, the videos highlight the abortion giant’s disregard for human life and their dedication to their bottom line, which is to make more money.

In a new Fox News report, contributors Shannon Bream and Jacqueline Pham help Americans understand how families are forced to help Planned Parenthood’s abortion business through their tax dollars. In fact, the news network created a “Taxpayer Calculator” so that people can find out exactly how much their family gives to Planned Parenthood each year based on their household income.

Here’s more:

Over the last 10 years, Planned Parenthood has gotten more than $4 billion in state and federal government aid. Any bid to defund the organization may face long odds.

But how much is it costing you?

Here’s a sample: Individuals making between $50,000 and $100,000 paid just $15.51 toward Planned Parenthood. However, those making more than that paid considerably more. Individuals making above $250,000 have paid, on average, roughly $420 toward the organization.

As LifeNews previously reported, the initial undercover video was seen by over two million people and since then nearly every Republican candidate for President has urged Congress to defund Planned Parenthood. However, top Democrats in our country have said little about the group’s actions and the President actually thanked them for helping him implement Obamacare

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Abolishing state-recognized marriage would actually separate family members in the eyes of the law. Getting rid of state recognition of marriage is also key to “removing the veil of privacy” that protects spouses and the family, according to Fineman, who has argued for doing just that in her book, “The Autonomy Myth.”

Libertarians have a lot more discernment to exercise before totally signing on to the idea that ending state recognition of marriage actually keeps the government at bay. Kuznicki’s article and Dalmia’s recent essay are all-too-rare examples of libertarian writing that considers the potential pitfalls of that idea.

So, I’d like to offer some questions to ponder.

1. How does lack of state recognition of marriage—replaced by a system of domestic partner contracts—actually shrink government involvement? Trading in the simple marriage license for a system of contracts seems akin to trading in a simple flat tax for today’s Internal Revenue Service tax code.

2. How would you deal with possible legislation to license all parents, including biological parents, once the state no longer recognizes any union, including that of biological parents, as marriage? As stated above, the loss of state recognition of their union as anything more than an ordinary contract will deprive biological parents of the presumption of custody.

3. How does privatizing marriage preserve spousal immunity? At present, the government cannot force you to testify against your spouse. That is currently the law in all 50 states. But once the state no longer recognizes you and your spouse as a family unit—only as partners in an ordinary business-style contract—the case for spousal immunity significantly weakens.

4. What do you make of the fact that Sunstein, the Obama administration’s regulator-in-chief from 2009 to 2012, argues for essentially the same plan? Sunstein is a long-time advocate of policies that grow government. He’s a big fan of nanny-state style “nudging” intended to modify everyone’s behavior.

5. How would abolishing state-recognized marriage promote freedom of association for all? The family serves as a buffer zone, or mediating institution, between the individual and the state. But logically, if the government does not have to recognize your marriage, it does not have to respect it. It does not have to recognize your family relationships at all, or your family as a unit. You are merely a separate party in an ordinary contract with someone else, as far as the state is concerned. Please explain how abolishing state-recognized marriage protects the family and helps insulate individuals from an increasingly Leviathan state.

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I don't know if it has a name but numerous psychological studies have shown that given the choice between recieving $50k a year (But your neighbors all make 20k) and making $100k a year (But your neighbors all also make 100) people would rather take the former. So even if it doesn't have a name it's A Thing.

computer parts posted:

I think that's called cost of living.

RagnarokAngel posted:

I don't know if it has a name but numerous psychological studies have shown that given the choice between recieving $50k a year (But your neighbors all make 20k) and making $100k a year (But your neighbors all also make 100) people would rather take the former. So even if it doesn't have a name it's A Thing.

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

The person on the left and the people on the right are both being exploited. The people on the Right are organizing and fighting against it.

PUGGERNAUT posted:

After three or four images all of the Liberal Logic stuff blurs together into some hellish hatescape. It's like deep dream but all it recognizes is your least favorite uncle's lovely opinions.

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Republican lawmakers took a first step Monday toward trying to fundamentally change the way unions operate, introducing legislation that would restrict how they spend campaign money — and could keep cash away from Democratic candidates in 2016.

Their complaint: Unions are taking advantage of dues-paying members and sending their money to Democratic candidates whether members like it or not.

The Employee Rights Act, introduced Monday by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah., and Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., would allow union members to tell their bosses they don’t want their share of dues going to certain candidates or causes, without fear of retaliation.

It also would seek to stop intimidation tactics by requiring secret ballots for employee elections regarding issues like unionizing or striking.

Any bid to restrict union political donations could have a big impact on Democrats, who get the lion’s share of union campaign money. According to the Center for Union Facts, unions in 2012 contributed nearly $90 million to Democratic Party and aligned organizations.

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“Life is fair!” said nobody, ever. Why? Because anyone who is naïve enough to think that the world conforms to their seemingly innate sense of fairness is too young to articulate such a complex notion.

I’m sure one of your parents broke the news to you that the opposite is true, perhaps after your sister got to spend the night at a friend’s house and you had to stay home, or your brother got just a little bit bigger slice of cake than you did.

Clearly, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has taken this to heart, making unfairness, particularly the economic sort, the center of his campaign. In his speech on July 18 in Phoenix, he spoke at length about the “grotesque level of income and wealth inequality” in America, asserting that the wealth of the bottom 99 percent barely outweigh the immense wealth of the top 1 percent.

But redistribution isn’t the real goal, only a means to an end—and that end isn’t bringing the poor into the middle class. That end is equality. You see, if you look across the globe at the countries that have been managed under socialism and communism, the real result is that nobody gets what they want. If we cannot all be rich, then we must all be poor.

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Guilty Spork posted:

Maybe, or maybe not! It's almost like "laws" aren't inherently good or bad!

OxySnake posted:

Why do ancaps have such a hard on for contracts anyways?

I guess at first glance it is a reasonable idea, but as soon as you think about it for two seconds and realize all the ways that someone can be forced to join one that literally ducks them it falls apart.

Keeshhound posted:

Beyond even that, who's going to enforce the contracts?

Keeshhound posted:

Beyond even that, who's going to enforce the contracts?

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

Private Contract Enforcement / Dispute Resolution firms.

So you ride these turtles down a few layers and realize that unless you're signed up with "The Hitler of Enforcement Firms", you're just waiting to get hosed.

Keeshhound posted:

Beyond even that, who's going to enforce the contracts?

Mo_Steel posted:

Heh, working class scum.

Mo_Steel posted:

Heh, working class scum.

FuzzySkinner posted:

I just find it confusing that their first reaction to this is to always just to attempt to funnel rage towards their pet cause.

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Mr Jaunts posted:

Except Bergdahl has been charged with desertion?

Oh right, I forgot, reality has a liberal bias.

Mr Jaunts posted:

Except Bergdahl has been charged with desertion?

Oh right, I forgot, reality has a liberal bias.

Jurgan posted:

I wish it were restricted to the right-wing, but I've heard a lot of liberals saying "You guys care so much about a lion, but BLACK LIVES MATTER! Why don't you care about the black teenagers shot by the police?" And... I do? I can care about more than one thing at a time? And it's not like the reactions are equal- this "Cecil the Lion" thing will blow over, and I doubt much will come of it, while people are still protesting the shootings.

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