Vernon Parker and Planned Parenthood
Vernon Parker, who’s running for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, has taken a strong stand on …
The state budget crisis? Its abysmal education standings? An intractable immigration impasse? The crushing societal problems caused by an unwinnable war on drugs?
No, women who need an abortion. Parker started the debate by trying to score a quick political point among the GOP anti-abortion nuts by criticizing his opponent, Gov. Jan Brewer, for having a fundraiser at the home of a Planned Parenthood official.
The letter, published on Sonoran Alliance:
I cannot support an organization that lobbies the legislature and courts on behalf of one of the most gruesome procedures imaginable, partial birth abortion.
Planned Parenthood has consistently lobbied against middle-of-the-road reform such as parental consent, parental notification, informed consent and a waiting period. By any reasonable standard, Planned Parenthood is far outside the mainstream of public opinion on all these issues.
Believe me when I say some of the conversations I’ve had with anti-choice men about late term abortion have been jaw droppers. They really do think we women, if left up to our own devices, will wait until we are 8 months pregnant and then casually decide to terminate it because we need to fit into a prom dress or to go on a jaunt to Barbados. They truly, honestly, believe women are dumber than dirt and have the moral and ethical fortitude of alley cats.
Vernon suggests he doesn’t trust women very much when he whinges about parental notification and waiting periods, calling them “middle of the road”. Yup, it’s just like how they make men wait 24 hours and sit through a lecture before they get Viagra or a vasecto… Oh wait, they don’t.
Left unmentioned: That sort of Planned Parenthood person would host a fundraiser for a Republican governor of Brewer’s antediluvian philosophies.
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