[Vision2020] Palin Candidacy Helps Planned Parenthood Fundraising

[Saundra Lund]

I couldn't disagree with Jeff Harkins more.

I'm desperately worried that the truly tolerant among us have genuinely
forgotten what people like Palin mean when they refer to themselves as
"pro-life" and will be taken in by her rhetoric & drink the Palin Kool-Aid.
She uses the word "choice" a lot (listen to her 2006 debate as well as her
more limited recent interviews), but what she wants is to take choice
***away*** from women and use the teeth of the law to force her views on
those of us who disagree with her worldview, pure and simple.  In the Couric
interview, she makes a point of saying that she doesn't think a woman should
go to jail for having an abortion, but you can bet your bottom dollar that
she would want to see compassionate doctors and medical professionals jailed
for helping women if she gets her way.

I thank God for Patt Morrison's original idea, and I thank God that it's
been revived!

Note:  because there are those out there who delight in twisting things to
suit their own personal agendas, I'll state the obvious:  there are plenty
of people in this country who are pro-life and who are also pro-choice.
Sarah Palin isn't one of those good people.  As I've watched her speak, the
striking thing to me is that for someone who professes to be
unapologetically "pro-life," she sure tries to disingenuously dances around
the frank questions a whole lot.

Another HUGE red flag is her use of the words "decision" and "choice" when
talking about our gay and lesbian citizens.  Yuppers, there's a *real*
forward-thinker for us:  she believes sexual orientation is a "choice" or
"decision" one makes!  If it wasn't so scary, her ignorance would be
laughable.  As it is, it's just plain frightening.



Saundra Lund
Moscow, ID

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nothing.
~ Edmund Burke

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-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Jeff Harkins
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 10:36 AM
To: Tom Hansen
Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Palin Candidacy Helps Planned Parenthood
Fundraising

A tasteless and unethical action.

Typical taudry behavior from the left.

At 05:57 AM 10/1/2008, you wrote:
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>Palin candidacy helps Planned Parenthood fundraising
>Donations made in her name surpass $800,000
>
>WASHINGTON ­ Planned Parenthood loves Sarah Palin.
>
>Not for her stance on abortion ­ she's strongly opposed ­ but because her
>presence on the Republican ticket is helping the group raise money.
>
>An e-mail urging people to donate to Planned Parenthood Federation of
>America "in honor of Sarah Palin" has generated more than 31,000 donations
>totaling $802,678 as of Saturday, the group said.
>
>The e-mail, which has been promoted on some liberal blogs for weeks, asks
>people who are unhappy with John McCain's running mate to donate to
>Planned Parenthood. Donors are asked to list the address of the McCain
>campaign headquarters or the Alaska governor's office, which receive a
>card recognizing any donation made in Palin's name.
>
>Calls to the McCain-Palin campaign went unreturned.
>
>A spokesman from Planned Parenthood said the group wasn't the source of
>the original e-mail.
>
>The spokesman forwarded an entry from the Huffington Post blog in which
>Los Angeles Times columnist and radio host Patt Morrison took credit for
>the idea.
>
>Morrison said she started a campaign in 2001 to protest newly elected
>President Bush's opposition to abortion and raised more than $1 million in
>his name. In her recent blog entry, Morrison said she was delighted that
>her idea had been revived for Palin, who opposes abortion even in cases of
>rape and incest.
>
>Jim Roderick, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of North Texas, said
>the spike in donations "speaks to the tenor of some people's concern about
>our issues," which include not just abortion but emergency contraception,
>family planning and testing for sexually transmitted diseases.
>
>Such issues are especially important in Texas, Roderick said, because the
>state has the highest rate of first-time and second-time teen pregnancies
>in the U.S.
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>Seeya round town, Moscow.
>
>Tom Hansen
>Moscow, Idaho
>
>"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college
>students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."
>
>- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)
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