Did You Know This About Planned Parenthood?
Over the weekend, I thought I'd heard nearly every argument--pro and con, compelling and meretricious--in the case of the Komen Foundation and Planned Parenthood. I was wrong. In the Wall Street Journal Monday, Robert George presented yet another wrinkle:
Among Komen's reasons for discontinuing grants to Planned Parenthood was its policy of avoiding entanglements with entities under government investigation. Planned Parenthood has been and is under congressional and criminal investigation (by attorneys general, local prosecutors and various regulatory agencies in Arizona, Indiana, Alabama, Kansas and Texas) for allegations including failure to report criminal child sex abuse, misuse of health-care and family-planning funds, and failure to comply with parental-involvement laws regarding abortions.
Planned Parenthood, under criminal investigation. Now how do you suppose the mainstream media--which now and always excludes the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal--how do you suppose the mainstream media could have overlooked that?
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Jun '10
Re: Did You Know This About Planned Parenthood?
They murder babies for money. What do you expect?
Jun '10
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It was my understanding from the beginning that this was the reason they had severed ties. I didn't get a sense that this was buried. Perhaps I had just found the right article at the right time.
I've been saying for the last few months that Komen was due for a fall. Having been out of country so long, I missed a lot of little things that smacked my attention when I came back. Seeing pink this, pink that, pink everywhere seemed to say that they risked getting overexposed. I guess my forecast was correct. Of course, it would have been far more impressive if I had actually told someone about this prediction.
May '10
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My guess is that many liberal organizations have more than a few skeletons in their closets. Where are the "investigative" reporters?
Jul '11
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Holder will fix those guys. Those who report the news that is.
May '10
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I kept hearing and reading that Komen dropped Planned Parenthood because they didn't donate to anyone "under investigation", but nobody ever said what Planned Parenthood was under investigation for.
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Aaron Miller
I kept hearing and reading that Komen dropped Planned Parenthood because they didn't donate to anyone "under investigation", but nobody ever said what Planned Parenthood was under investigation for. · 3 minutes ago
Dave and Aaron, you may simply have proven more attentive readers than I've been on this one. What I'd heard--and, come to think of it, I seem to have absorbed my news about this from the radio--was that the Komen folks were trying to be apolitical. (Lot of good it did them.) Still, Planned Parenthood, the subject of criminal investigations. That didn't exactly get shouted from top of the NPR broadcasting tower, did it?
Oct '10
Re: Did You Know This About Planned Parenthood?
C’mon, guys. The journos are busy unmasking the racism in every statement a Republican makes and you want they should trouble themselves with actual, on-going criminal investigations? Puhleeze!
Besides, as the AP reported, the leading Republican candidate lives in a glass house. This sort of story will run around the clock until November.
Edited on February 7, 2012 at 8:16amDec '10
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Peter,
Planned Parenthood engaged in extortion in dealing with Komen. I think it's time the bully got some of it's own treatment.
How about an advertising campaign that features Margaret Sanger's Eugenic obsessions. I think this might put a damper on their fund raising activities.
Regards,
Jim
Oct '10
Re: Did You Know This About Planned Parenthood?
PP was one of the early targets of James O'Keefe (with Lila Rose).
Feb '11
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Last week they were saying (my paraphrase) "Oh some Republican Congressman looking for headlines wants a hearing and that's the only investigation we are involved in."
Dec '11
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When this story first broke, NPR reported that was the main reason for the severing of ties, but that the investigation itself was a political witch hunt brought by a Republican. In the hoopla that followed I never heard anything further about the investigation itself.
Feb '12
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"...how do you suppose the mainstream media could have overlooked that?" By choice. There's an abject failure by today's press/media to ignore the truth, or at the very least, to not print or speak it.
Oct '11
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Why doesn't the media report this?
Jun '10
Re: Did You Know This About Planned Parenthood?
If this were an investigation of sugar use or too much transfat at a Manhattan branch of PP, Mayor Nanny would be all over it, and the NYT would cover it.
However, in the eyes of the MSM, the only types who investigate PP for "abortion" issues are small-minded rubes who cling to God and guns, the MSM refuses to give such investigations the status of existence. Thus the dog that doesn't bark.
Dec '10
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The person 'behind' the decision to defund PP has just quit, in protest of the reversal of the decision. She 'acknowledges her role,' is disappointed by the 'mischaracterization' of her motives, and says it was all about defunding PP because they were under investigation.
I did hear that (once) I think, in the beginning, before the story was hijacked by Nancy Pelosi and the NAGs. From day two, though, that story was completely buried, it seems to me with the willing cooperation of the Susan Komen Foundation.