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As with yesterday’s post about the NEA, where a high ranking official without shame articulated that group’s real objectives (money and power) in contradiction to its stated goals of improving education, today we bring you something similar, though thoroughly crude and disturbing, by Planned Parenthood. It’s a video, by our friends at Catholicvote.org, of a Planned Parenthood march and rally earlier this year. The video simply records pro-abortion radicals saying (often screaming) what they believe, while (to put it kindly) distorting what pro-lifers believe. Of course, the Mainstream Media won’t embarrass its own movement by covering such nonsense (but when there’s a Tea Party rally calling for commonsense spending restraint . . . you know what happens). Neither did the MSM cover this rally of “liberals” last year, where participants gladly called themselves socialists and communists. (But let a conservative call these radicals what they admit to being and the media contrives a firestorm.)

Still, it’s important to hear what the pro-abortion side truly believes (government funding and insurance coverage of abortion on demand), in their own (shrill) words. Nothing close to “safe, legal and rare.” Of course, liberals claim that conservatives distort their positions and it is conservatives who are out of touch. But it’s hard to claim Planned Parenthood is reasonable after watching this. As with the teachers union, what Planned Parenthood says (and how it acts) for public consumption and what it sincerely shrieks when it thinks no one is watching is vastly different.

“Government should fund Planned Parenthood.”

“I want Planned Parenthood to be like Starbucks. I want a Planned Parenthood on every corner.”

While some Republicans, in Virginia and nationally, think the time has come and passed on “social issues” (i.e., preserving life and marriage), and that elections can be won only from the “center,” Governor Bob McDonnell has some news for you. Social issues matter and they are worth the fight.

Charlottesville television station NBC29′s RichmondReport conducted an interview (read here) with the governor and posted the video online today. He was asked if there should be a “truce on social issues,” perhaps in response to Indiana governor and potential GOP presidential candidate Mitch Daniels, who created headlines last year when he said there should be a “truce” on social issues (i.e., throw in the towel, traditional marriage supporters and pro-lifers). Last week, Governor Daniels reiterated that position unapologetically in The Hill.

Equally unequivocal, Governor McDonnell said that while people tend to think first about jobs and fiscal issues during a tough economy, there are certain issues that must always be discussed because they go to the core of our founding, most especially life. He added that issues regarding the family are a significant aspect of public policy and government has a place in looking for solutions to problems affecting families and in making them stronger.

From the interview:

I believe that’s very much what the focus ought to be on right now, but to say we’re not going to discuss any social or values issues because they’re controversial, I don’t think is the right thing to do. …

There are (issues) regarding life and marriage and family that there are public policies that I think the government needs to set. …

No truce here, carry on: Governor McDonnell affirms the importance of life, marriage and other “social issues” in public policy that some politicians prefer to ignore.

Disturbing.

That’s the word that came to mind as I reviewed a Web site associated with Planned Parenthood called imnotsorry.net. The site proclaims itself as a place “where women can share their positive experiences with abortion.”

Perhaps the hardest part of the site to read, beyond the graphic descriptions of abortions that were “positive experiences,” is the attitudes expressed on the “answers the pro-lifers” page. This is where the site’s contributors refer to unborn children in the first few weeks of life as an “alien-looking clump roughly the size of a kidney bean.”

It gets far worse. The site states in response to women who want children:

(That not) every woman gets gooey over babies and wants to be a mother. We have no doubt that the moment the human race figured out that babies were the result of sex, someone began coming up with birth control and abortion.

Babies are the problem, of course.

The idea that children are a “gift from God”?

Children are conceived through sexual intercourse between a man and a woman with either no or failed contraception. We’ve slept with men who thought they were God, but the actual Big Guy himself has no hand in it. And there’s quite a few people on the planet who (hang on to your hats) don’t believe in any sort of deity.

The rest of the response is so filled with bitterness toward God, that I’m not going to repeat it. Whoever wrote it has clearly had a painful life. I pray for him or her.

The popular line in the media and those who promote abortion is that no one is “pro-abortion.” How we wish that were true. One review of imnotsorry.net (and I warn you, there is offensive language in many of the stories) tell us that when we use the phrase “pro-abortion” to describe some people in our nation, we are being very accurate (see a story that celebrates abortion).

This Web site ignores the multitude of women who regret the decision they made to have an abortion. Whether they where coerced or unsupported by loved ones, they believed they had no options. That “choice” haunts them. They see it as anything but a “positive experience.”

It is our job to show women who have had abortions the love and compassion that God has showed each of us for the poor decisions we’ve made in our lives. It’s why ministries such as Silent No More exist, to provide support and love for women who have suffered from their decisions. We also must do all we can to make sure that every woman considering abortion has all the most accurate information available about her unborn child — such as an ultrasound — so that their “choice” is an informed one.

A lot has been said and written about the first ever Virginia Tea Party Convention this Friday and Saturday at the Greater Richmond Convention Center. National as well as state media are expected to turn up as the convention’s organizers are billing it as the largest such gathering in the country. So far, 2,300 attendees have registered to hear an assortment of national figures as well as state leaders, such as Governor Bob McDonnell and Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. But the convention will be more than speakers. It is going to have policy round tables and workshops for activists to better prepare for the upcoming and future elections.

Your humble admin will be in attendance along Blogger’s Row. I will post live on our Facebook page (click here to join that page) which also tweets to our Twitter page (click here). Our tweets also pop up in our Twitter box on right margin of this blog. I’m not sure how much live blogging  I will do but I will take it all in and do a wrap up early next week. But I think  convention  settings are tailor made for quicker observations which allow for more audience give and take. I hope you will join me online. 

With our Gala taking shape in the same building hours after the convention ends, it’s going to be an active and hectic weekend. One thing I will look out for: the extent to which “social issues” are discussed. After all, you can’t have liberty without Life, and for all the discussion about how social conservatives and libertarians don’t mix well, most of those I know are firm pro-lifers.

Regardless, please, check in here during the weekend for the latest on what should be one of the most memorable two days of conservative activism in the commonwealth’s history: The Tea Party Convention and The Family Foundation’s 25th Anniversary Gala (which has its own gaggle of state and national media coverage, including Fox News). In fact, more than 1,00o people will gather at the gala to celebrate a quarter century of advocacy of family values in Virginia public policy, and to hear rising conservative leader Congressman Mike Pence of Indiana.

The arrogance of Planned Parenthood was never more apparent than in June in Washington, D.C., when the abortionists put a no trespassing sign on the public sidewalk in front of one of its abortion centers. When a group of pro-lifers held a prayer vigil there, Planned Parenthood called the police and had the praying faithful arrested for trespassing, including a pastor.

However, authorities resolved the matter on August 12 . . . in favor of the pastor. The sidewalk, of course is public property and no private entity can exercise jurisdiction over it. Planned Parenthood lost. The sign now must come down. Bound4Life Director Matt Locket recently sat down with the pastor, the Rev. Patrick Mahoney, to get a play-by-play of what happened. We’ll let the video speak for itself. But one point for emphasis: Rev. Mahoney makes a perceptive observation about how several issues blend together as part of the pro-abortion crowd’s comprehensive intolerance. If Planned Parenthood doesn’t respect the right to life, how can anyone expect them to respect one’s right to free speech — or anything else?

If they don’t respect life, how can you expect pro-abortionists to respect speech . . . or any other basic human right?

From a recently received e-mail from Billy Valentine of the Facebook group Catholics in the GOP:

Pence Amendment to De-Fund Planned Parenthood failed, 187-247. We received 20 Dem votes, 3 more than we did last time the amendment was offered two years ago.

Yet, the vote clearly shows elections have consequences, and the need to work hard in 2010 so pro-lifers can take back Congress.

In the meantime, please continue to lobby Congress hard on the health-care bill.

You can send a quick e-mail to your represntatives concerning taxpayer funded abortions, medical professional conscience protection, and other life aspects of the socialized medicine bill through Facebook by clicking here.

Just wanted to bring to your attention a great blog we discovered today called The Journey, which we’ve added to our blog roll. It’s the project of Bob Kirchman of Staunton and we appreciate his commentary today on one of our recent posts regarding the elitist, condescending and hateful remarks that Mark Warner and Barack Obama made about Christians, pro-lifers, home-schoolers and Second Amendment advocates (“Sound Familiar?” from October 22).

Kirchman’s post, “Of The People,” can be found here. We highly recommend it and the blog as a whole. For example, he has features on Gianna Jessen, who survived an abortion, and on Dr. James Dobson, and many other topics that he finds of professional and personal interest, such as architecture and space exploration (both favorites of mine, so maybe I’m partial). The blog also has links to other worthwhile sites. You will find Bob’s perspective on the issues great and insightful as well as an informative and good read.

The fringe left loves to mock values voters and the Mainstream Media thinks we’ve gone away or, at the least, of little relevance to the electoral process. Our influence is on the wane so they say. So they hope. So they believe?

Maybe that’s why Mark Warner and Barack Obama made their infamous comments about pro-lifers, Christians, home-schoolers and gun owners (see videos and transcripts, here). Maybe that’s why U.S. Representative Jack Murtha (D-Pa.) made these comments about his own constituents:

“There’s no question western Pennsylvania is a racist area.”

After he apologized for that, Murtha then said this his district was “really redneck” (read  Amanda Hall at Town Hall.com). Maybe they say these things because they are at ease doing so; it’s exactly what they think and they’re going to say it because they think there will be no electoral repercussion. Values voters are flakes, fringe and of no consequence, in their mind. 

Then again, it is interesting to hear liberal candidates do their best to pretend they are for Second Amendment rights. Virginia was saturated for a while with radio ads featuring a front-group’s spokesman saying Barack Obama was all for Second Amendment protections, despite a legislative career to the contrary in the Illinois legislature. The front-group was exposed and mysteriously the ads stopped.

Now Senator Obama is running radio ads with Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-Democrat-turned Republican-turned-Democrat Virginia U.S. Senator Jim Webb vouching for Obama’s Second Amendment credentials and quickly changing the subject to the economy (as did the front-group ad). 

Senator Webb says in the ad that Obama’s opponents are misleading the public on his stands on such issues as the Second Amendment. If that’s true, it’s only because Obama said it about himself first.

(This post was updated on October 9 to include the actual audio on this thread rather than the link to its Web page. – The admin)

We posted the transcript of this quote a while ago, but it comes back to our attention since now it is available on YouTube. At least the audio of it is. Unless you doubt someone’s real attitude, despite what he says about being “bipartisan,” listen to his actual rhetoric. For example, below is the audio of an infamous quote from former Governor Mark Warner, now the Democrat nominee for the U.S. Senate in Virginia. Former Governor Jim Gilmore is his Republican opponent. The transcript is below the audio box and is more complete than the one provided in the box. Read it as you listen: It is Mark Warner telling a group of Democrat partisans what he really thinks of Christians, gun owners, pro-lifers, home-schoolers and others.

One of the things you are going to see is a coalition that is just about completely taken over the Republican Party in this state and if they have their way it’s going to take over state government. It is made up of the Christian Coalition, but not just them. It is made up of the right-to-lifers, but not just them. It’s made up of the NRA, but not just them. It is made up of the home-schoolers, but not just them. It’s made up of a whole coalition of people that have all sorts of differing views that I think most of us in this room would find threatening to what it means to be an American.

Funny how he said this to a particular group when he thought rural voters, Christians and others whose votes he courts posing as a “moderate” weren’t listening. Remind anyone of where and under what circumstances someone else’s “bitter and clinging to their guns and religion” comment was made?

This is a must read. It’s somewhat common knowledge, but with Michelle Malkin’s intense, go-get’em style and attitude. Here’s an excerpt:

In April, the annual report for Planned Parenthood Federation of America revealed that the abortion giant had a total income of $1.02 billion — with reported profits of nearly $115 million. Taxpayers kick in more than $336 million worth of government grants and contracts at both the state and federal levels. That’s a third of Planned Parenthood’s budget. (Click here to read this important column in its entirety.)

It’s usually my style to comment at least some . . . but Michelle basically says it all. One more gem, but read the entire article:

Where’s the subpoena-wielding Henry Waxman? Can Orrin Hatch spare a moment from investigating the New England Patriots to probe Planned Parenthood’s efforts to advise underage teens on how to circumvent parental notification laws to secretly obtain RU-486, the abortion drug cocktail? Where is the concern for the women and children who were mistreated by Planned Parenthood clinics in Kansas, where Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline has filed a 107-count criminal complaint against the abortion racket, with charges ranging from falsifying documents to performing illegal late-term abortions?

As exposed as Planned Parenthood is to pro-lifers, and as tenacious as writers such as Michelle Malkin are, not everyone is aware of what goes on at Planned Parenthood, even in our own backyard. Here is an article about a Washington, D.C.-area woman suing Planned Parenthood (click here) for a botched procedure. Where is the article from? The Canada Free Press. In Canada people know about it, but what about here? More needs to be done to shine the light on this organization to the general public.