Conservatives like Brewer try to make it sound that Planned Parenthood is only about abortions. This is completely untrue. Among Planned Parenthood's many services include cancer screenings, birth control, vaccinations, sexual health education, and health counseling.
Yes, just as Pablo Escobar built parks, medical clinics, and educational facilities for the poor peasants that harvested his coca. "Birth control," "sexual health education," and " "health counseling" are simply code words for various programs that are a part of the anti-natalist ideology that animates Planned Parenthood and allied institutions throughout the world.
What is the likely result if Planned Parenthood is forced to scale services like birth control and sex education, which are frequently used by low income people? More pregancies and more abortions!
This argument is rapidly moving toward a clinic in logical fallacy. So, to avoid a long, drawn out surgical dismantling of the above paragraph, I'll just say that this argument has no knees, and cannot stand up on its own. The way to avoid more pregnancies and more abortions is to live and respect the Law of Chastity and the proper boundaries, limits, and conditions under which human sexual activity is legitimate, optimum, and conducive to a healthy, viable social order.
Brewer needs to remember that Roe v. Wade is still the law of the land. All abortions with which Planned Parenthood is involved are legal. This is simply a blatant attempt to legislate Christian morality.
And Roe was a blatant attempt to legislate the counter-morality of the
Anointed. Roe is bad law, period, and never had any business in the federal courts at all. It should be overturned and the entire question sent to the 50 states for a thorough hashing out on a state by state basis.
The irony is that Brewer would probably scream bloody murder if the Feds decided to quite supporting religion with public funding and eliminate its tax-exempt status.
The federal government does not support religion. Religion supports itself, and always has. With or without tax exemption, religion would still exist in fundamentally its present form in America regardless.
Secondly, I cannot for the life of me see any logical analogy between government funding (which means the tax monies of countless people who disagree vehemently with Planned Parenthood as a matter of conscience) of abortion as a method of birth control (the use of taxes for a specific and highly ideological purpose) and the exempting of an institution from taxation. I don't pay for the Catholic church's activities, but I do pay for a vast ocean of lifestyle abortions that are, as a matter of principle, morally obnoxious in character.
No one can tell me that the Mormon Church with its billions in tithing income, which is used to buy cattle ranches and build $5 billion shopping malls, should be exempt from taxation.
The Church is. The Church's profit making economic activities, under other corporate names/designations, are not. ZCMI doesn't pay taxes?
