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Pro-Lifers: Did You Know that Planned Parenthood Goons Started the “Anti-Illegal Immigration” Movement?

by on Oct. 10, 2012, under Liberal Fascism

By Andy Kirchoff (re-posted with permission from Cafe Con Leche Republicans).

Today, thousands of Americans of all political persuasions mourn the ongoing tragedy of legalized baby-killing in this country. On this day in 1973, SCOTUS handed the American people the pile of legal gibberish known as Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion procedures during all moments of a pregnancy – even up until the very moment of birth itself. Over 50 million Americans have been killed by abortion in the 39 years that have passed since this tragic decision. That is 50 million too many.

While I am unable to attend the March for Life this year as I have in years past, I stand in solidarity with the countless number of pro-life Americans (including two of my younger brothers, who are joining in the March for Life today) in working and praying for an end to abortion. I also offer the GOP my gratitude for opening its doors to pro-life Americans such as myself looking for a political home. With the Obama administration and the Democratic Party at large opposing even the most modest regulations on abortion procedures, it’s safe to say that the ever-growing number of pro-life Americans will continue to be drawn to Republican candidates so long as the party continues to stand in favor of the unborn.

Unfortunately, the GOP has allowed Planned Parenthood and other abortion-aligned allies quite a bit more wiggle room in the GOP since 2008. No, I’m not talking about the nomination and election of staunchly pro-choice RINOs like Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), as bad as they are. I’m talking about the infiltration of the GOP and the Tea Party by anti-immigration organizations like NumbersUSA, FAIR, and the Minutemen – all of whom are either bankrolled and/or staffed by abortionists, eugenicists, racists, and other operatives from the culture of death. Yes, you read that correctly. Planned Parenthood and its allies in the abortion industry are directly connected to the “anti-amnesty,” “border security,” “anti-illegal immigration” movement in this country.

Let’s start with FAIR, the Federation of Americans for Immigration Reform. FAIR openly advocates for strong enforcement measures like SB1070, E-Verify, and legal immigration caps, while opposing efforts to streamline legal immigration. This group is commonly cited when the issue of illegal immigration is raised in news reports, especially amongst conservatives; FAIR’s statistics have been used by Bill O’Reilly, Gov. Jan Brewer of AZ, and Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), among many others. It’s the largest and most well-funded organization of its type in the country.

FAIR was started by a man named John Tanton, who founded Planned Parenthood of Northern Michigan back in 1972. He continues to openly advocate for abortion, as his letters to supporters indicate quite clearly. His racism and anti-Catholic prejudice is clearly documented. But FAIR’s connections to the abortion rights movement run far deeper than Tanton; FAIR’s Board of Directors is a veritable laundry list of abortion advocates and pro-choice stalwarts. Sarah G. Epstein, FAIR’s Secretary, is on the Board for Planned Parenthood in Washington State. Alan Weeden, another member of FAIR’s Board of Directors, has connections with Planned Parenthood International. Rep. Brian Bilbray (R-CA), head of FAIR’s political outreach, is a pro-choice Republican. There’s even Joyce Tarnow, a Florida abortionist who famously said Haitian earthquake victims should “stew in their own juices,”who was until very recently listed on FAIR’s website as a member of their Board of Directors.

Another prominent “anti-illegal immigration” organization that is playing a particularly outsized role in the current GOP presidential primary is NumbersUSA, headed by Roy Beck. Beck is a close friend of John Tanton, and his website has advocated for “family planning services” (read: abortion). NumbersUSA is not content to end illegal immigration; for them, virtually all immigration must be slowed down or stopped. Unsurprisingly, this extreme and economically detrimental position has led many a racist into the ranks of the organization, and John Tanton has kept his close eye on the organization the entire time. NumbersUSA, too, has been actively supported and even cited by some grassroots conservative activists and tea party groups – a fact that should make every pro-life Republican and tea partier shiver.

It may not be immediately obvious to pro-lifers that abortion advocates and eugenicists should be so interested in immigration issues. I myself was incredulous when evidence of this connection was first presented to me. Since when does Planned Parenthood’s racist, abortion-supporting agenda have anything to do with immigration? Well, as anyone who’s viewed Maafa21 can tell you, the pro-choice movement has always about racism and eugenics, not empowering women, and the “anti-illegal immigration” movement has never been about “border security,” either. Allowing women to kill their own children is not a promotion of “women’s rights.” Likewise, allowing government to enter people’s homes and detain and/or separate them from their families does absolutely nothing to improve border security. Both acts do, however, violate human dignity – something the government is supposed to defend and protect, not violate.

Pro-life conservatives owe it to themselves to confront this menace head on. Conservative politicians cannot be allowed to advocate for Planned Parenthood’s agenda, whether its abortion “rights” or enforcing “the law.” Lincoln and Reagan had no place for such things, and neither should we.

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Andy Kirchoff is the Illinois state leader for Cafe Con Leche Republicans, a national pro-immigrant Republican organization.

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  • tunkashila

    The connections between the execrable anti-immigration groups and Planned Parenthood are tenuous at best, if not outright ludicrous; do you think Tanton, Tarnow or Beck are performing forced abortions on immigrants as they cross the border or taking women to PP by gunpoint?

    Like many pro-lifers, Mr. Kirchoff is quick to seek other brushes to smear his opponents with, apparently forgetting that people’s political views aren’t necessarily homogenous across the spectrum. I agree that all the people he named are racist twits who should be condemned for those views. But their support of abortion rights (and yes, it is a woman’s right to abort) does not further stain their already-spotty reputations, merely demonstrates the truth of the old adage that even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

    • http://twitter.com/CafeConLecheGOP Cafe con Leche GOP

      Where do you suppose politicians promoting harsh immigration policies get their ‘facts’ from? Almost invariably, their ‘facts’ blaming immigrants for a wide variety of social ills come from FAIR, CIS, NumbersUSA, either directly or indirectly. One could make a profession from writing books debunking the constant lies and myths these Tanton founded groups constantly propagate.

      The Tanton network can best be described as an unholy alliance of population control progressives and bigots. Sadly, a few conservative politicians have been drinking Tanton’s Kool-Aidd, and liberals are all-to-happy to frame conservatives as anti-immigrant and anti-Latino with their typical race-baiting ways.

      • tunkashila

        I do not argue their bigotry, nor the disinformation these people and their groups propagate. However, the implication or extrapolation that all people who support abortion rights do so out of racism does not square with reality, which undermines your argument.

        Furthermore, the vast majority of self-identified conservatives have framed themselves as anti-immigrant and anti-Latino through their support of SB1070 and similar measures as well as their steadfast opposition to overhauling our antiquated system. Perhaps it’s time you considered finding or defining a new system of political thought to which to attach yourself.

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Leach/1038352513 Dave Leach

          No one has said “that all people who support abortion rights do so out of racism”. That is a “straw man” argument: the distortion of a position severely enough to make it easy to ridicule. What has been said here is that the anti-immigrant, or immigration restrictionist groups, rely on strongly pro-abortion think tanks. A fact with which you appear to agree.

          You suggest this connection is “tenuous”. Certainly the documentation of pro-abortion roots to immigration restrictionism is strong. Maybe you mean you don’t know what common spiritual bond has brought the two together. You wonder if it is only coincidence.

          I assume the spiritual connection is the mutual repudiation, by immigration restrictionists and abortionists, of “be fruitful and multiply”. They both think increasing population is destructive. Racism is almost secondary; since reducing all races, with the support of all races, is politically impractical, it is much easier to pick on a race with little political power, as a place to start. But it is only to start.

          • tunkashila

            Your verbiage is telling; you “assume” a spiritual connection between the two merely because people who are associated with one group support another. But if the strength of your assumption is strong enough evidence to link the two positions in your mind, then no one would need to say that “all people who support abortion rights do so out of racism” as the argument is implicit in the article, regardless of whether it’s stated (i.e. assumptions work both ways). This does not make it a fact any more than your assumption that I agree with the position, which is an odd one since my last two posts on this thread specifically argued against such a connection. Your argument rests on flawed assumptions rather than facts, as does that of the author.

            • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Leach/1038352513 Dave Leach

              You
              are mixing issues. It is getting hard to keep track of what the
              subject is. The pro-abortion/immigration restrictionist connection is
              not in doubt. I think that is what you said you did not question. I
              am not trying to put words in your mouth, or proving you said
              something you did not. If that is not what you accept, just say so
              plainly, and please explain why you disagree. It is the racist
              connection that is getting us confused. You think I and the author
              assume all abortionists are racists. No one said that, and no one
              thinks it. That is silly. You say the assumption about racism is
              “implicit” in the article. I would like to know what the
              article said that supports this implication in your mind. I think
              there is a connection, but I think it is indirect. Very indirect, as
              I explained. Too indirect for there to be any kind of direct
              correlation.

              The point of the article is that prolife, moral conservative, Bible believing conservative Republicans are putting way too much trust in the “research” of organizations founded by abortionists, eugenicists, and in general those who reject God’s “be fruitful and multiply”. More profoundly, prolifers embrace “be fruitful and multiply” regarding those in the womb, but reject it regarding those across a border – instead adopting the credo of population control types that increasing our population will devastate our nation.

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