{"id":26015,"date":"2012-02-04T11:01:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T18:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/04\/political-activism-for-the-goose-is-political-activism-for-the-gander.html"},"modified":"2012-02-04T18:50:05","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T01:50:05","slug":"political-activism-for-the-goose-is-political-activism-for-the-gander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/04\/political-activism-for-the-goose-is-political-activism-for-the-gander.html","title":{"rendered":"Political activism for the goose is political activism for the gander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because the long-term campaign on Komen by anti-abortion forces was merely prayerful urgings and a &quot;targeted&quot; but righteous cause, but the pressure on Komen to reverse their Planned Parenthood decision was &quot;thuggery&quot; and a &quot;Mafia shakedown&quot; and a &quot;wild frenzy&quot; by &quot;pro-abortion fanatics who demand obeisance to Planned Parenthood.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Riiiiiight.  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/religious-right-reacts-komens-latest-statement-confusion-anger-and-warnings-gods-wrath'>Religious Right Reacts To Komen&#39;s Latest Statement with Confusion, Anger and Warnings of God&#39;s Wrath  | Right Wing Watch<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn the world of Religious Right activists, waging a campaign to convince the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation to cut funding to breast cancer exams at Planned Parenthood clinics is an admirable &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because the long-term campaign on Komen by anti-abortion forces was merely prayerful urgings and a &quot;targeted&quot; but righteous cause, but the pressure on Komen to reverse their Planned Parenthood decision was &quot;thuggery&quot; and a &quot;Mafia shakedown&quot; and a &quot;wild frenzy&quot; by &quot;pro-abortion fanatics who demand obeisance to Planned Parenthood.&quot; Riiiiiight. #ddtb Embedded Link Religious Right &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/04\/political-activism-for-the-goose-is-political-activism-for-the-gander.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Political activism for the goose is political activism for the gander&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,9],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-politics-law","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26060,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/04\/how-do-you-drive-planned-parenthood-out-of-the-abortion-business.html","url_meta":{"origin":26015,"position":0},"title":"How do you drive Planned Parenthood out of the abortion business?","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 4-Feb-12 7:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"By giving them money.\"The way to get fewer abortions is to provide contraception \u2014 and to teach people to use it diligently, which is a moral project, not just a technical one. That way, fewer women who don\u2019t want to have babies get pregnant. And the abortion rate goes down.Apparently,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25959,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/01\/why-are-you-asking-for-money-from-others-when-we-cut-off-money-to-you.html","url_meta":{"origin":26015,"position":1},"title":"Why are you asking for money from others when we cut off money to you?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 1-Feb-12 9:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Main reason I'm linking to this (yet another) article on the SGK \/ Planned Parenthood dust-up is this particularly doltish quote from a Komen official:'News of Komen\u2019s decision galvanized many of Planned Parenthood\u2019s supporters. The organization had collected $400,000 in donations by mid-afternoon on Wednesday and hoped the flow would\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25992,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/03\/where-the-komen-defunding-of-planned-parenthood-hurts.html","url_meta":{"origin":26015,"position":2},"title":"Where the Komen defunding of Planned Parenthood hurts","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 3-Feb-12 2:13am","format":false,"excerpt":"In areas where PP clinics are the only thing out there -- and where the grant money was not only valuable in and of itself, but leveraged other programs to help poor women. #ddtbReshared post from +Mark Dodson Embedded Link Where The Komen Decision To Defund Planned Parenthood Will Hit\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25850,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/31\/the-pink-ribbon-is-looking-a-little-yellow.html","url_meta":{"origin":26015,"position":3},"title":"The pink ribbon is looking a little yellow","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 31-Jan-12 5:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Susan G. 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