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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWell, this has to be a first.
One of my FaceBook friends just posted a comment on my thread about the Komen Foundation doing an about-face.
Part of her comment was to the effect that Planned Parenthood provides defective contraceptives to poor women, in order to increase the number of abortion patients. I can't even bring myself to respond, because it would mean trying to wrap my mind around her logic.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Mira
(22,380 posts)is readily available is my main prejudice in life. I have to go work on it... I'm off to do that now!
madaboutharry
(40,203 posts)Some people can't pass up a conspiracy theory.
Bluerthanblue
(13,669 posts)I'd hate to live in her mind.
GoCubsGo
(32,078 posts)And, keep on her case until she does. That way everyone else can see that she is full of shit.
it should not be an opinion piece from WND or CNS.
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)Seriously, call A&E and demand an intervention.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)them does not make them go away. Fight back, especially on social networks where other people can see your argument against the ignorance.The right wing extremists will not stop lying until they are tired of defending their lies.
Demonaut
(8,914 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,444 posts)can afford to have an abortion rather than use birth control. One word for your friend: idiot.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)I don't know how people can believe such things...are they just stupid or what is it?
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)Sounds like some kind of lie she was told. Furthermore, it sounds like libel/slander.
yardwork
(61,588 posts)obamanut2012
(26,064 posts)Worried senior
(1,328 posts)to that stupid remark.
ellenfl
(8,660 posts)LeftinOH
(5,353 posts)2. Prove it by providing your source(s).
And yes, there is a recent-vintage satire piece in The Onion about a massive Planned Parenthood "Abortionplex" being built somewhere, which lots of outraged numbskulls forwarded to each other because they actually believed it.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)And the moon is made of green cheese and the Easter Bunny is real. Some people's kids, I tell ya.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)Conservatives provide defective information to stupid people in order to increase the number of Republican voters.
Same idea