Planned Parenthood targets Fasano, others

Planned Parenthood said Friday it will make phone calls and launch a direct-mail campaign targeting a half-dozen legislators who voted in favor of a bill that would have required pregnant women to be shown an ultrasound of the fetus before undergoing an abortion. The bill (HB 257) passed the House easily, but died in the Senate on a dramatic 20-20 tie as seven GOP senators sided with opposition Democrats.

The lone Tampa Bay lawmaker who's being targeted is Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, who's up for re-election this fall. The other five are Sen. Jeff Atwater, R-Palm Beach Gardens, and Reps. Gayle Harrell, R-Port St. Lucie; Doug Holder, R-Sarasota; Matt Hudson, R-Naples; and Darren Soto, D-Orlando.

Atwater has raised more than $1.6-million and faces a challenge in a moderate district from former Democratic Sen. Skip Campbell as hs seeks to become the next Senate president. Harrell is running for Congress, Holder represents a swing district and Hudson and Soto are so-called redshirt freshmen, who were elected in the past year. 

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[toxic democrats]

so it wrong to let people know about the full consequences of their actions. life is not precious to democrats and with the ruling from the supreme court that co2 is a pollutant--the darwinist and eugenist will have a field day pulling plugs at the hospices. beware of this evilness amoung us.

I think that if he is re-elected he will be needed in the remnants of the Republican party in the Legislature.

He certainly has led the charge in failed privatizations, fake fixes, and corporate welfare and THAT is what the voters need to remember!!!!

[Prolife and Liberal]

We need help making abortion illegal in the US. I am trying to get pro-life liberals to unite. I have set up a website prolifeliberals.org . Please contribute content and ideas

Thanks

If Planned Parenthood is against Senator Fasano then I am for him. Those baby killers scare me. Talk about blood money. They made something like $1 Billion last year doing abortions.

[Iconoclast]

How many unwanted babies have you
pro-lifers adopted? Or do you just
assume that the taxpayers want to pay
to raise them?

Well if Planned Parenthood is against them they'll probably win, good luck men and women of good will!

Thank you for standing up for human life... you are leaders in the great state of Florida.

Hey Planned Parenthood, I got your target right here.

[Dickey's Boy Too!]

nonono... you guys got it all wrong... you see, we need to make abortion illegal. That way, we'll have more young men and women to send to Iraq to die so I can avenge my daddy... and he'll finally love me more than he loves Jeb!

Signed,

Dubya!

Please beat Doug Holder.

[Margaret Higgins Sanger---kill the unfit and the genetically inferior. The genesis of PP.]

Eugenics and euthanasia
Sanger was a proponent of eugenics, a social philosophy that gained strong support in the United States in the early 20th century. The philosophy claimed that human hereditary traits can be improved through social intervention. Methods of social intervention (targeted at those seen as "genetically unfit") advocated by eugenists have included selective breeding, sterilization and euthanasia. In "A Plan for Peace" (1932), for example, Sanger argued for:

A stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.[13]

Her first pamphlet read:

It is a vicious cycle; ignorance breeds poverty and poverty breeds ignorance. There is only one cure for both, and that is to stop breeding these things. Stop bringing to birth children whose inheritance cannot be one of health or intelligence. Stop bringing into the world children whose parents cannot provide for them. Herein lies the key of civilization. For upon the foundation of an enlightened and voluntary motherhood shall a future civilization emerge.[14]

Sanger promoted the idea of "race hygiene" through "negative eugenics," an attempt to reduce the fertility of "dysgenic" groups. Sanger considered the unchecked multiplication of the "unfit" to be "the greatest present menace to civilization."[15] She suggested Congress set up a special department to study population problems and appoint a "Parliament of Population." One of the main objectives of the "Population Congress" would be "to raise the level and increase the general intelligence of population."[16]

Sanger saw birth control as a means to prevent "dysgenic" children from being born into a disadvantaged life, and dismissed "positive eugenics" (which promoted greater fertility for the "fitter" upper classes) as impractical. Though many leaders in the eugenics movement were calling for active euthanasia of the "unfit," Sanger spoke out against such methods. Edwin Black writes:

In [William] Robinson's book, Eugenics, Marriage and Birth Control (Practical Eugenics), he advocated gassing the children of the unfit. In plain words, Robinson insisted: 'The best thing would be to gently chloroform these children or give them a dose of potassium cyanide.' Margaret Sanger was well aware that her fellow birth control advocates were promoting lethal chambers, but she herself rejected the idea completely. 'Nor do we believe,' wrote Sanger in Pivot of Civilization, 'that the community could or should send to the lethal chamber the defective progeny resulting from irresponsible and unintelligent breeding.'[17]

When Nazi Germany adopted the principles of eugenics to create a Germanic "master race," Sanger did not publicly denounce the racist and anti-Semitic program of the Nazis. However, in a letter she wrote:

"All the news from Germany is sad & horrible, and to me more dangerous than any other war going on any where because it has so many good people who applaud the atrocities & claim its right. The sudden antagonism in Germany against the Jews & the vitriolic hatred of them is spreading underground here & is far more dangerous than the aggressive policy of the Japanese in Manchuria.."[8]

About placing the responsibility for eugenic control in the hands of individual parents rather than the state, she wrote:

"The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.... We are convinced that racial regeneration, like individual regeneration, must come 'from within.' That is, it must be autonomous, self-directive, and not imposed from without."[18]

We maintain that a woman possessing an adequate knowledge of her reproductive functions is the best judge of the time and conditions under which her child should be brought into the world. We further maintain that it is her right, regardless of all other considerations, to determine whether she shall bear children or not, and how many children she shall bear if she chooses to become a mother... Only upon a free, self-determining motherhood can rest any unshakable structure of racial betterment.[19]

She nevertheless advocated certain instances of coercion, in cases where she considered the parents unfit to decide whether they should bear children:

"The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind."

[Adolf Hilter]

I was totally infatuated with Ms. Sanger and through her efforst was able to fulfill her goals by finding the most advance genetic species of human beings, and then start her eugenics process and eliminate the inferior races to have a new man kind that will be able to reach our totalitarian socialist dreams. Long live Darwin and the Eugenics!!!

Don't kill the unfit and genetically inferior - kill the stupid.

99% of the problems in this world today are caused by stupid people.

Stupidity knows no party line.

Do you really want the stupid to have a say on who governs you?

"The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind."

What is that; PC for homertesticles and lesbotarians?

[I'm a retard]

and life is hard. i wish i would be aborted. maybe we should think about moving the date of termination to 18 years. i bet those younsters would behave better is that was the law.

Harrell is going to win the primary!

[Etc]

That's too bad. I was starting to like Obama.

[Obvious]

fasano will lose with our without planned parent hoods help

More babies = more soldiers to die to avenge Dubya’s daddy! Truth in Motive!

This is why the GOP is so vulnerable. We elect Republicans to be strong on defense and the economy...They lost sight of that during the session with bills like this one.

2:24 post-birth abortions, could catch on.

[GOPChick]

Fasano you rock! Keep up the great work your one of the few conservatives we have left in a sea of moderates.

Fasano you rock! Keep up the great work your one of the few conservatives we have left in a sea of moderates.

Love,

Ebstein's Mother

Ps: your rent is due.

Fellow senators begged Webster and leadership to not bring this issue for a vote, knowing they would be targeted. The votes were not there to pass it but Webster didn't care about his collegues, only about himself.

GOP'ers need to purge the moderates out even if it means gaining minority status. Let those who think all this progressive thinking just might be for them experience some of it. Then real Republicans will be back in style and able to function like it.

God Bless

4:25

The GOP already purged the moderates. It's why they are getting their a_sses kicked right and left over the last 2 years.

Start with purging the crinimals from your Party... then we'll talk.

Don't try to tell me Fasano is "pro-life" - any member who'd vote to cut child abuse investigators, lay off foster care workers, eliminate nursing home inspections and cut funding to health programs for children and the severely mentally and physically retarded in order to give the money to CSX, St. Joe Paper Company, toll roads through other memebers' property, and to build stadiums for professional sports teams IS NOT PRO-LIFE!!!!!!!

Tell me Gelber was not pro abortion.

Nobody is "pro abortion"... just smart enough to get reality... pinhead!

Who is running the political shop at Planned Parenthood? Fasano, Holder and Hudson ain't going anywhere. Atwater, understandable. And Soto? Do they forget he had a "D" next to his name and represents a very Democratic, very Puerto Rican district???

12:54 - Obviously the current Republican Leadership is pro-abortion - they've made it so the former middle-class, now known as the working poor can't afford to have their babies - look at who's going to abortion clinics - white women. The Republican Party has become pro-abortion through its corporate welfare policies and its fake fixes of property taxes, property insurance, and failure to address the need for tax reform.

Actions speak louder than words and the Republican Leadership's actions have fairly shouted their beliefs!

Fasano is a fake. I hope he loses. That bill was more government in our lives and had legislators make personal decisions for the public. It should be left to thwe family, their religious leaders or who ever they feel comfortble talking to. This is a liberal way of doing things. Its the "government knows whats best for you" bill. I will vote no on re-electing Fasano.

Those who post here that people are pro abortion, are nuts. They should be labled as the "government compelled pregnancy" fanatics. They would have government COMPELL pregnancy no matter what the particular circumstances are.

Fasano is an obnoxious opportunist who is the very personification of what is wrong with American politics.

There is no posture he can't assume with comfortable ease.

Planned Parenthood -defender of ax murders of the unborn has no credibility. They are doing him a favor. He will carry more support from opponents of planned ax murder of of the unborn than if they didn't "target" him.