Democracy Gone Astray

Democracy, being a human construct, needs to be thought of as directionality rather than an object. As such, to understand it requires not so much a description of existing structures and/or other related phenomena but a declaration of intentionality.
This blog aims at creating labeled lists of published infringements of such intentionality, of points in time where democracy strays from its intended directionality. In addition to outright infringements, this blog also collects important contemporary information and/or discussions that impact our socio-political landscape.

All the posts here were published in the electronic media – main-stream as well as fringe, and maintain links to the original texts.

[NOTE: Due to changes I haven't caught on time in the blogging software, all of the 'Original Article' links were nullified between September 11, 2012 and December 11, 2012. My apologies.]

Saturday, August 22, 2015

Planned Parenthood Is Way More Popular Than All The Republican Candidates For President

Planned Parenthood was a favorite target for GOP attacks in Thursday night’s Republican debates. Candidates focused on the untrue claim that Planned Parenthood’s program donating tissue from aborted fetuses to medical research equals “selling aborted baby parts,” plus their general opposition to abortion rights and women’s reproductive health care, to say Planned Parenthood should be investigated and defunded.

The GOP is counting on anti-Planned Parenthood rhetoric to paper over their support for policies that would hurt lower and middle-class Americans for the benefit of the wealthy. But even if that works in Republican primaries, polling shows they’d be wise to back off if they want to have any hope of winning the general election.
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CREDIT: Andrew Breiner

A NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows that Planned Parenthood has much higher favorability than all of the leading Republican candidates for president: 15 percent to 5 percent for John Kasich, the most favorably-viewed candidate. Donald Trump was least favorably-viewed, with 30 percent more of those polled reporting a negative view than a positive one.

The Democratic presidential candidates are also less popular than Planned Parenthood, but they have defended the women’s health organization from the latest round of attacks from the right. Bernie Sanders had the higher net favorability, 5 percent to Hillary Clinton’s negative 11 percent. This poll shows they could have even more to gain by continuing to stand with Planned Parenthood.

Original Article
Source: thinkprogress.org/
Author: Andrew Breiner
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