Dedicated to the advancement of the State of Indiana by re-affirming our state's constitutional principles that: all people are created equal; no religious test shall be imposed on our public officials and offices of trust; and no special privileges or immunities shall be granted to any class of citizens which are not granted on the same terms to all citizens. Advance Indiana, LLC. Copyright 2005-16. All rights reserved.
Wednesday, August 05, 2015
Donnelly Campaign Treasurer Quits Over Planned Parenthood Defunding Vote
Indiana's former Lt. Governor Kathy Davis (D) has resigned her position as campaign treasurer for Sen. Joe Donnelly after he joined just one other Democrat in voting to strip Planned Parenthood of its federal funding. "Yes, I have left my position as Treasurer for Senator Donnelly's campaign and yes, it is because of his vote to defund Planned Parenthood," Davis said in an email to the Indianapolis Star. Indiana Democrats have been mostly silent about a vote one would have expected more from the conservative Republican candidate Richard Mourdock that Donnelly defeated in 2012, in part, based upon controversial comments he made opposing abortion even in cases of rape, which he made in a debate shortly before election that some thought cost him that election.
Then Kathy Davis has my vote for anything else, ever. I didn't know we had any principled Dems anywhere in Indy (excepting Christine Hale).
ReplyDeleteYes, that vote was unpopular with Democrats. And yes, that vote was unpopular with women. Double whammy for Donnelly.
ReplyDeleteHoly crap, a principled Dem in Indy! Don't see many of those (other than Christie Hale).
ReplyDeleteBecause it's a constitutional right for women to premeditatively vivisect in utero babies. And sell their parts.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjxwVuozMnU
Wow. Just wow. I read these comments and I see that an utter disregard for human life- the approval of ripping of human life and tearing it apart from the Sanctuary City of the womb- is a concrete tenet of extremist left liberal Democrat ideology.
ReplyDeleteI am grateful I am not and never will be a "Democrat".
Good for Kathy Davis!
ReplyDeleteMore of us -- Democrats AND Republicans -- need to stand up for women's health care rights.
What was Hale's statement on the matter? How many of the videos has she watched? I would not assume that she is as weak as Ms. Davis.
ReplyDeleteDonnelly being the good Catholic that Notre Dame supported for Senator,he, being an allumnus of the right to lifers, (NOT ANY MORE), is choosing his political favor over his moral values, the hypocrisy continues for the DC crowd in both parties, which is making me ill to watch!
ReplyDeleteAnd the beat goes on!!on!!on!!
Yes, Josh, its a constitutional right for women to abort in the first trimester. I always thought it was better for men to stay out of it. These are women's issues. Women's bodies. Women's fetuses. We aren't going to de-fund Planned Parenthood. This is just a hysterical overreaction by the right to life crowd using this opportunity to try to limit abortion rights.
ReplyDelete"THANKS TO MEDIA BLACKOUT, MOST AMERICANS ARE IN THE DARK ABOUT PLANNED PARENTHOOD VIDEOS: That could change (a bit) after tomorrow night’s GOP debate. But the media has certainly been doing its job as being the Democrats’ palace guard remarkably well.
ReplyDeleteRELATED: Great moments in murderous Orwellianisms: “Ethicist denounces ‘Water Torture’ release of Planned Parenthood videos.“ From another Blog, Instapundit but a good reason for supporting blogs and keeping DUH MEDIA away from control of the internet.
Good Riddance, Kathy!
ReplyDeleteI wonder if you'll go off on a Pro-Abortion agenda:
Abortion is legal.
ReplyDelete97% of what Planned Parenthood does to improve women's health does NOT include abortion.
This whole "defunding" campaign is nothing but a blatant attempt (once again) to control women's bodies.
" utter disregard for human life" Anonymous 3:42?
ReplyDeleteThe Republicans don't want to control the proliferation of guns (today's shooting: Nashville), are in support of the death penalty, don't think universal healthcare is a public good and lobby vociferously for preemptive war then refuse to fund proper care for wounded veterans.
Which part has "utter disregard for human life"?
Well, since abortion is a direct, knowing & intentional destruction of another human being, I disagree that the comparison you posit is an apt one.
DeleteThe Supreme Court has already confirmed that any fetus 'not yet viable' is part of the woman's body - and it is her right to decide what becomes of it. Such a novel thought - letting a human being decide what to do with their own body! I am tired of hearing from brainwashed religious zealots who think they have the right to dictate how women should handle their own bodies because 'god told them'.
ReplyDeleteRipps: SCOTUS has demonstrated itself to be inviable; inane rulings devoid scholarship. In response to your BS; it seems fitting to paste & re-post a response to the like-blinded vomitribe which befouled Mr. Ogden's blog recently on this subject.
ReplyDeleteAnon 10:49 & 2:38: For whatever reason (acknowledgement: those reasons may be none of anyone else's business), you're disinterested in considering that which is provable & beyond the politically narrowed scope of a statist narrative. You're likewise expressing a disinterest in the lives of citizens defrauded into paying for the Panned / Banned Parenthood scheme; with the property of their irreplaceable time & labor that's been stolen from them.
Mother & unborn child are separate, living beings. A fetus has all attributes of life & is therefore alive. Adopting clinical reference to avoid dealing with the unborn child as a life, doesn't justify destroying that life. The body's understood to physically house and / or transport the mind & soul; as evidenced by natural end of life concerns about the body outlasting the mind, etc.
What takes place between a doctor & patient should be confidential (except in case of minors). The problem here (germane to discussion) is Banned Parenthood is guilty of fraud; resulting in the nonconsensual confiscation or theft of property (citizen's income & labor) & involuntary servitude / slavery- a violation of the Fourth Amendment, civil rights; that which is patently characteristic of tyrants / dictators / despots. Tyrants are by nature murderous; a quality which describes PP & their heinous dismemberment of the living; literally & economically.
" Anonymous Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteYes, Josh, its a constitutional right for women to abort in the first trimester. I always thought it was better for men to stay out of it. These are women's issues. Women's bodies. Women's fetuses. We aren't going to de-fund Planned Parenthood. This is just a hysterical overreaction by the right to life crowd using this opportunity to try to limit abortion rights.
4:12 PM GMT-5"
So I take your commentary to mean that the vivisection of in utero babies has your complete support. And as to womens rights, aren't some babies female? Female babies who have no choice by the way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjxwVuozMnU
Anon 6:38 PM GMT-5, explain yourself, in what PP does to improve a women's health?
ReplyDelete...and there was much hand wringing and gnashing of teeth, but in the end, nothing changed, because the law on abortion is well settled. A woman may terminate her pregnancy in the first trimester at will, without interference from hysterical Christians, who make no attempt to limit the carnage from guns and wars, but like the Taliban, are relentless in their attempts to control women.
ReplyDeleteLot of typical extremist left of center liberal Democrat Alinsky-type tactics on this comment page... especially the leftist favorite: change the subject to deflect the argument. I see knee jerk liberals on this page move away from Davis' resignation over a Democrat voting to stop a war on babies and to stop the abhorrent Planed Parenthood practice of selling human tissue. The extremist liberal Democrats always change the subject and herein they are trying to change the subject to gun control, to "reproductive rights" to "it's a woman's business" to "law" to anything else but the issue raised of a woman quitting her job because a Democrat voted his conscience.
ReplyDeleteAll this causes me to recall that extremist left liberal Democrat Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, very recently in an interview with Chris Matthews, could not even define a difference between liberal Democrats and Socialism other than to make the outrageous claim it is the Democrat Party that has "the big tent". Not from what I read here, Debbie- no, you people have the most closed minded political tent possible.
Anon 4:12 said: "Yes, Josh, its a constitutional right for women to abort in the first trimester."
ReplyDeleteIf that's not an inaccurate statement, it's completely misleading. In Roe v. Wade the SCT said that a woman has a constitutional right to abortion in the first AND second trimesters. (It's shocking the number of people who think Roe only legalized abortion in the first trimester.) In the companion case, Doe v. Bolton, the Court said that abortion must also be allowed in the third trimester if necessary for the woman's physical and emotional health. Back to the holding of Roe, in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the trimester framework was scrapped and the court instead went with viability. In 1973, viability (the ability to live outside the womb even with assistance) was at 24 weeks. Now, there are cases where viability of a fetus has fallen to as low as 20 weeks.
It should be noted, that the PP abortions being discussed in the videos are SECOND trimester abortions. The public is overwhelmingly against those abortions, but under Roe v. Wade and its progeny, the Court has declared that the Constitution requires they be allowed. Only about 10% of abortions are second trimester abortions, but with PP, for reasons not entirely clear, it's about 25%.
Anon 9:17, you apparently don't realize that those abortions being discussed in the PP videos are second trimester abortions.
ReplyDeleteRipps said: "The Supreme Court has already confirmed that any fetus 'not yet viable' is part of the woman's body - and it is her right to decide what becomes of it." I'm not aware of the Court ever using those words. Nonetheless that would be a policy decision, not a constitutional one, and therefore should be a decision left to legislative bodies.
Reading these comments I am struck by two things. 1. This is a horrible state to be vulnerable in. So much evil masquerading as enlightenment. 2. Liberal tolerance is a laughable joke. These people claim to want politicians who reach across the aisle and vote their conscience but when one of theirs does so, they go absolutely batty.
ReplyDeleteGlad to see Donnelly has some morals. Shame on Kathy Davis. She stands shoulder to shoulder with the disgraceful ghouls the Democratic Party has become. The Democrats have finally reveal themselves as the party of murder-on-demand.
ReplyDeleteKathy was looking for a way out, anyway, as she's going to be assuming continually increasing roles of importance in the Hogsett campaign and administration. She would have had to resign the post in November, anyway.
Anon 5:35 points out the truth, especially when it comes to disciples of the cultish religion of liberalism: for all the lofty and idealistic claims of being the most tolerant ideology and the most inclusive "tent" of people with differing ideas, liberalism is neither.
ReplyDeleteOgden, smarten up. Don't let other people define your terms. There is no such thing as a "trimester." It's a nonsense, made-up word. Any period is infinitely divisible. Why not have picomesters? 1x10 -12
ReplyDeleteThere are 23,328,000 seconds in a pregnancy.
I'll let a woman have an abortion in the first picomester. That gives her less than a second after conception.
I agree: Shame on Kathy Davis. If only liberal Democrats quit their jobs in protest when Ambassador Stevens was murdered in Benghazi after he begged multiple times for help only to be ignored by Hillary Rodham Clinton, if only liberal Democrats quit their Obama Admin posts after young female Kathryn Steinle was killed last week by an illegal alien and convicted felon while she walked with her family on San Francisco’s Pier 14, if only liberal Democrats...oh, what's use to list endless but true cases in point ... the hypocritical nature of liberals is plain to see for those willing to take the intentional veil of ignorance off their eyes.
ReplyDeleteKathy's fifteen minutes reached their expiration date long ago; I can't help but believe this is a sad attempt at reviving her extremist left liberal street cred with the liberal Democrat apostles of the death cult we know as liberalism.
Creds to you Cathy Davis. Apparently the 'informed' Benghazi Faux viewers have found Greg's Blog - and that's a good thing. As to Senator Donnelly, this is not the first time he has strayed from voting Democratic values. I still remember the prepared Donnelly booth that sat empty, without the Senator or any representative, for two days at the Indiana Fairgrounds Latino Festival - so much for his Catholic upbringing. Donnelly or a Republican in office as Indiana State Senator - same, same.
ReplyDeleteGary, was this position even paid? If it was paid, how many intact body parts will PP have to "provide at cost" (not sell) to be able make up her lost earnings in future campaign contributions?
ReplyDeleteI assume it was a volunteer position. I wouldn't be surprised if she is tapped by Joe Hogsett to become his city controller, if she wants that job in his administration when he becomes mayor. As a previous commenter notes, it would have been necessary for her to step down from that volunteer role if that happens.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny. The left hates the death penalty, wich is often employed on criminals who have committed heinous crimes, yet fully, unblinkingly, unthinkingly support in utero vivisection of people who have never committed a crime. In essence murder of people who are the most innocent of all. To the tune of four thousand or so per day in the US alone. How do they sleep? I'm guessing it arouses them or something.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjxwVuozMnU
"All those who hate me love death."
"You have killed those who should not have died and have spared those who should not live."
Women have (always) had sex, have (always) had abortions, are (usually) at peace with the decision and move on with their lives. It is their legal right, and, moreover, it’s good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary.
ReplyDelete"The whole society" except the unborn person, right?
DeleteThis is all for show. Joe Donnelly only votes against his Party when his votes are irrelevant! If he ever has to be the deciding vote he will vote with the Democrats!
ReplyDeleteWhen I hear the word "abortion" I think "human butchery". And I think that's damn accurate.
ReplyDelete