Once pro-life, Democrat Senator Joe Manchin now says he ‘stands with Planned Parenthood’
One of the few remaining Democrats in Congress who has always claimed to be pro-life stunningly seems to have made the decision to start toeing the party line instead.
Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) was featured recently in a tweet from Planned Parenthood South Atlantic West Virginia:
The pro-life Susan B. Anthony List responded to the apparent switch, with president Marjorie Dannenfelser calling the move an “enormous mistake both morally and politically.” The group’s press release on the matter reads:
Manchin is currently up for re-election and, according to NewsMax, has been raising most of his campaign funds thus far from donors outside of his state of West Virginia. So far he reportedly has $2.1M on hand.
While up to this point, Manchin had a pro-life voting record for several years, some of his votes were controversial among pro-lifers. In 2014, Manchin was among those who voted against protecting Hobby Lobby from having to pay for employees’ abortifacient contraceptives.
Other politicians known to have changed their positions from pro-life to pro-abortion include Democrats Jesse Jackson and Tim Ryan (D-Ohio).
Supporting the nation’s largest abortion provider can in no way be considered pro-life. Planned Parenthood commits more than a third of all abortions in the United States (that’s more than 320,000 human lives every year) — one every 97 seconds, while its legitimate health services continue to decline. (It does less than 2 percent of all breast exams and less than 1 percent of all Pap smears in the country, and offers exactly zero mammograms.) It has been mired in scandal after scandal after scandal.
Those who “stand with Planned Parenthood” might want to re-examine exactly what it is they’re standing for.
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