[Hoot Gibson]

I've been shaking up my magic eight ball all morning and could not get a clear vision into the future as to whether Trump will continue to fund Planned Parenthood. However, there was this in the news. “Planned Parenthood does a really good job at a lot of different areas. But not on abortion,” he said Sunday. “So I’m not going to fund it if it’s doing the abortion. I am not going to fund it.” ----Donald J. Trump

Republicans have a huge majority in Congress, you know that august legislative body which has the power of the purse strings around here? Speaker and ultra conservative Paul Ryan in a flash of brilliance, decided to totally fund President Obama's 1.8 Trillion dollar tax and spending omnibus bill only last December. In that bill were provisions for green energy initiatives, ObamaCare and 286 million for Planned Parenthood. So, in view of the granite faced conservative principles of the Republican establishment, one can easily see why Ryan and others would be so reluctant to endorse Trump for fears that he would fund Planned Parenthood. :please:

I see your dilemma, TRT. As Trump might say, he has a good brain and has said a lot of things. The fact that many of those things directly contradict other things he said bothers some people. When Trump consults himself for advice, the answers that he gets are probably confusing to him as well.

Any federal funding for the largest chain of abortion mills in the U.S. by a wide margin will support abortion. A conservative candidate who is really pro-life would not be offering a fig leaf for an organization whose main business is the butchery of unborn children. And don't forget the incidents where Planned Parenthood has helped hide the identities of statutory rapists and helped underage "patients" cross state lines to avoid parental consent laws.

I understand people voting for Trump who think that he is the lesser of two evils. I don't understand people who consider themselves to be pro-life conservatives being happy about being left with such a terrible choice.

Trump Open To Idea of Continuing Taxpayer Funding of Planned Parenthood

During an interview with CNN Tuesday morning, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump stated that he was open to the idea of continuing to fund Planned Parenthood with federal tax dollars.

“The problem that I have with Planned Parenthood is the abortion situation. It is like an abortion factory, frankly,” Trump said. “And you can’t have it. And you just shouldn’t be funding it. That should not be funded by the government, and I feel strongly about that.”

When pressed on non-abortion services Planned Parenthood allegedly provides, Trump said, “What I would do when the time came, I’d look at the individual things they do, and maybe some of the individual things they do are good. I know a lot of the things are bad. But certainly the abortion aspect of it should not be funded by government, absolutely.”

Trump continued, “I would look at the good aspects of [Planned Parenthood], and I would also look, because I’m sure they do some things properly and good and that are good for women, and I would look at that, and I would look at other aspects also. But we have to take care of women.”

In other words Trump is open to a status quo many conservatives find unacceptable and immoral; also a typical federal government shell game to skirt around the law. If you give Planned Parenthood money for these so-called “other things,” the abortion provider can shift money from those “other things” to abortion.

Any money given to Planned Parenthood funds abortion. Period.

Trump also made clear that he was in favor of the rape, incest, and life of the mother exceptions for abortion.