Cerro Gordo County Republicans said this week that local leaders should be made to “take a stand” on abortion.
Posting to their Facebook page, and drawing from a tw0-year old article published in the Globe Gazette, Cerro Gordo Republicans said that Planned Parenthood planned to “open an abortion clinic in Mason City by 2016.”
Raising the stakes, the group said that Planned Parenthood had “raised 7 million dollars so far.”
Republicans then encouraged local Republicans to pressure “local leaders” to stop the clinic from coming to Mason City, saying via Facebook “Do you know where your local elected officials stand on whether Planned Parenthood should build an abortion clinic in Mason City by 2016? Contact them and make them take a stand!”
Republicans were not clear on which “local leaders” they were referring to, whether it be state officials, city officials, or both.
“We encourage you to contact them immediately,” the Republican said. “Leadership will make the difference.”
In other Republican Party news, Congressman Steve King is set to be in Mason City on October 7th. He will be introduced by Cerro Gordo County Republican Party Chairman Gabe Haugland at a Mason City Noon Rotary Club function. The time and location were not specified.
LVS it is not holy than thou kick. It is basic morality. No civilized society can last when they have such little regard for human life that indiscriminately kill babies under the guise of pro choice. Look at the recent abortion clinics in Kansas and Philadelphia they were killing babies not that is not choice that is wrong.
That is exactly right. The new Cerro Gordo Republican Executive Committee is not “mainstream GOP” if by that you mean in the RINO class. The fact is Mason City has a choice. We all like “choice” right? We have a choice to reject outright the establishment of a corrupt organization here in River City that destroys human life. If women need real health care services then we have clinics and hospitals that provide competent care. We are asking city candidates to stand up and be counted on this issue. Roe v Wade is a scourge upon our nation. The result has been a steadily declining respect for all life among members of our society. Condoning Planned Parenthood and its practice of ending human life sends the wrong signal to the children and families living in and around Mason City. It’s time to stop the violence against the unborn.
While I agree with almost everything you are saying, it is not the place of any political party to stick their nose in my womb. That is exactly what is happening around the world with fundamental Islam.
Let’s throw reason out the window and trust a Facebook post to provide factual information. Come on we all know better. My sense is that the post is more hype than fact, generated for some other purpose. The Goldman Clinic in Iowa City is and has been the only service provider in the state for many, many years. Why start another clinic in, of all places, Mason City?
@arm bears -first, Iowa City is over 2 hours away, it wouldn’t hurt to have one closer. And second, why not Mason City?
Killing babies should be made more convenient?
@4over49 – If you are unhappy with the law, then have it changed. Until then, it’s not your place to prevent or restrict people from exercising their legal rights, regardless of what your personal views are.
just saying – It is my place to make it as inconvenient as I can when they are about killing babies. What about the baby’s right to life?
@4ever49-what about the woman’s right to make her own decision pertaining to her OWN body. What do you want her to do?? End up dead in a alley somewhere because someone used a coat hanger on her. Busybody’s like you should mind their own business and take care of them selves.
@4ever49 – I have no problem w/you making it inconvenient as you can for a woman to choose to have a legal abortion, as long as you don’t prevent or restrict her right to have it. I have no problem with what people do within the confines of the law.
LVS – the woman made a decision when she became pregnant did she not? It is not everyone’s business when the baby is killed?
Just saying – it is also within the “confines of the law” not to kill – and that includes a baby. How else can a prosecutor charge someone for two murders when a pregnant woman and her unborn child are killed?
@4ever49-it’s not a baby if they are having an abortion. It is just a mass of tissue that is not aware and not alive. Get over it. It is the law.
@4ever49 – You can split hairs and spin the facts any way you wish. Bottom line, it’s legal for a woman to choose to have an abortion.
LVS – it is a baby and does not lose its identity just because it is being killed. The baby is far from a “mass of tissue” and does feel pain. Just because it is the “law” does not make it right.
Just saying – I am not splitting hairs and just because its “legal” does not make it right. Slavery used to be “legal” as well.
@4ever49 – Yes, at one point slavery was legal, but then people worked to get it changed, and it was made illegal. Abortion is legal. If that bothers you so much, then get the law changed. Perhaps you should try to look at things objectively rather than subjectively. As they are, not as you want them to be.
People make things so complicated. Is abortion legal in Iowa? If yes, then PP should be allowed to open an abortion clinic in Mason City. If abortion is not legal in Iowa, then PP should not be allowed to open the clinic. Just because someone does not like a law is no reason to disobey or circumvent it. To do so is to put oneself in the same category as murderers, rapists, and robbers.
If Planned Parenthood is actually planning a “clinic”, rather than making it about any party, opponents need to make it about what actually happens at PP – killing babies.
It should not “political” but “moral” – killing an innocent under whatever guise is repugnant.
@4ever49-You need to understand. I am not for killing baby’s or anyone else for that matter and, you are correct it is a moral matter not a political issue. The government and especially the Republicans need to get over this thing of telling people how to live their lives. I will say this, if you were in the majority this would not be a issue. I look at it differently. I believe that I and no one else has the right to tell a woman what she can or not do with her own body. If it is really a moral issue leave it up to morality.
LVS – I believe we circled this topic elsewhere.
Since we should not tell “people how to live their lives”, does that mean it is ok for them to kill a baby because that is their life?
What about the life of the baby being killed? Aren’t we supposed to protect others from being killed?
@4ever49-that is your definition not the laws. If you don’t like the law then change it. Just because you believe something doesn’t make it right. The LAW says they are not killing a living baby no matter what you think. In other words, it is not my business or yours what a woman does with her body if she is not breaking the law and they are not.
But a baby is still being killed.
No, it died because no one loved it. Not the mom’s fault if she can’t afford to pay to riase it.
coolee – The reason the mom is absolved is because she couldn’t afford to raise it? Where is the father?
Killing babies is our only solution? Look around you and realize how base and corrosive this is.
Since it not really a real baby what is the loss? Nothing. Does it have a social secuirty numbar? no. it does not so therefor it is not a REAL person. Getit?
coolee – so if no social security number is issued then there is no real baby? What kind of nonsense is that? Life begins at conception and the mother is the host for that life which she agreed to become by having intercourse. The father needs to be held to account for his part as well.
LVS I agree the government should not be telling a woman what she should do with her body. The problem with abortion it is not just her body she is dealing with. The life of another person is involved. The father of the baby is involved. She had the choice what to do with her body at the time of conception. When she made that choice she became responsible for another person. There is no difference in killing the baby in the womb or killing the baby after it is born.
The Republicans just can’t get it through their heads that this type of thing is what cost them the last election. They need to get off this holy than thou kick and pay attention to what the majority of the people now believe. Otherwise they will lose again. It is the same thing with the national budget. They keep on fighting over the debt limit when they know they are going to give in and raise it and they just end up looking like fools. There is an old saying “pick your battles carefully and then win them”. They should learn to follow that.
I agree LVS. The other part of my concern is that anyone can develop and then post to a Facebook page. Just who are these Cerro Gordo Republicans making these claims and sounding a call to action. Not the mainstream GOP I bet.