Planned Parenthood’s Twitter account went into meltdown yesterday as the organisation launched a full on attack on Rand Paul, sending out tweet after tweet bashing the latest Presidential candidate from every conceivable angle.
Unfortunately for the nation’s largest abortion provider, the Twitterverse didn’t appreciate the spam fest and hit back hard with some home truths.
The ‘pro-choice’ organisation essentially sees Paul as an “anti-freedom” “extremist” who has no time for “women’s rights”.
Here’s just a selection of the verbal vitriol spewed from @PPact yesterday:
The latest overreaching, intrusive, extreme politician to announce he’d like to be President: Sen. Rand Paul. #NotMyCandidate
— Planned Parenthood (@PPact) April 7, 2015
Rand Paul says he’s all about “freedom and less government.” Whose freedom? Certainly not women’s. http://t.co/ngPA0JgWNr #NotMyCandidate
— Planned Parenthood (@PPact) April 7, 2015
More freedom? Less government? Rand Paul: ✔️ would ban abortion ✔️ applauded #HobbyLobby ✔️ would cut women off from PP #notmycandidate
— Planned Parenthood (@PPact) April 7, 2015
Rand Paul says he’d “take all approaches” to prevent women from being able to access safe, legal abortion. #NotMyCandidate
— Planned Parenthood (@PPact) April 7, 2015
And if Rand Paul really supported your right to make your own decisions, he wouldn’t have sponsored personhood. #NotMyCandidate
— Planned Parenthood (@PPact) April 7, 2015
Rand Paul supports letting bosses deny employees’ access to health care. Whose freedom? #NotMyCandidate
— Planned Parenthood (@PPact) April 7, 2015
But you won’t hear Rand Paul own up to his interference in women’s right to no-copay birth control. #NotMyCandidate pic.twitter.com/OJErxAt1bE
— Planned Parenthood (@PPact) April 7, 2015
More freedom? Rand Paul would like to *control the number of children a woman can give birth to.* #NotMyCandidate pic.twitter.com/0DcMEspWIh
— Planned Parenthood (@PPact) April 7, 2015
It’s not just interference, either. Rand Paul: ❌ voted against #VAWA ❌ would repeal the #ACA ❌ voted against #equalpay #NotMyCandidate
— Planned Parenthood (@PPact) April 7, 2015
No wonder one of Rand Paul’s campaign logos looks familiar: He’d take women back to the 1950’s. #NotMyCandidate pic.twitter.com/YETmA9mDid
— Planned Parenthood (@PPact) April 7, 2015
You can keep your dream, Sen. Paul. We want a president who actually supports women’s rights & opportunity—not just his own. #NotMyCandidate
— Planned Parenthood (@PPact) April 7, 2015
And the responses came pouring in:
@PPact this woman believes that if you kill baby girls, you don’t support women’s rights. Each life is precious. #prolife #adoption
— Alissa Thorell (@al4gzuz2) April 7, 2015
.@PPact please stop referring to killing babies as women’s rights.
— Abby Malek (@AbbyMalek1) April 7, 2015
@PPact <No, we want women’s rights for ALL women, the unborn women included. What you “offer” is propaganda covered in innocents’ blood.
— Cecilia Brown (@AtTheCornerCafe) April 7, 2015
@PPact LOL in total meltdown mode! “We benefit from women who choose to kill their unborn” but Paul is the extreme one…
— Civilian Sheepdog (@caseythepilot) April 7, 2015
@PPact Shorter PP: “Please don’t take away our government funding!!”
— laurakfillault (@laurakfillault) April 7, 2015
@PPact Awe afraid that you won’t get anymore tax payer money for your baby murdering machine?
— Impale All Hipsters (@bigblueonyou) April 7, 2015
If your entity was successful why does it need gov $ to survive @PPact?
— First In Last Out (@4gen234) April 7, 2015
Screw you @ppact. Taxpayer sucking leeches You take money from ALL taxpayers. Why the frick are you talking about candidates? #StandWithRand
— Michelle Ray (@GaltsGirl) April 7, 2015
Are you really suppose to be this political as a 501(c)(4)? That’s not what I want my tax money spent on. @PPact
— Landlvr (@Landlvr) April 7, 2015
@PPact freedom includes freedom to live, something you throw tantrums and conniption fits to oppose when it comes to the most vulnerable.
— Anthony Bulldis (@AJBulldis) April 7, 2015
So the people at @PPact either don’t have brains or didn’t think this tweet through. pic.twitter.com/vgTuSVX0Vv
— chels – queso queen (@chelsea_elisa) April 7, 2015
@PPact should REALLY shut up about politics because A) they murder millions of babies a year and B) have no idea what they’re talking about.
— Meagan Anne♔ (@meagann_annee) April 7, 2015
@PPact There is no evidence to suggest that Killing an innocent unborn human being equates to #Freedom
— KY Conservatarian (@IrvinePatriot) April 7, 2015
@PPact You baby killers are on a roll today
— Count Down to 2016 (@bad_robot_57) April 7, 2015
Another tweet accused Paul of catering to every section of society APART from women, as Paul’s website provides a section allowing users to download images of social identifiers to post on their social media accounts.
Sen. Rand Paul’s “Show Your Support” page doesn’t have anything for women. Message received. h/t @jess_mc pic.twitter.com/AdNSLQLnuX
— Planned Parenthood (@PPact) April 7, 2015
Many respondents noted that women can be nurses, lawyers, doctors, veterans, African Americans, Iowans – and practically everything else listed on Paul’s website. Implying they cannot is both sexist and dumb.
In which @PPact says that women can’t be Nurses, Veterans, Lawyers, Students, Doctors.. etc. https://t.co/NMo1D263ux @jess_mc
— RB (@RBPundit) April 7, 2015
@PPact @jess_mc Yeah, lord knows a woman can’t be a doctor, musician. This tweet actually is the sexist one.
— Josh Fields (@partiallypro) April 7, 2015
@PPact @jess_mc I’m a Texan, veteran, conservative and Christian. I manage to have other titles than my gender.
— Sarah Stevenson (@sarahrstevenson) April 7, 2015
Whoever runs @PPact‘s twitter account is breathtakingly stupid. Assumes women can’t be a number of professions.
— JivinJ (@JivinJehoshaph) April 7, 2015
doctors, lawyers, veterans, students aren’t women? @PPact just uteri to be emptied?
— ComfyPaws™ (@ComfyPaws) April 7, 2015
.@PPact @jess_mc I fit in at least three of those categories – what are you talking about?
— Anne Wilson Smith (@EarlyGirlSC) April 7, 2015
Of course, just as there is no section titled “women for Rand Paul,” there is also no section devoted to “men for Rand Paul,” because as one twitter user noted, that would be stupid.
@PPact @jess_mc I’m offended because it doesn’t say “men for Rand”. Oh wait, that would be ridiculous.
— Brian Whitman (@brian_whitman) April 7, 2015
Still PP, attempting damage control, suggested women would never support Paul’s bid.
Women are many things—doctors, veterans, more—but w/ his record, seems even Paul knows “Woman for Rand” won’t be one. pic.twitter.com/27n795guXm
— Planned Parenthood (@PPact) April 7, 2015
The organisation then, remarkably, referred to women as “Beyonce Voters” in a further tweet, prompting even more hilarious backlash.
LOVE. THIS. Young women voters—yep, #BeyonceVoters—are diverse, informed, and powerful. https://t.co/3e33s29sFp @feministabulous
— Planned Parenthood (@PPact) April 7, 2015
@PPact @feministabulous WTH? LOL Geez, just when you think your tweets couldnt get any worse, you bring out Beyonce voters tweets. wow
— ChuckJ (@ChuckxJ) April 7, 2015
@PPact @feministabulous Hey, aren’t you the same group founded by a woman who wanted to use abortion to get rid of black people?
— ChuckJ (@ChuckxJ) April 7, 2015
@PPact @feministabulous is this your third attempt?
— KJHobs (@Kjhobbs1985) April 8, 2015
Of course, the accusation that Rand Paul does not support equality for women is also patently false. Paul’s campaign is brimming over with women, as many of his key early hires have been women, including Rachel Kania, who will head up his digital office based in Austin, Texas.
Melissa Conway, Director of External Relations for Texas Right to Life (and a woman if you want to go there), told reporters with Breitbart News that PP was displaying incredible shortsightedness in believing that it represents the views of all women in America.
“Planned Parenthood Action Committee fails to recognize that women represent many segments of voters, not just abortion advocates,” said Conway. “A large majority of pro-life supporters are women. To say that any candidate who is pro-life will lack support from women is not only wrong, but also absurd. As evidenced by voting in Texas, pro-life women vote for substantial pro-life candidates, and these women represent a strong majority of voters.”
Rand Paul Paul, a physician by trade, expressly lays out his views on abortion on his website. A section titled “Sanctity of Life” declares that Paul “strongly believe[s] in the sanctity of life” and “life begins at conception and…abortion takes the life of an innocent human being.”
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Steve Watson is a London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.
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