{"id":93131,"date":"2016-04-21T16:13:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T20:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=93131"},"modified":"2016-04-22T02:00:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T06:00:58","slug":"cecile-richards-mocked-pro-life-student-speech-georgetown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/cecile-richards-mocked-pro-life-student-speech-georgetown\/","title":{"rendered":"Cecile Richards mocked pro-life student in speech at Georgetown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/studentsforlife.org\/cecile-richards-mocked-pro-life-student-at-georgetown-speech\/\">Students for Life<\/a>) In case you missed it, the president of Planned Parenthood, an organization that\u00a0commits close to 900 abortions every DAY,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/religionnews.com\/2016\/04\/20\/cecile-richards-gets-a-standing-ovation-at-georgetown-amid-protests\/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">was invited to speak<\/a> to Georgetown University. Georgetown is a Catholic institute of higher education. Catholic doctrine teaches abortion is a \u2018grave evil.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>But no matter, said Georgetown, it\u2019s all about a \u2018free exchange of ideas\u2019. But Cecile Richards\u2019 speech wasn\u2019t about a free exchange of ideas. It was a lovefest of Planned Parenthood and promotion of abortion \u2013 and mocking pro-lifers.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->No press was allowed inside of Richards\u2019 speech but the Georgetown Right to Life group is awesome and some of the students managed to record parts of it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/liveaction.org\/petition\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84611\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/NewDefundAd3.jpg\" alt=\"NewDefundAd3\" width=\"400\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/NewDefundAd3.jpg 400w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/NewDefundAd3-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a transcript of an exchange during the Q&amp;A section between a pro-life student and Cecile Richards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Question from pro-life student<\/strong>:\u00a0 So, by the Guttmacher Institute\u2019s own statistics at Planned Parenthood 94% of pregnancy services are abortions, 6% are sonograms, and less than 1% are adoption counselling. How can you say that when a woman walks into your clinic she has a choice.\u00a0Because from the outside it would not appear that this is complete health care when one choice is so favored over another.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Cecile Richards<\/strong>: The Guttmacher Institute is not Planned Parenthood, but I appreciate, you know, whatever statistics you come up with.\u00a0 (Laughing &amp; Clapping)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Q<\/strong>:\u00a0 These are your own statistics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>CR<\/strong>:\u00a0 We are not the Guttmacher Institute, but that\u2019s ok.\u00a0 But what I am saying actually, is that I would really encourage you to come visit a Planned Parenthood center.\u00a0 What you will find, what I believe you will find, and you can call me if you don\u2019t, and I am serious about that, is a health care organization that provides women the full range of reproductive health care and preventative services, nothing is more important.\u00a0 What is important to us is that women are free to make their own decision about their pregnancies, their families, without the intervention of politicians and that is what medicine, good medicine, is all about out.\u00a0 And it\u2019s really incredible to me that a lot of the legislation that has passed, and even some of the things I am hearing now in this presidential campaign are based on the idea that women are not smart enough or able to make their own medical decisions (clapping) women make hard decisions every single day (clapping that drowns out the end of her sentence).<\/p>\n<p>By the way, these same statistics are available from Planned Parenthood\u2019s own\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/actionfund\/docs\/2014-2015_annual_report_final_20mb\/1\">annual report<\/a>.\u00a0So she doesn\u2019t know the numbers in her own report?<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: This article was originally posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/studentsforlife.org\/cecile-richards-mocked-pro-life-student-at-georgetown-speech\/\">Students for Life<\/a> on April 20, 2016, and is reprinted here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Students for Life) In case you missed it, the president of Planned Parenthood, an organization that\u00a0commits close to 900 abortions every DAY,\u00a0was invited to speak to Georgetown University. Georgetown is a Catholic institute of higher education. Catholic doctrine teaches abortion is a \u2018grave evil.\u2019 But no matter, said Georgetown, it\u2019s all about a \u2018free exchange [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":433,"featured_media":73137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[3357,386,246,8070,8410,199,14,1872],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cecile Richards mocked pro-life student in speech at Georgetown<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cecile Richards\u2019 speech wasn\u2019t about a free exchange of ideas. 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