http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/22/1423767/-Ronald-Reagan-on-Planned-Parenthood?detail=email
Back in 1983, there was also a debate about Planned Parenthood. The issue at the time was parental notification for contraceptive services. Here's how Ronald Reagan addressed the issue, speaking to a convention of Evangelicals in Orlando (pdf):
Let me state the case as briefly and simply as I can. An organization of citizens, sincerely motivated and deeply concerned about the increase in illegitimate births and abortions involving girls well below the age of consent, sometime ago established a nationwide network of clinics to offer help to these girls and, hopefully, alleviate this situation.
Now, again, let me say, I do not fault their intent. However, in their well-intentioned effort, these clinics have decided to provide advice and birth control drugs and devices to underage girls without the knowledge of their parents.
While I disagree with the position Reagan ultimately took in this speech--and especially his attacks on "modern-day secularism", and his support for a religious basis for US laws--what I wanted to highlight is the way he describes, in the above paragraph, those with whom he disagrees. Note that he doesn't see the need to malign their motives, or to grossly distort the basic facts of what it is they are doing.
Instead, he sees Planned Parenthood as a "sincerely motivated and deeply concerned" "organization of citizens" who are making a "well-intentioned effort" "to offer help". Compare that to the language we see from some of the current leading Republican candidates.
there is marked difference in today's republican than the one they call themselves emulating looks like they got that wrong too. checkout the rhetoric of the republican hopefuls 2016 in the article they should no longer use his corpse as an example of themselves the only thing remotely familiar is they are all republicans what's missing from that comparison tact.
