{"id":2446120,"date":"2019-07-08T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/nothing-bipartisan-about-planned-parenthood-float\/"},"modified":"2019-07-09T08:22:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T14:22:21","slug":"nothing-bipartisan-about-planned-parenthood-float","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/nothing-bipartisan-about-planned-parenthood-float\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing bipartisan about Planned Parenthood float"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In response to Anne Baker (<a id=\"N0x15b2df0N0x1770c00:N0x15b2df0N0x1772750\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/no-place-for-politics-in-aspen-fourth-parade\/\">\u201cNo place for politics in Aspen Fourth parade,\u201d<\/a> letters, July 6, The Aspen Times) and Molly Mix (\u201cShame on you, Planned Parenthood,\u201d letters, July 3, The Aspen Times): What could be a greater celebration of American patriotism than people on all sides of the political spectrum coming together in bipartisan support of an organization they care about? How better to celebrate our democratic institutions than to use our right to free speech to support and engage with friends and neighbors who may disagree with us?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Though Planned Parenthood is a controversial group, it is a nonpartisan health care provider, in contrast to explicitly partisan political parties such as the Democratic and Republican parties. There is no reason to criticize Planned Parenthood for a bipartisan display in the Fourth of July parade while ignoring the real partisan floats. It is clear to me that the complaints about Planned Parenthood\u2019s presence are merely thinly veiled criticisms of the group\u2019s policies, rather than its display at the parade. Perhaps we as Americans should spend less time criticizing public displays of politics and more time supporting what we claim to care about: actual attempts to foster bipartisan cooperation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Natalie Mase<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Closter, New Jersey<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/nothing-bipartisan-about-planned-parenthood-float\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to Anne Baker (\u201cNo place for politics in Aspen Fourth parade,\u201d letters, July 6, The Aspen Times) and Molly Mix (\u201cShame on you, Planned Parenthood,\u201d letters, July 3, The Aspen Times): What could be a greater celebration of American patriotism than people on all sides of the political spectrum coming together in bipartisan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 01:36:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2446132,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446120\/revisions\/2446132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}