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It’s Not the Price and Profit That Matter, Planned Parenthood. It’s the Body Parts.
Planned Parenthood – a billion-dollar corporation and the world’s largest abortion business – is in the midst of the most sustained communications crisis of its 100-year history. The undercover videos, exposing the abortion giant’s doctors joyfully discussing organ extractions from unborn babies, appear to have Big Abortion’s biggest player in a Gracie arm bar and on the verge of tapping out.
This is an organization founded in 1916 by a vicious racist, a eugenics enthusiast and advocate for coerced sterilization. The company’s highest award is named after her.
[Sidebar: Coerced sterilization became super-relevant in Congressional hearings last week. Rep. Luis Gutiérrez of Illinois said he didn’t want to go back to a time like when in his native Puerto Rico women were forcibly sterilized. He claimed that defunding Planned Parenthood would lead right there. Problem: America’s favorite abortion provider was, itself, complicit in the coerced sterilization program. Rick Perry, give him a word.]
Planned Parenthood has a pattern of covering up child sexual abuse and even releasing young girls back to their rapists. Its officials have been caught on camera (shocking, right?) instructing actors posing as young girls impregnated by adult male predators about how to get hush-hush abortions (from your friendly, neighborhood Planned Parenthood, natch).
Planned Parenthood is likely engaged in systemic financial corruption. My employer, Alliance Defending Freedom, has submitted yearly reports to Congress outlining millions of dollars of waste, abuse, and potential fraud involving taxpayer money.
That is only the start of it. The only question we should really be left to answer is not how Planned Parenthood has received $4 billion in public funds over the last decade (with reported “excess revenue” of around $750 million) but if there will be #PinkOut jumpsuits in its wing of Rikers Island.
But Planned Parenthood has gotten away with all of this, and likely more. And they continue to be showered with treasure and acclaim from all the places that seem to matter. It spends many millions on marketing and advertising and many millions more to elect politicians who will ensure its access to hundreds of millions in government dollars. That has worked so far, as O. Carter Snead puts it, “to preserve its carefully cultivated (and ferociously defended) image as merely a women’s health care organization.”
But these videos seem to have finally hit the abortion dragon’s soft underbelly, and it’s not quite sure how to respond to its first legitimate mortal threat, one that all the branding and government funding may not ultimately avert.
Popping its latest look-over-there flare on Tuesday, Planned Parenthood said that it will no longer accept payment for aborted baby parts. In a letter to the National Institutes of Health, PPFA President Cecile Richards declared that the change in policy “take[s] away any basis for attacking Planned Parenthood.” Not quite.
Conveniently absent from the letter is any mention of the what appears to be high-level company officials affirming (or at least implying) that the abortion giant is willing to engage in a range of criminal behavior in order to cash-in on the trafficking of baby body parts. Planned Parenthood executives were busted — on camera, in their own words, and of their own volition — cheerfully discussing altering the method of abortion to obtain intact baby body parts and even performing illegal partial-birth abortions to get the choicest cuts.
Americans United for Life compiled a helpful report outlining five ways in which Planned Parenthood appears to have admitted being in violation of federal law. Read it to understand how deep-in it is.
Despite a series of congressional hearings that have been, at best, missed opportunities, and a media elite selling out big to bury the story, Planned Parenthood is obviously playing defense. No wonder. It understands that when people see these videos or even hear about them, they begin to understand what it really is. The fact is, the more the people know about Planned Parenthood, the less they like it. Thus, the company’s COSTCO trip for a pallet of shiny objects.
Cecile Richards can continue to try to be a real-life, zero-kelvin-cold Claire Underwood of House of Cards’s first two seasons. That Claire once said to someone whom she needed gone, “I am willing to let that baby wither and die inside of you if that’s what’s required.”
And Richards has done the job so far. Too well.
But Tuesday’s letter is another crack in the frozen shell. Richards and the death-dealer she runs increasingly resemble the shuttering, stuttering, spiraling Claire of the series’s third season. May the headlong hurtle hasten.
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I hope you’re right, Greg. But I worry. The corruption has gone so deep. So many are implicated—maybe not in the money-making part of it, but in the abortion part. So many have had abortions or pressured their girlfriends or daughters to get abortions. So many have been convinced that Planned Parenthood is mainly about helping women.
To come to terms with what it really is will involve serious pain on a massive scale.
More pain than what has already been suffered by innocents? As long as the right people are suffering (no more babies or women on the table), I’m ok with THEIR pain….
It has always puzzled me why this particular practice has become the one holy sacrament of the left.
If we follow the money and understand its fungibility, we see our tax dollars being appropriated by elected officials, flowing through planned parenthood, and right back into the campaign coffers of democrats. Were it not for all the dead babies the money part alone would be stomach turning.
The Dems are completely sold out to the PP agenda. They don’t care how many children die or what the chargeable body parts are used for beyond dollars.
That was a great part of what drove me out of the Democrat Party, the party of death.
Now the death lobby, which includes PP, is part of the Democrat coalition. And the death lobby in this country has reached Stalinesque numbers for the dead they have created, at between 55,000,000 and 60,000,000 dead children and some fair numbers of dead women as well.
It’s Not the Price and Profit That Matter, Planned Parenthood. It’s the Body Parts.
My thoughts exactly.
It’s really amazing how well they’ve been able to sell dishonestly this and how fervently people have bought into it. I’ve gotten into a bunch of social media fights over the matter. If I’m feeling polite, I point out that Planned Parenthood is hardly synonymous with women’s health and/or access to contraceptives and that — if the latter two are so important — PP could change its business model.
If I’m in a bad mood, I say that it’s a minor player in terms of women’s health and/or contraceptives, but a major one in abortion.
It doesn’t matter, of course. I get the same shrill reaction regardless.
I spent yesterday afternoon praying outside Planned Parenthood.
They are the modern-day Temple of Moloch, and that is the only way I can make sense of them and their work.
Andrew Klavan explained it succintly: