Title: The moral terrorism of Planned Parenthood Source:
washingtontimes.com URL Source:http://www.washingtontimes.com/news ... -should-not-subsidize-planned/ Published:Jul 27, 2015 Author:Tammy Bruce Post Date:2015-10-29 04:05:32 by GreyLmist Keywords:Abortion, Planned Parenthood, Politics, Government Views:65 Comments:3
Like many of you, when I first heard the undercover video of a Planned Parenthood official discussing in a detached and macabre manner the selling of aborted baby parts, I was physically sickened.
Regardless of whether you identify as pro-life or pro-choice, the impact of the ghoulish and craven nature of the negotiation for body parts is profoundly disturbing. Yet there are liberal individuals and institutions, like Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, the White House and The New York Times, methodically defending Planned Parenthood, making very sure whatever is left of their critical minds doesn’t disturb them with a reminder of the rank obscenity of the situation.
One thing I can tell you — the feminist movement was supposed to be about ensuring equal rights for women, which included being trusted to make our own reproductive choices.
Horrifyingly, in the 21st century it has devolved into abortionists exploiting women’s bodies and selling baby parts over a glass of chardonnay while giggling about wanting a Lamborghini.
My reaction carries a more personal component as my political activism began in the 1980s with abortion rights. I’ve written extensively about my journey from the left to the right in my three books. Ten years ago in “The Death of Right and Wrong,” I chronicle and warn about the bullet train of moral relativism controlling the liberal activist and political machine and their attempts to drag our entire society into their gruesome descent into moral chaos.
With the exposure of Planned Parenthood, we see the ultimate liberal destination: a world with a disconnect from humanity so profound, so disturbed, that a woman discussing where she chooses to “crush” an in-utero baby in order to not damage the human organs discussed for sale is approached as blase and routine.
As the second video was released last week, again of a female official at Planned Parenthood negotiating the sale of baby parts, I thought to myself, “Why isn’t anyone from the pro-choice movement condemning Planned Parenthood for this?” Then I realized I was one of those people, and instead of waiting for someone else to step up, I would.
The pro-choice argument, for me, has been about wanting government out of our lives; even when on the left my work was based in the desire to be left alone by intrusive government, issues of violence against women, and economic equality informed my activism. I knew then, and still believe, that moral legislation, like prohibition or anti-abortion laws, impact only the disenfranchised. People with money will always get what they want; the poor or powerless not so much.
At the same time, if you’re having an abortion in the 21st century you have failed. With so many birth control options, the first “choice” women have begins with saying the word “no” before you have sex with someone that could result in a pregnancy.
The modern feminist movement abandoned women long ago when they monetized women’s bodies with the issue of abortion, literally needing to romanticize abortions into something that, as one national feminist leader put it at a speech I attended in the early 1990s, an act a woman should be proud of.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Besides the ghastly nature of the Planned Parenthood tapes per se, any normal human being has to question, how did this happen? Who have we become? While I agree to some degree that the current Planned Parenthood issue has nothing to do with abortion rights and everything to do with corruption and moral obscenity, it doesn’t end there. As a feminist I must consider how the argument for abortion-rights, and the left’s narrative rejecting the humanity of a baby in-utero, has contributed to this atrocity.
Our liberal culture in general worships self-obsession, consumption and the throw-away society, where the lives of the voiceless are more invisible than ever before. As the concept of family disintegrates, children (and pregnancies) more often become loose threads that threaten to undo the fabric of our well-crafted lives.
Our liberal media gatekeepers are making animals and even children more like accessories for our reality-television focused culture, to be made in an effort to reassure ourselves, or others, of our increasingly doubtful humanity.
And then there’s the Planned Parenthood videos. It was inevitable with moral relativism and the death of right and wrong. In this world, no one, and no thing, is to be judged, certainly no one from one of the protected classes of the left, and absolutely not one of their citadels, like Planned Parenthood.
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We watch as the movement to empower women is brutalized by the left into a scheme which enslaves women to a liberal politics that uses them and their bodies like dirty dishrags. And then we’re told to shut up about it. Because of political correctness.
There is a scramble on the left by politicians like Mrs. Pelosi and Mrs. Clinton, and their legacy media water-carriers like The New York Times, to “save” Planned Parenthood. These moral terrorists must obfuscate and crawl even further into the gutter to do so, because the cost of admitting the truth of what they’ve become is too monstrous to admit.
We, however, have another choice. We can choose to not let that monster prevail. There are actions that can be taken immediately to reclaim the decency we are all worthy of, and that includes making sure we end our complicity in this atrocity by cutting off the $500 million dollar a year taxpayer subsidy of Planned Parenthood.
The left is always complaining about massive corporate profits, and ending “corporate welfare.” Let’s start with Planned Parenthood. Ending taxpayer support can be our first step in taking our nation back by refusing to enable and finance the cruel inhumanity of the left.
Published on Sep 29, 2015 by Rep. Jim Jordan (OH-04)
Rep. Jim Jordan, OH-04, delivers his opening statement in a hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform about the recent Planned Parenthood video scandal.
Uploaded on Mar 29, 2011 by Live Action [2.5 minutes]
contrary to the claims of Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards and other supporters of the nation's largest abortion chain, the organization does not provide mammograms for women.
Published on Oct 1, 2015 by Live Action [1 minute]
Mammosham: Planned Parenthood faced its own mammogram lie. Before Congress, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards admitted that the abortion business has never provided mammograms, despite previous claims.
introduced by Rep. Diane Black [R-TN6] on July 21, 2015
Result: Passed
Aye: 241 [56% R] Democrats Aye: Lipinski, Daniel (IL 3rd); Peterson, Collin (MN 7th)
No: 187 [43% D] Republicans No: Dent, Charles (PA 15th); Dold, Bob (IL 10th); Hanna, Richard (NY 22nd)
GovTrack.us estimates that the bill has a 67% chance of being enacted. In addition to the $525 million+ of annual corporate welfare that Planned Parenthood has been getting from Congress, a Government Accountability Office study is reported to have found that it was paid over $1 billion by Medicaid alone in a 3 year period. According to the Hearing testimony of Planned Parenthood president, Cecile Richards, 86% of its total revenue is from abortions (i.e. all other revenues = 14%). However, according to Federal Law (reference example: the Hyde Amendment), it's illegal for Medicaid and other Federal Funds to pay for abortions except in dire cases, such as to save the life of the mother. So, the $1 billion+ Medicaid figure from the GAO inspection could lawfully only amount to some fraction of the 14% figure for Planned Parenthood's total non-abortion revenues.
Am not a math expert but guesstimate, theoretically, that it might have made about $86 billion in abortion revenues [86%] for the same 3 year period + somewhat more than $1 billion in Medicaid for non-abortion matters [approx. 1%] and nearly $13 billion more [approx. 13%], additionally, from all other non-Medicaid sources (examples: cash and private insurance payments, various grants obtained, investments and donations, lobby panhandling...) -- the point of all that being, if 100% of the total revenue for those 3 years = $100 billion [$33 billion+ average each year]:
Planned Parenthood shouldn't need any taxpayer corporate welfare at all from Congress. A law against any fetal "procurement business" could help it to abolish those operating costs entirely. The Congressional money can be much better spent elsewhere and the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015 would give more money to thousands of other clinics for women's health issues, which elective abortions-on-demand as birth control are not:
On October 14, the Committee received all unedited video footage from CMP as required by a subpoena. A viewing room was set up where all Committee members and staff – majority and minority – have equal access to view the footage.
On October 13, Planned Parenthood announced that it will no longer accept reimbursements to cover the costs of fetal tissue donations. Chairman Chaffetz issued the following statement:
“This is a good, tangible result of the collective efforts of the House in investigating Planned Parenthood. It is helpful in taking away some questions surrounding their transactions involving fetal tissue. Significant questions still remain about Planned Parenthood’s finances. This decision does not answer the question as to why a non-profit, tax-exempt organization reporting approximately $125M in revenue over expenses annually needs a subsidy from the American taxpayer. The Committee will continue its investigation into Planned Parenthood’s use of federal taxpayer dollars.”
Sounds like Planned Parenthood intends to continue its "procurements" of fetal tissue and body parts but on a donational-profiteering basis rather than price-tagging them.
Planned Parenthood shouldn't need any taxpayer corporate welfare at all from Congress. A law against any fetal "procurement business" could help it to abolish those operating costs entirely. The Congressional money can be much better spent elsewhere and the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015 would give more money to thousands of other clinics for women's health issues, which elective abortions-on-demand as birth control are not
Published on Sep 29, 2015 by John McCormack [less than 5.5 minutes]
3 deceptive statements in that video by Planned Parenthood's president, Cecile Richards, on the issue of supposedly "informed" abortion-customer consent to "voluntarily donate" the victim's tissue and body parts:
At 2:51-3:02, "We are very clear at Planned Parenthood. We have a very clear policy on fetal tissue donation. It's done with the full consent of the patient."
At 4:20-4:30, "We have a very clear policy, which I'm happy to read to you, about how we allow patients to make fetal tissue donations."
At 4:54-4:55 "we allow women voluntarily" ... [At 5:10-5:12, "fetal tissue donation"]
Planned Parenthood has gone to the Supreme Court to obstruct parental consent/remove parental refusal -- and even eliminate any parental notification at all -- from the process of a minor-aged daughter obtaining an abortion. [Ref. Minors and abortion: United States - Wikipedia] Because of such "bench permits" against Parental Rights (a form of Kidnapping), Planned Parenthood's "patients" are not always adult women, as Cecile Richards suggested, but are sometimes minor-aged girls who aren't really old enough to contract abortion consent or a "voluntary contract" of "fetal procurement donations". [Ref. Parental Involvement in Minors' Abortions - guttmacher.org] Even adult women are likely not much aware that "scientific research" spinmeistering could possibly mean cosmetic development projects.
Informed consent cannot be given under duress, which is probably the stressed and despairing condition of many females, adult or not, who undergo an abortion. [Ref. Fetal Parts for Sale (Part 2) - liveactionnews.org]:
When Life Dynamics did its own investigation, 20/20 showed an interview with Dr. Miles Jones, a fetal parts wholesaler. In the interview, Jones said, in relation to informed consent, “If you have someone trained to ask properly, you can get eighty, ninety percent consent rates.” Having a checked box and a signature might cover the legal trail, but the questions remain about the extent of the “informed” aspect of “informed consent.”
Legal documents required to be signed before the abortion takes place are frequently signed without understanding, under stress, or even under duress. Consent may not always be free and informed, particularly when the consent form reads, ‘I agree to give my blood and/or tissue from the abortion as a gift to be used for education, research or treatment.’ This would not automatically lead one to believe they were signing away the baby’s limbs, liver, heart, torso, brain, etc.
A related ethical question is whether morally-legitimate consent for fetal part donation is even possible in this case, when it is the next of kin (the mother) who is intentionally causing the death of the fetus.
Another article on those issues that Congress should be addressing, investigatively and legislatively:
[An] argument I’ve heard is that a mother donating the body of her aborted baby to science is no different than someone who donates their organs after death. But donation of aborted fetal tissue is not at all analogous to voluntary organ donation. A person, or his/her next of kin, must freely consent, unencumbered by fear, coercion, or duress, in order to donate organs or other tissue after his/her death. Putting aside the fact that most, if not all, patients undergoing abortions are likely encumbered by fear, coercion, or duress of some nature (why else would they be procuring an abortion?) while signing the “consent” forms to have their children chopped up and sold for parts. Parents may not — or should not — have the ability to give consent to donate their child’s organs and tissues if they have deliberately killed him or her (or, in the case of abortion, paid someone else to do so).
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