“Thank you, Planned Parenthood. God bless you.”
— Barack Obama, address to Planned Parenthood, April 26, 2013
"Planned Parenthood’s reaction to the
release of a clandestinely recorded conversation about the sale of fetal
body parts was highly revealing. After protesting that it did nothing
illegal, it apologized for the “tone” of one of its senior directors.
"Her remarks lacked compassion, admitted Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards. As if Dr. Deborah Nucatola’s cold and casual discussion over salad and wine of how the fetal body can be crushed with forceps in a way that leaves valuable organs intact for sale is some kind of personal idiosyncrasy. On the contrary, it’s precisely the kind of psychic numbing that occurs when dealing daily with industrial scale destruction of the growing, thriving, recognizably human fetus.
. . .
"What will be the reaction to these Planned Parenthood revelations? Right now, to try to deprive it of taxpayer money. Citizens repelled by its activities should not be made complicit in them. But why not shift the focus from the facilitator to the procedure itself?
"The House has already passed a bill banning abortion after 20 weeks. That’s far more fruitful than trying to ban it entirely because, apart from the obvious constitutional issue, there is no national consensus about the moral status of the early embryo. There’s more agreement on the moral status of the later-term fetus. Indeed, about two-thirds of Americans would ban abortion after the first trimester." . . .
Good grief, what is the philosophy of those in that one third?
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