Planned Parenthood

This is a mess.  As should be evident by now, I'm against abortion on demand, unless it is deemed medically necessary for the life of the mother or if the child will be born with a lethal or fatal illness that will kill it shortly after birth.

Planned Parenthood traces its lineage back to Margaret Sanger, a pioneer in birth control and a known bigot.  The irony is that people knowingly support the organization despite the fact that Sanger made statements that were clearly directed at reducing the number of minorities and Jews in the population.  That untidy bit of information is glossed over by the desire to raise women's right to control their own bodies over all.

Recently, guerrilla videos taken of Planned Parenthood executives negotiating the sale of fetal tissue and organs.  Incredibly, the executives approach the negotiations as if they were selling car parts from a chophouse, even joking in one instance that the goal is to buy a Lamborghini.  The callous way they discuss the methodology of harvesting the body parts or tissue is chilling.  The unborn children have no life.  They are simply chattel to these people, something with which they can earn money.

I'm not going to rehash my objections to abortion.  Ultimately, it comes down to whether a person believes the unborn child is human prior to birth or whether it becomes human only after delivery although, unbelievably, there are those who argue that even terminating a pregnancy shortly after birth is acceptable.  No, what this involves is yet another version of man's inhumanity to man.

Unlike the exceptions to abortion that I support, terminating the life of an unborn child is simply ghoulish, especially when viewed through the prism of abject capitalism.  Putting a price on the unborn's organs and tissues, as if they were bred for that purpose alone, is one step away from Dr. Mengele.  I cannot conceive being so callous as to blithely barter body parts for fast cars.

Although I have no way of knowing this for certain, these very same people may well protest against the harm of pets (with which I agree) or be vegetarians or vegans who see the slaughter of animals for our consumption barbaric (with which I disagree).  How they justify these seemingly inconsistent beliefs with their support of abortion is beyond me.  If it's cruel to harm animals, why is it all right to kill unwanted, unborn children and use them as inventory?  Saving a life is one thing, but using the unborn's parts as stock for one's financial gain?

Almost as unbelievable as this dirty capitalism is the reaction of supporters.  They've lashed out, claiming that the videos were edited (which they were, but only to shorten them, not to remove content) and, incredibly, calling for the group that produced the undercover videos to be investigated. As if that weren't enough, the people doing this are female politicians, notably Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi.  In the latter's case, it's not incredible that she'd pull such a stunt.  What's unbelievable is that she has support for her position.  Deflection is the last argument they have, since they know what is being done is horrible.

I'm fully supportive that federal funding be pulled from Planned Parenthood.  My tax dollars shouldn't be used to support something in which I don't believe, and it shouldn't be forced to support what is in essence a for-profit industry.  If the Left is insistent that non-profit status should be pulled from churches that, for religious reasons, refuse to perform gay weddings, it's at least fair to require funding to be pulled from Planned Parenthood.

Sanger wouldn't care, though, because those funds come, in part, from the very people she wanted exterminated, Jews and minorities.

Just don't try to remind Cankles and Pelosi of that fact.  They'd want to have one investigated for making that assertion.

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