There's an old saying in the law that goes something like this: If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither on your side, pound the table. There's a lot of table pounding going on on the Left these days.
Starting at the bottom, actress Debra Messing was so upset about the shooting of Cecil the Lion in Zimbabwe by the misguided (literally, it would seem) dentist that she took to Twitter to vent her outrage: SHAME ON HIM! I want them to take his citizenship away. I'm ashamed and horrified by what he did.
A quick perusal of Ms. Messing's Twitter feed (if I did it right; I'm not a Twitterer) shows no such outrage for the Planned Parenthood scandal, but plenty of follow up Tweets about Cecil the Lion, including his last photograph.
Interestingly, Ms. Messing is a graduate of Brandeis University and NYU. Justice Louis Brandeis, for whom her alma mater is named, once famously wrote that sunlight is the best disinfectant. Ms. Messing has taken that to heart, shining a bright light on the lion controversy but keeping the abortionists baby parts scandal hidden conveniently in the dark part of her Twitter.
Next on the hit parade of idiots conflating issues so as to deflect from the real matter is actress Kristen Bell. Take a gander at her proud stance in support of the abortionists/parts dealers:
Yep, that's what this is all about. There are so many different ways to approach this -- hair color, profession, age -- but I revert to the age old dictum res ipsa loquitur.
Countless other actresses trying to seem resolute and erudite have joined the crusade to save funding for the abortionists/parts dealers: Kerry Washington, Scarlett Johansson, Lena Dunham, Julianne Moore and Elizabeth Banks, among others. In every case, they've taken up the battle cry to protect women's reproductive rights, as if that is what the issue is.
Not to be outdone, Leftist politicians are leading the charge, claiming as do their acolytes that the fight is really about women's reproductive health. Elizabeth Warren, Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi and that noted weather vane Hillary Clinton are urging supporters to stand with Planned Parenthood. Their rallying cry is to protect funding for women's reproductive health. They;re even calling for investigations of the people who surreptitiously filmed the discussions over prices. Funny, they never called for an investigation over the guy who filmed Mitt Romney when he made his ill-advised comment about the 47%. Then again, why would they?
Let's be clear on one thing: This has nothing to do with overturning Roe v. Wade, outlawing abortion otherwise or meddling with women's reproductive health. Logically, when the marketing of an aborted baby's body parts is at issue, the reproductive part of the equation is over. This has nothing to do with a woman's right to choose what is being done to or with her body. This has everything to do with the dismemberment and sale of an aborted child's remains.
If anything, I'm shocked that the attack isn't about the right of the mother to share in the profits of her aborted child's remains. Taking their illogical argument a step or two further, it would make more sense if they were arguing that Planned Parenthood ought to be forced to cut them in on the profits. After all, isn't this a product of their actions? Why should Planned Parenthood get to profit?
Spare us the sanctimonious call for fetal research. This is about the gruesome and ghoulish practice of dismembering human remains of children who were killed as insensitively as were the Jews by the Nazis.
I'm not surprised by the Left's attempts to deflect attention from the central issue. It saves them from explaining their support for abortion.
No matter how it's sliced, this is disgusting and not worthy of civilized society.
Unless, of course, it depends on what civilized means...
(c) 2015 The Truxton Spangler Chronicles
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