Planned Parenthood heroically provides medical services to a great many women who otherwise would receive little or no health care at all. This can be thankless and even dangerous work, because there are fanatics out there who do not like what they do. They perform abortions, you see, though this is a tiny fraction of their work. Some people think abortion should be illegal, arguing, preposterously in my view, that a fertilized egg is already the moral equivalent of a human being.
Some of the fanatics are well-funded and well-organized, and they devote considerable effort to “exposing” Planned Parenthood. The most recent salvo in this never-ending war is a series of sting videos which are said to show sadistic Planned Parenthood employees casually negotiating the sale of baby body parts. By publicizing these videos the fanatics have certainly scored a propaganda victory, one in which they are aided by the frequently anemic response from those who defend the rights of women to control their own bodies.
The videos, of course, show nothing like what the fanatics claim. Whether they like it or not, abortion is legal. The result is fetal tissue that is vitally important to medical research that has already saved countless lives. It is expensive for Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers to get that tissue where it needs to go, and they expect to be compensated for their costs. That is all the videos show, even after careful and sleazy editing to make them seem as bad as possible. For all the frothing denunciations from the fanatics, there is nothing more here than a bit of tone-trolling. The scandal, apparently, is that people on the videos are overly casual in discussing an unpleasant topic.
But pro-lifers never tire of trumpeting their own self-righteousness. In their warped and deeply immoral view, they are the modern equivalent of the anti-slavery movement, while those who defend women’s rights are likened to Nazis. The level of depravity it takes to make such comparisons beggars belief. The people who make them are monsters who have nothing to teach the rest of us about morality.
Planned Parenthood deserves every penny it gets and millions more besides. They provide desperately needed services to people many politicians would prefer to ignore. They do this in the face of deranged opposition, relentless attacks from opportunistic politicians, and credible threats against their life. They are heroes pure and simple.
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Planned Parenthood heroically provides medical services to a great many women who otherwise would receive little or no health care at all. This can be thankless and even dangerous work, because there are fanatics out there who do not like what they do. They perform abortions, you see, though this is a tiny fraction of their work. Some people think abortion should be illegal, arguing, preposterously in my view, that a fertilized egg is already the moral equivalent of a human being.
Some of the fanatics are well-funded and well-organized, and they devote considerable effort to “exposing” Planned Parenthood. The most recent salvo in this never-ending war is a series of sting videos which are said to show sadistic Planned Parenthood employees casually negotiating the sale of baby body parts. By publicizing these videos the fanatics have certainly scored a propaganda victory, one in which they are aided by the frequently anemic response from those who defend the rights of women to control their own bodies.
The videos, of course, show nothing like what the fanatics claim. Whether they like it or not, abortion is legal. The result is fetal tissue that is vitally important to medical research that has already saved countless lives. It is expensive for Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers to get that tissue where it needs to go, and they expect to be compensated for their costs. That is all the videos show, even after careful and sleazy editing to make them seem as bad as possible. For all the frothing denunciations from the fanatics, there is nothing more here than a bit of tone-trolling. The scandal, apparently, is that people on the videos are overly casual in discussing an unpleasant topic.
But pro-lifers never tire of trumpeting their own self-righteousness. In their warped and deeply immoral view, they are the modern equivalent of the anti-slavery movement, while those who defend women’s rights are likened to Nazis. The level of depravity it takes to make such comparisons beggars belief. The people who make them are monsters who have nothing to teach the rest of us about morality.
Planned Parenthood deserves every penny it gets and millions more besides. They provide desperately needed services to people many politicians would prefer to ignore. They do this in the face of deranged opposition, relentless attacks from opportunistic politicians, and credible threats against their life. They are heroes pure and simple.
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