Nancy Pelosi’s statement about the House Republicans’ plan to vote to defund Planned Parenthood is typical Democratic spin. Ms. Pelosi’s statement that “House Republicans are planning yet another taxpayer-funded Select Committee to burn more of the millions of taxpayer dollars they’ve already spent playing politics – this time with the goal of taking lifesaving preventative care away from millions of American women” is particularly offensive.
It’s offensive because the alternative to investigating Planned Parenthood’s activities is to turn a blind eye towards Planned Parenthood’s activities. That’s the Democrats’ pattern. If anyone wants to scrutinize one of their ‘sacred cow’ institutions, the Democrats’ reflexive reaction is to accuse the people who want to examine that institution’s activities as being haters.
Kirsten Powers’ USA Today article on the Gosnell murder trial provides a powerful picture of what happens when people stop paying attention. In April, 2013, Ms. Powers wrote that “Since the murder trial of Pennsylvania abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell began March 18, there has been precious little coverage of the case that should be on every news show and front page.”
After whining about Republicans establishing “another taxpayer-funded Select Committee” to investigate Planned Parenthood’s activities, Ms. Pelosi wrote that “there must be a thorough investigation of the blatant wrongdoing of the group that clandestinely filmed and selectively edited these videos, likely in violation of numerous state and federal laws.”
Ms. Pelosi lives in an alternative universe where it’s unfair to investigate organizations that get taxpayer funding but it’s imperative to investigate people who uncovered that taxpayer-funded organization’s questionable activities.
The problem is it represents a frontal attack by big government interference regimentation inclined people to deny freedom of choice to families wanting to run their private lives, including abortion decision making - whether to have a child or not once a pregnancy has happened. As such it is a pack of hypocrites if also saying get government off our backs. Get the fundies off people’s backs is a big time part of the full story, and shutting down the government to make it more intrusive does not make sense and will cause hardship - because they can.
There isn’t a right, fundamental or otherwise, to infanticide. There’s eyewitness testimony that babies totally outside the mother’s womb had the connection to their brains snipped, ending their lives. I know you don’t believe that that type of butchery happens but it does. See Gosnell, Kermit.
1. Google “infant.” Compare, “embryo.” 2. Discern differences between “eyewitness testimony” and “reliable eyewitnes testimony.” There is a difference. Yes there are videos bandied about, but Triumph of Will was better filmed and better directed and better edited propaganda. But propaganda, nonetheless.
Eric, the videos have been audited, not that you’ll believe the conclusion. It’s a shame that you think this is just propaganda. Explain how it’s propaganda when Deborah Nucatola sipped wine while telling CMP how Planned Parenthood ‘doctors’ used a different technique when ‘harvesting’ baby body parts. I’ll agree that it’s using Dr. Nucatola’s own words to expose her but that isn’t propaganda. Propaganda is “information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person”, with the key word being rumors. This isn’t a rumor since it’s captured on videotape.
To steal Al Gore’s phrase, it’s an “inconvenient truth” that Planned Parenthood doesn’t want to deal with.
I’ll finish with something Daniel Patrick Moynihan said years ago. He said that people “are entitled to their own opinions. They just aren’t entitled to their own truth.” Just because you don’t like this truth doesn’t mean it isn’t the truth. Deal with it.
Gary - Deal with the fact the McCarthyism against Planned Parenthood will fail, and boomerang against those peddling the assault against women’s health issues and against families who want the government out of their reproductive decision making.
People don’t want fundie prejudices ruining their lives. The fundies can do what they want with their own life choices. Nobody is trying to intervene there. Just stay out of my face, so to speak, and why want a big government bootheel footprint trampled upon choice? It makes no “conservative” sense.
Roe v. Wade is the law, and rats are chewing wherever they think they can at its foundation, and dumping on Planned Parenthood is but one rat chew.
I say politics that will boomerang, you say bedrock truth and such, so why don’t we wait and see?
The Behghazi fig-leaf has just been dropped by the Speaker-to-be, unless his truthfulness on motive ends up scuttling his ascendance, so I suggest we wait and see how the people, in November 2016 feel.
Oh the metal gymnastics a progressive has to do to justify the slaughter of babies.
Eric, it’s shameful to hear the term McCarthyism used in this situation. The fact is that even pro choice people have said that they’ve been repulsed by what they saw on those videos. Trying to turn this into a religious fundamentalist minority vs. an enlightened majority issue isn’t supported by polling. Three-fourths of the people of this nation don’t support late-term abortion, which is what’s happening in CMP’s videos.
I don’t care if you don’t like that but facts are stubborn things. Deal with it.