Bogus claim of war on women’s health is finished
The favorite and completely bogus mantra of defenders of the practice of destroying unborn babies has always been that of preserving women’s health.
Massachusetts leftist Sen. Elizabeth Warren trotted it out again during debate on the latest proposal to end the use of taxpayer money to fund the nation’s largest provider of abortions.
“Let’s be really clear about something,” she began. “The Republican scheme to defund Planned Parenthood [is] just one more piece of a deliberate, methodical, orchestrated right-wing attack on women’s rights.”
It took a few days after the release of videos discussing the sale of dismembered unborn children for Democrats to figure out how they were going to deal with the latest horrors of what goes on inside the organization’s clinics.
With no new ideas, they defaulted to the worn-out distraction of saying the investigation into another dimension of Planned Parenthood’s operations was just part of the mythical war on women, this time being waged by the anti-abortion Center for Medical Progress.
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn said even more shocking than what the videos revealed was the “cavalier attitude by Planned Parenthood’s staff who seemed to have sacrificed their humanity and shown so little regard for the sanctity of human life.”
Soon-to-be-retired Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid exclaimed, “The Republican Party has lost its moral compass.”
Selling aborted baby parts is moral and complaining about it is not? Wow.
Pro-abortion forces in Congress and elsewhere are trying diligently to make all of this about the release of the videos. They want to change the discussion from what the videos show to some kind of claim that we shouldn’t be allowed to know about what they show.
They want to characterize as a conspiracy or some violation of imagined rights that the butchers should be protected from people learning of their practices.
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, a prime beneficiary of Planned Parenthood’s political largesse, stumbled at first by saying she was “disturbed” about what the videos showed.
Within a few hours, she had produced a two-minute campaign ad clarifying her unwavering support for the organization and joined the chorus of those saying reactions to the videos were just that of a “full-on assault on women’s health.”
For those who believe this travesty will all go away as the American psyche adjusts still again to the unspeakable, Texas may have evidence of why they are wrong.
It was just a few months ago when what was called a rising international star of the Democratic Party was going to be the state’s new governor.
Wendy Davis had launched her campaign in a pair of pink sneakers entirely on the strength of her promise to protect “women’s health” by ensuring there were no barriers to destroying unborn babies.
She, too, championed the organization that, based on their own data, hourly terminates the lives of 37 children developing inside their mothers.
On election day, Wendy was sent right back into private life by an overwhelming majority of people who soundly rejected her wanton position.
Could this latest revelation of all that is wrong about public funding for what Planned Parenthood is doing change the outcome of the next elections?
The archbishop of Chicago was quoted by MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough: “Have we so muted the humanity of the unborn child that some consider it acceptable to speak freely of crushing a child’s skull to preserve valuable body parts?”
Voters will have an opportunity to provide the answer. Let’s hope it’s the right one.
Richard Greene is a former Arlington mayor and served as an appointee of President George W. Bush as regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency.
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This story was originally published August 7, 2015 at 7:27 PM with the headline "Bogus claim of war on women’s health is finished."