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Planned Parenthood’s “best attempt at a defense was a miserable failure”

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Planned Parenthood is scrambling. Matt Walsh explains how:

As for the report itself, like I said, read it. Please read it. Lord, it’s laughable. I really want you to read it so you understand just how thoroughly, profoundly, irreparably dishonest the abortion industry is about everything, and how beholden our nation’s “reporters” are to it. Then again, maybe these water-carrying media members are just angling to the be the latest recipients of the trophies Planned Parenthood hands out to the most cooperative and obedient journalists.

Here’s the deal: not only does Planned Parenthood’s report fail to disprove CPM’s findings, it actually verifies them. In the first couple of paragraphs, the report admits, and I quote, “this analysis did not reveal widespread evidence of substantive video manipulation.” Alright. So there you go. The end, folks. Why are we still talking about this?

Read his article here.

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This kid is about as impressed with Planned Parenthood as I am.

 
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What a gal (sarcasm alert)

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Huh. I knew Margaret Sanger said some racist things, but I didn’t realize she, the founder of Planned Parenthood, actually attended Ku Klux Klan rallies.

A bunch of pro-life folks are protesting her bust, sitting alongside Rosa Parks in the National Portrait Gallery in DC. (Which is, incidentally, my favourite DC museum.)

Sanger, a proponent of eugenics, founded the American Birth Control League in 1921, which became part of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 1942.

In an article titled “Birth Control and Racial Betterment,” published in 1919, Sanger wrote that the “diseased and incompetent masses” threaten to “overwhelm all that eugenics can do among those whose economic condition is better.”

“Birth Control, on the other hand, not only opens the way to the eugenist, but it preserves his work,” Sanger wrote.

Sanger wrote in her book “Woman and the New Race” that the population control methods she advocated would bring about the “materials of a new race.”

“Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives,” Sanger wrote.

What a legacy.

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Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood

 

 

Just say no to a “women’s issue” debate

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I was against a women’s issues debate in the Canadian federal election because it tends to be that people drastically opposed to what I believe pretend to represent me, and I’m just supposed to stand there, smiling, nodding, and saying things like, “I do love little kittens.” So it’s a relief that there won’t be one. Huzzah. There is of course the additional hypocrisy that the group claiming to want a debate doesn’t actually want to debate. On abortion, their talking point has consistently been that abortion is a right not up for debate. So when pro-lifers ask them to defend their views publicly, they say no.

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The folly of the FDA

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Today, “female viagra” was approved by the FDA.

If you want to read about how and why this happened, click here.

Flibanserin, a serotonergic drug, was initially in clinical trials as an antidepressant. Despite its history of being a “thrice failed antidepressant,” Sprout persevered and used the “finding” that some women in the drug trials said they experienced a slight increase in sexual desire as the reason to repackage the drug. Flibanserin was soon in clinical trials for Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder (HSDD), an indication listed in the previous edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). Sprout now maintains that HSDD is comparable to the DSM-5’s “Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder,” and that women deserve a drug to treat this disorder.

As part of the attempt to gain approval for its drug, Sprout  initiated an ingenious marketing campaign, “Even the Score,” claiming that there was a sexism inherent in the number of FDA-approved treatments for sexual disorders: 26 for men and “zero for women.” However, this claim was false. There are only 8 drugs that treat male sexual dysfunction, and none are FDA-approved for low libido.

However, the “Even the Score” campaign worked. Sprout was able to get women’s groups to sign on to the idea that getting this drug approved was almost akin to getting Title IX passed.

Keep reading. It’s pretty fascinating stuff about the politics of drug approval for conditions that don’t exist, with no proof they do anything over and above a placebo.

When Godwin’s Law doesn’t apply

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I generally adhere to Godwin’s Law, which states that the first person to compare to Hitler or the Nazis in an online debate has lost the argument. I believe the Holocaust is a uniquely terrible event in history. Therefore, it ought rarely be compared to anything.

When might I diverge from this? When people kill other people, take the body parts, call them trash, and then declare it’s better that this trash be used for research rather than just be thrown out.

Human tissue can be used for research. That’s not the point. It’s all about intent: When we purposefully kill, and the person killed never gave consent to be used for research, then it’s a crime, whether or not the state recognizes it as such.
Over time, the state has recognized immoral actions as legal. What is legal isn’t what is right by a long shot. People get confused about this.
When we use baby body parts and express a callous disregard for that life and those parts then we have indeed entered criminal, and yes, I’d argue, Nazi territory. Most of even the most strident pro-choicers get it, because some of the folks in the blogosphere who never miss a beat blogging about any and every abortion-related story have fallen quite silent this time. That, by the way, is a hopeful sign.

The right question for Planned Parenthood defenders

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Timothy Brahm of the Equal Rights Institute is asking the right question:

In conclusion, I would like to pose a question to anyone that is still defending Planned Parenthood: There are at least half a dozen videos still coming. Is there hypothetically ANYTHING that could be in these videos that could persuade you that you shouldn’t support Planned Parenthood anymore? Is there anything a Planned Parenthood executive could say that would persuade you that the organization is corrupt? Is there any evidence that could convince you that they are financially profiting from selling baby parts, or doing something else illegal?

If the answer is yes, I’d be really interested to know what would do it for you.

If the answer is no, then it should disturb you that you are that closed-minded. Blind support for any organization is unconscionable.

Read the rest here.

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One woman’s experience with the abortion pill

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Since everyone is saying RU-486 is so super safe and easy, it is important to at least mention/warn women of what they might experience. I’m going to post these things periodically, because it’s one thing to read about the abortion pill being legalized, and it’s another thing altogether to take it.

Two things, no wait, three, that really bother me. 1) the voices of these women are never heard 2) it appears that so many of those women who love, luv, luuuuuuv the abortion pill are at an age when they would never have to take it 3) the media never report with any concern for the fact that this can be very damaging to women. They never ask any tough questions. Wait, I’m not done with things that really bother me here. 4) Men, who due to biology can but rarely understand what it means to have a painful menstrual cycle, will now begin to associate the abortion pill with, oh say, taking a Tylenol. 5) Women encourage other women and men to see it that way.

Gonna be a rude awakening.

Read one woman’s experience:

It was around midnight and I had been in the bathroom for a good 12 hours. I knew I couldn’t leave yet. I didn’t want to lay in the bed…the bleeding was too heavy. And the clots were still coming; not as often, but they were still coming.

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Alabama, Louisiana, New Hampshire

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What do they have in common? They have all de-funded Planned Parenthood. I’d call that success.

Alabama has become the third state to de-fund the Planned Parenthood abortion business in the wake of five videos exposing how the abortion giant sells the body parts of aborted babies for research. The state follows Louisiana, which is revoking a contract with Planned Parenthood using state Medicaid dollars, and New Hampshire, which zapped $650,000 in state taxpayer funding.

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“Your child, no matter how old, is, was and still is important”

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Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep is an incredible organization. Here is a little about the American org, which has photographers in Canada:

The photo session by Ottawa photographer Julie Hearty was provided through Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, a U.S.-based non-profit organization that operates in more than 40 countries. It was formed in 2005 by Cheryl Haggard, a Colorado mother whose son Maddux died six days after birth, and Sandy Puc´, a professional photographer contacted by Haggard’s husband to take photos of Maddux. It was Haggard’s belief that her family’s healing would come about by remembering Maddux, rather than by forgetting him.

Last year, 38 families in the Ottawa area used Now I Lay Me Down’s services at numerous hospitals, while others had similar packages provided by a handful of photographers who volunteer at Roger’s House.

These words by the manager of CHEO’s palliative care program demonstrate such a compassion for pre-born children and their parents:

“When babies die at birth or just before birth, these parent suffer what we call disenfranchised grief, because people don’t recognize how meaningful this child was to them. And even if that child lives two minutes, that’s a relationship, and they can talk about their child. Even if they’re stillborn, they can still talk about their child. They held them, they bathed them, they had their pictures taken, they were part of the family. They had handprints. They gave them names.

“The main message is that your child, no matter how old, is, was and still is important. They lived. They had a heart that beat, somewhere.”

The Ottawa Citizen article is well worth your time.

It’s certainly nice to read words of compassion about unborn babies. It’s refreshing when we consider what else is being said and done.

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