Once Again the Des Moines Register Pimps for Planned Parenthood

& once again, like it's recent push for telemed abortions, it does so on the editorial page, making it clear that there is a love affair between the Register & Planned Parenthood. The piece by Rekha Basu: Bookmarking history, choice is a love song to Planned Parenthood & its founder Margaret Sanger. Basu totally ignores Sanger's racist eugenic agenda that led her to promote birth control, an agenda that was aimed at preventing Basu herself from being born.

Instead she presents Sanger as a hero rather than the villian she really is.

But the main focus is on Planned Parenthood-Heartland & the fact that it is celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Des Moines book sale. She goes on to extol all the hard workers who make this possible. What she fails to mention is how this isn't about fundraising like it was 50 yrs ago. Rather these days it is a gigantic PR ploy to make it look like PP is operating on a shoestring budget rather than making a huge profit off of our tax dollars & murdering children. & this piece is just 1 more part of that false front.

PP is presented as the poor, beleagered protector of women's rights & those opposing it as evil. There is the usual Bush bashing as well as bashing the Catholic Church. She even digs out a dissident priest from the Davenport diocese (c 1962). & of course Basu plays the violence card as well. She quotes from a DM School Nurse named Madden-Bittle. The quotes include "Nobody dreamed it was going to get so toxic." putting the blame on pro-lifers for that happenning. She also amde the claim that PP had to buy a bullet proof vest for its doctor: "You don't know her name. You won't ever see her. She is not public." I don't know about the vest, they may have bought it even though they knew they didn't have to. But I am fairly sure she knows that her claims of fear of violence are a lie. This also proves that despite claims by Planned Parenthood of Oklahoma City chief executive Anita Fream, it is PP policy to make pro-life advocates appear violent or dangerous.

Basu does mention the upcoming Iowa Right to Life Book Sale. But only to make it sound like it this is a salute to PP's sucess rather than the fact the IRTL is doing it "to provide book-lovers with an alternative" to PP's book sale.

Another myth she propagates in this article is how contraceptives provide "an efficient and harmless method for controlling the size of their families". No mention of all the side effects from the pill & other chemical methods such as cancer, depression & death by such things as blood clots. (The Pill Kills) Nor does she mention the abortifacient aspects of those contraceptives.

Basu's drooling & slobbering over PP is not surprizing. She is a radical feminist & ultra liberal who has been a shining star at the DMR for years. She is a prime example of how the DMR (owned by USA Today's Gannett) is our version of the Main Stream Media. Growing up the DMR was "The Paper Iowa Depends On". Now it is the paper the Democratic Party & PP can depend on to spread their propaganda & lies.