What a Difference 2 Years Makes
2 years ago the pro-aborts were celebrating the election of Obama & a pro-abort Congress. After all the news about Gosnell & Planned Parenthood the last couple weeks, things are definitely not so upbeat. As I have pointed out, these stories have ripped away the facade that the pro-aborts have tried to paint that they want abortion to be safe. We have seen how they are willing to throw over every semblence of safety in the name of profits. & then acting like what more & more evidence is proving is the norm, isn't.
& even after the latest scandals involving Live Action's undercover revelations all they want to do is pretend like they are aberations & funding for Planned Parenthood should continue.
They are justifying the inaction/cooperation of the PP staff with such things as an online article called Even Teen Hookers Need Abortions. Yup, PP needs to help underage prostitutes go back to work, even though what they are doing is illegal.
Then there is this. “These videos show nothing. There is no evidence that Planned Parenthood did anything wrong,” said Ari Rabin-Havt, vice president of Media Matters.“
Last Friday 27 progressive groups, lead by liberal “media watchdog” Media Matters, sent a letter to Congress that calls for politicians to protect funding for Planned Parenthood. The letter labels the hidden-camera videos as a “digital witch hunt.” These groups range from the NAACP to the Sierra Club to People for the American Way.
The letter says: “Right-wing groups are once again attempting to destroy an organization dedicated to providing crucial primary care services to Americans that need them most. Armed with heavily edited videos, countless lies and a shameless echo chamber that repeats unfounded accusations ad nauseam, they’ve now turned their sights to Planned Parenthood, which offers a range of important health and reproductive services."
Notice all the usual lies like the tapes were edited, used. & a total ignoring of any safety issues for women. just defending the only thing they give a damn about, abortion under the guise of reproductive services.
So, to repeat, we have seen over the last few weeks that the abortion industry is willing to look the other way when it comes to women's safety. They are willing to condone horrible conditions in clinics that they claim went away with the back alley abortion. They are willing to condone child abuse, using underaged girls for sex etc. So much for what they really think about women's safety & health. Dollar signs & unlimitted abortions are all they care about.
Which leads me to the other part of the safe & rare mantra. How well groups like PP & others who promote family planning have done to make abortion rare. Every push to fund family planning education that includes birth control is done in the name of reducing prgnancies & abortions. & after all these years of their supposedly "quality" sex ed to ensure that have abortions become rare. NO. But that isn't a fact they want out. & it is looking like they are getting the Obama administration & the CDC in particular to help cover that up.
Last week over at RedState Erick Erickson reported that "the Obama administration is deliberately playing “hide the ball” on nationwide abortion statistics. For apparently the first time in 40 years, the CDC’s annual “Abortion Surveillance Report” was not published, and there are “no plans” for the data to be produced at this time." Usually this report is published every November by the CDC, & was produced by the cooperative efforts of the Guttmacher Institute & statisticians at the CDC. (FYI: Given the time lag, the data actually is from 3 years previously, so the 2010 report would have looked at 2007.)
RedState was told in January by the CDC that they “will not have stats available at any time in the near future” & there “are no plans for them to come out any time soon." Then things began heating up from the 3 February story, heat that included a letter which was alleged to have been sent to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius from Senator Tom Coburn. Coburn reportedly expressed “deep concern” at the CDC’s apparent failure to release this year’s statistics. The next day the CDC changed its story. Friday, 4 February 2011 the CDC made the claim that the data would come out in February. Later that same day the CDC said the data would be out on 25 February.
So the CDC suddenly had the stats available. But it gets better (or worse depending on which side of the story you are on). Now the latest info proves that the Obama administration was intentionally Deep Sixing the report. A group reported they had obtained an internal CDC email showing that the report was submitted for review & editing on 12 November 2010. & that the only thing left to do was schedule a publicarion date.
The irony is that the group who came out with the proof is a George Soros funded group. That group, Media Matters. Yup the same group who is leading the defense of PP & the abortion industry. Of course, Media Matters tried to spin it to sound like it wasn't an attempt by Obama to Deep Six it. (CDC Debunks Right-Wing Claim That Obama Canceled Annual Abortion Report)
The article tries to use the fact that these reports don't always come out in November as proof that there was no cancellation of the report. What it ignores is that Novemeber is the normal time the editing would take place for a report that comes out in November. It also ignores the fact that the CDC denied the stats were available let alone in a form ready for publication.
As RedState pointed out: "In other words, two weeks ago the CDC said it 'will not have stats available at any time in the near future' and there 'are no plans for them to come out any time soon.' Last week, after we documented this, the CDC reversed and said 'the population data needed to develop rate/ratio statistics was not available at the time we normally prepare the ASR' and the CDC would release it 'tentatively, in February.' The CDC also noted the MMWR’s editorial calendar is booked ‘well in advance.’ " (emphasis mine) Which is it CDC & Media Matters? How can they have had the stats for it to be ready to publish in November & then they not be available in January" Then the data is there but not developed in February when the November memo says they were?
Something tells me that there is a conspiracy between the CDC, the Obama Administration & Media Matters to spin things. They ignore the facts, like what happenned with Gosnell & PP & try to make it sound like the statements made didn't mean what they said.
Is Media Matters saying that Rhonda Smith at the CDC’s press office in Atlanta confirmation that the report has been postponed indefinitely; when she said the CDC “will not have stats available at any time in the near future” and there “are no plans for them to come out any time soon." wasn't a confirmation? Well since she never got back with a reason, in their mind yes. The reason, because an anonymous Obama administration member said that “this report is slated to run later this month, and always has been.” From no plans to always planned? Someone is lying & covering up the truth. & it definitely isn't RedState.
Also, Media Matters attacks RedState for saying the report normally comes out in Novemeber or December. Yet the CDC itself admitted November was the usual date.
I am making no assumptions about what the stats actually say. The report has always been imperfect since California, New Hampshire, & Wyoming don’t provide accurate abortion totals each year the way the other 47 states do.
I don't think Obamam was especially worried about the 2007 numbers. I just think he wanted to get rid of any data showing even an approximate number of the "rare" abortions being done. He got caught & the usual "culture of death" gang went to work spreading the spin, lies & half truths like they usually do.
Labels: Kermit Gosnell, Planned Parenthood
posted by Al @ 12:02 AM
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