You Have Got to Be Kidding, This Guy Can't Be Serious

Last night after 5:30 pm Mass @ St. Mary's in E DBQ I stopped at the Locust Street Hy-Vee for supper. There was a copy of Tuesday's USA Today in the Hy-Vee's Kitchen dining area so I decided to look at it. In the 1st section I came across an opinion piece by a DeWayne Wickham about defunding Planned Parenthood entitled Pence's attack on Planned Parenthood foolish. For the 1st part it was the typical how great PP is, federal funds don't pay for abortion,denying women health care BS straight out of PP's play book.

Then I came to this: "Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest provider of sex and reproductive health care services, also counsels women on the use of abstinence and contraceptives as ways to prevent unintended pregnancies. For those women who choose to end an unintended pregnancy, it provides a safe and affordable alternative to the backroom butchery that more women might turn to if Planned Parenthood goes out of business."

1st of all, he has got to be kidding when he says PP counsels women on the use of abstinance. PP has fought & attacked any attempts at abstinance based education saying it doesn't work. So if it does come up, they are clearly counseling against it.

But it is the line about PP being an alternative to "backroom butchery" that really got me. & what until you read what he gave for an example.

"Glimpse the future?
In January, a doctor who performed abortions from his storefront office in a Philadelphia inner city neighborhood was arrested and charged with the death of a woman and seven infants. His allegedly gruesome practice thrived on poor women desperate to end pregnancies. An increasing number will end up in the clutches of such badly run abortion clinics if Pence's crippling attack on Planned Parenthood succeeds."

OK he doesn't mention Kermit Gosnell by name. But that is exactly who he is refering to. You will note that he fails to mention the real reason the place was such a shop of horrors wasn't because of "backroom butchery". What he did was right out there in the open. But he got away with it because of a failure by the state to enforce the regulations as it should. Regulations that weren't enforced because of a pro-abort mentality. These conditions & lack of enforcement of regulations, as well as fighting to prevent them from being enacted where they don't exist, is something that has been shown to be just as true at many a PP abortion mill & the abortion industry as a whole as well.

Another point he fails to mention is if PP is doing such a great job as he claims, then why are women going to places like Gosnell's in the 1st place? & there is the fact that PP is the largest abortion provider in the USA with a growing share of the market as their latest report shows. All things he conveniently leaves out, just like PP does in their talking points.

PP knows, & so does he, that

& of course he goes on to show his willingness to condone PP's racial cleasing as well. "Shortly after the Republican-dominated House passed Pence's amendment 240-185, anti-abortion billboards went up in Atlanta, Los Angeles and New York City as part of a Black History Month campaign to decry the disproportionately high number of abortions among black women. A spokesman for Life Always, the group behind the New York billboard, said the campaign was meant to discredit Planned Parenthood.
But the people who deserve to be discredited are those who would cut funding for Planned Parenthood. In doing so, they cynically undermine its efforts to reduce unintended pregnancies — a goal that should unite us, not divide us."

Again, he fails to mention the reason PP was targeted. It was because the PP he claims is working to reduce unwanted pregnancies operates a huge majority of their sites in minority areas where, when the birth control PP gives out fails, the women go back for abortions. In other words, he fails to mention that PP's efforts he are extolling are clearly a failure.

Gosenll is NOT a glimpse of the future, it is a glimpse of the present that shows the truth about PP & the abortion industry as a whole. Those trying to discredit PP are the ones doing the right thing, unless you approve of PP's racist, eugenic agenda, which apparently Mr. Wickham does.

If he was truly in favor of reducing abortions as he supposedly claims, he would be calling out for more support of crisis pregnancy centers as well. But the fact that he relies on PP's propaganda arm, the Guttmacher Institute, & talks only about "reducing unintended pregnancies" is even more evidence that all he is doing is hacking for PP & helping them to grow as the largest abortion provider out there. & it is the federal tax funds for family planning that is providing the gateway for PP to increase it's abortion business.

I won't go into his Gallup Poll comments other than to point out how he conveniently ignores many other polls to the contrary, as well as the huge factor that the growing pro-life sentiment was in last year's election results. He also conveniently fails to mention that the recent Gallup polls show more people as pro-life that pro-choice.