Posted on 07/17/2019 6:57:34 PM PDT by Morgana
It was a great day for the pro-life cause on Tuesday as the board of the abortion group Planned Parenthood embarrassingly fired president and Dr. Leana Wen after only eight months on the job. Unfortunately, ABCs World News Tonight and the CBS Evening News saw no reason to inform their viewers about Wens ouster as the organization charged with murdering unborn children has found itself in dire financial straits.
In contrast, this was the second story covered on NBC Nightly News with a full, one-minute-and-41-second report from White House correspondent Kristen Welker.
Anchor Lester Holt stated in the lead-in that there was breaking news tonight of a shake-up at Planned Parenthood which forc[ed] out its President after less than a year on the job, and it comes amid a battle over new and more restrictive abortion laws across the country.
Welker then went to work revealing that Wen tweeted late Tuesday afternoon that the [Planned Parenthood] Board ended my employment at a secret meeting because, as she later stated in a letter, the two sides had philosophical differences over the direction of the organization.
The NBC correspondent again quoted the physician, who asserted that she didnt agree with the boards belief that they should double down on abortion rights advocacy.
Perhaps equally important was what Welker stated next, which was the possibility that a new Trump administration rule barring federally-funded family planning clinics from providing referrals for abortion that could spell doom for Planned Parenthoods finances to the tune of about $60 million a year in losses.
In part, Welker concluded by citing that the regulation was in addition to legislation in states across the country restrict[ing] access to abortion, mirroring President Trumps insistence that protecting life has long been a key priority and campaign promise.
The details of Wens firing grew even more intriguing as, according to sources speaking to BuzzFeeds Ema OConnor, Dr. Wen had refused to use trans-inclusive language because she believed that Planned Parenthood invoking transgender people would be a turnoff to people in the Midwest.
Wen sometimes went through PP's press releases and docs, deleting the word sexual from the phrase sexual and reproductive health, the source said. She also resisted using abortion as a stand-alone, preferring abortion care or other phrases entirely, OConnor added. The full story by OConnor and colleague Ruby Cramer can be found here.
To see the relevant transcript from July 16's NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, click expand. (on link)
If everything the msm and dems do seems to bump Trump in the polls, I say let them keep doing what they’re doing.
Almost NO ONE under 35 or even 40 gets their news from CBS, NBC or ABC anymore anyway.
Or the TV for that matter.
again quoted the physician, who asserted that she didnt agree with the boards belief that they should double down on abortion rights advocacy.
full bore
NOUN
at full speed or maximum capacity.
“the boat came full bore toward us”
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