[Servant of the Cross]

The ghost of Margaret Sanger is very much alive in the hideous images of Planned Parenthood (sic). It is simple incredible that the 10+ videos put into the public square exposing the evil that is being perpetrated by this organization has not led to a moral outrage against this inhuman barbarism. This is Kermit Gosnell Part II!

And yet ... one more example of our gOpee Congress botching an opportunity to take the moral high ground ... and instead of focusing on the lives of the babies born alive, they allowed Cecil Richards to make a weak case for sympathy for her. *sigh*

[Buckeye McFrog]

They don’t need to. They are getting their money, and 2/3 of Americans apparently think that’s just peachy.

[Slyfox]

Planned Parenthood piously holds itself out as a benevolent, quasi-sacred entity, selflessly devoted to improving women's health.

[Servant of the Cross]

Here's how even Establishment Dame Peggy Noonan put the hamhanded gOpee effort at this hearing in context ...

In the Planned Parenthood hearings, some Republican members similarly acted out anger and indignation, but seem to have gotten little for it. They were not in general efficacious in their questioning. Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards acted the part of a long-suffering woman being abused by crude, hectoring men. A focus seemed to be on financial issues—how much she is paid and Planned Parenthood makes. But that, as Mona Charen notes in National Review, is not the reason for the hearings. The reason is the harrowing videotapes, which were not shown. If they couldn’t be used, the hearings could have been delayed until they could. Without them, the real horror got lost. The appearance of men bullying a woman did not get lost.

[Steely Tom]

Margaret Sanger could never have imagined that motion pictures and sound could be captured by a device so tiny that it could be concealed and brought inside one of her abortuaries without being seen by one of her acolytes.