Fiorina's Huge Misrepresentation Last Night Could Injure the Planned Parenthood Debate

Vanity ^ | 17 Sep 15

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Carly Fiorina clearly said in the debate last night that in the Planned Parenthood videos the viewers can see a baby on the table, its heart beating, and people talking about cutting it open to harvest its brain.

"Anyone who has watched this video tape, I dare Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, to watch these tapes. Watch a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says we have to keep it alive to harvest its brain," Fiorina said.

In reality, those videos were of the participants in those horrendous abortion and harvesting incidents. They were recounting their experiences. While there is a video of a baby on a table, that was not the baby in question, but is an insertion by the Center for Medical Progress. Other of the videos were based on catching the PP leadership discussing harvesting, pricing, selling, etc.

There were ZERO live shots of abortion harvesting procedures.

Carly Fiorina NEVER saw that baby in question on any table.

How will this hurt the PP debate?

It opens it to the charge of emotionalism for effect and to charges of hearsay evidence because of her misrepresentation. People will go to see, as she has suggested, and then they'll discover they cannot see because she has misrepresented.

She did it for effect. But, she was misguided.

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Carly appears to be more liberal than Jeb Bush. Wasn’t Carly pro-choice when she ran as the GOP nominee in CA? And she is for amnesty and for a mass influx of foreign workers. I believe she is for cap and trade and advised McCain on cap and trade in 2007. She advised Romney in 2012. I believe she was for an internet sales tax as well. I believe she is also a huge supporter of common core.