To End White Supremacy, Defund White Nationalists At Planned Parenthood

Flopping Aces ^ | 08-22-19 | Daniel John Sobieski

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Rather than admit that despite its Orwellian name Planned Parenthood’s main business is promoting and profiting from abortions, the poster child for the culture of death on Monday pulled the plug on its participation in the Title 10 federal family planning program. Wrapping its withdrawal in the mantle of free speech, the group withdrew rather than submit to a Trump administration rule saying that groups in the program and receiving federal funds could not make abortion referrals. As Politico reported:

"We will not be bullied into withholding abortion information from our patients," said acting President Alexis McGill Johnson on a call with reporters. "When you have an unethical rule that is asking us to limit what our providers can tell our patients, then it becomes really important for us to not agree to be in the program."

This rule does not prohibit the group from urging women to have an abortion, just from making direct referrals. Yet abortion provider Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion groups have no qualms about opposing legislation in many states requiring women to watch an ultrasound of their unborn child 24 hours before proceeding to have an abortion. It’s a women’s decision, they say, we just don’t want it to be an informed one with both sides bring heard.

This is not quite the defunding victory fulfilling a campaign promise Trump supporters had hoped for but it’s a good start. The group had been receiving roughly $60 million under the program, receiving far more under Medicaid and gets funding from other federal and state programs to combat HIV and provide sexual education to teenagers. But money is fungible and receiving those funds allows Planned Parenthood to shift other funds to their main priority – funding abortions.

Still, critics of the rule worry that even this relatively small dent in their cash flow will leave low-income women in many parts of the country without federally-funded access to birth control and other reproductive health services. As Politico noted:

Johnson declined to answer questions about the precise financial impact of pulling out of Title X, but said the outcome will be "devastating" for low-income women unless the organization can raise enough private funds to make up the loss.

Not quite as devastating as the services provided by Kermit Gosnell in the low-income areas of Philadelphia before his abortion “clinic” was shut down and he was prosecuted for his crimes. Kermit Gosnell was a Philadelphia doctor who was charged with seven counts of first-degree murder and one count of third-degree murder for killing seven babies who survived his abortions, and a woman who died after a botched pain-killer injection. As Investor’s Business Daily noted, comparing what went on at Gosnell’s clinic to the school shooting at Newtown, Connecticut:

Whether one is pro-life or pro-choice, there ought to be agreement that a squirming infant on a table outside the mother's womb is as worthy of protection from harm as children in classrooms in a school in Connecticut.

If Dr. Gosnell had walked into a nursery and shot seven infants with an AR-15, it would be national news and the subject of presidential hand-wringing.

Dr. Gosnell’s facility was not affiliated with Planned Parenthood but other facilities targeting the black community are. The hidden story in the abortion debate is the “disparate impact”, a favorite phrase among liberals crying racism, it has had on low-income, and largely minority communities. And that is the way Planned Parenthood likes it, fulfilling the hopes and dreams of its white supremacist founder, Margaret Sanger:

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Brilliant and correct logic. The ghouls on the left will find a way to make it racist or misogynist.