Pro-Choicers Are Actually Freaked Out About These Planned Parenthood Sting Videos And They Should Be

motherjones.com ^ | 7/23/2015 | Molly Redden

[GoneSalt]

In the last week, a little-known anti-abortion activist named David Daleidin ignited a firestorm by releasing two selectively edited videos in which Planned Parenthood officials appear to be negotiating the sale of aborted fetuses. That Planned Parenthood is the target of a withering attack by anti-abortion activists is no surprise—they have been at war for years. But this time seems different, with some of Planned Parenthood's strongest allies drawing nervous comparisons to the 2009 sting operation that destroyed the community organizing group the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).

They may be right to worry.

Daleidin and major anti-abortion groups say that the footage definitively shows two of Planned Parenthood's top medical personnel haggling over the price of fetal body parts—their sale is illegal—and admitting to altering the abortion procedure in order to better preserve fetal specimens. Planned Parenthood and its supporters say the edited videos are misleading and that Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood's senior director of medical services who appears in the first video, was only discussing the costs of storing and transporting fetal remains. The group can legally recoup those costs under federal law. And any changes to the abortion procedure, they note, creates no additional risk for the woman.

But the political conversation has quickly outpaced the facts. The videos have already moved Congress to launch two probes into the organization's activities. Eight Republican governors—including several who are running for president—have opened parallel investigations. Many Republican senators—including several who are running for president—have vowed to strip Planned Parenthood of its hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding. Daleidin, meanwhile, who is releasing the videos through a newly formed anti-abortion group called the Center for Medical Progress, has promised to release more explosive hidden-camera footage.

[Boogieman]

“two selectively edited videos”

As opposed to randomly edited videos?

[Demiurge2]

Definitely a MoJo article, where the term “pro-life” doesn’t exist, but “anti-abortion” is in every sentence.

[tumblindice]

Yep, Hildabeast dropped the word “rare”—just as she photoshopped-out the Confederate flag in her dorm room photo that showed her in the infamous hideous stripey clown pants—because women like herself (but straight) have been using infanticide early-and-often as a last-ditch form of birth control for 40 years, since the abortionists were selling it: “Oh, but it will be so ... rare!”.

Here’s some classic The Guardian (great name for abortionists, eh?) “Oh blimey ... just kill the little nipper already” Planned Parenthood-type horror urging her to do just that: get rid of the conscience-salve word “rare” too ... `We don’t need that lie any more Hils.’
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/09/hillary-clinton-abortion-legal-but-rare

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