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Poor Leana Wen. She took Planned Parenthood’s propaganda a little too seriously. And now she’s out of a job. For the longest time, Planned Parenthood has insisted that it is a health care organization and that it only cares about abortion — supposedly a tiny share of its business — insofar as it is a function of health care. Whenever Republicans have threatened Planned Parenthood’s funding over abortion, the response was, Abortion? Don’t be silly. We are all about Pap tests and breast exams.

I’ve been in conversation with a pro-lifer who shot much of the footage for this newly posted graphic abortion video. The person did not tell me how s/he got access, or where the abortions were filmed, because to do so would risk losing access. But s/he did believe that while the babies being filmed or photographed died, countless other babies were being saved by exposing the truth of abortion. This is true. It is also true that the stress is very great on this dear pro-lifer. “It kills me everytime I have to take photos,” the pro-lifer wrote. “When I...