{"id":2227,"date":"2015-07-31T08:35:52","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T08:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2025-09-29T20:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T20:23:16","slug":"wsj-planned-parenthoods-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2227","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: “Planned Parenthood’s Harvest”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good editorial; makes the point. And here's the 4th organ harvesting video. 4th PP video – it just gets worse <\/a> <\/p>\n

Wall Street Journal:<\/p>\n

Abortion is legal, but taxpayers shouldn\u2019t have to pay for it. <\/a><\/p>\n

Democrats have been picking fight after fight in the culture wars, believing they have the upper hand with socially liberal younger votes. But that assumption is now being tested in the wake of videos of Planned Parenthood doctors blithely discussing the harvesting of fetal body parts.<\/p>\n

The videos, secretly recorded by anti-abortion activists, show the doctors discussing, among other things, the best way to ensure a \u201cless crunchy\u201d aborted fetus. It\u2019s gruesome stuff, especially for anyone who has viewed the sonogram of an unborn child. Planned Parenthood\u2019s defenders are crying foul over the secret taping, but these same folks didn\u2019t object when Mitt Romney<\/a> was taped in 2012 discussing the \u201c47%.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Planned Parenthood\u2019s 2013-14 annual report lists $1.3 billion in revenues, including $528 million in \u201cgovernment health services grants and reimbursements.\u201d…<\/p>\n

But money is fungible, and every dollar in taxpayer funding allows Planned Parenthood to use its other funds to finance abortion. This financial two-step evades the fundamental political bargain that Congress has struck since the Supreme Court made abortion a constitutional right in 1973. That bargain, codified in the Hyde Amendment of 1976 and countless times since, is that while abortion is legal, taxpayers should not have to pay for a practice they find morally objectionable.<\/p>\n

This compromise has long been bipartisan, or at least it was until the left concluded it had won the culture war. President Bill Clinton felt obliged to say abortion should be \u201csafe, legal and rare.\u201d And even ObamaCare didn\u2019t pass the House in 2010 until Bart Stupak and other pro-life Democrats staged a kabuki drama in which they elicited a promise that mandated health policies wouldn\u2019t finance abortion. We know thanks to the Administration\u2019s arguments in the Supreme Court Hobby Lobby<\/em> case that this was all a ruse.<\/p>\n

Now come the ugly videos, which are reminding Americans that the left brooks no restrictions at all on abortion rights even up to the moment of birth. This includes harvesting fetal organs and financing their delivery for medical research. Planned Parenthood says it doesn\u2019t sell those body parts, which would be illegal, but it doesn\u2019t deny that it accepts payment for getting those parts to researchers.<\/p>\n

This is deeply offensive to millions of Americans, and it\u2019s no shock that Republicans are moving to vote on whether taxpayers should underwrite such an operation. The surprise would be if they didn\u2019t….<\/p>\n

The bill states that nothing in its language \u201cshall be construed to reduce overall Federal funding available in women\u2019s health.\u201d Instead of going to Planned Parenthood, the money would go to health centers, hospitals and other organizations that provide non-abortion services for women\u2019s health.<\/p>\n

The leaders on the cultural left are shouting as usual about limiting health care for women and denying their right to choose. But no such right is in jeopardy. Planned Parenthood can finance all the abortions it wants, but it would have to raise other funds to do it. Surely there are enough rich progressive donors in Greenwich and Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n

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In its political ascendancy, the cultural left has become even more intolerant of dissenting views. On gay marriage, opponents must be silenced and are obliged to provide services regardless of their religious objections. And the right to have an abortion isn\u2019t enough; opponents must be forced to pay for it. By all means let\u2019s have a vote about taxpayer funding for fetal organ harvesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good editorial; makes the point. And here's the 4th organ harvesting video. 4th PP video – it just gets worse Wall Street Journal: Abortion is legal, but taxpayers shouldn\u2019t have to pay for it. Democrats have been picking fight after fight in the culture wars, believing they have the upper hand with socially liberal younger […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8179,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions\/8179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}