WILL THE FAR-RIGHT EVER ADMIT THAT “A WOMAN’S RIGHT-TO-CHOOSE IS LEGAL?”

…The previous remote shanty of the Colorado Springs, Planned Parenthood gunman.

 

A Republican presidential candidate is referred to as the “Demonizer-in-Chief”.

 

Whether one likes it or not, a women’s “right to choose” is legal, and Roe v Wade was approved on January 22, 1973, in a 7-2 vote in the US Supreme Court.

 

However, based on some of the new anti-abortion laws that the conservative states have passed, or tried to pass, you would think that for a woman to consider having an abortion, she must be considering breaking the law.

 

But what I am really getting tired of are the conservative yoyo’s out there that are falsely blaming liberals for demonizing their so called pious anti-abortion messengers.  Especially when it’s the conservative messengers that are doing the demonizing.

 

One writer at the Washington Post said it best when she referred to Carly Fiorina as the “Demonizer-in-Chief”.

 

Per the Post’s Ruth Marcus regarding this recent statement by Carly on Fox News Sunday:  “This is so typical of the left to immediately begin demonizing the messenger,” Fiorina said on Fox News.  Demonizing? This criticism is awfully hard to take from the Planned Parenthood demonizer-in-chief.”

 

Ms. Marcus comment on Carly refers to her primary debate statement where she falsely asserted that Planned Parenthood undercover abortion videos depicted “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.”

 

Of course, no one has been able to find that video, but it has been made very clear that nothing like that was ever going on regarding the Planned Parenthood program.

 

However, Fiorina is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to those conservatives making false statements regarding a woman’s legal right to choose for themselves.

 

All this anti-abortion commotion began back in the 1980’s with a string of abortion clinic bombings in the Washington area. A Washington pastor, Michael Bray, ended up serving nearly four years for the crime.  Here’s how he explained his twisted logic: “If we are to affirm, as I do, that the children in the womb who are killed at abortion facilities are in fact children . . . then action taken to defend them is justifiable and cannot be condemned.”

 

It’s only gotten worse since then, and today’s conservative presidential candidates do not hesitate to add their name to the list of extreme anti-abortionists.

 

Senator Ted Cruz has called Planned Parenthood “an ongoing criminal enterprise.”   This is an organization that provides healt sercices for millions of poor women and children.  Cruz also denounced “vicious rhetoric on the left, blaming those who are pro-life.”

 

 

The Post’s Dana Milbank noted about Cruz, “…This from a man proud to be endorsed by an antiabortion activist who called killing abortion doctors a ‘justifiable defensive action’. Talk about vicious rhetoric.”

 

Senator Marco Rubio has said that Planned Parenthood’s practice “created an incentive for people to be pushed into abortions.”

 

Carly Fiorina continues to “double-down” on her video story that falsely infers that a healthy, live fetus was murdered by PP for its innards.

 

Let’s at least put all this together, but with the real facts.

 

Abortion is legal in the United States.  Only a handful of Planned Parenthood clinics in three states had provided fetal tissue for research. Past money had been collected only to cover their costs, mainly transportation and special handling, and it represented a minuscule fraction of revenue. No federal funds were ever involved.  Since the bogus videos were produced, PP has now discontinued this practice.

 

It is appearing more and more that the recent devastating actions that took place at the Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs, (one of the locations where the bogus video interviews were secretly recorded), the attack was made by a man that was either mentally incompetent, drunk, on drugs, off his meds or all of the above.

 

What has put this event on the Republican candidate’s plate is that when Robert Lewis Dear Jr., the Colorado gunman was arrested, his comment was: “no more baby parts”.  The obvious logic suggests that it was no mere coincidence the attack was directed at the Planned Parenthood clinic.  Mr. Dear had obviously seen or heard about the bogus and highly edited fetal tissue interviews.

 

But this was also an opportunity for the Republican politicians who have continued to fuel the false and unsupported controversy about Planned parenthood selling baby parts. 

 

Those despicable conservative individuals bear some measure of responsibility for the turmoil they continue to fuel. In the meantime, all the politicos and pundits would do well to resist the urge to contribute their own overheated rhetoric to the false narrative.

 

Yes, we are a nation that supports “free speech”, but it is supposed to be truthful “free speech”.

 

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