{"id":3068,"date":"2015-07-22T07:38:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T11:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/?p=3068"},"modified":"2015-07-22T07:47:40","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T11:47:40","slug":"kirsten-powers-crush-planned-parenthood-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/kirsten-powers-crush-planned-parenthood-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirsten Powers: “Crush Planned Parenthood” Article"},"content":{"rendered":"

 \"\"<\/a> <\/span>Kudos to Kirsten Powers<\/a>, an evangelical, independent-minded Democrat<\/a>, for having the courage and conviction to stand against the political pressure of conformity and speak the truth about a glaring, yet legal, atrocity in our world today.  For so long, we have turned a blind eye to the systematic, legal and profitable killing of unborn children now exceeds 57 million<\/a> in “the land of the free and the home of the brave” where “every life matters<\/a>.”  Now, Planned Parenthood has been forced to remove the mask, allowing everyone to see just how horrible this culture of killing really is.<\/p>\n

In her recent article in USA Today<\/a>, Ms. Powers pulls no punches in her indictments against Planned Parenthood, clearly defining how ihuman these practices are and how out-of-touch with reality this organization is as master’s of missing the point, focusing on tone rather than substance:<\/p>\n

This is stomach-turning stuff. But the problem here is not one of tone. It\u2019s the crushing. It\u2019s the organ harvesting of fetuses that abortion-rights activists want us to believe have no more moral value than a fingernail. It\u2019s the lie that these are not human beings worthy of protection. There is no nice way to talk about this. As my friend and former Obama White House staffer Michael Wear tweeted, \u201cIt should bother us as a society that we have use for aborted human organs, but not the baby that provides them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Powers goes on to point out how even the most ardent supporters of Planned Parenthood have suddenly gone quiet, though, of course, there are some so blind to their own ideology, they continue to punch the air with empty excuses and straw man arguments or outright denial<\/a>.  One of the most common cries of foul has been that these videos were secretly taped, thus nullifying their relevance.  Ms Powers rightly responds with a resounding, “Big deal.”<\/p>\n

Richards intoned menacingly that the video was \u201csecretly recorded.\u201d So what? When Mitt Romney was caught by \u201csecret video\u201d making his 47% remarks, the means of attaining the information was not the focus of the story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Put simply, there is no way to effectively spin this to come out looking noble.  No matter how a pig wallows in the pen, he still comes out muddy.<\/p>\n

The most jaw-dropping part of Ms. Power’s article was the revelation of an abortion doctor from my home state of Mississippi, who has been guided by a profoundly MIS-understanding of Christianity that has informed his position and led him to what is later in the article referred to by one as a “Christ-like” persecution:<\/p>\n

Mississippi abortion doctor Willie Parker \u2014 who was lauded by Esquire for his \u201cabortion ministry\u201d \u2014 ran with the trope that direct quotes from a Planned Parenthood doctor constitute a vicious attack, but went a step further: He compared Nucatola to Jesus. \u201cIt’s no secret that my frame of reference for the work that I do and in terms of generating compassion is related to my religious understanding and, in particular, my Christian religious understanding,\u201d Parker told Cosmopolitan magazine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Planned Parenthood has, thankfully, been exposed. The masks are off. The truth is evident.  My question is whether or not we will finally do something about this.  We are so good at compartmentalizing atrosities and quickly forgetting the unforgetable, that I wonder if we have the collective resolve to demand the changes that this kind of evil requires.  As Ms. Powers rightly concludes, “When abortion doctors are elevated to gods who may not be questioned or held accountable, society has officially gone off the rails.”  Sadly, that train wrecked a long time ago.<\/p>\n

I encourage you to read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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  Kudos to Kirsten Powers, an evangelical, independent-minded Democrat, for having the courage and conviction to stand against the political pressure of conformity and speak the truth about a glaring, yet legal, atrocity in our world today.  For so long, we have turned a blind eye to the systematic, legal and profitable killing of unborn children now…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[7,18,21],"tags":[29,675,677,676],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3jKZO-Nu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4855,"url":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/the-fight-for-life\/","url_meta":{"origin":3068,"position":0},"title":"The Fight for Life","date":"May 3, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm so thankful and proud of the elected leadership in Tennessee for standing up to the abortion industry. 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