I’ve got news for Democrats. It’s a baby!
Even abortion doctors admit it
Democrats like to talk about the importance of being on the “right side of history.” Yet when faced with videos detailing grotesque human rights abuses against unborn children by Planned Parenthood Federation of America doctors, liberals abandon such concerns.
Pope Francis described the unborn as “the most defenseless and innocent among us.” But in the sordid tale of strategic crushing of the unborn to better harvest hearts, lungs and livers, many Democrats have cast an organization with a $1.3 billion budget in the role of the innocent and defenseless. Hillary Clinton emerged as Planned Parenthood’s highest-profile protector, decrying the “assault” against her allegedly helpless campaign donors.
The Democratic Party shilling for barbarism — whether by politicians, liberal news outlets, union officials or unrestricted-abortion advocates — is not likely to be viewed favorably by future generations. These Democrats will be remembered for demonizing the activists who lifted the veil on a previously sanitized process and for seeking restraining orders to silence truth tellers.
Watching the videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s practice of dickering over the body parts of unborn humans, one is immediately struck by the age of the “fetuses,” to use the medical term for what parents-to-be and their gynecologists still call a “baby.”
According to a video transcript, Deborah Nucatola, PPFA’s senior director of medical services, mentions prioritizing the abortion of a “17-weeker” the day before because he or she was “more likely to yield what we needed.” Second-trimester abortions, she explains, are the “cases that yield the tissue that you want.” Nucatola notes that one-quarter of Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles abortions occur in the second trimester.
In another video, Savita Ginde, identified as medical director of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, explains: “We’re doing procedures at 17 weeks, so we have fairly large identifiable ( body) parts.” She then discusses the need to train abortion doctors so they don’t crush the desirable organs of these four-month-old fetuses.
Guess who supports secondtrimester abortions, barring extreme circumstances? Not many.
When Gallup asked whether abortion should be legal in the second trimester, only 27% of respondents said yes. This percentage has been nearly unchanged since 1996. As Will Saletan notes, “Even the most pro-choice people aren’t sold on abortion rights beyond the first trimester.”
This was the general position even before the release of videos demonstrating the harsh reality of such abortions. This was before Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Ginde inexplicably murmurs, “It’s a baby,” as she discusses body parts.
Even the abortionist can see it’s a baby. So what’s wrong with the Democratic Party?