Not tonight, because it’s late – but this should be looked into.
@moelane MN LT Gov @tinaflintsmith was VP of @PPact of MN, ND, & SD &. at one time may have engaged in the practice pic.twitter.com/Raswiiehqq
— Mary Franson (@MaryFranson) July 29, 2015
CONTENT WARNING.
The video is pretty much three parts: there’s the part where Planned Parenthood swears up and down that they don’t harvest babies for profit. There’s the testimony from a former phlebotomist and tissue harvester that yes, Planned Parenthood harvests babies for profit. And then there’s the (content warning) part where you see a couple of Planned Parenthood staffers casually separate out an aborted baby on a clear pie dish and ask the sting operatives whether said operatives would be willing to buy the… stuff. Oh, and then they made it clear that they want to be paid per item, not per baby: Continue reading Planned Parenthood Sting Video #3: ‘Human Capital.’ Episode 1. [CONTENT WARNING]
Think what you like about Ross Douthat, but publishing this at the New York Times is a genuine truth-to-power moment on his part. Somebody’s going to try to get him fired for writing this. It’s exactly the sort of thing that NYT readers generally want to avoid thinking about:
…real knowledge isn’t purely theoretical; it’s the fruit of experience, recognition, imagination, life itself.
And the problem these videos create for Planned Parenthood isn’t just a generalized queasiness at surgery and blood.
It’s a very specific disgust, informed by reason and experience — the reasoning that notes that it’s precisely a fetus’s humanity that makes its organs valuable, and the experience of recognizing one’s own children, on the ultrasound monitor and after, as something more than just “products of conception” or tissue for the knife.
[UPDATE: Yeah, my bad. Could have been worse: I could have had it as being Disney.]
Because the official Twitter feed of Planned Parenthood certainly seems to want to make it look like Dreamworks Universal stands with them on the righteousness of harvesting babies for their profitable organs.
Or did Dreamworks Universal give Planned Parenthood permission to use their intellectual property in an official capacity? Does Dreamworks Universal, in fact, support baby harvesting, and this is their way of tacitly admitting that? …The pro-life subset of American consumers would like an answer on that, please. Preferably before they start planning their Christmas shopping budgets.
Oh, and before anybody starts objecting: Planned Parenthood apparently likes to claim support from mainstream corporate America for their abortion services when such support does not actually exist. As Coca-Cola, Ford Motors, Xerox, March of Dimes, and others have hastily, if not desperately, scrambled to explain. So it is indeed entirely possible that Planned Parenthood is merely doing something similar here, although, frankly: messing with a major studio’s intellectual property like this is sufficiently dangerous that it makes it hard for me to believe that the image was used without permission.
That’s how you do it. You don’t even have to raise your voice, at this stage. You simply say I see you, and wait to see who visibly flinches in response.
Representatives from Coca-Cola, Ford Motor Co. and Xerox say they’ve asked Planned Parenthood to remove their names as corporate donors to the embattled organization.
The move follows a Daily Signal report revealing the names of 41 companies that Planned Parenthood listed as donors. That list, which was featured on Planned Parenthood’s website, has since been removed.
More here: turns out the March of Dimes and the American Cancer Society also don’t want their name associated with Planned Parenthood right now. …Which is the idea. And this is actually useful work; they had that donor brag page up for a reason. It helped give the organization legitimacy. Now it’d help give the opposition to the organization legitimacy, which is why PP took the donor brag page down.
A good start, in other words.
So, you might have wondered about one part in the second Planned Parenthood baby-harvesting video.
Specifically, the part where the investigators posing as buyers encouraged the Planned Parenthood representative to quote them a higher price for particular human body parts. Seemed a little weird, yes? I mean, why would a buyer want a seller to sell high? Continue reading There is, indeed, money in Planned Parenthood’s baby-harvesting.
But they will forgive me, I’m sure: “Here are the 41 companies that have directly funded Planned Parenthood.” Continue reading Quote of the Day, I Flat-Out STOLE The Daily Signal @PPAct Corporate Sponsor List edition.
Brit Hume stays pretty chill, most of the time. He’s got a basic default facial expression that says ‘measured.’ So it’s interesting to see what pisses him off. Planned Parenthood pisses him off.
This is an important technique that every Republican politician and candidate for President should use when asked about Planned Parenthood. Continue reading Rick Perry, shutting Mark Halperin down on Planned Parenthood question.
Because he ain’t gonna be elected Senator with this attitude:
Gov. Terry McAuliffe is rejecting calls from Virginia House Republican leaders for an investigation into how Planned Parenthood clinics handle fetal organs.
Republicans called for an investigation Thursday following an anti-abortion group’s release of a video showing a Planned Parenthood official discussing the disposal of body parts from aborted fetuses. The group said the video proves the organization is breaking federal law against selling human fetal tissue.
Continue reading Terry McAuliffe tacitly admits that he is not interested in further elected office.
