I watched a couple of the videos highlighting the
questionable illegal practices of Planned Parenthood. I think I missed the third and fourth videos
and just recently watched the fifth. It was very gruesome.
Quite honestly, I have never been a supporter of shocking
graphics, like those used so frequently on the signs of protestors. When my
children were little, I did not think they needed to see graphic pictures in
order to understand what abortion is. We
talked about abortion quite frequently and they grew up pro-life, sans
pictures.
So, as you might assume, even today, I have to force myself
to view the videos being made public by the fictitious Center for Medical
Progress. That is the cover organization
for the citizens journalists who made the videos of “doctors” and others
working for and with Planned Parenthood.
This was quite an extensive project.
I believe the video-recorded interviews were done over a two-year
period, and there are several of them which continue to be released.
I watch them with dread, but as with everything, I like to
hear what is actually being said versus what someone tells me is being
said. The debate, as you probably know,
is about whether Planned Parenthood is actually making a profit selling fetal
tissue/body parts. I am sure the
legality of all of this will be sorted out eventually.
Personally, I hope Planned Parenthood folds like a house of
cards. I’ve heard the accolades for all
of the wonderful things they do, but from a moral perspective, they need to not
be doing this. When it comes to
morality, even if the desired end result is good (like curing cancer for
example), that does not justify the means used to attain it.
Anyway, with much angst, I sat down to watch the latest
video. I was watching it on my phone
until I could no longer bear the graphics.
Covering up the image, I read the caption as I listened to the
conversation. It was unbelievably
horrible. There are no words.
All I could think while listening and watching (as much as I
could tolerate), was that they were talking about somebody’s baby. Did the parents really know that their baby
would end up like this? Really?
I have to think, as well, that some of the people working
for the procurement companies, who deal with this every day, will surely be impacted
mentally and emotionally when it all catches up with them. You simply cannot deal in this kind of trade
without it eventually destroying you.
On the latest video, they actually take you into the room
where the aborted fetuses are kept, at least what is left of them. Then, since the journalists wanted to see a
“specimen,” the lab people take one out of a bag and lay it on a table,
extracting the parts being discussed.
That’s when I had to avert my eyes.
This innocent child, this gift of God, this human being, I hate to say,
looked like something you would find at your local butcher shop during
processing. It was beyond appalling.
What also struck me was the terminology they used, over and
over again when referring to these babies.
In the latest one I heard a new phrase.
They referred to the aborted fetus as “the product of conception.”
This, in fact, is a perfect description of how they view our
innocent children. Of course, this is not acceptable language to us, but to
them, they are nothing more than a product in an industry without any sense of
respect for human life.
There is a question about whether these children are, at
times, born alive and then killed, in an effort to keep them as a suitable
“specimen” to supply the needs of those doing research. But again, no matter the desired outcome of
their research, to use our little babies to accomplish it is barbaric. How can this be legal? I can’t count the
number of times I have asked myself this question over the years.
How can we, in this country, allow this practice to be
legal? Are we really any better than
those who performed child sacrifices throughout history? If these videos are
any indication, this is what is happening every day, in our country, in the
land of the free.
Naturally, the rhetoric that got us into this spot in the
first place continues today. I recently
received an automated reply from a U.S. Congresswoman who rang the praises of
the “important primary care and cancer screenings” done in these “women’s
health clinics.”
Give me a break. Does
anyone actually believe this stuff anymore? The manipulative advertising that
promoted abortion as a choice, a right, family planning and protection for the
health of a mother was powerful and effective at one time, but hopefully will
one day be seen as the worn out, superficial argument it was/is.
I am not sure what their upcoming videos will contain, and I
am not even sure I will be able to watch them, but one thing’s for sure,
abortion will no longer be able to remain behind closed doors as an
abstraction. If those who previously
bought into the rhetoric can now see they were duped, perhaps they will now
become a force for change.
It is time to envision this world differently. One without abortion. Are you willing to move this vision forward?
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