{"id":205317,"date":"2019-06-26T11:41:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T16:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=205317"},"modified":"2024-09-20T12:40:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T17:40:44","slug":"planned-parenthood-novelist-baseless-slandering-pro-lifers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-novelist-baseless-slandering-pro-lifers\/","title":{"rendered":"Novelist slanders pro-lifers in the NY Times. Planned Parenthood calls it ‘powerful’."},"content":{"rendered":"
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John Irving, author of the well-known pro-abortion fiction book later made into a movie, The Cider House Rules, has turned his fiction talents toward slandering pro-lifers as “uncaring” in a new\u00a0NY Times opinion piece<\/a>\u00a0— and it has both the current and past presidents of America’s number one abortion provider cheering. In his piece, in which he offers no links or citations for actual proof — just baseless accusations — Irving claims pro-lifers (he calls this a “marketing term,” by the way — as if “pro-choice” isn’t a marketing ploy to mask legalized killing) “don’t care what happens to an unwanted child — not after the child is born — and they’ve never cared about the mother.”<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood’s new president Leana Wen, emergency room physician and Four Pinocchios<\/em> honoree (thanks to a recent Washington Post fact check of the claim that “thousands” of women died every year from illegal abortions before Roe v. Wade), called Irving’s words “powerful” on Twitter. Former Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards posted<\/a>\u00a0on her Twitter account a slanderous, inaccurate, and wholly unsupported quote from the article: “The prevailing impetus to oppose abortion is to punish the woman. The sacralizing of the fetus is a ploy. How can ‘life’ be sacred…if a child\u2019s life isn\u2019t sacred after it\u2019s born?\u201d Richards added, “Thank you John Irving.”<\/p>\n

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“Whatever the anti-abortion crusaders call themselves, they don\u2019t care what happens to an unwanted child–not after the child is born–and they\u2019ve never cared about the mother.” Powerful words from author John Irving @nytimes<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/ogwOxRylj8<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Leana Wen, M.D. (@DrLeanaWen) June 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n