{"id":221004,"date":"2020-03-30T14:45:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T19:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=221004"},"modified":"2020-03-29T16:34:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T21:34:56","slug":"new-york-times-editorial-planned-parenthood-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/new-york-times-editorial-planned-parenthood-points\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times Editorial Board peddles Planned Parenthood talking points"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(National Review<\/a>) Several of my most<\/a> recent<\/a> posts<\/a> have focused on how abortion providers and activist groups are using the coronavirus crisis to promote at-home chemical abortions and demanding special treatment so that they may keep their doors open while other businesses are shuttered across the country. (And this isn\u2019t for the sake of helping to manage the spread of COVID-19. Planned Parenthood in Pennsylvania, for instance, has closed all of its health centers that don\u2019t perform abortions.)<\/p>\n

The latest group to take up the refrain is the New York Times<\/em> editorial board<\/a>, which never misses an opportunity to proclaim from on high about abortion policy in talking points that more closely resemble a NARAL Pro-Choice America press release than a well-researched argument.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis crisis has underscored the need for greater access to reproductive health care,\u201d is the subtitle of the article. Well, no. What this crisis has underscored is that the U.S. was woefully under-prepared \u2014 thanks in large part to the delays and deceptions of the Chinese government \u2014 for a highly contagious, sometimes fatal disease to reach our shores. It has underscored the need for us to rely on someone other than China to produce the medical equipment that our health-care professionals and institutions need.<\/p>\n

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Only the most unthinking abortion supporters could manage to concoct the argument that, during a global pandemic, one of our country\u2019s top priorities ought to be ensuring that every woman can get an abortion on demand as easily as possible \u2014 perhaps even by mail, in the comfort of her own home, as the Times <\/em>outlines.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hardly new for anti-abortion politicians to seize on any excuse to try to restrict women\u2019s bodily autonomy,\u201d the Times <\/em>editors write, \u201cbut it is a new low to exploit a pandemic that\u2019s already cost hundreds of American lives, and threatens many thousands more.\u201d<\/p>\n

The irony of this statement appears entirely lost on them, as it is on most people who have trained themselves to disregard the biological fact that every successful abortion results in a dead human being. That is the crucial question at the heart of this debate over abortion in the time of coronavirus: Is abortion \u201cessential health care\u201d?<\/p>\n

In Texas and Ohio, lawmakers say no, and face swift lawsuits from abortionists, who apparently have nothing better to do during a health-care crisis than take politicians to court. In Massachusetts and Washington, lawmakers say yes, and, unsurprisingly, groups that profit from performing abortions or suing pro-life politicians agree.<\/p>\n

We ought to consider whether, properly speaking, abortion is health care<\/em> at all, let alone essential. Health care is an effort to maintain or restore health by treating or preventing disease. As much as some might wish otherwise, pregnancy is not a disease; it is the natural result of a properly functioning reproductive system. Asserting that it is \u201chealth care\u201d \u2014 essential or otherwise \u2014 to kill a living human being, simply because his or her mother wishes not to be pregnant, requires a radical redefinition of health and medicine.<\/p>\n

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