{"id":266559,"date":"2022-04-22T10:45:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T15:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=266559"},"modified":"2022-04-21T23:28:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T04:28:57","slug":"planned-parenthood-abortion-life-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-abortion-life-death\/","title":{"rendered":"While claiming abortion is ‘life or death’ for women, abortion proponents miss the irony"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Earlier this month, the Missouri House voted to defund<\/a> Planned Parenthood. Other states, like Oklahoma<\/a>, Texas<\/a>,\u00a0and Idaho<\/a>, have recently passed laws that offer significant protections to preborn children. And in Missouri, there is only one abortion facility in the state \u2014 a Planned Parenthood. For one Planned Parenthood staffer, not being able to get a woman an abortion is a matter of “life and death.”<\/p>\n

Angela Huntington works for Planned Parenthood Great Plains as an abortion patient navigator, meaning she takes calls from across the country to connect women with abortion facilities when abortions are not available in their state. In an interview with Refinery29<\/a>, Huntington spoke about her new position, which was created after the Texas Heartbeat Act was passed.<\/p>\n

“The more I\u2019ve gotten into this position, the more I\u2019ve realized how vital this work \u2014 and everyone who does it \u2014 is. We are approaching the possibility of a post-Roe era, and S.B. 8 in Texas is a trial run,” Huntington said. “It\u2019s imperative that there are positions and people and systems in place to catch these patients when access to this vital [health care] is either limited more or completely removed.”<\/p>\n

What is not explained in the explanation of “this service” is what, exactly, Planned Parenthood is providing: abortion<\/em>. Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood’s former president and CEO, likewise described abortion as vital<\/a> when given the option to stop committing abortion and focus on providing actual health care. Both Richards and Huntington try to conflate abortion with health care, which it is\u00a0not<\/a>, all while Planned Parenthood’s legitimate health care services have been steadily falling<\/a> over the years. Of course, abortion is<\/em> vital… to Planned Parenthood’s bottom line, anyway. Abortion\u00a0is a profitable business<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Huntington seemingly doesn’t notice the irony of how she describes being unable to commit abortions (emphasis added). “I have a lot of anxiety over what\u2019s been happening \u2014 my entire staff does,” she said. “The health center staff providing this abortion care are feeling it too, this stress, and the increasing patient volume. This is life or death for some patients<\/strong>, and to know that this is a vital need I\u2019m helping out with every day keeps me going.”<\/p>\n

Abortion absolutely is<\/em> a matter of life or death, but not in the hyperbolic manner in which Huntington describes it. Every single abortion procedure kills at least one person \u2014 a preborn child \u2014 and countless other women have also been injured or killed.<\/p>\n