{"id":318789,"date":"2024-09-18T10:52:40","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T15:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=318789"},"modified":"2024-09-18T14:34:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T19:34:52","slug":"former-planned-parenthood-kamala-harris-volume-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/former-planned-parenthood-kamala-harris-volume-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Planned Parenthood prez wants Kamala Harris to turn ‘the volume up to 11’ on abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards recently penned an op-ed<\/a> for The New York Times in which she called on Vice President Kamala Harris to be even more<\/em> vocal in her support for unfettered abortion.<\/p>\n

Richards made it clear that Harris and her running mate Gov. Tim Walz must ‘turn the volume up to 11’ on their abortion campaign strategy. She wrote [emphasis added]:<\/p>\n

Ms. Harris\u2019s answers on abortion [during the debate] emerged as her strongest moments onstage in a strong night for her overall \u2014 and provided a glimpse of a winning strategy for this election.<\/em><\/p>\n

That involves the Harris-Walz ticket turning the volume up to 11 on abortion.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Richards isn’t wrong. In November 2023, The Atlantic even acknowledged<\/a> that VP Harris has been viewed unfavorably by Americans on virtually everything except<\/em> abortion. “Harris\u2019s engagement with abortion rights has broken through to voters more than anything else in her vice presidency, according to the Democratic pollster Celinda Lake,” noted the author.<\/p>\n

Richards wrote that Harris “understands that our country will never reach its full potential as long as half of its citizens are denied the most basic right to make their own decisions about their lives and futures. Simply put: She gets it.”<\/p>\n

The argument that America can’t reach its “full potential” without a woman’s legalized ability to kill her preborn children is horrifically insulting to women. Who do men<\/em> have to harm for the country to reach its “full potential”?<\/p>\n

“When liberation costs innocent lives,” as the pro-life organization New Wave Feminists argues<\/a>, “it’s merely oppression redistributed.” Richards is promoting the oppression of preborn children at the hands of their mothers for the supposed good of the nation and so that women can reach other goals that society deems more important than children. While it isn’t inherently wrong for a woman to want to succeed in goals that do not involve motherhood, it is inherently wrong to kill in order to make that happen.<\/p>\n

Richards, a mother herself who claimed 10 years ago<\/a> that her children’s lives didn’t begin until she gave birth to them, paints motherhood as a stumbling block to a woman’s false primary goal of helping the nation succeed \u2014 and insinuates that motherhood keeps women from finding any other success. It’s demeaning and it’s backwards. As St. Pope John Paul II famously said, “A Nation that kills its own children has no future.”<\/p>\n

Richards also claims that abortion is a “basic right.” But no one has the right to kill an innocent human being who exists through no fault or effort of his own, inside his mother’s womb.<\/p>\n

But Richards has a plan to help the Harris campaign promote these false ideas.<\/p>\n

Write a speech devoted to abortion<\/strong><\/p>\n

Richards suggested that “Harris would do well, even, to devote an entire speech to the issue, laying out her plan to take action in support of abortion rights, with or without Congress.”<\/p>\n

How could she do it “without Congress”? Well, Harris would have the power as president to issue an Executive Order, perhaps an expansion of Biden’s 2022 Executive Order<\/a> on abortion, that would further expand abortion access.<\/p>\n

Richards encouraged Harris to speak, not just to pro-abortion California and New York, but to pro-life states in the South and Midwest to urge those pro-lifers to turn their backs on preborn children.<\/p>\n

Richards claimed that “the overwhelming majority of Americans … want to see abortion rights restored.” But most Americans want far more restrictions on abortion than were in place under Roe v. Wade<\/em>. And most Americans likely don’t realize what voting for pro-abortion ballot amendments could allow in their states<\/a> \u2014 abortion even in the third trimester, potentially up to birth, well beyond what most claim to support.<\/p>\n

Polls continuously<\/a> reveal<\/a> that Americans do not support abortion throughout pregnancy, which Roe<\/em> and Doe<\/em> collectively permitted through broad language that created legal loopholes. A 2024 poll<\/a> conducted by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion at Marist College found that 66% of respondents believe that “limits should be placed on when abortion is allowed.”<\/p>\n

Sell abortion to America using emotional stories<\/strong><\/p>\n

Richards wants Harris to sell abortion to pro-lifers by using emotional stories to garner the sympathy of Americans. But in order to do that, the stories have to be spun to make it appear as though abortion was the answer to avoiding the suffering women faced.<\/p>\n

None of the stories Richards mentioned required induced abortion \u2014 the direct and intentional killing of preborn children.<\/p>\n

She referred to three high profile stories:<\/p>\n