{"id":35709,"date":"2013-05-29T16:44:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T20:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=35709"},"modified":"2013-05-29T23:41:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T03:41:27","slug":"jeopardy-wants-to-know-what-is-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/jeopardy-wants-to-know-what-is-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeopardy! wants to know: What is Planned Parenthood?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards expressed her delight today on Twitter over a shout-out on Jeopardy!<\/i>, the world-renowned game show with that jingle you’ll struggle to get out of your head after reading this.<\/p>\n

\"Cecile<\/a><\/p>\n

Pro-life leaders noticed that Richards’s tweet, and the Jeopardy!<\/i> prompt itself, were strangely lacking<\/i>:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Live Action President Lila Rose, for her part, wondered whether\u00a0Jeopardy<\/em>!\u00a0<\/em>could have used a more elucidating<\/i> prompt. Followers<\/a> eagerly<\/a> responded<\/a> in the affirmative<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lest you think this is nothing more than a great “zing Cecile Richards” opportunity, there’s something crucial to keep in mind here. It’s pretty clear why Richards was so delighted: this prompt could have come out of Planned Parenthood’s PR department. It’s a textbook “have your cake and eat it, too” moment: America’s number-one abortion corporation gets free advertising without anyone discovering the inconvenient detail that Planned Parenthood is America’s number-one abortion corporation.<\/p>\n

Put aside the “life versus choice” debate for a second. We’ve got to be clear about this: the fact is, a huge number of Americans don’t even know<\/a> that Planned Parenthood does abortions. Pro-life activists tend to forget this, because we’re immersed in fighting for pre-born children. We know who’s killing the overwhelming majority<\/a> of them in America.<\/p>\n

But for too many Americans, “Margaret Sanger” might be that British prime minister who died recently. (Even the word “eugenics” might elicit nothing more than a shrug of the shoulders, to say nothing of “human weeds<\/a>.”) Planned Parenthood might be just another Contraception<\/a> \u042f Us (with a sterling reputation<\/a>), or another mammogram repository<\/a> that totally, totally offers mammograms<\/a>. And abortion? That’s just a choice<\/a> that happens sometimes.<\/p>\n

What is Planned Parenthood?<\/i><\/p>\n

That’s the question Jeopardy!<\/i> challenged its contestants to ask. Live Action’s been challenging people to ask that very question for years \u2013 but unlike Jeopardy!<\/i>, we’re<\/a> providing<\/a> the answer<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n

Granted, a more informative prompt would have said something like “This $1.2-billion company commits more abortions than any other in America, and you pay for it<\/a>.” All the same, big thanks to Alex Trebek \u00ad\u2013 and small thanks to abortion-giant CEO Richards \u2013 for another opportunity to get the truth out there.<\/p>\n

(P.S.: Take another look at that Jeopardy!<\/em> prompt. For the record, Margaret Sanger’s mother<\/em> died of tuberculosis and cervical cancer, neither of which is caused by pregnancy. So to say that Sanger\u00a0M\u00e8re<\/em> “died at 50 after 18 pregnancies” is like saying that Chopin died at 39 after four ballades – technically true, but the wording is pretty sketch<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Free publicity for America’s number-one totally-not-an-abortion corporation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nJeopardy! wants to know: What is Planned Parenthood? - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/jeopardy-wants-to-know-what-is-planned-parenthood\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jeopardy! wants to know: What is Planned Parenthood? - Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Free publicity for America's number-one totally-not-an-abortion corporation.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/jeopardy-wants-to-know-what-is-planned-parenthood\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-05-29T20:44:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-05-30T03:41:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/march_group_photo_og-1-700x467.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"467\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Drew Belsky\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Drew Belsky\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/jeopardy-wants-to-know-what-is-planned-parenthood\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/jeopardy-wants-to-know-what-is-planned-parenthood\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Drew Belsky\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/b987cbef23e22c25a97a9d732e7c44b1\"},\"headline\":\"Jeopardy! wants to know: What is Planned Parenthood?\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-05-29T20:44:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-05-30T03:41:27+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/jeopardy-wants-to-know-what-is-planned-parenthood\/\"},\"wordCount\":419,\"commentCount\":6,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Issues\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/jeopardy-wants-to-know-what-is-planned-parenthood\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/jeopardy-wants-to-know-what-is-planned-parenthood\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/jeopardy-wants-to-know-what-is-planned-parenthood\/\",\"name\":\"Jeopardy! wants to know: What is Planned Parenthood? 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