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In its latest display of tasteless advertising, Planned Parenthood uses America\u2019s birthday to halt Americans\u2019 birthdays.<\/p>\n

On the 4th<\/sup> of July, Planned Parenthood Action Fund circulated<\/a> an image of the American flag bearing Planned Parenthood\u2019s logo and the words \u201cSupporting women\u2019s health is patriotic.\u201d For those less familiar with Planned Parenthood\u2019s work, \u201cwomen\u2019s health\u201d is its euphemism for abortion.* Planned Parenthood is the nation\u2019s largest abortion provider and receives at least one third<\/a> of clinic income from abortion.<\/p>\n

\"american-flag-sunset-1\"How are the measures that Planned Parenthood supports patriotic? A patriot, according to the New Oxford American Dictionary<\/em>, is \u201ca person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors.\u201d Are unwanted children now such a threat in Planned Parenthood\u2019s mind that they are \u201cenemies and detractors\u201d to America? Are children so terrifying that a true patriot must end unborn lives for the sake of the nation?<\/p>\n

Or perhaps Planned Parenthood doesn’t mean American patriotism. Perhaps we should ask, patriotic to whom? Are we a nation like China, where reducing the number of children is deemed a patriotic duty? Are we an ancient civilization that sacrifices children on an altar to spare its country from angry deities? Planned Parenthood\u2019s argument may work in these areas, but to argue that supporting abortion is patriotic in America is simply absurd.<\/p>\n

This isn’t the first case of abortion advocates confusing abortion and American ideals. Planned Parenthood\u2019s statement echoes the words of Choices Women\u2019s Medical Center President Merle Hoffman, who declared, \u201cAbortion is as American as apple pie.\u201d<\/p>\n

As I noted<\/a> at the time of Hoffman\u2019s statement, abortion undermines everything that Americans traditionally endorse. American ideals include life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, while abortion takes away life, and therefore liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Americans pledge to a nation with \u201cliberty and justice for all,\u201d while abortion denies liberty and justice for many. America is defined by freedom, but an abortion takes away all freedom from a very tiny American – an American who will never vote, never watch fireworks on the\u00a04th<\/sup> of July, and never taste apple pie.<\/p>\n

This illogical comparison isn’t isolated. Planned Parenthood is notorious for defending slaughter with semantics and death with distracting dialogue. It is a classic example from Planned Parenthood Advertising 101. Take words people like, apply them to something people don\u2019t like, and voil\u00e0 – the brand will sell: Rob a child of a lifetime of choices and call it \u201cchoice.\u201d Leave women like Tonya Reaves to die at a Planned Parenthood clin<\/a>ic while clamoring for \u201cwomen\u2019s rights.\u201d Most of all, assume women will blindly miss this deception, while claiming to \u201ctrust women\u201d to make life-and-death decisions.<\/p>\n

Despite Planned Parenthood\u2019s attempts to say otherwise, abortion is neither patriotic nor American. If we truly wish to be patriotic – defending our fellow citizens from harm – let\u2019s defend the lives of all Americans, born and unborn.<\/p>\n

*Perhaps I am too harsh, as Planned Parenthood has occasionally advocated for women\u2019s health measures broader than abortion. Among Planned Parenthood\u2019s current favorites is the HHS Mandate, which requires religious organizations to fund abortion and contraceptives for employees, despite religious objections. Surely Planned Parenthood believes that the early Americans who came to this nation seeking religious freedom would also deem this measure patriotic and American.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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