{"id":68108,"date":"2015-07-27T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=68108"},"modified":"2016-09-03T14:58:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T18:58:58","slug":"quote-of-the-day-planned-parenthood-videos-show-its-barbarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/quote-of-the-day-planned-parenthood-videos-show-its-barbarism\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the day: Planned Parenthood videos show its &#8220;barbarism&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><div id=\"attachment_68110\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68110\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-68110 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/douthat-profile.jpg\" alt=\"douthat-profile\" width=\"190\" height=\"240\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-68110\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ross Douthat<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p-block a-ok\"><em>&#8230; [T]he problem these videos create for Planned Parenthood isn\u2019t just a generalized queasiness at surgery and blood.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-block a-ok\"><em>It\u2019s a very specific disgust, informed by reason and experience \u2014 the reasoning that notes that it\u2019s precisely a fetus\u2019s humanity that makes its organs valuable, and the experience of recognizing one\u2019s own children, on the ultrasound monitor and after, as something more than just \u201cproducts of conception\u201d or tissue for the knife.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-block a-ok\"><em>That\u2019s why Planned Parenthood\u2019s apologists have fallen back on complaints about\u00a0<a title=\"Media Matters site\" href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/2015\/07\/15\/media-calls-out-deceptively-edited-video-claimi\/204426\">\u201cdeceptive editing\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(though full videos were released in both cases), or else simply asked people to look away. And it\u2019s why many of my colleagues in the press seem uncomfortable reporting on the actual content of the videos.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-block a-ok\"><em>Because dwelling on that content gets you uncomfortably close to&#8230;\u00a0that moment when you start pondering the possibility that an institution at the heart of respectable liberal society is dedicated to a practice that deserves to be called barbarism.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-block a-ok\">~ Ross Douthat, <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/26\/opinion\/sunday\/ross-douthat-looking-away-from-abortion.html?_r=0\">The New York Times<\/a>, July 25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; [T]he problem these videos create for Planned Parenthood isn\u2019t just a generalized queasiness at surgery and blood. 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