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Abortion defenders\u2019 complaints about the Planned Parenthood investigation are getting more outlandish by the week. At Slate, Will Saletan objects<\/a> that the latest committee hearing \u201cwent way beyond Planned Parenthood or late-term abortion. What was on trial was abortion itself\u201d…<\/p>\n

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Four witnesses, three of them pro-life, had been summoned to testify. The first, Anthony Levatino<\/a>, was an OB-GYN who used to terminate pregnancies. He described his methods in grisly detail and showed the committee a video in which clinic staffers offered women very late abortions. Under questioning, however, Levatino admitted that these weren\u2019t Planned Parenthood clinics, that he had never worked with Planned Parenthood during his practice, and that he had no evidence of wrongdoing by anyone affiliated with the organization.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is nonsense. Nobody claimed Levatino was there to recount experiences specific to Planned Parenthood, but to explain the broader subject of late-term abortion: the humanity of its victim, how it\u2019s normally performed, and its lack of medical necessity. Unless Planned Parenthood stopped performing late-term abortions when nobody was looking, of course all this is representative of and applicable to the organization.<\/p>\n

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The next witness, Susan Thayer<\/a>, used to run a Planned Parenthood clinic in Iowa. She had filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the organization<\/a> for firing her. Democrats on the committee challenged her motives, noting that she stood to collect a lot of money if she wins the case<\/a>. Her testimony seemed sincere.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Saletan doesn\u2019t mention that a whopping 45 audits of Planned Parenthood affiliates<\/a> have found a combined total of $129.7 million in fraudulent use of tax dollars, or that PP Gulf Coast accepted<\/a> a $1.4 million fine for Medicaid fraud, lending credence to Thayer\u2019s allegations.<\/p>\n

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But the only abortion-related complaint she offered against Planned Parenthood was that it provided \u201cwebcam\u201d abortions, in which a doctor talks with a woman by remote video and authorizes her to take pills that end her pregnancy. Thayer protested that once a woman takes the pills, she can\u2019t change her mind. She ignored the simpler perspective: If you don\u2019t let the woman take the pills, you\u2019re thwarting her will.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Lots of medical guidelines \u201cthwart a patient\u2019s will,\u201d but guidelines they are. In 2013, the Iowa Board of Medicine banned<\/a> webcam abortions (though the state Supreme Court overruled them<\/a>) because they violate FDA protocols requiring mifepristone and misoprostol to be taken under close, in-person supervision by a physician, because the drugs are fraught with medical risks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The last pro-life witness, Luana Stoltenberg, was a puddle of anguish. She had had three abortions and testified that they had wrecked her life. She blamed clinic employees for downplaying the gravity of the procedure. But when questioned by the Democrats, she admitted that only one of the three abortions occurred at a Planned Parenthood clinic. Hers was a familiar story: I regret my abortion, so nobody else should be allowed to have one.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

First, Saletan again says \u201cadmitted\u201d but Stoltenberg\u2019s testimony<\/a> never alleges that her second or third abortions occurred at Planned Parenthood, but what she does say about the organization\u2014that they lied to her about it being a \u201cblob of tissue,\u201d then said \u201cI was no longer their problem\u201d after she called them about post-abortion pain and bleeding\u2014is damning enough (and if he wants more evidence that Planned Parenthood deceives and mistreats women, we’ve got plenty<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Second, it\u2019s not that nobody should be allowed to have one simply because she regretted hers, it\u2019s that nobody should be allowed to have one because of what experiences like hers illustrate: that \u201cit\u2019s solely about my body and nobody else gets hurt\u201d is a lie. It\u2019s an act of violence, Will. That\u2019s a message applicable to all abortions, including the ones at Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n

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The witnesses couldn\u2019t hide their broader agenda. \u201cEvery abortion results in a dead son or daughter,\u201d said Levatino. \u201cIt\u2019s never OK to have an abortion,\u201d said Thayer. Stoltenberg agreed: \u201cAbortion is not health care. It is the taking of an innocent life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This complaint presupposes they were trying to hide anything in the first place, when in fact pro-lifers have been open from the start that these videos should be seen as highlighting the evil of abortion itself<\/a>. What part of \u201chuman livers and human brains and human hearts come from human beings<\/em> that Planned Parenthood KILLED\u201d are Saletan and company not processing? Dear Lord, how many times do we have to shake them and repeat ourselves for it to finally sink in?<\/p>\n

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As one lawmaker after another erupted in outrage at the very existence of abortion, it became clear that the hearing itself was group therapy. The Planned Parenthood videos and hearings had revealed nothing with which to indict the organization. What was being exposed wasn\u2019t criminal conduct. It was impotence and rage.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no evidence of criminality\u201d is a complete<\/a>, shameless<\/a> lie, and Saletan almost certainly knows it. More importantly, there is nothing scandalous about expressing outrage here. Outrage is the natural, proper, healthy, and human response to being told we should tolerate the mass murder of children<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The committee\u2019s Democrats called Thursday\u2019s proceedings a show hearing, and the Republicans did their best to validate the charge. When the Democrats proposed to strike Levatino\u2019s video presentation from the record, on the grounds that it had nothing to do with Planned Parenthood, the presiding Republican, Rep. Trent Franks, barked: \u201cI wonder if we\u2019re going to be able to strike that video from your memory.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Again, the video was relevant for the reasons explained at the beginning of this post, but you can watch the video and Live Action’s further coverage on the incident here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The purpose of the video, as Franks implicitly conceded, was just to make everyone uncomfortable. A few minutes later, Franks drove the point home: \u201cThe central question is: Does abortion kill a little baby?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yes, Will. That\u2019s the central question. Your reaction to it, though, raises another: how calloused must one’s soul become<\/a> to watch an extended discussion of killing children and walk away more troubled by those trying to stop it than those committing it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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