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Planned Parenthood may have a new favorite Republican senator. Or at least Alaska\u2019s Lisa Murkowski is auditioning for the part.<\/p>\n

She identifies as pro-choice<\/a>, has a mixed voting record on abortion<\/a>, and just recently declared herself<\/a> a \u201csupporter of Planned Parenthood\u201d and a dutiful water-carrier for their continued federal funding:<\/p>\n

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I’m a supporter of Planned Parenthood. I believe that the services that are provided for the tens of thousands of Alaskan men and woman, access to not only women’s health care but also access to men’s as well, access to screenings, access to affordable birth control, is an important service and I have supported that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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As we\u2019ve repeatedly established over the past few months, the fact that community health centers outnumber them by a factor of twenty<\/a> undercuts the notion of Planned Parenthood as a uniquely vital health provider, and in Murkowski\u2019s home state the difference is even more stark, with 165 health centers to four<\/em>\u2014not 40, not 14, but 4\u2014Planned Parenthoods, or a margin of 41-to-1.<\/p>\n

\"Alaska<\/p>\n

One might think representing a state entails a reasonably up-to-date working knowledge of its needs and services. Either you would be wrong, or \u201cwomen\u2019s health\u201d isn\u2019t Murkowski\u2019s primary interest here.<\/p>\n

Oh, and Senator? If access to screenings is one of your justifications for Planned Parenthood, what do you make of the fact that their breast exams and pap tests steadily dropped<\/a> by 41% and 58% from 2009 to 2013, or that because it doesn’t provide<\/a> any mammograms, the exams it offers are no more sophisticated<\/a> than what women can do on their own? You\u2019d think that $528.4 million<\/a> would buy the taxpayers a higher caliber of care than that, or that the recipient would rate it a higher priority. Murkowski continued:<\/p>\n

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It’s always important to caveat that there are no federal dollars that Planned Parenthood receives that go toward abortions. That’s not the case. So I would like to see the services that men and women receive continue.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

First, a senator who sits on<\/a> the committee overseeing<\/a> the Health and Human Services Department really ought to have a better command of how health funding works. No, Planned Parenthood doesn\u2019t spend its federal subsidies or reimbursements directly on abortions, but every dollar they get from taxpayers is one dollar fewer they need to get elsewhere, enabling more of their private revenue to go to abortion\u2014which is how a $326 million increase in federal funding over a decade or so can result in<\/a> a 66% rise in PP\u2019s abortion output.<\/p>\n

Second, it\u2019s not your money, Senator. It\u2019s your constituents’. And part of your job is respecting them enough to not force their complicity with evil organizations or to give abominably un-American values, such as killing preborn children, society\u2019s endorsement. As Matt Walsh explains<\/a> this week, recounting society\u2019s reaction to a Delaware pediatrician who was found to be a serial child rapist:<\/p>\n

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Do you know why nobody talked about the \u201cother stuff\u201d he did? Do you know why nobody attempted to tabulate what percentage of his business was rape and what percentage was valuable medical care? Do you know why nobody worried that shutting down the rapist\u2019s clinic might impede people\u2019s access to medical services? Do you know why none of us locals ever argued that he should be prohibited from sexually brutalizing his patients but allowed to continue practicing medicine for the sake of public health? Because that would have been insane.<\/p>\n

It would have been so morally repugnant, so disgusting, so idiotic, so depraved and repulsive and outrageous and psychotic, that anyone who breathed a word of such things would have been reasonably accused of being a pedophile or pedophile sympathizer. If you do what Bradley did, you go to prison forever and every trace of your existence and your work will be wiped from the face of the Earth, and nobody will care about what else you did.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u2018Nuff said.<\/p>\n

Up until this point,\u00a0I\u2019ve mainly been rebutting Murkowski on talking points her fellow Planned Parenthood apologists have already tried and been refuted on. Calling out the dishonesty and irresponsibility of politicians who repeat arguments that have been publicly established as fallacious is valuable, but it can admittedly get old after a while.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, Murkowski also saw fit to give us a more original bit of spin that I haven\u2019t seen elsewhere yet, but will doubtless be added to countless pro-abortion mantras soon. So hopefully we can nip it in the bud here:<\/p>\n

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But in the meantime, during this investigation, Planned Parenthood should stop the collection of fetal tissue, just stop it in its tracks right then, and allow for the investigation to go forward. And further, that those affiliates would not be able to receive funding [\u2026] There are some 700 Planned Parenthood affiliates. Of those 700, there were only seven that do anything related to the collection of fetal tissue. Seven out of 700. So Senator Collins and I voted to get on that bill. We voted to move to proceed. It was not a vote to defund Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You see? She\u2019s really a moderate after all, interested in preserving Planned Parenthood\u2019s critical health services but fully on board stopping the organ harvesting. Why can\u2019t we all just be reasonable and defund the bad apples while leaving the rest alone?<\/p>\n

Because, Senator, it\u2019s not just a few bad apples. The investigation into the national organization is far from over<\/a>, and affiliates in most states haven\u2019t even been investigated at all.<\/p>\n

Further, two of the officials prominently shown discussing illegal and unethical organ procurement methods<\/a> in the Center for Medical Progress\u2019s undercover videos aren\u2019t just state figures, but prominent leaders in Planned Parenthood\u2019s national leadership structure. Dr. Deborah Nucatola<\/a> is Planned Parenthood Federation of America\u2019s Senior Director of Medical Services, while Dr. Mary Gatter<\/a> is President of PPFA\u2019s Medical Directors\u2019 Council.<\/p>\n

By every indication we have so far, this goes straight to the top.<\/p>\n

There are few things abortion advocates\u00a0love more that a Republican who affirms their propaganda, someone they can hold up as a model of centrist reasonability they can contrast against \u201cextremists\u201d who believe crazy things, like that it\u2019s wrong to subsidize fetal chop shops.<\/p>\n

But from women\u2019s health funds that don\u2019t improve women\u2019s health to the sheer depravity of Planned Parenthood\u2019s crimes, there\u2019s nothing moderate or reasonable about what Lisa Murkowski is defending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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