{"id":81442,"date":"2015-12-01T15:43:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T20:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=81442"},"modified":"2015-12-01T15:46:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T20:46:58","slug":"81442-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/81442-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood turns tragedy into censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/dailysignal.com\/2015\/12\/01\/planned-parenthood-turns-tragedy-into-censorship\/?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=thffacebook\">Daily Signal<\/a>)\u00a0In the wake of a violent tragedy, Planned Parenthood has redoubled its efforts to silence its critics.\u00a0The Colorado Springs shooter, who waged the terrible attack, appears to have no connection to society at large, much less to the pro-life movement.<\/p>\n<p>But Planned Parenthood is using him as a tool in its new censorship campaign, which can be summed up in two, increasingly familiar words: \u201cShut Up.\u201d\u00a0Planned Parenthood wants Americans to remain silent about what it does to hundreds of babies every day.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Censorship has had a revival recently in campus protests, which were causing a backlash in defense of sincere debate. Yet squelching public debate is a longstanding tradition of the abortion lobby.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Planned Parenthood and NARAL (National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws) want the government to punish the \u201clie\u201d that abortion is physically or emotionally harmful to women, including through a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adfmedia.org\/News\/PRDetail\/9776\">new<\/a>\u00a0California law they helped pass.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) is waging multiple lawsuits to punish the U.S. bishops for expressing their ethical view against abortion, and to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/aclu-files-lawsuit-to-force-catholic-hospitals-to-provide-abortions\">force<\/a>\u00a0Catholic hospitals to perform them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Center for Reproductive Rights\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tbinternet.ohchr.org\/Treaties\/CAT\/Shared%20Documents\/VAT\/INT_CAT_NGO_VAT_17038_E.pdf\">urged<\/a>\u00a0the United Nations to punish the Vatican for freely speaking against abortion, saying pro-life speech constitutes \u201ctorture\u201d of women.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In its current campaign, Planned Parenthood\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CecileRichards\/status\/671048611732586497\">labels<\/a>\u00a0disagreement with abortion as \u201cextreme rhetoric &amp; lies.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"InArticleEmailForm\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div id=\"confirmform_end\">Likewise reporter Jessica Valenti, to whom Planned Parenthood gave its 2014 \u201cMaggie Award,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2015\/nov\/29\/planned-parenthood-colorado-springs-shooting-no-more-baby-parts\">brands<\/a>\u00a0pro-life speech as \u201cdehumanizing\u201d and praises a federal judge for trying to block it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>What specifically does Planned Parenthood not want you to hear? Words that describe what abortion actually is and what it does to both the mother and child.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, that Planned Parenthood sells baby body parts. The abortion giant now\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/14\/us\/planned-parenthood-to-forgo-payment-for-fetal-tissue-programs.html?referer=&amp;_r=1\">admits<\/a>\u00a0it took money for the parts but claims it was mere \u201creimbursement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pro-lifers answered that it had no marginal cost to reimburse, and all sales \u201ccover costs\u201d anyway. In response, Planned Parenthood never publicly itemized its alleged costs\u2014it just screamed \u201clies.\u201d Now it demands silence.<\/p>\n<p>To thinking people, statements about abortion are part of a \u201cdebate.\u201d Whether cash for brains is a sale, whether abortion kills a person, and whether baby organ harvesting is barbaric, is the thing being debated.<\/p>\n<p>It should come as no surprise that Planned Parenthood opposes debate. Oppressors always dehumanize their victims and then demand that everyone else stop humanizing them. \u201cCalvarium contents\u201d in hand, Planned Parenthood has the nerve to accuse pro-lifers of dehumanizing others.<\/p>\n<p>Milder rhetoric will not satisfy abortion profiteers. When Pope Francis announced the Church will newly emphasize what it and the pro-life movement have been doing for years\u2014extending God\u2019s forgiveness to women who have had abortions\u2014the pro-abortion media attacked him for characterizing abortion as sin at all.<\/p>\n<p>The pope also speaks frankly on abortion. This renowned man of peace says \u201cbabies\u201d are \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/speeches\/2013\/september\/documents\/papa-francesco_20130920_associazioni-medici-cattolici.html\">condemned unjustly<\/a>\u201d by the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/speeches\/2014\/april\/documents\/papa-francesco_20140411_movim-per-la-vita.html\">abominable crime<\/a>\u201d of abortion, and urges Christians to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/speeches\/2014\/april\/documents\/papa-francesco_20140411_movim-per-la-vita.html\">express the strongest possible opposition<\/a>\u201d to it.<\/p>\n<p>Pope John Paul II (whom Pope Francis made a saint)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/john-paul-ii\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_jp-ii_enc_25031995_evangelium-vitae.html\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0the Catholic Church\u2019s magnum opus on pro-life issues, where he declared abortion is \u201cmurder\u201d and insisted we \u201ccall things by their proper name,\u201d all the while condemning violence.<\/p>\n<p>Peaceful pro-life people call abortion murder precisely because they are peaceful. They abhor the violence committed by Planned Parenthood and the violence committed against it.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. explained that nonviolent truth tellers cannot be blamed for violence, they \u201cmerely bring to the surface\u201d hidden injustice, which \u201cmust be exposed . . . to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur lives begin to end,\u201d King said, \u201cthe day we become silent about things that matter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Daily Signal)\u00a0In the wake of a violent tragedy, Planned Parenthood has redoubled its efforts to silence its critics.\u00a0The Colorado Springs shooter, who waged the terrible attack, appears to have no connection to society at large, much less to the pro-life movement. But Planned Parenthood is using him as a tool in its new censorship campaign, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":397,"featured_media":81444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[575,386,2508,79,4713,2380,1889,947,5764,76,14,3292,676,1254,6439,6438,450,1273],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Planned Parenthood turns tragedy into censorship - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It should come as no surprise that Planned Parenthood opposes debate. 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