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In a historic move last week, the U.S. Senate voted to defund Planned Parenthood<\/a>. Saturday Night Live was none too pleased about the move, especially because as they see it, the country ought to have other\u00a0priorities – namely gun control.<\/p>\n

The show’s Weekend Update segment features a bit of news followed by jokes – some desperate, and some merely giving a chance for the host to insert his own opinion. Host Michael Che’s rant is certainly an example of the latter…<\/p>\n

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The New York Times\u00a0ran a front page editorial urging Congress to take action following Wednesday’s shooting in California. But Congress already took action because on Thursday the Senate confronted the gun issue head-on by voting to [dramatic pause] defund Planned Parenthood! Good job, dudes!<\/p>\n

There have been more mass shootings in the U.S. this year than there have been days in the year. So how is defunding Planned Parenthood the priority right now?<\/p>\n

It would be like if you called an exterminator and he goes “Whoa, you got a lot of rats in here, man! So the first thing we got to do is defund Planned Parenthood!”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

No, it’s actually\u00a0nothing like that. Even if Che’s\u00a0“joke” had been a good one, abortion and gun control are two separate issues. Except one thing is clear: if we want to save human lives, then defunding Planned Parenthood should absolutely<\/em> be a “priority right now.”<\/p>\n

The U.S. Senate doesn’t exist to merely\u00a0vote on and pass laws that Che or The New York Times\u00a0<\/i>thinks it should.\u00a0Discontinuing taxpayer funding to\u00a0Planned Parenthood isn’t just a priority now<\/em> –\u00a0it has been a priority for a long time, reigniting this summer in light of the scandal surrounding Planned Parenthood’s sale of aborted fetal body parts and willingness to illegally alter abortion procedures<\/a> to obtain those parts.\u00a0This is simply the first time the vote has been successful in the Senate.<\/p>\n

It’s also worth pointing out that the statistic Che refers to – the\u00a0amount of mass shootings claimed by media outlets (355) – is in\u00a0dispute<\/a>.\u00a0Even if we accept that there have been 355 mass shootings, the number\u00a0of abortion deaths far\u00a0exceed<\/a> the number\u00a0of deaths from gun violence.\u00a0Planned Parenthood, whom Che is defending, is the nation’s largest abortion provider, though by no means the only one. If we go by Planned Parenthood’s\u00a0own figures from the latest annual report <\/a>(2013-2014), we get 327,653 abortions.<\/p>\n

Pro-lifers believe that\u00a0all\u00a0<\/em>lives are precious, and thus both the preborn child killed from abortion and the born person killed from a shooting are tragic acts that should be addressed.<\/p>\n

This is just another case of abortion proponents becoming selectively disturbed by killing. To them, the hundreds of preborn children silently killed every day\u00a0in the womb by their beloved Planned Parenthood just don’t count.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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