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Every now and then, abortion friendly publications reveal what’s happening behind the scenes of abortion behemoths like Planned Parenthood – and\u00a0sometimes, hidden within these pieces, we see admissions that Planned Parenthood’s supporters feel they’re fighting an uphill battle in garnering support.<\/p>\n

Last month<\/a>,\u00a0progressive publication ThinkProgress wrote a glowing piece about the Planned Parenthood Action Fund’s pro-abortion election efforts. More recently,\u00a0at\u00a0Fusion<\/a>, Katie McDonough\u00a0profiled 18-year-old Audrey Leonard, a Planned Parenthood activist who seems to think that pro-life legislators are “all old white men.” Leonard and other workers, we are told, are doing\u00a0“unglamorous, often dejecting work” in get-out-the-vote efforts for the abortion giant:<\/p>\n

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It wasn\u2019t fun, exactly. But neither was having two dozen states with anti-abortion Republicans controlling both the legislature and the governor\u2019s office\u2014a combination that has created something of a hermetic political seal against progressive efforts to expand access.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

McDonough rightly notes that “the real story… has been playing out in the states,” regarding the passage of pro-life laws – something which has certainly\u00a0been noticed and lamented<\/a>\u00a0by Planned Parenthood.\u00a0She also notes\u00a0Planned Parenthood’s sense that they\u00a0need to educate\u00a0voters on the importance of local, not just federal, elections. Yet\u00a0McDonough overestimates the support for Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n

\"levatino-ad-LAN\"<\/p>\n

After all, as McDonough admits,\u00a0many\u00a0scandals<\/a>\u00a0have plagued\u00a0Planned Parenthood,\u00a0and this has been a long time coming; it’s not just because of the Center for Medical Progress’s\u00a0undercover videos<\/a>\u00a0showing Planned Parenthood employees haggling over the prices of aborted fetal body parts. The videos, she says, were a “convenient accelerant to a long-burning fire.”<\/p>\n

Part of the reason for that “long-burning fire” is because<\/a>\u00a0many\u00a0young people<\/a>\u00a0are now\u00a0pro-life<\/a>. Even on college campuses, Students for Life of America has\u00a0far more<\/a>\u00a0campus chapters than Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n

Another reason for the “long-burning fire” is that women know they don’t actually need Planned Parenthood. Groups like\u00a0Feminists for Life<\/a>, Students for Life of America’s\u00a0Pregnant on Campus Initiative<\/a>, as well as the more than 2,000\u00a0local, community\u00a0pregnancy resource centers<\/a>\u00a0reach out to girls and women on a regular basis with support.<\/p>\n

As a side note,\u00a0Planned Parenthood can’t stand\u00a0pregnancy centers. They even claim on their\u00a0very biased website<\/a>\u00a0that “[d]eciding\u00a0what to do about an unplanned pregnancy\u00a0can be very complicated. It may be made even more so by so-called ‘crisis pregnancy centers.'” As\u00a0Planned Parenthood’s\u00a0primary service<\/a>\u00a0and “solution” offered to pregnant women and teens is abortion<\/a>, it is easy to see why they wouldn’t want to “complicate” things by offering alternatives to abortion.<\/p>\n

\"DefundAd-400b\"<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood is also outnumbered by more comprehensive community health centers —\u00a0more than<\/a>\u00a01,000\u00a0Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), which don’t commit abortions — compared to just over 660 Planned Parenthood locations.<\/p>\n

Strangely, though, it’s as\u00a0if McDonough thinks Planned Parenthood is an\u00a0underdog<\/a>\u00a0when it\u00a0comes<\/a>\u00a0to political power.\u00a0Hardly<\/a>. (See, for example,\u00a0these 25 federal-level politicians<\/a>\u00a0who have received money from Planned Parenthood, and note how they vote.)<\/p>\n

And yet, despite all their political clout, it turns out that Planned Parenthood needs young voters<\/em> – you know, the generation that lost about a third of its population to abortion. McDonough says low voter turnout among the younger generations is\u00a0\u201creally, really bad for organizations like Planned Parenthood.\u201d<\/p>\n

How ironic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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