Saturday, October 09, 2004
113 things Planned Parenthood hates about President Bush
Pro-lifers will be encouraged to read Planned Parenthood's colorfully titled, "Report on the Administration and Congress, The War on Women: A Pernicious Web, A Chronology of Attacks on Reproductive Rights," which chronicles President Bush's efforts to curtail abortion in the United States and globally.
Note the perception of PP being at war with the administration.
Read this excerpt:
Reason to hate Bush No. 42 is, "HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson announces new rules making fetuses, but not pregnant women, eligible for prenatal care in the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) (March 5, 2002)."
This translation is tricky, because more was unsaid than said. Here goes:
"Ooowee, this was a biggie. HHS expanded its health coverage of children from low-income families to include preborn babies, so their mothers can get prenatal care. To do so, HHS redefined children as existing 'from conception through birth up to age 19.'
"This rule change darn near froze the cold blood running through our veins, because it clearly poses a danger to Roe v. Wade. We pray to the dark side no one will connect this to Supreme Court Justice Blackmun's ominous statement in his majority opinion that legalized abortion:
The appellee ... argue that the fetus is a "person" within the language and meaning of the 14th Amendment ... If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant's case, of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the Amendment.
"As you might expect, our first inclination was to scream like banshees when HHS gave health benefits to intrauterine blobs of cells. This is what we usually do to frighten limp-appendaged politicians into seeing things our way. But we pragmatically muzzled ourselves.
"Our second inclination was to file a lawsuit against HHS, but we had no cause of action. We couldn't produce a plaintiff harmed by this regulation.
"Thus, we can't do anything about this one. This sort of problem is surfacing more often lately. Quick! Where's the muzzle? We feel a shriek coming on!"
Whew! That was a toughie to translate. But rewarding.
All I can say is that PP is an agent of darkness, and a prime reason why some of us fight, every bit as much as the Taliban mullahs. Both are out there to inflict death instead of life.
