“Thank you, Planned Parenthood. God bless you.”
– Barack Obama, address to Planned Parenthood, April 26, 2013
WASHINGTON – Planned Parenthood’s reaction to the release of a clandestinely recorded conversation about the sale of fetal body parts was highly revealing. After protesting that it did nothing illegal, it apologized for the “tone” of one of its senior directors.
Her remarks lacked compassion, admitted Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards. As if Dr. Deborah Nucatola’s cold and casual discussion over salad and wine of how the fetal body can be crushed with forceps in a way that leaves valuable organs intact for sale is some kind of personal idiosyncrasy. On the contrary, it’s precisely the kind of psychic numbing that occurs when dealing daily with industrial scale destruction of the growing, thriving, recognizably human fetus.
This was again demonstrated by the release last week of a second video showing another official sporting that same tone while haggling over the price of an embryonic liver. “If it’s still low, then we can bump it up,” she joked. “I want a Lamborghini.”