This is something that Molly has written in response to the mindless support of Planned Parenthood. I think that it's excellent!
Does Supporting Planned Parenthood Equal Supporting Women's Health?
By Molly Buffington
I believe in women’s rights. I
believe in women’s access to healthcare. I believe in defunding Planned
Parenthood.
If these seemingly contradictory
statements shock you, I would like to gently suggest that you have been
heinously misinformed about the nature of Planned Parenthood and the services
the group provides. They have done an excellent job at crafting their public image;
because of this, many have reached the wholly incorrect conclusion that if you
are pro-woman, you must be pro-abortion and pro-Planned Parenthood.
“Ah,” you say. “But you forget that
Planned Parenthood provides services other than abortions for women.” While
many tout the agency as the nation’s largest provider of women's healthcare
services, this is a misleading statement. Yes, Planned Parenthood far surpasses
community health centers for the number of abortions performed, considering
community health centers do not perform abortions. However, in every other area
of women’s health – number of facilities, number of patients served, Pap smears
– community health centers exceed Planned Parenthood by leaps and bounds. Most
striking is the fact that Planned Parenthood does not have a single licensed mammography clinic in
the entire United States. Thus the claim that Planned Parenthood is the largest
provider of women’s healthcare requires an extremely narrow definition of
women’s health care. No rational person would say abortions are the only
healthcare services a woman needs.
It is hard for me to believe that the focus of women’s healthcare should
be interrupting a woman’s biological ability to bear children, rather than saving
her from an early and painful death.
The recent controversy surrounding
Planned Parenthood has been a series of videos released by the Center for
Medical Progress discussing the collection of aborted fetal cadavers for
scientific use. I begin with this highly sanitized explanation, but the truth
is far from this euphemistic description. The videos contain casual and graphic
language from Planned Parenthood employees and researchers, which will be
discussed, so take this as your viewer discretion warning.
Planned Parenthood doctors are altering
the abortion procedure in order to deliver fully intact fetuses. They then cut
out livers, brains, anything researchers have requested. Many in the pro-choice
camp have claimed that a fetus is not a baby; if that is true, then it must be
very difficult for Planned Parenthood to harvest baby eyes from these non-baby
entities. The doctors and technicians treat the bodies deplorably, cracking
jokes and playing around with a dead human body.
While perhaps this callous treatment
is deeply wrong, some argue that using aborted fetuses for scientific research
is commendable, as it can go to cure terrible diseases like multiple sclerosis.
Thus the highly effective propaganda machine of Planned Parenthood strikes
again. First of all, Planned Parenthood is not donating fetal corpses and
organs out of the goodness of their hearts, but rather they are doing so
because the distributors promise a profit. They are not just taking enough payment
to cover the cost of storage and shipment; the office and its employees make very
good money harvesting a fetus’ organs. Making a profit from selling fetal
cadavers to science his is illegal, as is altering abortion procedures in order
to protect the baby’s organs – what
an ironic turn of events. And when the aborted infant’s organs reach one of
these researchers, this is how they use his or her brain to better our society:
“…cells were extracted from second-trimester
human fetuses (18–22 weeks gestation age) obtained at abortion. The forebrain
ventricular/subventricular zones were dissected from the brain, the samples
chilled on ice, minced and dissociated…
In both cases, to generate mice
chimeric for hGPCs, we transplanted newborn mouse pups with hGPCs isolated from
second-trimester fetal human brain tissue… cells were then delivered to the
test mice using a five site intracerebral injection protocol that targeted the
corpus callosum and cerebellar peduncle… Each mouse was transplanted with
300,000 GPCs delivered at five forebrain sites…”
“A Competitive Advantage by
Neonatally Engrafted Human Glial Progenitors Yields Mice Whose Brains Are
Chimeric for Human Glia,” 2014
The technical jargon may be overwhelming
to the average reader, so in layman’s terms scientists are injecting babies’
brain cells into mice. Tell me, does that strike you as an experiment of Dr.
Salk or Dr. Frankenstein?
Furthermore, the astute reader
likely noted the age of the aborted babies who apparently volunteered to donate
their brains to science: second trimester. And if you have read the news
recently, you may remember a woman gave birth to a 24-week old baby while on a
cruise ship, and the baby has survived. While her son was about two weeks too
old to fit into the age group of this experiment, the point is that our
medicine has come so far that a woman can give birth to a baby four months
early and it can live. In 2011 a baby was born in Germany
at 21 weeks – within the age of the babies killed and dissected for the above
experiment – and survived. The babies
used in this study could have survived outside of the womb.
My point in sharing these stories
is a simple one. Healthcare is defined as “the maintenance and improvement of
physical and mental health, especially through the provision of medical
services.” Using this definition, how can we truly say that supporting Planned
Parenthood is supporting women’s healthcare? I doubt the women who say they
stand with Planned Parenthood are aware that this agency underserves the female
population, mutilates their biological offspring, and sells their sons and
daughters’ harvested organs to scientists so they can play around with
human-mouse hybrids. Before you stand with Planned Parenthood, take a seat and
do some reading on their version of women’s healthcare. No woman should be
treated so terribly, be she the mother or the fetus.
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