'Abortion is healthcare': The Left's new pseudoscience doublespeak

Monday, November 30, 2015 by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer
Tags: Planned Parenthood, women''s healthcare, organ harvesting

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(NaturalNews) Now that the eye-opening, undercover Center for Medical Progress (CMP) videos exposing Planned Parenthood for illegally selling aborted baby body parts have had a chance to circulate throughout the world to millions of people, the abortion industry is attempting a new tactic in defense of its baby-murdering tactics.

Ending the lives of unborn children, stated Planned Parenthood head Cecile Richards recently before a House Oversight Committee, is perfectly in line with American values because it's nothing more than standard "healthcare," she claimed. She also defended the abortion mill's organ harvesting procedures, which violate federal law, claiming that they, too, are just another compassionate form of modern medicine.

Richards, responding to a proposed bill that would strip Planned Parenthood of taxpayer funding, told legislators that she wasn't aware of what was happening at many of her franchise locations, where undercover video footage exposed Planned Parenthood workers callously negotiating the prices of aborted baby body parts over wine and caviar.

Cecile Richards lies under oath to protect her $600,000 annual salary from scrutiny

Richards also made other dubious claims in defense of her organization's practices, including that abortions represent only 3 percent of Planned Parenthood's total operations. Even the left-leaning Washington Post news outlet, through its "Fact Checker" arm, gave this claim "three Pinocchios" for being patently false.

Independent analysis shows that Planned Parenthood spends an astounding 86 percent of the funds its receives on abortions, exposing Richards, who profits to the tune of $600,000 annually from Planned Parenthood, for being a baby-murdering liar of the highest order.

Richards was also quick to defend her colleagues who were seen in the undercover CMP videos laughing over a glass of Pinot Noir about the money they were making from selling baby organs. "It's a boy!" chuckled on Planned Parenthood worker as she showed whom she believed to be a potential client a Petri dish full of bloody baby body parts.

Without federal funding and illegal sales of baby body parts, Planned Parenthood would go under

These horrific CMP videos, claimed Richards, were somehow taken out of context. And her organization did nothing wrong, she added, blatantly lying under oath about the fact that Planned Parenthood illegally extracts baby body parts "intact" as "fine specimens" in order to resell them to biotechnology research groups.

"No matter what her spin, Cecile Richards' words can't take back what high-ranking officials at Planned Parenthood already said when they didn't realize they were being recorded," wrote Lila Rose, president of the pro-life advocacy group Live Action, in a letter to Breitbart News. "The undercover video footage is undeniable, and it shows Planned Parenthood violating at least three federal laws in its criminal baby organ-harvesting operation."

"Planned Parenthood admits on video they put profits over their clients' health by subjecting women to longer, more dangerous abortion procedures to harvest more intact baby organs to sell."

Despite Richards' best attempts to defend her organization's illegal operations, the fix is already in. People aren't buying the rhetoric, and Planned Parenthood is quickly losing its support base, including from longtime abortion advocates who are disgusted with what they've seen in the CMP videos.

"Watching Ms. Richards, and her allies in the room who parroted Planned Parenthood talking points, was sickening and disheartening," added Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, in a statement to Breitbart News. "They are actively deceiving the American public and the taxpayers who are subsidizing a possible criminal enterprise."

Sources for this article include:

Breitbart.com

CenterforMedicalProgress.org

TheHill.com