Barbaric, deceitful Planned Parenthood must be stopped
Editor:
What kind of people can sit and watch videos of executives at Planned Parenthood discussing the sale of baby body parts and not be cut to the heart? Or hear these same people casually discussing how much they can get for selling these body parts? Or hear people talk about removing these babies in "a less crunchy way," in order to have a more valuable specimen? Or hear others defend this barbarism for the sake of research? Or hear women who deliver called "mothers," but what they deliver called "fetal tissue?" Or hear people outraged about a "war on women," but these same people have no feeling for the little baby girls whose body parts, such as fully developed arms with hands and fingers, are lifted by tweezers in a bloody pan at a Planned Parenthood clinic? Or hear more news coverage and more outrage over a lion killed in Africa by a rich dentist than 53 million babies that have been slaughtered in this country since 1973? Were all of those babies killed because of rape or incest? Or the life of the mother? You know that answer.
Recently, a TV talking head made the argument that, in the past, mothers and fathers would do anything to preserve the lives of their children, even die to protect them. Now, he said, we want our children to die for us, to preserve and prolong our lives. What does that say about us? Have we no conscience? Are we so morally bankrupt?
Have you ever read the quote from the German pastor, Martin Niemöller, during the holocaust? He said, "First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me."
We have an opportunity to speak out to our government to stop the funding of a barbaric practice and a deceitful organization that has been thriving for too long.
If everyone in this country were required to watch an abortion performed and to see a baby put back together afterward like a jigsaw puzzle, abortion would end overnight.
Carolyn Tinney
St. Albans