I was sitting on a plane en route to Charlotte, North Carolina, on Tuesday morning, when I heard the news: the nation’s largest abortion clinic, Planned Parenthood, had been caught on video admitting they provide aborted baby parts to third parties, including stem cell research companies. If you haven’t already done so, I strongly encourage you to watch the undercover video and hear the ghastly admissions made by one of Planned Parenthood’s top abortion hacks, Deborah Nucatola, Senior Director of Medical Services. While eating a salad and casually swirling her glass of red wine, she discusses harvesting organs and carefully dismembering babies in the same way you and I might discuss our favorite TV show.
Planned Parenthood has since released statements that are typical and predictable—deny, deflect, defend. Here is a partial transcript of how they responded:
“In health care, patients sometimes want to donate tissue to scientific research that can help lead to medical breakthroughs, such as treatments and cures for serious diseases. Women at Planned Parenthood who have abortions are no different. At several of our health centers, we help patients who want to donate tissue for scientific research, and we do this just like every other high-quality health care provider does — with full, appropriate consent from patients and under the highest ethical and legal standards. There is no financial benefit for tissue donation for either the patient or for Planned Parenthood. In some instances, actual costs, such as the cost to transport tissue to leading research centers, are reimbursed, which is standard across the medical field.”
This breaking story perfectly illustrates what I’ve been discussing in my most recent blog series, Discrimination: The Most Hated People Group in America. In it, I make the case that our society hates preborn children. Why do I say that?
1. If we discovered that families were killing their two-year-olds and donating or selling their organs to benefit scientific research, how would America respond? I suspect the entire country would rise up as one voice and work together to stop the killing.
Will our country finally be so horrified at this latest atrocity that we rise up en masse to protect the preborn?
Seriously—is this the first time Planned Parenthood has been caught doing something nefarious? Remember the exposé that showed how Planned Parenthood turned a blind eye to sex-selection abortions, or the video investigations showing Planned Parenthood workers willingly aiding and abetting sex trafficking of minor girls?
Uncovering the abortion industry’s ongoing, horrific, and logic-defying activities is a full-time job for several courageous organizations. And there have been some great successes in shutting down abortion clinics and bringing into question the actions of the abortion giant. But Planned Parenthood still kills over 300,000 preborn children a year, and they receive a large portion of their funding from our tax dollars. They continue to infiltrate public schools, churches, and our communities with their immoral programs, while fulfilling Founder Margaret Sanger’s racist, eugenics vision. And on the whole, our society allows it.
Source: CNSNews.com
Would we take immediate and final action if two-year-olds were being killed instead? Of course we would. Why don’t we now? Because our society considers preborn children to be worthless.
Why should we be shocked at this latest video? Planned Parenthood’s immoral action and our society’s apathy are both normal aspects of American life.
2. Look carefully at Planned Parenthood’s statement. Do you notice how they once again make abortion (and the selling of organs) about the woman? I wrote about this marketing method of theirs earlier this week. They claim the mothers all sign off on the donation of organs from their aborted babies, thus the practice is ethical and appropriate. Yet once again, they ignore the willful killing of the child (in some cases, possibly through the illegal practice of partial-birth abortion), and they place all of the attention on the woman. They relentlessly and successfully dupe the American people into viewing their heinous practices as “a woman’s right.” There may be no greater example of the Power Group ignoring and rejecting the Victim Group than harvesting the Victim Group’s organs.
3. Planned Parenthood then uses its bully pulpit to tell us we are foolish. Note another portion of Planned Parenthood’s response in defense of its actions:
“A well funded group established for the purpose of damaging Planned Parenthood’s mission and services has promoted a heavily edited, secretly recorded videotape that falsely portrays Planned Parenthood’s participation in tissue donation programs that support lifesaving scientific research. Similar false accusations have been put forth by opponents of abortion services for decades. These groups have been widely discredited and their claims fall apart on closer examination, just as they do in this case.”
According to Planned Parenthood, the anti-abortion groups are lying, previous similar actions have been discredited, and Planned Parenthood’s selling of aborted babies’ organs is justified because it supports lifesaving research.
When you are the Power Group and you have money, influence, and media relationships to craft your own version of truth, you can simply bury the real truth under well-funded marketing slogans and press releases.
When a society hates a Victim Group, they will ignore even the most graphic evils inflicted on the Victim Group. Will we ignore yet another awful example of the 42-year history of fatal violence against the weakest and most innocent among us?
I’m encouraged that this story is getting traction and that investigations into Planned Parenthood have been promised. Let’s pray the number of abortions performed in our country is drastically reduced as a result. And kudos to the brave folks who uncovered this story.
But until we, as a society, finally extend the same code of justice and ethical treatment to the preborn that we reserve for ourselves, this story will simply fade away, and we will remain a culture that hates our own preborn children.
What can you do to help stop this? Help save babies.
We reach scared and vulnerable mothers and fathers who are searching the Internet for abortion-related terms, and we connect them with a nearby life-affirming pregnancy center where they are given a choice they might not know they have: to save the life of their child.
Does it work? Yes. In fact, our approach has helped save more than 3,000 babies from abortion. They now have names, families, hope, and a future very different from one in which they are killed and their organs are harvested for the purposes of furthering research and financial gain.
Supporters of Human Coalition often tell me they had no idea they could do something to help stop abortion. That’s why I’m writing to you today—to let you know that you can change the future of a preborn child and help save a life. Will you?
I tried to read the whole thing. But it’s all just repetitive nonsense. With everything that’s wrong in this country you still focus on the rights for woman. We will not take a step back in time. We are also not killing 2 year olds for parts! You also receive… Read more »
When I saw this video on TV and heard plan parenthood say this was needed to advance research, it brought back an echo from the past, memories of what I learned about WWII. I recalled how the Jewish twins that were perceived as worthless and disposable were experimented on In… Read more »
Hi Brian, Thanks for sharing this story. I’m a “liberal” and not Christian. But I value life very strongly. I am anti-war, against the death penalty (except in extreme cases). I am greatly bothered by factory farming and how animals are treated before being killed for human consumption. This video… Read more »
Christopher – excellent points, insights, and questions. I deal with this subject in some detail in Deliver Us From Abortion, which you can download for free here if you want to check it out. I suspect we have more in common than not. As Christians, we are called to be… Read more »
Brian, great points. I’m learning a lot by reading your posts. This senator has taken a perspective that is similar to yours, in that we are discriminating against our babies. You’ve likely already seen this, but I felt compelled to share. http://youtu.be/7bYeLo0fASU I’m thankful for you, OFL, this senator, and… Read more »
Thanks Chris, for reading the posts and we are also thankful for leaders and politicians who courageously speak up for justice for ALL.
The problem is not Planned Parenthood, the problem is the women who decide that abortion is the answer for their situation. Planned Parenthood helped me in a very positive way with my unplanned pregnancy. They were extremely helpful in supplying agencies that could help me bring my baby to term… Read more »
Chris – thanks for commenting and very thoughtful points. Here’s where I agree and disagree: 1. I wouldn’t say that Planned Parenthood is 100% bad, and I’m glad they helped you through a difficult situation. They are, however, the country’s leading abortion provider and advocate sexual lifestyles leading to abortion… Read more »
I totally agree and more. Having done outreach on the streets of the Washington, D.C. metro area for four years, I can attest to the lack of value Americans on pre-born children. It gets more disturbing when you show Americans images of abortion victims up to 22 weeks and they… Read more »
Women seek abortions because these clinics are readily available. Take away the Clinics and you will see how women will have no choice, but to keep their babies or give them for adoption. Abortion at that point would be illegal, so the amount of babies saved, would be thousands. Now… Read more »
Fascinating point that is generally contradicted by claiming that women will always want abortions and will go to “back alley doctors” or do the abortion at home if there are no “safe” clinics. However I think you are correct. Most families abort because they do not take the time to… Read more »
That’s just disturbing. I noticed she used all the technical jargon to keep her conscience from bothering her while she ate. I’m hoping and praying that Planned Parenthood gets busted for their “behind closed doors” deals. Makes me sick that my tax money goes there, but I know there’s no… Read more »
Believing there is a God or revering God, does not of itself make the believer a good person. It is only the love of God that produces results. If as Jesus exhorted, one should love God “with all thy heart and all thy soul and all thy strength and with… Read more »
Very true, which is why the abortion rate inside the church is very similar to the rate outside the church.
Where do you get your statistics, Brian? What range of belief is included in that “in the church” statistic you quote? What is called “the church” in today’s world is a lot of different things. Let’s all agree on our terms before we can have a rational discussion. Do you… Read more »
Jonathan- you can download the full ebook for free here (http://www.prolife.org/deliver-us-from-abortion/) and read the research that is included throughout the book. Also you can see the doctrinal positions about life from most major denominations here: http://www.deliverusfromabortion.com/research.htm. Many denominations no longer hold to the authenticity of Scripture, that is certainly true.… Read more »
How sad. Thanks for your good work, Brian. I still think many church leaders are selling out to the expediency of avoiding confrontation with the culture. It’s happened before and it will happen again as long as we have only humans to put in positions of authority of the earthly… Read more »
I disagree. These women have made Jesus Christ into their own image, i.e., an idol. They don’t truly believe in Jesus Christ. If they did, they would not destroy another human made in His image and likeness. Moreover, I used to claim to know and believe in God while committing… Read more »
I really resonate with your points, Jennifer. We do not become sinless, however, when we follow Christ. Abortion is a sin and can still be committed (and is committed) by people who follow Christ. I know several of them who did just that and that data proves that is occurs… Read more »
I believe our Lord does answer the question of abortion clearly in our commandments. God says,”thou shalt not kill”. Having an abortion is just that. I mean it’s a life not a choice!!! It is one of God’s most awesome miracles and it is just horrible how people just “dispose”… Read more »
Oops. “Metaxas.” Sorry.
No, I would think there is a strong distinction, just as with divorce, if you control for evangelical vs. “mainline” churches in those statistics. It is frequently the case that the part of the “church” that has turned their back on the traditional mission of the church and the Holy-Spirit-inspired… Read more »
I am definitely pro- law and don’t want to judge anyone who has had an abortion, but I don’t understand why women wait so long- when their babies have developed and are already moving with a heartbeat and all. I mean, abortion is wrong, and I don’t want to get… Read more »
I don’t know why they do it all, let alone wait so long. I think it’s due to an inability to gather their goals in life, pressure from the father or family members to go the “easy route,” most are unmarried and can’t financially support themselves let alone a child.… Read more »
Denial, indecision and then they do it out of desperation. They feel alone and have no where to turn. They think its their only option. I was that girl. Fortunately for me someone stepped in and gave me another option, continued encouragement and help. so I could keep and raise… Read more »
This shows how very close Planned Parenthood is to cannibalism. With their record of breaking every Law of Leviticus, the butchers murdering children who actually try to fight by moving away from the forceps, will all suffer greatly in their time of death. Amen
Majority Of people who go to church are not Christian but just to be entertained and lift THEMSELVES up to feel good, most have no issue with the slaughter of their own child in the womb because they are either ignorant or just extremely selfish. They are among us but… Read more »
Where can I write my congressman that funds given to planned parenthood in excess of 5m would be better spent serving the poor or reducing our nations debt. Appalling
Just write to him (or her). Taxation/ spending related matters are supposed to originate in the House (don’t get me started talking about the Abominable “Care” Act), so, contact your representative. Use Google or any search tool. Call, write, fax, visit &/ or email your rep. Actually, not one cent… Read more »
These people don’t believe in God or they wouldn’t be doing this.
I wish that were true. Many people who believe in God abort their children. In fact the abortion rate is about the same inside the church as outside. They believe in God, though they don’t know what He says about abortion, life, and love. Many Christians go to Planned Parenthood… Read more »
Brian, I agree much work needs to be done. We need for the Heartbeat Bill to pass!!!
Try the Ten Commandments about THOU SHALL NOT KILL, I don’t believe that as many Christians are having abortions as none Church people. Liberals are the ones who are encouraging this by lying themselves about where and why it’s happening. Liberals only believe in life if they can actually talk… Read more »
Check out http://www.deliverusfromabortion.com. Unfortunately the abortion rate inside the church is very high, even in evangelical circles. Because the majority of the church is silent on abortion, many church goers are having abortions out of ignorance or lack of proper counsel.
It’s true. There are far too many Christians-in-name-only in this country who’ve bought into the “live and let live” mentality, which is why atrocities like abortion not only happen around them, but often happen to them. When I was on Facebook, I followed a pro-life woman who used to be… Read more »
>90% of abortions committed are human sacrifice. How does the butcher in this video eat lunch while discussing the most gruesome acts imaginable? What’s next–sell babies–and elderly, crippled, mentally retarded, insane, and criminals–and maybe conservatives–as food?