For some, it's a horror beyond belief — not that Planned Parenthood dismembers unborn babies and sells their body parts, but that pop culture might turn against the abortion industry for it.
For some, the biting caricature run Tuesday by the satire website The Onion hit a little too close to home.
The website posted an article entitled, “Defunded Planned Parenthood Reassures Supporters It Has Enough Fetus Cash To Keep Going.”
The author attributes a faux quotation to Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards: “Lawmakers remain determined to deny reproductive health care to women in need, and if not for our golden baby-parts goose, they well may have succeeded. But rest assured that with our mad stacks of aborted-fetus bucks, the future of Planned Parenthood is as secure as ever.”
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The story concludes, “Richards added that even as she was speaking, Planned Parenthood employees were busy squeezing some extra green out of whatever embryos they had left in the back.”
Some of its readers took to Twitter to register their outrage:
@TheOnion Was that realy necessary? Have you sold out to Drudge Report?
— Gene Starwind (@Gene_Starwind) October 20, 2015
Another wrote:
@TheOnion not funny. Unfollow.
— Beverly Bullock (@bcbnyc1) October 20, 2015
And thus they brought to life a quotation from The Simpsons: “Rest assured that I was on internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world.”
Curiously, the Left had no problem with The Daily Show mocking Alabama's law appointing a lawyer to represent the interests of unborn children. Or Daniel Tosh – whose sister-in-law, Jenna Tosh, is CEO of a Planned Parenthood affiliate – caricaturing sidewalk counselors as hate-strewing monsters. Or George Carlin's belittling of pro-life women's physical appearance. Or any of pop culture's other innumerable assaults against pro-life advocates over decades.
But one joke on the other side? That's too much.
They seem awfully sensitive about Planned Parenthood's image – which is sort of ironic, considering how insensitive they are about human life.
H/T: Twitchy.
