NOTE: Readers may require a barf bag to get through this post. If you’re on an airplane, check the seatback pocket in front of you. If you’re anywhere else … good luck.
What do you think of when you hear the word “magical”? Childlike wonder? Fairy dust? Unicorns? Santa Claus? Disneyland? Narnia?
How about abortion?
No? Well, writer Shelby Hodge disagrees with you. In a fawning article for Culturebeat Houston, she recently covered Planned Parenthood of the Gulf Coast’s annual fundraising gala, giving her piece the unbelievably adulating title, “Magical Planned Parenthood gala transcends party lines and raises $1.3 million.”
Magical and transcendent aren’t words I’d personally use to describe an abortion fundraiser, but maybe I’m missing something here. Let’s read on.
“For as much as a year, Planned Parenthood gala chairs Kathryn Rabinow and her daughter, Sarah Rabinow Pesikoff, have been working to take the annual fundraiser beyond the political arena, to transform what could have been a long night of speechifying and paddle raising into a delightful fundraising cash cow. Their success could hardly have been greater,” Hodge wrote.
“In an auspicious spin on the evening's theme, ‘For a Million Women, For a Million Reasons,’ the gala raised $1.3 million,” Hodge added. “The 400 guests in the ballroom at the Hilton Americas-Houston welcomed the news with huge applause.”
Come on, Hodge. Admit it. You cribbed this straight from a Planned Parenthood press release. Surely that’s the only explanation for the self-consciously aggrandizing word choices, here. “An auspicious spin on the evening’s theme?” Really?
Hodge also quoted Rabinow, who told her, “We are showing that people care about Planned Parenthood, that they want to support the health care services of Planned Parenthood.”
Ah, yes. The much-vaunted “health care services” of Planned Parenthood. Like its non-existent mammograms and cancer screenings? Face it, Planned Parenthood really only does two things: abort babies and hand out abortifacient, cancer-causing “birth control” pills and devices.
Rabinow alluded to as much when she told Hodge: “This is not a partisan project. [The attendees, some of whom were Republican legislators] know that by supporting women, they are supporting families and the structure of families.”
Got that? The “structure of families.” Ultimately, Planned Parenthood is in the business of preventing births, by any means necessary.
Not pregnant? They’ll sell you a pill or an implant to render you sterile. Pregnant already? They can fix that, too – either via drug-induced miscarriage, or by dismembering your baby and sucking the parts out with a vacuum.
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Rabinow’s falsely pro-family language echoes a larger trend within the pro-abortion movement to move away from the “pro-choice” label and toward a narrative that portrays so-called “abortion care” as a pro-woman, pro-life choice.
“Abortion … saves lives,” claimed National Organization for Women (NOW) president Terry O’Neill in a May 2014 article for the Huffington Post. In it, she cynically argued that the solution to infant mortality rates is to abort high-risk poor or sick babies before they have a chance to be born, and thus be counted amongst the lost.
Meanwhile Julie Burkhart, who recently re-opened the notorious late-term abortionist George Tiller’s infamous Kansas clinic, told Mother Jones that “abortion care” is “all about motherhood.”
“Abortion is about motherhood, because by and large women coming in to have abortions are concerned about the kind of life and the future for their children,” Burkhart said. “Women are thinking in a very responsible manner when choosing [abortion].”
Right. Of course. Because nothing says, “I love you, my child” like poisoning or dismemberment.
*Note to self: Purchase barf bags for the office.