She Got It Half Right

In discussing an article written By Jonathan Martin, “Boston Kathy” made this comment:

The Obama camp is extremist on the issue of abortion. They miss the point that while many are Pro-Choice…no one is Pro-Abortion. That they would try to politicize and victim of rape is disgusting.

The first half is correct: the Obama camp is extremist (and even that word is too kind) on the abortion issue. The second half is wrong, though. There are lots of people who are not pro-choice, but who are, rather, pro-abortion. I discussed this in an earlier post, for example (A New Media Low: Targeting Trig). Perhaps the biggest pro-abortion group (in every sense of the word), is Planned Parenthood, sarcasticly but aptly refered to as Planned Barrenhood. Planned Parenthood, ostensibly “the nation’s leading sexual and reproductive health care advocate and provider,” is really more about Profit than Parenthood, as the former is usually the only thing that comes of the organization. Don’t believe me? Look here, here, here here and here, and that’s just for starters.

Note the dollar figures. In 2007, Planned Parenthood earned over $1 billion in revenues. That’s a “b.” In 2006, they recorded a profit of $112 million, with an astounding $336 million of that coming from tax payer funds.  That’s our money they’re using to turn a profit. Some people, like the authors mentioned above, are pro-abortion in at least some cases because the “should-be” aborted would be a burden.  Others, like Planned Parenthood, are pro-abortion because they’re making a killing.  In every sense of the word.