Planned Parenthood

Seriously? Marcotte Compares Planned Parenthood Abortions to Strawberries
By Sarah Stites | August 4, 2015 | 2:27 PM EDT

How dehumanized have abortion’s most rabid defenders become? This afternoon, abortion apologist Amanda Marcotte, a radical feminist writer for RawStory, made the ultimate in frivolous – not to mention idiotic – analogies. She tweeted: “Hating PPFA is, in this sense, no different that getting mad that someone uses food stamps to buy strawberries.” 

This, in the face of the latest video showing Planned Parenthood executives discussing selling aborted baby parts (and PP workers picking through fetal remains like butchers) is almost unimaginable moral obtuseness.

GMA: No Time for Planned Parenthood Vote; 18 Minutes to Boy Band
By Scott Whitlock | August 4, 2015 | 11:48 AM EDT

ABC's Good Morning America on Tuesday completely ignored the Senate's vote on Planned Parenthood, yet devoted 18 minutes of air time to boy band One Direction. Only CBS This Morning bothered with the Republican effort to defund the abortion group, allowing a meager 25 seconds. Even in that scant amount of time, co-host Norah O'Donnell managed to spin the undercover footage of the organization in a friendly way: "The health provider is under fire for the way it gives fetal tissue to medical researchers."

Andrea Mitchell Acts as Doormat for Planned Parenthood President
By Jeffrey Meyer | August 3, 2015 | 2:41 PM EDT

On Monday, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell hosted Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards for a friendly interview to help the nation’s largest abortion provider defend itself from recent criticism over the alleged sale of fetal body parts for profit. Throughout the interview, the MSNBC host repeatedly stressed how four videos that showed Planned Parenthood employees discussing the sale of fetal body parts were “edited” and [t]aken out of context” and never truly questioned the practice done by the organization.

CNN’s Cuomo Clashes with GOP Rep. on Defunding Planned Parenthood; ‘You Shouldn’t Rush to Defund’
By Curtis Houck | August 3, 2015 | 12:39 PM EDT

Monday’s New Day on CNN saw a continuation of the program’s defense of Planned Parenthood from its video scandal and the efforts in Congress to defund the abortion provider as co-host Chris Cuomo sparred with Republican Congresswoman Diane Black (Tenn.) about the “rush to defund” them over that he claimed “has long been legal and is certainly not cause for outrage or at least hasn't been until now.”

MSNBC Pundit: Planned Parenthood Fight In Congress 'Child's Play' Compared to Debt-Ceiling Debate
By Ken Shepherd | July 31, 2015 | 4:17 PM EDT

Pro-tip: When you're defending Planned Parenthood on national TV and denouncing congressional Republicans working to remove federal funding of the abortion industry's top national provider, it's probably wise NOT to dismiss the policy matter as "child's play."

CNN’s Camerota Hounds CMP Video Maker from Left; ‘Fetal Tissue Has Saved Lives’
By Curtis Houck | July 31, 2015 | 3:46 PM EDT

CNN’s New Day co-anchor Alisyn Camerota toted the line of Planned Parenthood on Friday morning concerning their baby parts scandal in a interview with video maker David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress in which the former Fox News host parroted Planned Parenthood’s denial of any wrongdoing and promoted the so-called benefits of medical research using “fetal tissue.”

Ultra-Lib Lizz Winstead ‘Will Not Cower’ to CMP’s ‘Thuggish Fetus Pornographers’
By Sarah Stites | July 31, 2015 | 11:53 AM EDT

Cosmo loves to highlight women like The Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead: sex-obsessed, profane, offensive and unabashedly pro-abortion. 

In an article published July 30, the women’s magazine lauded Winstead for potentially sacrificing her career in order to be a “USO of reproductive rights, visiting clinics and boosting the morale of the ‘troops.’” After all, her “vocal advocacy for reproductive rights can make it more difficult to get mainstream work.” Yes, you read that correctly.

Slate Writer: Planned Parenthood's Actions Are 'Commendable,' Abortion Is An 'Act of Altruism'
By Connor Williams | July 31, 2015 | 11:44 AM EDT

In a recent piece for Slate, Mark Joseph Stern argued that videos released showing Planned Parenthood to be trafficking fetal body parts gives him hope. Is it the possible defunding of the ‘reproductive health’ organization that gives him hope, you might ask? Nope. Stern opined: “The graphic images of aborted fetuses are meant to disgust me, to convince me that abortion is a barbaric act of killing. But I don’t see death in these videos. I see hope.” Later in the piece, after outlining the supposed medical benefits, he claimed abortion “is not an act of killing. It is an act of altruism.”

Planned Parenthood's Biggest Donors Gave $374 Million in Four Years
By Alatheia Larsen | July 31, 2015 | 11:16 AM EDT

In response to a series of incriminating under-cover videos from The Center for Medical Progress about the major abortion provider, organizations have been cutting ties -- or denying ties -- to Planned Parenthood. But where nonprofits are concerned, tax records keep the story straight.

Between 2010 and 2013, no fewer than 966 individual organizations donated to Planned Parenthood. Of those, 31 gave more than $1 million each during those four years, totaling $374,199,059. The seven highest donors made up $324.8 million of that.

Only CBS Highlights 'Tough, New Questions' for Planned Parenthood
By Scott Whitlock | July 31, 2015 | 11:07 AM EDT

On Friday, CBS This Morning actually highlighted the "tough, new questions" Planned Parenthood is facing, showcasing the "latest and most graphic video." ABC's Good Morning America and NBC's Today, despite a combined running time of six hours, ignored the story. This Morning Co-anchor Norah O'Donnell, in addition to showing footage, alerted, "Planned Parenthood is facing tough new questions this morning. A fourth undercover video is out, showing a doctor at the women's health provider talking about selling fetal body parts." 

NOW President: ‘Beloved’ Planned Parenthood 'Has Nothing to Apologize For’
By Curtis Houck | July 31, 2015 | 10:05 AM EDT

Continuing the effort on the now-cancelled MSNBC’s Now to defend Planned Parenthood from its video scandal, National Organization for Women President Terry O’Neill joined host Alex Wagner on Thursday to gush over how the “beloved” provider of abortions and alleged seller of body parts from aborted babies “has nothing to apologize for” and mocked female GOP senators who want to defund the taxpayer-funded group.

O’Reilly Cites ‘Very Accurate’ MRC Numbers in Planned Parenthood-Lion Coverage Comparison
By NB Staff | July 31, 2015 | 1:26 AM EDT

For the second time in a week, Fox News Channel (FNC) host Bill O’Reilly turned to statistics from the “very accurate” Media Research Center to form the basis of a segment of The O’Reilly Factor concerning the major broadcast network coverage of the Planned Parenthood scandal with Thursday’s mention comparing it with the droves of coverage given to the shooting death of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe.