Pro-life vid of day: PP prez compares abortion to colonoscopy
by Hans Johnson
Bill Moyers (pictured right), former press secretary for President Lyndon Johnson and long-time PBS host, interviewed Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards regarding the recent Supreme Court decision to strike down a Massachusetts law mandating a 35-foot buffer zone for protesters at abortion clinics.
Perhaps the lowlight of the discussion resulted from the pro-choice insistence of hiding abortion behind any and all health issues. Richards said:
… [I]t is the right of women in this country to be able to access healthcare that they need without harassment and without the advice of dozens of people outside their health center. I mean, can you imagine if, you know, if men in this country, before going into their doctor had to walk through a gauntlet of protesters telling them, you know, whether it’s not to get a colonoscopy or just go down the list? It’s incredible.
How offensive. Not only has Ms. Richards deceived the public about Planned Parenthood’s cancer-screening methods, she now also equates opposition to the taking of lives through abortion to the opposition of procedures that save lives.
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Oh i got a bit of a laugh out of this one! I guess the root canal wasnt working anymore. Twisted logic. Would you say that having your leg amputated to having a wart removed?
Oops meant would you say having your leg amputated was like having a wart removed? No other procedure kills a human being except abortion! Blob of tissue product of conception….it doesnt work but if they are so big on aborton without apology just say abortion is a unique procedure that is in a class of its own.
You know…
I’ve been pregnant three times.
And my husband is a colon cancer survivor. An early colonoscopy literally saved his life because it found his cancer.
I can’t even wrap my head around the fact that someone would be such an offensive idiot as to compare the suctioning and dismemberment of a growing human being to the screening for and removal of a cancerous polyp.
She has given away her true views here. Instead of being a reasonable “women’s health provider,” this shows that she really does view the preborn as nothing more than tumors that need to be cut out.
Underneath her smiling, blonde exterior, she’s Amanda Marcotte.
Ive had 2 D&Cs to remove uterine polyps. After it was over I got dressed and left. Nothing to cry about. Just glad it was over.
God bless your husband Kel. Colon cancer killed my dad in 96.
I actually find this offensive but then again since when has the abortion industry ever care about facts or offending people.
A free mammogram? As a 14 yr pt of PP they never gave me a mammogram. Id get my Depo and pay my office visit fee. If youre buyin theyre lyin!
So does it violate someone’s rights when they have a picture of a mostly naked woman with a phone number attached or a Chick tract handed to them as they’re walking the Vegas strip?
Cecile Richards undergoes a colonoscopy whenever she needs to get a headache treated.
Richards tries to explain her point by saying a colonoscopy is equivalent to an abortion – by assuming they are both healthcare.
But this serves to make their rhetoric more obvious. A colonoscopy is healthcare.
Healthcare is something done to prevent disease or illness, cure disease or illness, or ameliorate disease or illness.
A colonoscopy fits this definition: as people testify oin comments here, a colonoscopy is performed to detect colon cancer, or precursor polyps of colon cancer, in order to prevent or treat colon cancer.
In these “healthcare” rhetoric messages, no one ever says what illness is prevented, cured, or ameliorated.
Just because an abortion is performed by someone with MD after their name, and in a clinic, and someone gets billed for this, does not make this healthcare.
Cosmetic surgery is not healthcare, but is done by medical doctors, in a clinic, and someone gets billed. It is a medical procedure, but it is not medical care.
This is the corresponding analogy, not colonoscopy.
An abortion is a medical procedure performed for a lifestyle preference reason: I am pregnant but do not want to get involved in having and raising a child.
Choosing to not have a child is a lifestyle choice, like choosing to go to college, or choosing to change your hairdo, or get a tattoo, or to get a Harley and cruise around on the weekends, or to have an “open marriage.”
Very well put the last Dem!
And of course nobody would protest a colonoscopy or the removal of a uterine nasal or colon polyp. Because NONE of them KILL a human being! Duh! My polyps caused my hemoglobin to drop and I became anemic. I now take iron. And I didnt recognize Richards at all. Is she morphing into a demon? Her face is starting to shrivel or something.