Cecile Richards says Hillary Clinton will “stand up for abortion”

On Tuesday, Planned Parenthood boss Cecile Richards addressed the Democrat National Convention, and it was everything you’d expect: hiding the violence of abortion in flowery rhetoric about “women’s care,” lavishing praise upon Hillary Clinton, and fear-mongering about the consequences of defunding her organization.

Richards:

Some reactions have hailed Richards for her supposed “candor” of being one of the few to utter the word abortion at the convention, but don’t buy it. Hers is nothing more than masking abortion in euphemisms, when the truth is that this “care” means taking away children’s opportunity to “live their lives,” imposing far harsher, more final “limits” or “ceilings” on their dreams—like being incinerated, flushed down the drain, taken away in a medical waste truck, or tossed in a dumpster.

True. But y’know what else is a human right? The right not to be killed just because somebody else decides they’d be better off without you existing. Unfortunately, that’s what Clinton and Richards really mean by their euphemisms: trampling on the right to life of millions of humans, at any stage of development.

Only if by “champion” you mean someone who tells them they and their societies can’t advance without embracing abortion.

Good news! They already are.

Nobody’s against either of those; some of us just want to be careful not to hurt the women we’re trying to help by trying to micromanage them through government.

As we’ve been covering, Kaine was never really much of a pro-lifer. But it is fascinating that Richards thinks he still qualified as a “champion for women and families” during the parts of his career where he supported things like parental notification and banning late-term abortion—y’know, the same policies that Richards and her ilk claim make you a sexist Neanderthal for supporting today…

Richards is purposefully vague about what Planned Parenthood actually did here, so we turn to Farris-Fisher’s column last fall. Did Planned Parenthood do her mammogram? No, Richards finally admitted last year her organization doesn’t do those. Further diagnostic testing? Nope.

Turns out that “Vivian” helped her obtain financial assistance for the testing and make sure she was scheduled for the right tests. Valuable work, to be sure, but let’s remember that after defunding Planned Parenthood, that money would still go to support and expand those same services through less controversial providers. Let’s keep in mind that if women like Dayna really were Planned Parenthood’s highest priority, they would have stopped murdering children long ago, eliminating objections to their tax funding almost overnight.

Something that (a) the vast majority of pro-lifers oppose, (b) Trump admitted was a misstatement just hours later, and (c) Trump in all likelihood never actually believed and recklessly said solely because he thoughtlessly assumed it’s what pro-lifers wanted to hear. The incident certainly reflects poorly on Trump, but not for Richards’ nonsensical, opportunistic spin that he’d actually lock women up.

A comment Trump made way back in 2004, during his “very pro-choice” days (he flipped roughly around 2011). PolitiFact admits they “were unable to find any additional comments made by Trump about women employees becoming pregnant.” So really, Richards is simply highlighting what was at the time the musing of a fellow abortion ally.

Gee, it’s almost as if what Cecile Richards decides to say has more to do with what’s politically useful to present the abortion industry as heroic underdogs rather than what’s true.