Planned Parenthood president: Women need abortion for Valentine’s Day

Planned Parenthood’s gone and done it again.

Remember this crude and desperate ad campaign by the abortion giant?

Or this horribly insane one?

Well, now, in supposed honor of women and Valentine’s Day, Planned Parenthood’s president, Cecile Richards, has posted a video about #WhatWomenNeed. And apparently, women need “safe, legal abortions” and, of course, “Planned Parenthood.”

I know that Cecile Richards brings up more than “abortion” here. But the thing is, we all agree on the rest. (As long as we’re talking about birth control that prevents pregnancy, not the kinds that end the life of an already developing baby. See the comments for more on this.)

Okay, rabbit trails aside, the true love that Valentine’s Day should represent is pushed to the side by claiming that women need abortion. Safe, dangerous, legal, illegal, white scrubs, back-alley – women don’t need any of it.

I am not empowered as a woman through the blood of my child. I am not more of a woman; I am not more free; I do not have more rights; I do not have more control of my life because I am allowed to tell a doctor that he can tear apart my child piece by piece. (That’s what D&E abortions do – common procedure in the U.S.)

Allowing a doctor to suck my baby’s spine into a suction tube and smash her skull through the power of this same suction is also not empowering. (That’s what suction, vacuum, and aspiration abortions do – probably the most common type of all, performed in the first trimester. You can watch a video here.)

In a chilling – but entirely true – account of a “safe and legal abortion,” former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson describes a suction abortion she witnessed. (You really should read the full account here.)

Abortion is never “safe” for the babies who die every day. (Neither is it painless or without fear – read the description under that video.) And causing harm to our children – and ourselves – is never, never what women need.