Planned Parenthood representatives took to the stage at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on Wednesday after one of the corporation’s affiliates offered free abortion and vasectomies for two days, about a mile from the United Center in downtown Chicago. The corporation’s current president and CEO — Alexis McGill Johnson — along with its former president, Cecile Richards, spoke about abortion as freedom and attempted to dishonestly justify the mass slaughtering of preborn children.
‘Our future is on the ballot. Our bodies are on the ballot.’
McGill Johnson began her two-minute speech by discussing an alleged Planned Parenthood patient in Georgia, whom she claimed wanted an abortion — but the state’s law protects preborn children beginning at about six weeks. It is unclear at what point the woman visited Planned Parenthood, but it’s clear that none of the abortion facilities she entered offered her any actual support.
“Last summer, a Planned Parenthood patient in Georgia realized that she was pregnant and didn’t want to be, but Georgia bans abortion after six weeks. So she drove to South Carolina but arrived the day that their six-week ban went into effect. She went back home and then went to Florida, but she arrived just days when she was too late under their ban. She had to fly all the way to California to get an abortion. Now remember each time she had to get the money up, she had to miss work, she had to find childcare,” said McGill Johnson.
Hmm. It’s very interesting that the woman apparently received no support from Planned Parenthood — oddly, not even help obtaining the abortion. Very odd, indeed, considering that the corporation has information on its website about how to get funding to go to another state (ARC Southeast is recommended for Georgia residents; abortion seekers are asked to call to learn “where to receive financial help with travel costs and abortion costs”). Despite the pro-abortion promise of funding to help women get abortions, it seems the woman McGill Johnson mentioned was sent from facility to facility, where she received no actual support to help her keep her baby.
It’s in stark contrast to the pro-life movement’s efforts to help women in crisis. A story shared this week on Facebook by Scott Hord noted that a couple had driven four hours to have an abortion, and was warned by the abortion business to avoid the pro-life man (Hord) who was be outside. Instead, the couple spoke to him and chose not to abort.
“We celebrated by buying the mama some roses and gave them a $200 gift card to go back home. They were so happy when they left they were rejoicing and thanking me for being there. Can’t wait for the baby shower!” wrote Hord.
They drove four hours to abort their child. The facility sent them a text before they got here that said don’t stop and talk to the guy at the entrance. They ignored that text and talk to me and here we are 45 minutes later and a child from West Tennessee is going to live! We… pic.twitter.com/I1AWF7bPBN
— Scott Hord (@ScottHord74014) August 22, 2024
In her speech, McGill Johnson continued perpetuated the lie that pro-life laws prevent pregnant women from receiving emergency care. This has proven to be false with every such claim made. “Now imagine if this was an emergency situation,” she said. “In Texas, doctors who have feared going to jail have sent patients to wait in hospital parking lots rather than provide the emergency care they need, and in Idaho they have airlifted patients to other states.”
But here’s the problem: If doctors fail to provide the standard of care to pregnant women facing health emergencies, then that would amount to medical neglect, because no pro-life laws prevent doctors from providing the legitimate standard of care for women. In many women’s cases promoted by the pro-abortion media, the doctors did offer appropriate care, but it wasn’t the care the woman was expecting or desiring. Read here and here for more details.
One viral story of a woman airlifted from Ohio for care left out the fact that the woman didn’t need an abortion — preterm delivery would have been the standard of care — but when she was flown to Utah, doctors there dismembered her nearly 21-week-old preborn baby instead, and she was unaware of it until she woke up. Read more about that here.
McGill Johnson went on to proclaim the new mantra of the pro-abortion movement against children and mislead Americans on Donald Trump’s position on abortion. “We cannot call ourselves a free nation when women are not free,” she claimed. “Donald Trump wants women to be less free and pregnancy to be more dangerous.”
The idea that abortion is a simple freedom is false. No one has the freedom to kill innocent human beings. And killing can never be truly ‘safe’.
McGill Johnson concluded her speech by saying, “We trust women. We trust doctors. And we trust Kamala Harris! Our future, our future is on the ballot. Our bodies are on the ballot, and come November 5, we will decide this election.”
But abortion — the intentional killing of human beings not yet born — is a direct attack on the future of America. It ends the lives of approximately 2,800 innocent children a day — deaths from which Planned Parenthood financially benefits.
‘A generation of young people lost freedom’
Richards took the stage and also claimed abortion is nothing more than a woman’s freedom. She also compared supporting Kamala Harris to supporting female Olympic athletes.
“These last few weeks have been a celebration of women, from cheering on Team USA to supporting Kamala Harris for President,” she said. “As my mother, Governor Ann Richards, would say, ‘I hear America singing when women are free to make their own decisions about their lives and to follow our dreams, we are unstoppable.’ But when Roe vs Wade was overturned, a generation of young people lost that freedom, like Ashley, a 12-year-old rape survivor in Mississippi. Because of her state’s abortion ban, she started seventh grade with a newborn. That’s the Republican promise of states’ rights.”
A law protecting an innocent child from a targeted death by abortion is not what caused young Ashley to become pregnant and give birth. A rapist did that and he should be the one to pay the price. An abortion would have created a second victim.
But Richards and abortion advocates would rather discuss the death of a preborn child as a “solution” to rape than discuss stricter punishments for sexual offenders and better protections for survivors.
Richards then used her own daughter and grandson to promote abortion. “Last year, I became a grandmother,” she said, “and during my daughter’s pregnancy, nothing mattered more to me than her health.” It’s nearly impossible to believe that a grandmother wouldn’t care about her grandchild growing inside of her daughter or that this baby’s health and well-being didn’t matter to her. However, 10 years ago, Richards claimed that the question of when life begins “isn’t relevant” but that in her personal opinion, her children’s lives began “when I delivered them.” To advocate for abortion often means to deny the humanity of children in the womb and to wrongly believe that life begins at birth.
Richards concluded, “One day our children and grandchildren may ask us, ‘When it was all on the line, what did you do?’ And the only acceptable answer is, ‘Everything we could.’ This is our time. This is our time. So let’s go elect Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.”
It’s hard to believe that Richards can even discuss children and grandchildren asking their parents and grandparents about fighting for the right to have killed them in the womb. She and the rest of the pro-abortion movement have fought hard to silence the voices of preborn children targeted by abortion, as well as the voices of abortion survivors — outright denying that they exist.
Planned Parenthood was created to control the population — first with birth control, and now with abortion. “Freedom” does not equate to having legal permission to kill innocent preborn children through starvation, dismemberment, or induced cardiac arrest.
