Yesterday, on July 28th, 2015 a third video was released by The Center for Medical Progress exposing Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood is having a serious PR problem at the moment.
As part of their campaign to defend the organization the president of Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards posted on July 28th, 2015 at 3:05 PM EST the following on her Facebook page:
When protesters gather outside of Planned Parenthood health centers to harass patients and their doctors, this is what they are standing in the way of:
Followed with this picture:
If one examine this carefully one would realize her argument is not without its problem.
- First off her argument is avoiding the elephant in the room: Planned Parenthood is involved with abortion, the murder of innocent lives located in the womb.
- Let’s say that all the statistics are true of services that Planned Parenthood provided in 2013. Does that mean therefore that all the murder of babies, the selling of baby body parts is ethically justifiable?
- Simply put, the Planned Parenthood president is committing the logical fallacy of red-herring.
- Sometimes the best way to address fallacious arguments is to reduce their argument to absurdity. Among other things, Nazi Germany pursued Action T4, a German domestic policy of forced euthanasia during World War 2. The program was officially implemented between 1939-1941 but Encyclopedia Britannica stated:
“While the program claimed over 70,000 victims during its two years of open operation, the killing centres murdered even more victims between the official conclusion of the program and the fall of the Nazi regime in 1945. The total number killed under the T4 Program, including this covert phase, may have reached 200,000 or more.”
Apparently Hitler’s euthanasia program faced opposition according to Wikipedia. Could you imagine if Hitler as the Chancellor of Germany were to argue just like Planned Parenthood president Richards did against those who resisted the Nazi government by appealing to the other services that the Nazis provided? Imagine Hitler giving the following speech:
“When protesters gather to harass doctors, government bureaucrats, Nazi party members and the Chancellor of Germany himself this is what they are standing in the way of: number of jobless cut from six million at the beginning of 1933, when the Nazis took power, to one million by 1936; “weekly net earnings (after tax) that rose by 22 percent;” continued and expansion of public health insurance for millions of agricultural and forestry workers, domestic servants, civil servants, the unemployed, seamen and all dependents; an anti-Tobacco government campaign that brought results in which the “average tobacco consumption per military personnel declined by 23.4% compared to the immediate pre-World War II years. The number of people who smoked 30 or more cigarettes per day declined from 4.4% to 0.3%“
Wouldn’t that be awkward! Or imagine if Hitler presented his argument with the angle that to attack his policies and organization is to attack “woman’s health:”
“When protesters gather to harass doctors, government bureaucrats, Nazi party members and the Chancellor of Germany himself this is what they are standing in the way of: an organization in which”women urged to undergo regular screenings for breast cancer,” health insurance to wives of those unemployed and “some 20,000 German women avoided lung cancer deaths, thanks to ‘Nazi paternalism, which discouraged women from smoking, often with police force.”
Calling the Nazis presentation as propaganda while affirming the same logic behind Planned Parenthood’s argument is like the pot calling the kettle black.
Thanks Jim.
The first thing i notice is an unacounted 5.2 million services. I wonder what they were.
5.2 million? That is so sad.
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You’re welcome Pastor Jim!
The sins of Planned Parenthood will find them out… it is happening before our eyes. Thanks for taking the time to bring these type of issues to our attention SJ. Lord bless.
I pray that the nation’s conscience of Christians and non-Christians would lead to the saving of lives, even if it means that all these discussion about the wickedness of Planned Parenthood means a mother who’s thinking about abortion is convicted with not doing so.
I hope at the Federal and State level there will be a defunding of Planned Parenthood.
I hope that there will be many more Abby Johnsons out there, who work at Planned Parenthood and come to term what they are doing and get out of the industry.
I hope one day the Abortion holocaust would end in America, and we stop importing this wickedness overseas.
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That’s a very good comparison! I do not see how people keep defending pp after finding out what they are capable of. I understand that they might offer other types of health services to women in need, but that doesn’t justify murder, and lying to women about having a “blob of tissue” in their womb, when it is a human, a child, a LIFE. I really think it’s pride. People are too prideful to admit they were wrong and/or deceived and too prideful to repent and defend what is RIGHT.
Thanks for your comment. I pray God would remove people’s pride and see the murdering going on for what it truly is.
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