In apparent retaliation for Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush’s statements critical of Planned Parenthood, the Democratic party has launched an attack on crisis pregnancy centers. A blog post on Democrats.org said that crisis pregnancy centers “have zero understanding of what women’s health care is.” The criticism of the centers was not simply incidental to the attack on Bush; the Democrats devote an entire paragraph to undermining the credibility of pro-life groups that seek to offer pregnant women alternatives to abortion:
Kaylie Hanson, the DNC’s Director of Women’s Media, continues the attack later in the post [emphasis added]:
Planned Parenthood has come under increasing pressure recently due to the secretly recorded videos exposing the organization’s links to the “fetal tissue” market. The Democratic party and Planned Parenthood have been closely aligned for years, and Democrats have introduced legislation in the past to try to limit the activities of crisis pregnancy centers. However, based on a search of the party’s website, this appears to be the first direct assault on crisis pregnancy centers by Democratic party leadership in the 2016 presidential campaign cycle.
