In this time of crisis, the Left is still working to protect the sacred “right” to the life-ending procedure of abortion. This focus during the coronavirus pandemic says much about priorities not only now, but also during routine times when the country is up and running. While families deal with financial struggles and health fears, the minority party in Washington, D.C., has been looking for a way to support the nation’s largest abortion provider: Planned Parenthood.
According to their latest annual report, in fiscal year 2018 the nonprofit organization performed 345,672 abortions. Though they have long claimed that abortions comprise only 3% of what they do, their main revenue comes from ending lives in the womb. Abortions are nonessential procedures, and according to Planned Parenthood’s own website, first-trimester abortions can cost as much as $1,500. The government recommendations of social distancing and quarantining cut into Planned Parenthood’s abortion profits. The political arm of the abortion industry, the Democratic Party, more than understands the current financial “need.” With fewer clients, Planned Parenthood can’t end as many unborn lives as they do in any given week. And as follows, they can’t make nearly as much money.
On Wednesday, the Senate finally passed a bipartisan bill aimed at helping families and businesses during the coronavirus crisis. While it is an expensive piece of legislation, this stimulus is certainly necessary relief for an unprecedented time. Unsurprisingly, congressional Democrats wished to include a provision in the section addressing small businesses that would have given Planned Parenthood some financial relief. Thankfully, according to reports, Pelosi and Schumer seem disappointed the final package passed without any mention of aid to the abortion mill.
Outside of Washington, Planned Parenthood continues to act as an essential medical provider when they are anything but that. This clearly demonstrates the delusion within the abortion industry. It also represents the selfish nature of abortion providers who, by demanding they continue on as normal in a national health emergency, are pulling much-needed resources away from hospitals who, unlike Planned Parenthood, are fighting to actually save lives instead of end them.
State governments in Ohio, Texas, and Mississippi have all announced a limit to nonessential medical procedures during the pandemic. All three states have included the elective, life-ending procedure of abortion in these temporary bans. Naturally, abortion clinics are not pleased with these decisions.
A Texas abortion rights group accused their state’s attorney general of “push(ing) his ideological agenda,” and Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit to overturn the ban. Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio are openly defying the orders to pause abortions. And as reported, some medical organizations are foolishly willing to allow abortion patients in the hospital during a time when beds must be kept available for COVID-19 patients with real medical needs: “The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and other medical groups also urged hospitals and clinics not to cancel or delay abortion procedures due to the coronavirus outbreak. ‘Abortion is an essential component of comprehensive health care,’ they said in a joint statement.”
The selfish defiance from an elective industry whose sole purpose is to take lives and not save them is entirely expected. This behavior emphasizes that the singular focus, in times of crisis or not, is to coerce vulnerable women into believing that abortion is an essential medical procedure that should be performed no matter if legitimate health emergencies exist. And for their part, the Democratic Party is only happy to assist in this falsehood by initially insisting an organization be given financial relief alongside struggling businesses that actually need the help.
In times of pandemic, when a unity of purpose to protect the vulnerable should be a communal theme, Planned Parenthood and its defenders do the opposite and continue to prey on the endangered, both in the womb and outside of it. When the crisis is over, their unholy resistance must be remembered.
Kimberly Ross (@SouthernKeeks) is a contributor to the Washington Examiner‘s Beltway Confidential blog and a columnist at Arc Digital.
