Political analyst Kirsten Powers weighed in on the highly scandalous videos showing abortion service provider Planned Parenthood engaging in the illegal sale of baby parts, saying this is "stomach-churning stuff" and that "there is no nice way to talk about this."
Planned Parenthood execs defended the videos, claiming they were heavily edited and that the "crushing" and "organ harvesting" were actually a "humanitarian undertaking."
Powers, who identified herself as both Christian and pro-life, believes otherwise.
"The problem here is not one of tone. It's the crushing. It's the organ harvesting of foetuses that abortion-rights activists want us to believe have no more moral value than a fingernail. It's the lie that these are not human beings worthy of protection," she wrote in an article for USA Today.
She agrees with White House staffer Michael Wear when he said that society should really be bothered that people have use for aborted human organs, but not of the baby who provides these organs.
What's more shocking, according to Powers, is how silent key political figures and publications have been regarding the matter. "It's a measure of how damning the video is that Planned Parenthood's usual defenders were nowhere to be found," she noticed. "There was total silence from The New York Times editorial board and their 10 (out of 11) pro-abortion rights columnists."
Even Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi — both recipients of Planned Parenthood's highest honour, the Margaret Sanger Award — have been eerily silent regarding the matter, she noted.
There were even some who supported Planned Parenthood amid the scandal, such as Washington Post columnist Petula Dvorak, who wrote that "Planned Parenthood deserves to be supported, not attacked."
Powers contended that unborn foetuses "are under attack by Planned Parenthood." "When abortion doctors are elevated to gods who may not be questioned or held accountable, society has officially gone off the rails."
