Republican officials and conservative talking heads, hearing public outrage over recent videos which show Planned Parenthood executives discussing the sale of (as one exec terms them) human “fetal cadavers” and their parts, like butchers describing how they slaughter fresh-killed lambs, attempt to cut-off all Federal tax-payer support to Planned Parenthood.
Cadaver. Dictionary definition: “a dead body.”
Dead body. Definition: “no longer alive.”
Can a fetus be a cadaver – a dead body – if it were not alive a moment before a Planned Parenthood butcher slaughtered it?
The progressive left’s argument about a fetus not being a living being was terminated in just two words by one of its own.
Congressional Republicans go through the motions to defund.
Of course, the predictable failure comes.
Then speeches by presidential hopefuls, and the obligatory determination to try again.
The knobby knees of the other side jerk as Senator Reid sells whatever quark-sized particle of his soul remains, preaching on the Floor of The Senate how Republicans have “lost their moral compass.”
What?
Oh. Reid deftly switches the subject. Outrage aside, he and his legions claim anyone who feels Planned Parenthood should be defunded on legal or moral grounds puts the nation’s mothers and daughters and wives and sisters and cousins and female neighbors and good ol’ Aunt Bea in danger by denying them the Federally sanctioned opportunity to terminate their unwanted pregnancies at any time, for just about any reason. Now poor Aunt Bea will have to have Mr. Goss’s baby, and perhaps some Planned Parenthood folks won’t be able to profit on the illicit sales of their goulish products.
So here we have conservatives demanding the end of tax-payer funding of Planned Parenthood on moral grounds. But the other side, a bastion of morality built on highest ground, claims conservatives have lost their moral compass. If this entire subject were not so gruesome, the juxtaposition might be funny. But it’s not.
Oh sure. Threats of government shut-down from Democrats. How predictable and tiresome these threats. Shut the government down? Please. Better still, do America a favor, let our Congressmen and Senators resign if they feel that strongly. Yeh, we insist! Resign, all you knee-jerking jerks.
Our elected officials never learn. Republicans over-blow every unfortunate situation into crises. Do they need hay that much? Then unctuous Democrats re-frame the argument, making Republican rubes look like they’re responsible for shutting down that poorly regarded, barely functioning, incredibly inefficient, money-wasting, bloated thing we call the Federal Government. Shut it down and resign. What’s the big loss? Poor Aunt Bea can’t take little Opie to a Federal Park? Even Bea knows there is still plenty of free wilderness to be had.
While both sides continue to play their games, insuring nothing ever changes, how many millions more innocent foetuses need succumb to steely knives, the cadaver pieces offered like cold chicken livers in plastic wrap at the local market.
