{"id":51041,"date":"2015-08-03T15:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T15:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wash-_post_op-ed_george_will-planned_parenthood_and_the_barbarity_of_ameri\/"},"modified":"2015-08-03T15:00:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T15:00:45","slug":"wash-_post_op-ed_george_will-planned_parenthood_and_the_barbarity_of_ameri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51041","title":{"rendered":"(Wash. Post Op-Ed) George Will&#8211;Planned Parenthood and the barbarity of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Executives of Planned Parenthood\u2019s federally subsidized meat markets \u201d\u201d your tax dollars at work \u201d\u201d lack the courage of their convictions. They should drop the pretense of conducting a complex moral calculus about the organs they harvest from the babies they kill.<\/p>\n<p>First came the video showing a salad-nibbling, wine-sipping Planned Parenthood official explaining how \u201cI\u2019m going to basically crush below, I\u2019m going to crush above\u201d\u009d whatever organ (\u201cheart, lung, liver\u201d\u009d) is being harvested. Then the president of a Planned Parenthood chapter explained the happy side of harvesting: \u201cFor a lot of the women participating in the fetal tissue donation program, they\u2019re having a procedure that may be a very difficult decision for them and this is a way for them to feel that something positive is coming from .\u201d\u2030.\u201d\u2030. a very difficult time.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving a procedure\u201d\u009d \u201d\u201d stopping the beating of a human heart \u201d\u201d can indeed be a difficult decision for the woman involved. But it never is difficult for Planned Parenthood\u2019s abortionists administering the \u201cprocedure.\u201d\u009d The abortion industry\u2019s premise is: At no point in the gestation of a human infant does this living being have a trace of personhood that must be respected. Never does it have a moral standing superior to a tumor or a hamburger in the mother\u2019s stomach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/the-barbarity-of-a-nation\/2015\/07\/31\/344f5140-36eb-11e5-9739-170df8af8eb9_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Executives of Planned Parenthood\u2019s federally subsidized meat markets \u201d\u201d your tax dollars at work \u201d\u201d lack the courage of their convictions. They should drop the pretense of conducting a complex moral calculus about the organs they harvest from the babies<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51041\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,175,101,168,104,114,96,98,151,95,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-marriage-family","category-politics-in-general","category-science-technology","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}