Contra Celsum: Just Another Chardonnay Issue

Monday, 3 August 2015

Just Another Chardonnay Issue

The Chattering Classes at Full Throat

One of the more instructive "tells" in recent days of the pervasive bias regnant within the New Zealand media has been the sotto voce muttering over the Planned Parenthood video stings in the United States. The fourth video has just been released. The United States is in an uproar and our media and "betters" see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Definitely nothing to see here. More important things to focus upon. Move along.

But when it comes to "real news" we have been inundated with tales, clips, sedges, and tut tutting opinionistas all aghast over the death of a lion shot with a hunting bow in Zimbabwe. And the dentist was a rich white male, and an American to boot. Evil had doubled down, so to speak. So, we have had clips of American media re-published in NZ--American opinions, American expressions of revulsion, American horror, petitions, demonstrations--ad nauseum. But Planned Parenthood's barbarism towards children? Virtually nada. The most notorious scandal in over fifty years in the United States--and merely a whimper. The relative silence is deafening.

If, dear NZ reader, you happen not yet to have heard of this US Government funded horror, here is a brief recap. Planned Parenthood is an industrialised, commercial abortion conglomerate--the largest in the United States--indeed, in the world. Its Mengelism has been exposed recently by three undercover videos in which top executives are recorded in "sales mode" as they attempt to market the waste products of their industry--that is, intact body parts of babies, cut and torn from their mother's womb. The fourth video has just been released. There are more videos to come, we are told.

To give you a flavour, here is a review by one US media outlet of the forth video:

Consider this a warning:

In the video, actors posing as representatives from a human biologics company meet with Ginde at the abortion-clinic headquarters of PPRM in Denver to discuss a potential partnership to harvest fetal organs. When the actors request intact fetal specimens, Ginde reveals that in PPRM’s abortion practice, “Sometimes, if we get, if someone delivers before we get to see them for a procedure, then we are intact.” Since PPRM does not use digoxin or other feticide in its 2nd trimester procedures, any intact deliveries before an abortion are potentially born-alive infants under federal law (1 USC 8).
They are harvesting organs from live births.

Further, the discussion of the illegality of their business is discussed:

Dr. Savita Ginde, negotiating a fetal body parts deal, agreeing multiple times to illicit pricing per body part harvested, and suggesting ways to avoid legal consequences.
When the buyers ask Ginde if “compensation could be specific to the specimen?” Ginde agrees, “Okay.” Later on in the abortion clinic’s pathological laboratory, standing over an aborted fetus, Ginde responds to the buyer’s suggestion of paying per body part harvested, rather than a standard flat fee for the entire case: “I think a per-item thing works a little better, just because we can see how much we can get out of it.”
Ginde also suggests ways for Planned Parenthood to cover-up its criminal and public relations liability for the sale of aborted body parts. “Putting it under ‘research’ gives us a little bit of an overhang over the whole thing,” Ginde remarks. “If you have someone in a really anti state who’s going to be doing this for you, they’re probably going to get caught.”
Ginde implies that PPRM’s lawyer, Kevin Paul, is helping the affiliate skirt the fetal tissue law: “He’s got it figured out that he knows that even if, because we talked to him in the beginning, you know, we were like, ‘We don’t want to get called on,’ you know, ‘selling fetal parts across states.’” The buyers ask, “And you feel confident that they’re building those layers?” to which Ginde replies, “I’m confident that our Legal will make sure we’re not put in that situation.”
And lastly, while examining fetal remains:

GINDE: Here’s a — MEDICAL ASSISTANT 1: Wow.
GINDE: — stomach, and heart, and the kidney and adrenal. I don’t know what else is in there. Arms.
MEDICAL ASSISTANT 2: I don’t see the legs. Did you see the legs? Another boy!
Meanwhile, the White House addressed the videos today claiming they were made by “extremists on the right” as Josh Earnest parroted Planned Parenthood talking points:

“There’s ample reason to think that this is merely the tried and true tactic that we have seen from some extremists on the right to edit this video and selectively release an edited version of the video that grossly distorts the position of the person who is actually speaking on the video,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said. “And Planned Parenthood has indicated that’s what has occurred here.”
Further, on Monday the Senate will vote to defund Planned Parenthood. Given that 60 votes are needed for it to pass and Democrats are staunchly against it, there is little hope of success. However, conservative Republicans intend to demand the defunding plan be folded into a spending bill needed to avoid a government shutdown this fall. [Dana, writing at Patterico.com]