USA Today columnist and Fox News Contributor Kirsten Powers argued that even if Planned Parenthood wasn’t selling fetal organs, the video of one of their doctors talking about late-term abortion “is particularly damning,” and makes even pro-choice people say, “Wait a minute” on Friday’s “Special Report.”
Powers stated that Planned Parenthood responded to the video so aggressively “because this is particularly damning. And it’s something that even pro-choice people look at and say, ‘Wait a minute.’ And the reason that it’s so damning, setting aside whether or not they were selling — harvesting and selling anything, is that most people don’t understand what happens in a late-term abortion, and we’re told that this is nothing to see here, and suddenly, they’re talking about hearts and lungs, and people are saying, ‘Wait a minute. You know, you’re talking very — about crushing a baby.’ And Planned Parenthood’s coming out and saying, ‘Well, it wasn’t compassionate enough, the way we speak about this.’ And I think, most people don’t think that there’s any compassionate way to do this. There is no compassionate way to talk about crushing a baby in utero.”
Earlier, columnist Charles Krauthammer said,”the media have a particular view of abortion. They don’t to cover anything that will jeopardize the current policies. And that’s why you don’t hear about it.”
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