Letters We Wish We'd Written - Ongoing Smear of Planned Parenthood Dept.

From today's once great Washington Post Bezos Bugle, this letter comes in response to an op/ed by Republican shill Kathleen Parker:

Using legally donated fetal tissue to advance medical research and possibly even treat diseases that debilitate millions of people is hardly, as Kathleen Parker contended in her July 19 op-ed column, “A modern proposal,” an action “made in hell.”

Donations of organs and tissues are selfless acts. Heaping such animus on Planned Parenthood for taking part in medical donation — and making judgments on the basis of eight edited minutes taken from a nearly three-hour video — is a sad reflection of how politicized and demonized abortion and the women who choose it have become in our society.

Savaging medical practitioners and a network of medical clinics that provide a comprehensive range of essential health services and resorting to such hyperbole as asserting that fetal livers are “selling like hotcakes” do nothing to further any honest, nuanced and intellectually curious conversations about abortion.

 Sarah Erdreich, Washington

As we note below, Republicans and their goons in the anti-choice movement are pushing this discredited "evidence" as a means of destroying Planned Parenthood while energizing their bible-thumping base.  Media enablers like Parker give them a bigger megaphone, which is why it's important to confront them at every opportunity, as Ms. Erdreich has done.