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This last summer, the pro-abortion world was rocked by the release of a series of sting videos that showed Planned Parenthood illegally serving as merchants of baby parts. I hesitate in using that word illegally because their practices are ghoulish and appalling long before they become illegal. What they do is manifestly illegal, but that is not the heart of what is wrong with it.

In other words, we live in a country where it is perfectly legal to turn a healthy baby into baby parts. That part is okay. It is just that when you do this, you can’t sell any of the parts afterward. Selling them would be an indignity and grossly illegal, while throwing them into a furnace, dumpster or landfill is somehow consistent with American core values.

And it is, too, because American core values have come to include high levels of hypocritical hairsplitting.

Chopping little Billy or Sally into unmerchandisable bits is not an indignity. Being very careful in how you kill them, so that the kidney, heart, thymus, and femur remain usable, is against the law. This highlights pro-choice hypocrisy, even though the inconsistency was created through pro-life pressure that made the merchandising against the law.

Insisting on the arbitrary illegality of this is pro-life shrewdness, because it spotlights the central lie of the abortion industry. They got away with the killing itself because of their insistence that what we were dealing with was a nondescript lump of tissue. We were removing a cyst-like thing that later on becomes a human being. Okay, said an America that had never paid too much attention in high school biology. But now all the cyst-like characteristics have disappeared, and we discover that if Planned Parenthood could figure out how to make a buck selling tiny fingernails, they would most certainly be doing so.

The general public may not know rudimentary biology, but they do know enough to know that you can’t have it both ways. If you pass a law concerning lumps of tissue, you must treat the lumps of tissue as that thereafter. And if you go on to set up a big business selling parts that are highly valuable precisely because they are distinct human parts, you have undercut your whole project — and have not a shred of moral credibility left.

So the thing about hypocrisy is that it never knows when to quit. Knowledge of when to quit is called repentance, and so, failing that repentance, the hypocrisy just gets more and more bizarre. Less repentance, the only thing you can do is double down. And then, after that, you triple down. After that comes Hell.

Because we have banished the true God from the public square, we have in effect said that we only have to obey the laws established by the true god of our system, the god Demos, the god who serves as the voice of the people. If it is illegal, then we won’t do it. Cross our hearts. Promise. This is a democracy.

Ah, but they are doing it. How shall we account for this? Grandiose narcissism is always sold as the noble service of Us, but it always translates, by the end of the day, into the ignoble service of Me.

So however much it makes no sense within their larger system, it is illegal to sell baby parts, and Planned Parenthood in Houston was manifestly selling baby parts. So what happened? Texas has a pro-life governor and pro-life lieutenant governor. The prosecutor’s office was told to look into it. Were the sting videos reliable? They “looked into it” and came back with an indictment of Daleiden and Merritt, the investigative journalists who uncovered and documented the corruption of Planned Parenthood.

Correction: I am informed by a reader that a detail in the above is incorrect. The state investigation is ongoing. The indictment was the doing of the Houston prosecutor, trying to get out in front of things.

In response to this unconscionable indictment, the Center for Medical Progress has courageously released another video — and good on them. This is a showdown, and we need to not blink. We need to help the CMP to not blink.

If the indictment is not thrown out ipso pronto, to use the technical legal phrase, then Gov. Abbott of Texas should simply pardon them. Or rather, he should promise to pardon them if they are eventually convicted of anything — because while they are on trial they can use the process of discovery to perhaps uncover more than their videos ever did. The promise of a gubernatorial pardon will mean that the bad guys, regardless of what they do, will be in a lose/lose situation.

In addition, every candidate for president needs to be pressed on this same question. We are now in the midst of primary season, which means that many ordinary citizens will have opportunity to ask such questions. The question should have two parts — if Daleiden and Merritt are convicted, and if that case wends its way into the federal system, can you commit yourself to a presidential pardon for them? And secondly, would you be willing to consider awarding them the Medal of Freedom regardless of the status of their case?

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Bro. Steve
Bro. Steve
8 years ago

Kidney, heart, thymus, femur…. You forgot to mention the calvarium!

jigawatt
jigawatt
8 years ago
PerfectHold
PerfectHold
8 years ago
Reply to  Tom Hansen

See?! It was so hurtful to mom women to make them get their abortions illegally. Now, with the umbrella / blanket of law, we can help them avoid the shame & potential pain. Keeping the profit out the situation — making it illegal to sell those product parts for pure profit — is a needed element to protect these women too. Making a profit exposes these women to the shame of what they did all over again. And those hit videos expose the whole situation too, when we should be about sympathizing and hiding the whole thing as best we… Read more »

St. Lee
8 years ago
Reply to  Tom Hansen

Thanks for that link, Tom. It was painful to watch, but it does confirm the depravity of those whose god is not the LORD. It shows that even when abortion was illegal and nearly universally considered immoral, there were men and women willing to murder their babies. In many cases it seemed to boil down to the fact that the unwed mothers were not willing to be subject to public shame by having a child out of wedlock when they could instead murder their baby in secret, despite the risks. Making the murder of babies illegal again certainly won’t solve… Read more »

TedR
TedR
8 years ago
Reply to  Tom Hansen

“moscowcares”. No, you don’t.

PerfectHold
PerfectHold
8 years ago

No pastor, selling parts isn’t illegal — it’s making a profit on them that’s problematic. The whole abortion situation the woman finds herself in is super touchy. So the law about profit-making protects her and the situation and all of us from invasion of privacy. We want to keep the whole “business” of abortion at arms length and not think about it too much because that would be hurtful. So selling parts — for research and such, where needed and where it might HELP others — that’s okay, and legal. So those transactions should be on the QT, and non-profit.… Read more »

lloyd
8 years ago
Reply to  PerfectHold

Its not profit. Its reimbursement.

Now, I cant wait til Friday rolls around. When I get my next reimbursement check, the suds will be on me! That 9-5 job is paying off… err, reimbursing well.

PerfectHold
PerfectHold
8 years ago
Reply to  lloyd

Yes. The emotional turmoil these providers undergo on behalf of, well, all of us all, really, is onerous — and deserving of the highest compensation available.

Rachel
Rachel
8 years ago
PerfectHold
PerfectHold
8 years ago
Reply to  Rachel

Have you vetted this site? Sure it’s not going to that Ethiopian guy who wants to deliver a fortune to my bank account?

Rachel
Rachel
8 years ago
Reply to  PerfectHold

Tee hee! They mentioned the site in a webcast with David Daleiden last night, so I trust it. Here is a replay of the webcast: http://events.instantteleseminar.com/?eventid=80279355&inf_contact_key=86d0c93a6bf9037f4de6833494930e58c1b94dd6fb7ef7202980e91c115c3d48

David
David
8 years ago

If Texas’s rules of criminal procedure are like those of most American jurisdictions, then the open criminal case will afford little opportunity for discovery — not nearly as much as would be available in a civil case. There’s no downside to the governor of Texas issuing the pardon right away.

Malachi
Malachi
8 years ago

Nice chess move, Daleiden!

"A" dad
"A" dad
8 years ago

“Grandiose narcissism is always sold as the noble service of Us, but it always translates, by the end of the day, into the ignoble service of Me.”

A succinct biography of several critics I can think of !

I wonder if they will attribute? ; – )

David Mullin
David Mullin
8 years ago

I defended a client one time who was charged in federal court with illegally trading a migratory duck that he had shot for a bear skin rug and a rack of antlers. It was legal to shoot the duck but not to receive anything of value for the duck carcass. There was however also a legal limit on the number of ducks you could shoot. The comparison to babies is interesting. In the USA, due to the men in black robes, we give babies less protection than ducks. There is no limit on the number of babies you can kill… Read more »

Luke
Luke
8 years ago
Reply to  David Mullin

I am curious. Is it legal to destroy an unhatched, fertilized duck egg?

Malachi
Malachi
8 years ago
Reply to  Luke

Dunno…but it IS illegal to destroy an unhatched, fertilized eagle egg, AND to sell them. Truly, the Liberals value an unborn eagle far more than an unborn human. They also know it’s an eagle even though it’s still inside the shell.

EVIL!!

David Mullin
David Mullin
8 years ago
Reply to  Luke

The Migratory Bird Treaty Act makes it illegal for anyone to take, possess, import, export, transport, sell, purchase, barter, or offer for sale, purchase, or barter, any migratory bird, or the parts, nests, or eggs of such a bird except under the terms of a valid permit issued pursuant to Federal regulations. The migratory bird species protected by the Act are listed in 50 CFR 10.13.

ashv
ashv
8 years ago

You’re right about American core values. One more reason to raise my children to be un-American.

greendragon256
greendragon256
8 years ago

Did you see that the investigations found no wrong doing on the part of PP?

jigawatt
jigawatt
8 years ago
Reply to  greendragon256

Did you see that the investigations found no wrong doing on the part of PP?

Whether or not Planned Parenthood is found guilty of criminal activity, their Wrong Doing is evident to anyone not squinting their eyes shut and both fingers in their ears, going “LA LA LA! MY BODY MY CHOICE! LA LA LA!”

David Mullin
David Mullin
8 years ago
Reply to  greendragon256

It was very difficult to successfully prosecute Nazis even before Hitler became Chancellor because they had the support of many judges. Don’t be an ordinary German and close your eyes to what is plainly to be seen. The body parts are valuable because they are human body parts