By Jason Herring
President Right To Life of Idaho
Let’s be clear. I am adamantly opposed to Planned Parenthood. I am not opposed to Susan G Komen for the Cure. As a parent of a child who was lost to brain cancer, I am very much in favor of any kind of cancer research for a cure. I would gladly donate money to any organization that was dedicated to finding a cure for childhood brain cancer. And although my family has not been touched personally by breast cancer, I can empathize with the families of those who have been lost, those who are fighting, and the survivors of a disease that affects one out of every eight women in the United States.
We should appreciate the passion felt by those who have faced the crucible of cancer. But we should not allow our passion to blind us to common sense and ethics. It’s not the cause, it’s not the race for the cure, and it’s not the thousands who are affected by cancer that we oppose. It’s the systematic and wholesale destruction of unborn children that we are pledged to fighting against.
Over sixty years after the fall of Nazi Germany, the holocaust remains a very sensitive subject and rightfully so. When Prince Harry wore a Nazi uniform and swastika armband to a costume party, he was blasted by the media and ordered by his father to visit Auschwitz and watch Schindler’s List. Not even six decades could erase the guilt by association no matter how ‘innocent’ or ignorant, rather, the motive might have been. For some reason freedom loving people are offended by something associated with genocide and ethnic cleansing. We don’t have a “que sera” attitude towards the mass murder of millions. And this is what makes Komen’s alliance with Planned Parenthood all the more bewildering.
The ends do not justify the means, especially when the means involves murder. Just because Planned Parenthood offers breast exams and screening for cancer does not mean that we can overlook the sordid legacy of the number one provider of abortions in the world. Why would an organization dedicated to fighting the number one enemy of women’s health support an organization that devastates women physically, emotionally, and spiritually?
The philosophy of Nazi eugenics and Planned Parenthood come from the same poisonous root. And the logic to justify their barbaric practice is exactly the same.
1. The Jew is unwanted.
2. The Jew is not fully human.
3. It is perfectly legal to get rid of the Jew.
4. Thus, it is moral to kill the Jew.
1. The unborn child is not wanted.
2. The unborn child is not fully human.
3. It is perfectly legal to get rid of the unborn child.
4. Thus, it is moral to kill the unborn child.
Get enough people to support it, and it will become acceptable. Get popular organizations and celebrities to endorse and fund it, and it is now respectable. No wonder Planned Parenthood and its support base pulled out all the stops to regain their funding from Komen. Planned Parenthood is like the witches house in the tale of Hansel and Gretel. It’s all gingerbread and sugar coating on the outside, but death lurks within. Komen is the pink icing on the house of cake that has been beset by scandal and illegalities in recent years. Add to this the threat of defunding from the federal government, and Planned Parenthood could lose the façade that it has so carefully crafted over the years to lure young women in.
While promoting women’s health and breast cancer screening, Komen is assisting Planned Parenthood in their deception of the American public. It’s time to come out from among them and be separate. Susan G. Komen has taken a ‘neutral’ position for now, claiming that Planned Parenthood can reapply for funding next year and submit to the application process in which they might be denied or accepted. This has only postponed the issue for another day. While I understand their attempt to diffuse controversy and criticism, my hope and prayer for Komen is that they will recognize Planned Parenthood as the ‘swastika armband’, and cut ties with the perpetrators of America’s greatest holocaust. Komen is a great organization with a proud history. It is unbecoming for them to provide the sheep’s clothing for the number one predator of our children and future generations.
Komen, don’t be the wool for the wolf.