No Abortions at New Location?

Planned Parenthood's apologists in the press have argued that since the largest single provider of abortions and largest abortion chain has said they won't initially be killing unborn babies at the Pasco clinic, the abortion issue is not part of this debate.

Seriously?

This would be like Al-Qaeda arguing that they should be allowed to set up a soup kitchen, as long as they don't conduct terrorist operations out of it!

Or how about if the Klu Klux Klan wanted to open a museum, as long as they didn't do lynchings there!

What if a Roman Catholic priest guilty of abuse came took over a parish near an elementary school, arguing that "the abuse happened at other parishes, it's not relevant"? The blatant absurdity of this line of argument is embarrassing, and frankly, the Tri-City Herald owes its readers an apology.

Moreover, there are countless Planned Parenthood clinics across the state and country which now perform abortions but which didn't always. In fact, Brian Cutler of PP of Western Washington told the blog Abortion in Washington that they've used their enormous revenues from the last few years to "upgrade" a host of clinics by "adding abortion services". Any reasonable observer would expect PP of Central Washington to do exactly the same thing in Pasco.

PP doesn't regard abortion as something to be avoided, reduced, or minimized. People who perform hundreds of thousands of abortions a year are not like normal people and don't have a scintilla of moral reservation about killing unborn babies. Adding chemical or surgical abortions to the Pasco roster is nothing more than expanding options or increasing the number of services available to women from their point of view. The only thing stopping them is a limitation on resources. As it is right now, they only have two doctors, Sara Cate and Elizabeth Bianchi, doing all the abortions for Central Washington, Eastern Washington, and Idaho. The difficulty of recruiting another itinerant abortionist is the only thing standing in their way.

Finally, nobody disputes the fact that they would obviously be providing "abortion counselling" and "abortion referrals" at the Pasco location. In other words, desperate and vulnerable girls would still meet with abortion saleswomen. Getting the abortion itself would be nothing more than a taxi ride over to Kennewick!

Don't insult our intelligence with this poppycock about "the Pasco PP wouldn't do abortions" nonsense for another minute.