The View Hosts Fail to Grasp the Real Immorality of Planned Parenthood, Abortion

Life News ^ | 11/4/09 | Colleen Raezler

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LifeNews.com Note: Colleen Raezler is a research assistant at the Culture and Media Institute. This article originally appeared in NewsBusters, the blog of the Media Research Center.

 

Profits, not the killing of unborn children, are the "real immorality" of abortion, according to "View" panelist Joy Behar.

Behar expressed her unique view of morality during the Nov. 3 "Hot Topics" discussion about Abby Johnson, a Texas Planned Parenthood director who resigned from her post last month after seeing an abortion on an ultrasound.

Johnson explained to the local Texas CBS affiliate that Planned Parenthood had been pressuring her to focus on abortion, not pregnancy prevention because abortions brought in more money than family planning services.

ABC's "View" host Barbara Walters brought up Johnson's story, calling it "controversial" and Behar quickly denounced Planned Parenthood for making money off abortions. She called it "gross" and "obnoxious" before she stated, "I don't see abortions as a profit-making industry. I think that is the real immorality of it."

Sherri Shepherd insisted that Planned Parenthood does profit from abortions and offered her own experience to confirm what Johnson saw at the clinic in Texas.

Shepherd related:

When I was considering an abortion, I went to a Planned Parenthood in Los Angeles, California, and when I sat there in front of that lady, she wanted me to fill out the form and she was rushing me through. And I said to her - I was 17. I said I'm not quite sure what I should do. And she was pressuring me to get the abortion. We ended up leaving because I was just scared. But they never gave me any alternative or any other thing.

Despite the news from Texas and Shepherd's testimonial, Walters warned the women not to "condemn all of Planned Parenthood because of one" clinic. Walters also praised Planned Parenthood for "giving advice" and "helping people who may not want to have their baby."

"I don't think anybody really wants to push an abortion. I'm surprised to hear this," stated Walters.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck wondered if Johnson would now "advise people who were walking in uncertain to watch a video" of an abortion "before they were to make a decision." This sparked a discussion about the decision-making process that surrounds abortion.

While one of the arguments pro-abortion activists use is that abortion is not always an easy decision, Behar inexplicably refused to allow Hasselbeck to make the same argument.

"It's never an easy [decision], mark my words there," stated Hasselbeck. Behar responded in a condescending manner, "To some people, Elisabeth, believe it or not, it is a very easy decision. I know that's hard to understand."

Hasselbeck and Shepherd argued in favor of showing women a picture of a fetus before during the decision process. "Some people don't think of it as a fetus," said Shepherd. "Maybe they'll think about it differently if they saw - remember when I brought in the ultrasound -" started Hasselbeck.

Shepherd added, "I think some people think it is an easy decision. But I think that time goes by and I don't know, sometimes it just hits you." Walters quickly refuted Shepherd's words, "But for other people it doesn't hit them."

Walters concluded the segment by citing reasons women seek abortions. "Listen, if you've got five children and you can't cope with these children or you have been raped, or it is incest, there all different reasons. Nobody says, I hope this is fun, let's do it."

And just like in Shepherd's experience with Planned Parenthood in LA, there was no room for any alternatives and the show rushed to commercial.

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"It's never an easy [decision], mark my words there," stated Hasselbeck. Behar responded in a condescending manner, "To some people, Elisabeth, believe it or not, it is a very easy decision. I know that's hard to understand."

So now killing a baby should be a "very easy decision."

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[jessduntno]

Joy...this has to be the most ironically named harpie in history...right up there with referring to Bawny Fwank as “gay” or Ded Kennedy (D-HELL) as a “women’s right’s advocate.”

[JoeMac]

And this womans name is “Joy’’. I wonder how many babies Behar has aborted?

[bray]

Wonder how many abortions Bear has had??

Pray for America and Women hurt by Abortion

[stylin19a]

wow..where was Whoopi “I don’t know how many abortions I’ve had Goldberg ?

[DustyMoment]

The View Hosts Fail to Grasp the Real Immorality of Planned Parenthood, Abortion

And, this is a surprise to whom????

[mrsmel]

I wish conservatives would stop placing themselves in the position of token conservative and whipping boy for a passel of leftist immoral harpies to bounce off of in order to make themselves look good. They never choose the most articulate conservative spokespeople-I haven't seen the liberals interview, for instance, Tony Blankley lately. They know they couldn't get away with their spin with him there. Plus the conservative is always outnumbered, as if they are some anomaly in society, and the liberals are the mainstream, which of course isn't true. It's just not worth the airtime when the conservative gets piled up on and outnumbered, so I don't know why they put themselves in that position.

[tet68]

“To some people, Elisabeth, believe it or not, it is a very easy decision.

To some people, it’s like stepping on a bug...

It’s such a hard decision but they don’t want to let
you consider alternatives, funny huh.

Abortion is just Murder.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Well, this is marginally encouraging, because admitting that abortion "for profit" is wrong, is admitting that "something" is wrong about abortion. One would never say, "I think it's wrong for beauty salon operators to make money on the tint-and-curl procedure."

It's getting more common to hear otherwise pro-"choice" people say they're bothered by sex-selection abortions (when it's the little baby girls that are targeted and killed). Sometimes you'll hear feminists say they disapprove of "multiple" abortions (such as the 15 abortions of the recently-publicized Irene Vilar, who's thoughtfully and nuance-o-matically marketing a book about it.)

This is a step in the right direction. It shows that their consciences are not entirely dead. It's true that their consciences have been long-buried: but they're buried alive.

[LtKerst]

Behar is a hairy Pig skag

[LtKerst]

Behar is a hairy Pig skag

[a fool in paradise]

Where was Whoopi? She’s claimed to have had 6 or 7 abortions (she doesn’t remember the count herself).

[JoeMac]

Well, sometimes half an admission is better than none at all but Behar saying she thinks its ‘’immoral for profit’’ doesn’t qualify. Its an awful frame of reason on her part and stupid at the same time; abortion is a medical procedure, it has to be paid for. Abortion is a tradegy period, whatever the reason for it.

[JmyBryan]

Why is Joy Behar on TV?

[chris_bdba]

You can kind of tell when they diecuss things like this which ones it was/would be “easy” for.

[Z in Washington]

Many do view it as an “easy decision”.

Pro-lifers should acknowledge the callousness and coldness with which the decision is often made.

For some reason, pro-lifers often misportray those who abort the lives of pre-born babies as wrestling with the decision, as though that was the default.

It isn’t: the majority make the decision without reservations, because they are heartless and cruel.

That is the reality that pro-lifers need to acknowledge.

Because that reality shows how to effectively oppose abortion, in significant part by underlining what a cold, cruel, callous decision it always is.

[LowOiL]

I absolutely LOATH Barbara WA WA ... Word fail me just how bad I hate that creature.

[jmaroneps37]

http://www.collinsreport.net/2009/01/22/liberals-help-planned-parenthood-exterminate-blacks-others-they-deem-%e2%80%9cunfits%e2%80%9d/