Extreme Abortion Positions Go Unchallenged By the Left’s Compliant Media

Abortion “rights” aren’t under attack—it’s the babies being aborted and the watchdogs blowing the whistle under attack

The go-to line for “progressive” candidates when pressed for their positions on abortion is that they support the rights set down in Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that established parameters for how far states can go in restricting access to abortion. 

Kamala Harris used that line during the September 10 debate with Donald Trump. She lied and wasn’t challenged on it. Roe at least had limits (which weren’t followed), yet Harris favors no limits at all. 

Otherwise, pro-abortion candidates prefer to shroud the barbarism of an abortion at any point during pregnancy behind decades-old euphemisms that have a wholesome, even all-American ring to them. They support a “woman’s right to choose”—omitting that the choice is to carry a child to term or eliminate it—and “reproductive health,” which is neither reproductive nor healthy for at least one party in the transaction. Case-in-point: the expansive abortion legislation signed in January 2023 by Minn. Gov. Tim Walz (D), Harris’ running mate, that requires no medical care for a baby born alive from a botched abortion is called the Protect Reproductive Options Act.  

And they are getting away with it.

Part of what’s going on, says long-time pro-life activist, college professor, and scientist David Prentice, is that the pro-life side has lost a bit of the force of its narrative since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in June 2022 that overturned Roe. The pro-abortion side jumped on the decision vowing to fight to get women’s’ rights back—even though the decision never took rights away, instead returning the issue back to the states where many argued it should have stayed in the first place.

“It’s almost as [if] the pro-life side was surprised by it,” Prentice said of the Dobbs ruling. “The base hasn’t left but the narrative after Dobbs wasn’t pointed enough and still isn’t.”

He added that the pro-life “political class” has also in part abandoned the fight. “They are playing at politics to get a point or two in the polls,” he said.

It’s also near impossible for the pro-life side, however pointed their arguments, to get their side of the story in the media. 

Witness the release a few weeks ago of additional secret video recordings by pro-life activist and undercover reporter David Daleiden, in which Planned Parenthood abortionists discuss securing and selling baby body parts. A few conservative outlets picked up the story, but the public’s reaction was nothing like the horror and disgust when Daleiden released the first set of recordings in 2015.

Then, Congress held hearings and there was talk of defunding Planned Parenthood, but eventually the story faded away.

Also largely forgotten is how then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris, at the bidding of Planned Parenthood, had her storm troopers raid Daleiden’s home in search of the original tapes in 2016. Harris then had the courts block any additional tapes from being released to the public. 

Piling on, Planned Parenthood concocted a lie that Daleiden doctored the tapes, only for a federal court to rule in 2019 that the tapes are “authentic” and “not deceptively altered.”  The court’s determination was based on a forensic study of the film commissioned by the Inspector General’s office of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission in a case that involved Texas’s ending of Medicaid provider agreements with Planned Parenthood.

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Hard to imagine it would not be a front-page story if a Republican candidate for president had in his past political life raided the offices of an abortionist caught discussing selling baby body parts. Republican bad, abortionist good. 

It wasn’t until Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R–GA) recently released more Daleiden recordings on her congressional website—part of her hearings on “Investigating the Black Market of Baby Organ Harvesting”—that the story very briefly flickered to life again on a few conservative news outlets. 

In making the video, Daleiden posed as a representative of a fetal tissue collection agency. “You told me about the proposition, and so now every time I do a D&E [dilation and evacuation abortion], I’m like, ‘Oh there’s some lungs, there’s some kidneys,’” said Dr. Ann Schutt-Aine, Chief Medical Officer for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast in the video.

“I might pull off a leg or two so it’s not a PBA [partial birth abortion],” said Schutt-Aine.

Planned Parenthood was emailed an undercover contract for “$1,600 per pair of liver and thymus” that Tram Nguyen, Vice President of Abortion Access for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, agreed to.

Another story exposing the thriving market for baby body parts likewise garnered scant attention. In 2018, a FOIA from the Washington, D.C.-based watchdog Judicial Watch targeting the Federal Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health uncovered this ghastly shopping list of body parts.

At $515, the most expensive item on the list was an “intact calvarium” (a human skull) of a preborn baby, just 18–24 weeks old. Baby livers were listed at $340 each. The seller, California-based Advanced Bioscience Resources (ABR), even had the courtesy to list shipping options for the customer, (in this case the Federal Drug Administration), including overnight FedEx for $50, and the choice of snap (liquid nitrogen) freezing at $40 per specimen or passive (dry ice) freezing at $80 per specimen.

One exchange between ABR procurement manager Perrin Larton and FDA research veterinary medical official Dr. Kristina Howard reads like a sick parody of a dialogue in a B-horror movie. In an August 26, 2015 email, Howard wrote: “As always, we are requesting liver and thymus for each date.” Larton answered: “I’ll put you on the schedule for your requested tissue delivery dates.” Howard replied: “Thanks Perrin! Btw [by the way], are you planning to attend the humanized mouse workshop in Zurich in January?” 

Larton wrote back: “Yes. Linda and I will both be attending. Will we see you there?” Howard replied: “Assuming the gov’t allows me to go, I will be there. I have lots of data!”

The callousness conveyed in the exchange is nearly as disgusting as the content. 

Seven states, as well as Washington, D.C., place no gestational limits on abortion, and sixteen allow abortion after viability. One state allows abortions in the third trimester. 

It’s safe to say that too few Americans realize this. We are instead made to believe that abortion rights are under attack, and the only way to defend those rights is to approve state-level abortion laws with no restrictions – laws packaged for public consumption as reproductive options. 

The slippery slope has reached the edge of the cliff.

(READ MORE: On Abortion, Kamala Harris is the Radical, Not Trump.)