President Obama and the Primitivism of Planned Parenthood

by George Neumayr

Speaking at a Planned Parenthood conference last week, President Obama celebrated the abortion provider as an icon of progress. Mocking the legislative efforts of pro-lifers within such states as North Dakota and Mississippi to curb abortion, Obama said to his chuckling audience, “When you read about some of these laws, you want to check the calendar; you want to make sure you’re still living in 2013.”

But what exactly is progressive about killing the vulnerable? The blood-splattered bins behind Planned Parenthood in 2013 AD don’t look that much different than the hilltops of 2013 BC where unwanted babies were left to die.

Abortion is not progressive but primitive. It is a measure of a society’s refusal to grow more civilized.
Of course, Obama went to great lengths to avoid using the word abortion in his speech. The word “health” served as its substitute: “And for nearly a century now, one core principle has guided everything all of you do—that women should be allowed to make their own decisions about their own health.” A casual observer might have thought that he was addressing doctors at a cancer screening clinic.

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George Neumayr is a contributing editor to The American Spectator, and a weekly columnist for Crisis Magazine. He is also co-author (with Phyllis Schlafly) of No Higher Power: Obama's War on Religious Freedom.