The Lunatic Fringe

Following on the heels of Democrat presidential hopeful Sen. Kirsten Gillebrand’s preposterous statement equating those of us who are pro-life with racists, a fake gringa representing the 35^th Congressional District in California said on the House floor, “Mr. Speaker, it is tiring to hear from so many sex-starved males on this floor talk about a woman’s right to choose.”

That moronic comment came from Rep. Norma Torres (D-CA) during a debate on a spending bill for the Department of Health and Human Services.  Rep. Ross Spano (R-FL) opposed the legislation pointing out it weakened protections against federal tax dollars being used to fund abortions.  Spano said, “For more than 40 years, this country operated under the policy that not one cent of taxpayer money can be used to fund abortion. We are a nation that deeply values religious liberty.” 

Rep. @NormaJTorres: "It is tiring to hear from so many sex-starved males on this floor talk about a woman's right to choose."

Full video here: https://t.co/Or3WK3Qr4H pic.twitter.com/iPv0W7SB4q

— CSPAN (@cspan) June 12, 2019

In March of 2013, Alisa Lapolt Snow, a lobbyist representing the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, testified before the Florida House to oppose a law requiring abortionists to provide care for babies born alive during botched abortions in the starkest terms possible. 

Snow told the Florida legislature that if a child is born alive during a botched abortion, its survival “should be left up to the woman, her family, and the physician.”

In response to the new abortion law in Georgia and legislation in Alabama, National Public Radio restated its long-standing guidance regarding abortion and related topics.

“One thing to keep in mind about this law and others like it: Proponents refer to it as a ‘fetal heartbeat’ law. That is their term. It needs to be attributed to them if used and put in quotation marks if printed. We should not simply say the laws are about when a ‘fetal heartbeat’ is detected. As we've reported, heartbeat activity can be detected ‘about six weeks into a pregnancy.’ That's at least a few weeks before an embryo is a fetus.”

“The term ‘unborn’ implies that there is a baby inside a pregnant woman, not a fetus. Babies are not babies until they are born. They’re fetuses. Incorrectly calling a fetus a ‘baby’ or ‘the unborn’ is part of the strategy used by anti-abortion groups to shift language/legality/public opinion.”

Joy Pullman, mother of five and Executive Editor of The Federalist noted, “…since newspersons deal in daily atrocity and gore from the likes of wars, famines, and hurricanes, it’s hard to understand why they all drive out to gawk at the law-breaking foreigners Americans feed, give medical care to, clothe, protect, and transport, but want to stay as far away as possible from other vulnerable people our society allows to have their heads mortally pierced with scissors or a scalpel inside their own mother’s wombs.”

It would appear Torres alienated her constituents well before yesterday’s reprehensible remarks: 

So even your constituents are waking up! #normatorres! How amusing!! I may be blocked but @sbdiocese @SanBernardinoPD @SanBernardinoVE @SanBernardinoPy @SanBernardinoCA @thehill @nytimes @JudicialWatch @washingtonpost @FoxNews @fox5dc @latimes @SouthcaliUSA pic.twitter.com/fTWSDrBCga

— BettyMarroquín (@BettyMarroquin9) May 7, 2019

UPDATE:  Welcome readers of Bad Blue Uncensored News and thank you Doug Ross for linking to this post. 

Unplanned - A Movie Review, Sort Of

First, a little background. I went to see the movie "Unplanned" Monday. Seems rather apt, since I wasn't planning on seeing it, until I became aware of the coordinated efforts on the Left to keep this movie from being seen. There was an overall media blackout. I hadn't heard any buzz about it, and aside from an occasional ad on Fox (props to them, by the way), I'd heard nothing about it. Seems that they tried to buy ads on Lifetime, Hallmark and HGTV, who weren't accepting its ads. Twitter was playing Mickey Mouse games with the movie's Twitter account followers, unfollowing them, hiding the account.

And then, irony of ironies, the movie was given an "R" rating! Totally unjustified! I watched a program on broadcast TV a couple of nights ago, where a man was brutally stabbed to death, in a much more graphic display of violence than anything you will see in this movie. So imagine people who think that fifteen year olds should be able to get an abortion without their parents' permission, cannot watch a movie about abortion, without their parents' permission!

Why doesn't the Left want anyone to see this movie? Because it gives an honest portrayal of Planned Parenthood and their place in the abortion industry. Unplanned is the story of Abby Johnson, an idealistic young woman who went to work for PP, and in eight years, became their youngest clinic director in the nation. This story is, as they say in the vernacular, "ripped from the headlines", which provides fodder for countless TV shows and movies, but this movie shows an honest and unflattering peek behind Planned Parenthood's closed doors, which made it  radioactive to the usual media suspects.

But Abby Johnson is no plaster saint. She had one failed marriage and two abortions herself. The pro-life protesters are not air brushed. Some outside the clinics shout "Baby killer", one wears a Grim Reaper outfit. The movie flashes back to Abby's college days where she is recruited as a PP volunteer. The lead actress, Ashley Bratcher, does an excellent job of portraying this woman on her journey to enlightenment. The supporting cast is good, perhaps not as polished as they might be, but considering the size of the budget and the subject matter, the cast is solid. There's even a cameo by "That Pillow Guy", Mike Lindell, who helped finance the project.

The accompanying music was quite good, considering the fact that a number of people refused to license their music for use in the movie.

Unplanned is the 'Little Movie That Could', overcoming opposition and great odds to tell a story that every teenage child in the country should see, before they consider an abortion for themselves, or helping a friend to get one.

In spite of all the obstacles placed in its way, "Unplanned" finished in 5th place at the box office this weekend. It is heart tugging and heart breaking at times, but well worth the price of admission. I give it four out of five stars.

As Alexandra DeSanctis put it, "None of it is easy to watch. But none of it is a lie."

Gosnell - A Movie Review

Permit me, if you will, a brief aside before I begin the Gosnell movie review. As you will soon evidence for yourselves, I do not write movie reviews for living. In fact, I haven't written one in a little over a year. I just haven't been that excited about the Hollywood fare, and even if a movie pops up that I'm mildly interested in seeing, if it isn't playing at my local theater, four miles away, I'll wait for it to come out on Blu-Ray. There's another theater in town, newer and nicer, ten miles away, but there can be a hassle with parking so...I pass.

But a couple nights ago, there was a movie I wanted to see, so I drove down to see it... 347 miles...one way! In the interest of full disclosure, I am one of the film's "angels". I contributed to the IndieGOGO crowd funding that put up the money to have this movie made. As such, I was invited to the Hollywood premiere of the film. It was worth the trip.

The picture starts with a stake out on a drug bust. Someone had been writing 'scrips for prescription drugs like oxycodone, which were being sold on the street. Turns out some of those illegal 'scrips were written out of the office of an abortion doctor, Dr. Kermit Gosnell. A raid of Dr. Gosnell's clinic turned up a number of disturbing things.

The movie is part cop show, part procedural, part courtroom drama. This movie, based on a true story, has "ripped from the headlines" written all over it. Although, in fact, there weren't that many headlines written about it. The movie touches on that. The story of the investigation, the arrest and the prosecution were all tinged by the "third rails" of race and abortion. The agencies charged with keeping abortion clinics safe, clean and hygienic were instructed not to inspect Gosnell's inner-city abortion clinic "unless there was a complaint". And even though there were multiple complaints, officials managed to look the other way. During the grand jury hearing, we discover that nail clinics are inspected for cleanliness once a year, but Gosnell's clinic went for seventeen years without an inspection.

When the cops arrived looking for drugs, the conditions were appalling. There was filth and unsanitary conditions. The smells were unspeakable. We discover through grand jury and court testimony that when the restrooms were full, pregnant women sometimes were forced to urinate in the halls. Which no one cleaned up. They had that in common with the cats that roamed the clinic.

Kermit Gosnell is a peculiar man, almost charming in an old-fashioned southern gentleman way. He keeps endangered turtles in his office, which he apparently cared for more than any human life. His manner and affectation was of someone who did nothing wrong, even famously playing the piano as police searched his house.

As I said, the movie is part cop show, part procedural, part courtroom drama. It's a murder mystery that involved an abortionist. This is not an anti-abortion film per se. The only evidence of an anti-abortion position was on the first day of the trial. Expecting a huge crowd of reporters, the prosecutors rolled up to the front steps of the courthouse, but there were only a half a dozen people on the steps. Two of them were guards or bailiffs, and way off to the side, there were two people setting up a card table, with some pro-life signs around them. Other than this fleeting glimpse, no one is preaching against abortion. It's not a preachy film at all.

Although the crimes were quite horrific, this is not a graphically violent film. It's rated PG-13. It shares a trait with the ancient Greek tragedies, where all of the violence occurred offstage. There are disturbing things described, including a powerfully moving photo taken by one of the clinic's amateur nurses (Gosnell had children as young as fifteen administering anesthesia), which is shown to the jury and the gallery at the trial, but not to the audience. Yet for all the seriousness of the subject, there are some genuinely funny moments in the film from the wit of screenwriter Andrew Klaven, and the deft direction of Nick Searcy.

The story is powerful and moving. Do not be surprised if certain moments move you to tears. Director Searcy, also playing the defense attorney, guides the story along nicely. Dean Cain plays the detective, whose drug raid lead to a murder investigation, who can't understand why there isn't a police report when a healthy woman enters an abortion clinic and ends up dead. Janine Turner, of Northern Exposure fame, portrays a legal abortionist who testifies as to what a clean clinic, with a properly trained staff should be. Ironically, her testimony scored points for both the defense and the prosecution. Sarah Jane Morris plays the pro-choice prosecutor walking the tightrope of prosecuting the abortionist but not attacking abortion. Earl Billings plays the title roll with a charming creepiness about him.

The acting and the production values are first-rate. The story is compelling and the biggest question that may be in the mind of everyone leaving the theater is "Why didn't I hear more about this when it was happening?"

I highly recommend this movie. It's a crime that was overlooked and a prosecution that nearly didn't happen, in a movie that the networks and big studios didn't want to make. While producers are doing reboots of '80s TV shows, Rocky XVII and Fast and Furious 27, here is an original movie, factually based on a real story, with a large portion of the dialogue taken from the trial and grand jury reports, with an important story that needed to be told.

Last I heard, it was opening in 650 screens. Do yourself a favor and see it.

For another great review, see: WHY ‘GOSNELL’ COULD ROCK HOLLYWOOD, ABORTION DEBATE -BY CHRISTIAN TOTO

Wizard of Odds

The Spectacular Implosion Of Wendy Davis

Perusing the web Sunday morning and settling on reviewing what Real Clear Politics had to offer, I found a link to National Review correspondent Kevin D. Williamson’s article, “Twilight of the Froot Loops.”

Many across the Leftist blogosphere have eviscerated Mr. Williamson for his stance on abortion—the same crowd that under-reported the slaughterhouse run by Dr. Kermit Gosnell because it was a testament to the butchery of abortions.  While his ideology may seem harsh at times, he stands on the side of pro-life issues. 

Having said that, the midterm election is Tuesday and the Great State of Texas has been embroiled in a malicious gubernatorial race between the darling of Planned Parenthood and abortion advocates and a wheelchair-bound man.

Wendy Davis is the Democrat Party’s star in deep red Texas who jumped into the governor’s race after gaining national attention for filibustering a restrictive abortion measure.  Democrats have dreamed of turning the state blue.

Rarely have I read a more consummate disemboweling of a public personality:

“I note that the implosion of Wendy Davis’s ugly and vacuous gubernatorial campaign in Texas has been a satisfying spectacle. On Tuesday, it is all but inevitable that Greg Abbot’s campaign and Texas voters are going to beat Wendy Davis like a circus monkey, and it will be her second significant defeat in the campaign: She ran triumphantly unopposed in the New York Times primary, with Robert Draper all but kissing the hem of her garment, but she took a beating in the Rio Grande primary, with her penniless nobody opponent outperforming her in critical border counties that had gone heavily for Barack Obama in the presidential elections. 

[SNIP] 

Her candidacy was the product of abortion fanaticism and almost nothing else. Texas Democrats have a pronounced weakness for abortion fanaticism, an inclination having something to do with their being fascinated by the grotesque line of succession from the late Governor Ann Richards, abortion fanatic par excellence, to her daughter, Cecile, the butcher’s apprentice who today serves as the public face of Planned Parenthood. 

[SNIP] 

That being said, there is something special about the fanaticism of Wendy Davis, because there is something special about abortion fanaticism. There are people of good faith and defective judgment on the pro-choice side of the argument, and then there are lunatics. I was at a party some years ago and winced as a 100 percent pro-choice Democratic member of the Pennsylvania state house, attempting to have an earnest discussion of the abortion question with me, was interrupted primly by his fanatical girlfriend every time he pronounced the descriptor “pro-life”—“anti-choice!” she insisted, at least 20 times over the course of a conversation that lasted maybe as many minutes. The bravest of soldiers fighting in the best of causes can concede that war is hell, full of mistakes and moral compromises, but the abortion fanatic cannot concede that over the normal course of human affairs every abortion represents a failure and a tragedy, something that should be obvious even to people who support abortion rights. 

But there is no reasoning with a fanatic. Barring some unforeseen outbreak of mass asininity, there’s no electing one governor of Texas, either.

Rot In Hell Kermit Gosnell

Don't think of it as a 'death sentence.' Think of it as a 280th-trimester medical procedure. #Gosnell

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) May 13, 2013

Imagine how Dante would have described Gosnell's place in Hell.

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) May 13, 2013

Little Bodies And The Conscience Of A Nation

“The deafening silence of too much of the media, once a force for justice in America, is a disgrace.”

Who wrote this?

It was part of an opinion piece at USA Today, written by Kirsten Powers.  Yes, that Kirsten Powers.

“A Lexis-Nexis search shows none of the news shows on the three major national television networks has mentioned the Gosnell trial in the last three months. The exception is when Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan hijacked a segment on Meet the Press meant to foment outrage over an anti-abortion rights law in some backward red state.” 

“The Washington Post has not published original reporting on this during the trial and The New York Times saw fit to run one original story on A-17 on the trial's first day. They've been silent ever since, despite headline-worthy testimony.”

Then PhillyBurbs.com columnist J. D. Mullane tweeted a photo of the empty seats in Courtroom 304 for the media in the “house of horrors” trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell.

Suddenly, the “Gosnell Media Blackout” was broken and the ensuing uneasiness of publishing a story that brings shame and disgrace on the Fourth Estate and proponents of abortion rights began in earnest.

The baby butcher’s trial received no mentions on NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC and PBS programming until last week. Until Friday, CNN had aired only 76 words on the trial when host Jake Tapper mentioned it March 28. The Washington Post hadn’t reported a word on the trial until Friday.

On April 11^th, the same day Mullane tweeted the photo of the empty media seats; Rep. Christopher Smith (R-NJ) “delivered a series of special-order speeches” on the floor of the House asking, “When will the media blackout stop? Will America ever be told about the brutality of abortion and the violence that is commonplace inside the abortion industry? Or will the media continue to censor this trial of the century, because it exposes an all too inconvenient truth that not only are unborn children destroyed in these killing centers, but that even babies who survive the abortion can’t escape the deadly hand of the child predator.”

The defiance of the liberal narrative about abortion is bound to explode.  They insist that the Gosnell story makes their case for guaranteeing decent medical care. The heinous acts of which he stands accused are depraved and the good doctor is their worst nightmare.

USA Today reports today that “President Obama is keeping abreast of the ongoing murder trial of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, but the White House is steering clear of delving too deeply into the case.”

"The president does not and cannot take a position on an ongoing trial, so I won't as well," said White House press secretary Jay Carney.

For babies utterly alone on a cold stainless steel table in some abortion mill, the president has already made his position known.  For those few frail breaths they take before having their spines snipped he said:

“I just want to be clear because I think this was the source of the objections of the Medical Society. As I understand it, this puts the burden on the attending physician who has determined, since they were performing this procedure, that, in fact, this is a nonviable fetus; that if that fetus, or child—however way you want to describe it—is now outside the mother's womb and the doctor continues to think that its nonviable but there's, let’s say, movement or some indication that, in fact, they're not just out limp and dead, they would then have to call a second physician to monitor and check off and make sure that this is not a live child that could be saved. Is that correct?” 

Planned Parenthood: A Grotesque Code Of Morals

Does life in the 21^st century mean that in order to be a woman she must include the act of murder?

I was dazed when I heard that Alisa LaPolt Snow, a lobbyist for the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, testified before a committee in the Florida House of Representatives last week against legislation crafted to protect the life of an infant born alive after a botched abortion.

Found at the PPA website is the following opinion of the abortion mill organization regarding HB 1129 “Infants Born Alive”:

This legislation is politically motivated and inflammatory language.  It inserts politics where it doesn’t belong by implying doctors and women who end a pregnancy can’t be trusted. Legislation should not be created with the intent of coercing, shaming, or judging a woman or doctor. It is important that abortion remain a safe and legal medical procedure for a woman to consider with her doctor, if and when she needs it.

Snow’s macabre rationalization had one legislator utterly dumbfounded.  He asked, "So, um, it is just really hard for me to even ask you this question because I'm almost in disbelief. If a baby is born on a table as a result of a botched abortion, what would Planned Parenthood want to have happen to that child that is struggling for life?"

Snow answered that her organization "believes that any decision that's made should be left up to the woman, her family and the physician."

Another legislator followed up, asking Snow, "You stated that a baby born alive on a table as a result of a botched abortion that that decision should be left to the doctor and the family. Is that what you’re saying?”

Again, Snow replied, “That decision should be between the patient and the health care provider.”

That prompted the legislator to incredulously ask, “I think that at that point the patient would be the child struggling on the table, wouldn’t you agree?”

Snow nervously responded, “That’s a very good question. I really don’t know how to answer that. I would be glad to have some more conversations with you about this.”

So inept and ghoulish was this woman’s testimony that on April 1, 2013 Planned Parenthood issued the following statement:

Last week, a panel of Florida state legislators demanded speculation about a vague set of extremely unlikely and highly unusual medical circumstances.  Medical guidelines and ethics already compel physicians facing life-threatening circumstances to respond, and Planned Parenthood physicians provide high-quality medical care and adhere to the most rigorous professional standards, including providing emergency care. In the extremely unlikely event that the scenario presented by the panel of legislators should happen, of course Planned Parenthood would provide appropriate care to both the woman and the infant.

The abortion mills of Planned Parenthood are in the hot seat because they and all the other abortion rights absolutists are reading the sickening headlines about Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortion doctor on trial for his life.  He faces seven counts of first-degree murder of infants born during illegal late-term abortions killed when he “snipped their necks with surgical scissors.”

A woman’s right to choose should be before she spreads her legs, not after the fact.  The wrong choice drives them to abortion, infanticide, prostitution and self-destruction.

Hell, meet handbasket.