We cats just sent a donation to Planned Parenthood, because, well, you know. And we hope that all those anti-choicers who are screaming about fetal tissue in research have loved ones who suffer from muscular dystrophy, Parkinson's or a degenerative disease of the retina. Or, even better, maybe they do. As opinion leaders more talented than we are have pointed out, medical research is not for the faint of heart.
But at the same time, we agree with Hillary Clinton that the Planned Parenthood "gotcha" videos are disturbing.
Here's why.
As we've already pointed out, we have no idea why PP's senior director of medical research was drinking wine at a business lunch. Has she been disciplined for that? Because using fetal tissue in research is defensible, and Planned Parenthood has been scrupulous in following the law about it. But it's just damn careless to treat the meal with the fake, phony and totally not real "Biomax" folks as a happy hour get-together, especially when the topic of your conversation is as serious and (pun intended) sobering as enabling medical breakthroughs. Sorry, Ms. PP Senior Director: Red wine at a weekday lunch is for folks in Montreal who know how to handle it. Not for you.
Second, Planned Parenthood gets 10,000 demerits for being snookered by these anti-woman jackasses. After years — nay, decades — of opposition, including intimidation, harassment and even murder, you would think that our side would be a lot more sophisticated than that. You get a call from "Biomax"? Do you research the company online before you meet? Do you check with your contacts in the biomedical research field to see if anybody's heard of them? Do you just use a freaking ounce of common sense before you agree to have lunch with them and share a bottle of Merlot? This drives us cats absolutely mad, and now that we've started venting about it we almost want to take our donation back.
Except that we don't. Because Planned Parenthood deserves to survive, and idiots like Rand Paul and Ben Carson and all the other penis people in the Republican Party are on the wrong side of reason. So we hope that Planned Parenthood has learned its lesson, and that this kind of crap will, someday soon, be a thing of the past. We cats PURR at the same time that we HISS.
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