The Planned Parenthood Undercover Video | National Catholic Reporter

The Planned Parenthood Undercover Video | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Undercover journalism is one thing if it honestly portrays what happens, and this might.  The fact of the matter is that in 90% of abortions, first trimester embryos are not available to dissect, they are microscopic.  In the second trimester (or God forbid, the third), there is usually a medical reason for the abortion - just as there is a medical reason for what is also called an abortion when an already deceased fetus is evacuated to study what went wrong.  That this can be discussed over wine and salad is not outrageous if you are a pathologist or employ pathologists.  Its how people compartmentalize life.  Some folks can't talk money over dinner instead, or politics or religion (I avoid such people who can't handle the last two).



As I said yesterday on the link and on Becket, that a hit piece was edited from such discussions is less shocking than the video.  I expect it, in fact.  That is why this video is going to be no new source of life for the pro-life movement - it is about fundraising and picking off a few easy targets to join that side and getting an indignant column from Catholic writers who hope for a resolution of the issue with a thumb on the pro-life side.  My thumb used to be there - I took it off and am lucky it did not have to be amputated.



There is no answer to the abortion question that does not include the Catholic Church giving up on saving the 90% of pregnancies lost in the first trimester (as embryos).  We might get a bit more regulation by states on later term incidents, however even then the Church needs to realize that God is no Ogre and that children who would die anyway should be allowed to be born and sent to the Lord (who is not an ogre) as soon as possible.   That shifts the entire debate to funding children until college (not pregnancies until birth) - and helping children who have children do so without losing careers and providing as much care to Downs patients as they need to get to independent living - including no more NIMBY restrictions on housing.  In other words, the Church needs to surrender to win and take those thumbs off the partisan scale while they can still keep them to say Mass.  (how is that for a graphic analogy).