Friday, March 18, 2022
By Gary Bauer
Leave it to Planned Parenthood to sink to the bottom of the swamp and keep digging. The abortion Goliath, swollen with tax dollars, hit a new low at the South by Southwest music and arts festival in Austin, Texas, this past week.
Smearing another icon of Americana, Planned Parenthood retrofitted an ice cream truck and festooned it with messages advocating abortion and filling it with swag bags containing free condoms and "education" materials.
If you're like me, you remember summer days when Mr. Softee or the Good Humor van came down the street, chiming merrily with bright signs and yellow carnival lights. More than once, I remember digging into my pockets to see if I had enough coins to get an ice cream cone that day.
Planned Parenthood doesn't quite feel nostalgia the way you and I do. For them, abortion and the sexualization of young girls (see these images from the Texas event) are themes for celebration. Planned Parenthood national president and CEO Alexis McGill screeched the words emblazoned on the truck, "Ice scream, you scream, we all scream for abortion rights."
To her followers, this is no matter for sensitivity or discretion. It's a joyful enterprise, akin to motherhood and apple pie. This is how you come to see the world when you work for an entity that aborts more American children than any other group in the nation, 350,000 or more per year.
This is the jaded reward you reap for the $45 million you spent last cycle to elect legislators and the Biden-Harris Administration to give you everything your business demands. This is what set the stage for the vote earlier this month on a proposed federal "health" bill that would have mowed down every last state law limiting abortion, including parental notice laws that the vast majority of families support.
Thankfully, this bill failed. But it reminds us of what we are up against – a relentless enterprise steeped in blood and brutality that thinks America ought to be a place where ice cream trucks touting abortion come chiming down the street where you live.
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