How many lives are on these people's heads?
The most glaring hypocrisy of most of the people in the anti-choice movement is how the whole "culture of life" philosophy stops at the moment of delivery. That's glaringly apparent in the latest attacks on Planned Parenthood for "selling baby parts," or in actuality facilitating the donation of fetal tissue from abortions, when the patient requests it, for medical research. That medical research
is increasingly jeopardized as Planned Parenthood and other groups curtail their role in donations.
One month ago, six Planned Parenthood clinics allowed women to donate aborted fetus tissue for medical research. Now, there are just two that do—a sign that the future of the programs could be in serious jeopardy. […]
The fallout from the videos was detailed for the first time last Friday in an 11-page letter sent to congressional leadership by Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards.
Three affiliates in California have stopped accepting fetal tissue donations because of controversy surrounding the videos, including one provider that received "security threats," Richards said. Another affiliate has postponed its program while undergoing renovations, she said. […]
Separately, at least one institution — Colorado State University — has suspended its program until the video controversy is fully investigated. Faculty are now asked to “seek alternatives” for their research, the university’s president, Tony Frank, wrote in response to a letter to Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.).
So all the non-fetus people out there who are sufferers and potential sufferers of the numerous diseases researchers are using fetal tissue to combat—Parkinsons, macular degeneration, various cancers, spinal cord injuries, and AIDS and Ebola. Your life and your health doesn't count. Not any more than the life of the woman whose body is nothing more than a vessel for sacred fetuses. Same goes for the millions of people who didn't get hepatitis A, German measles, chicken pox, and rabies because they got vaccinated—vaccines developed with fetal tissue.
This isn't really news. The worst of these extremists are more than happy to take the lives of actual, living people to see a fetus preserved. So it's nothing to them to take away health care from the women who would be carrying those fetuses, or the medical research that might end up saving those fetuses' actual lives some time in the future. Getting them born is all that matters. After that they can suffer and die.