You started it, Carly.
I will not link to the David Daleiden/”Center for Medical Progress” videos themselves and add to their page views.
But the graphic scene she describes DOES NOT EXIST in the video.
There is footage of an intact fetus. However:
- David Daleiden admits the footage was not obtained at a Planned Parenthood facility.
- no one is talking about “keep[ing] it alive so we can harvest its brain” in the voiceover.
- the woman in the voiceover is not a PP employee
- she is a distraught former employee of StemExpress, a company that obtains samples for medical institutions doing fetal tissue research
- and she is not talking about the fetus in the video and was never in the same room with it.
Not only that, the famous picture later in that same video of two hands cradling a fully gestated fetus is actually a photo of a stillbirth and NOT an aborted fetus.
Planned Parenthood provides fetal tissue for medical research like that done by noted neurosurgeon and Republicon presidential candidate Ben Carson. PP used to get reimbursements for processing/transporting fees. As of last week PP no longer accepts reimbursement for these expenses, even though they were completely legal, in order to take that rhetorical weapon away from forced-birth advocates.
CarLIE FIBorina’s politically motivated exaggerations have directly contributed to stirring up violence against providers of abortion care, and she knows it. It was the first question asked and answered when she went on Fakes News Sunday this morning, and she did her best to deflect and shift blame in that way that wingnuts do when they KNOW they are in the wrong, claiming that the left is trying to link the Colorado PP shooting deaths to “anyone who opposes abortion”.
That’s a load of bull.
We are not laying the deaths of those three people at the feet of "anyone who opposes abortion”, Carly. We are linking this to YOU.
YOU are the one who swallowed the Daleiden propaganda video whole as if it were the truth, and encouraged others to do the same.
YOU are the one who went on national television in front of millions of people and used that platform to add your Big Lie to the thoroughly debunked tactics of Daleiden and his fake biomedical research company.
YOU are the one who popularized the meme about PP selling baby parts for profit, in exchange for a momentary bump in the polls that has long since disappeared, leaving you scrambling for some other way to draw attention to yourself and your stagnant campaign.
But you are right about one thing. This is about the character of our nation.
This is about whether we can get voters to challenge GOPropaganda and stop blindly accepting it as truth.
This is about how many Big Lies presidential candidates can tell before someone takes them to task.
This is about whether someone who wants to be the leader of the free world is capable of basic fact checking before planting dangerous ideas in the minds of the ignorant, gullible and unstable.
This is about whether incitement to violence has any consequences for people on the Red Team, or whether IOKIYAR.
We are not blaming the deaths of Jennifer Markovsky, Ke’Arre Stewart and Garrett Swasey on “anyone who opposes abortion”, Carly.
We are blaming it on YOU.