Rantz: Planned Parenthood activists whitewash abortion services to reject defunding argument

You’re being gaslit around defunding Planned Parenthood, and you shouldn’t fall for it.

In a recent Tacoma News Tribune op-ed, a retired Washington family doctor spun a sympathetic tale, lamenting that patients might lose access to vital services if Planned Parenthood were to lose its Medicaid funding. Her analysis is framed around a recent Supreme Court decision that allows states to cut funding to Planned Parenthood and federal efforts to defund it.

Dr. Judy Kimelman, a retired OB/GYN and the past chair of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists for the Western States, painted a picture of a healthcare apocalypse, where women across the state would be deprived of everything from contraception to life-saving cancer screenings. It’s an emotional, compelling narrative. It’s also profoundly dishonest.

Abortion is entirely omitted from the op-ed

The entire piece engages in a manipulative omission, deliberately ignoring the basic argument: Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion provider. This isn’t an incidental part of their business, either. It is their business. And it’s the only reason their taxpayer funding is the subject of debate.

To read the op-ed is to exist in an alternate reality where the organization is little more than a charitable community clinic. Kimelman doesn’t mention the word “abortion” once. Not a single time. It’s a fact so central to the discussion that its absence isn’t an oversight, but a calculated deception designed to mislead you.

According to its own 2023-2024 annual report, Planned Parenthood performed a record-breaking 402,230 abortions in a single year. It’s an ironic record given the Democrats spent the last couple of years claiming Republicans outlawed abortion, forcing women into back alleys.

While Planned Parenthood was busy setting that grim record, the healthcare services they pretend are the main offerings, like cancer screenings, continued a years-long decline. For every one adoption referral Planned Parenthood made, they performed 187 abortions, according to the Charlotte Lozier Institute. This is not a healthcare organization that happens to provide abortions. It is an abortion enterprise that offers other services on the side.

And who pays for this enterprise? You do. Last year, Planned Parenthood raked in $792.2 million in government funding — money from your taxes. That’s over $2.1 million flowing from the public purse into their coffers every single day.

A really dishonest argument

The argument from defenders like Kimelman is that without these public funds, Planned Parenthood couldn’t provide its other services. This is the core of the gaslighting campaign. They are holding women’s healthcare hostage to protect their abortion business.

The solution is simple. If Planned Parenthood truly cared about providing contraception, STI testing, and prenatal care to low-income women, it could continue to receive hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars for those very services. All they would have to do is separate their abortion operations from their other healthcare services into a distinct, financially independent entity.

But they refuse. For Planned Parenthood and for activists masquerading as family doctors, abortion is mission-critical and non-negotiable. They would rather sacrifice every cancer screening and every contraceptive prescription than give up a single dollar that frees up other money to facilitate their primary, grisly work. They are willing to let women go without care to ensure they can continue to end the lives of unborn babies with public subsidies.

Don’t fall for the gaslighting

When a physician claims that restricting their funding is an attack on women’s health, what they are really saying is that a woman’s health is less important than protecting their abortion empire.

The reality is, no one is trying to stop Planned Parenthood from existing. No one is trying to ban abortion outright through this funding debate. The issue is, and has always been, about one thing: should taxpayers be forced to subsidize the nation’s leading abortion provider? The answer is a resounding no.

Don’t fall for this emotional blackmail. Don’t let them gaslight you into believing this is about anything other than what it is. This is a fight over abortion and whether you should be compelled to pay for it. The fact that they have to lie and omit the truth to make their case tells you everything you need to know.

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