Cecile Richards: When life begins isn’t relevant to the conversation

Planned Parenthood tries very hard to keep the truth about fetal development from women. They’ve been caught manipulating the facts and giving women false information about their pregnancy. It makes sense, though. Planned Parenthood is the country’s largest abortion provider. If women were to know the truth about the inherent humanity of the unborn, it would likely put a big dent in their business.

Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, recently did an interview with Fusion TV’s America with Jorge Ramos. Interestingly, Ramos asked Richards when she felt that life began. The exchange was awkward, to say the least.

She certainly tried to dance her way out of answering that question, huh?

One interesting aspect of that conversation is how heavily Richards touted the “options” Planned Parenthood gives women. Planned Parenthood’s most recent annual report shows that they’re really only interested in one option, and that’s abortion. Prenatal care has decreased, as did the number of adoption referrals. They performed 149 abortions for every one adoption referral.

And much like pro-abortion MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry, Richards evidently feels that life begins whenever a person feels like it does. Science? Who needs science when you’ve got feelings instead?

And why would the science of embryology, pregnancy, and reproduction be irrelevant to the conversation? Of course it’s irrelevant for Richards, whose livelihood relies on women believing that life can begin at conception, or at 12 weeks, or 20 weeks, at birth, or whenever you feel like it does.

If science were to definitively say that life begins at conception (which it does), and Richards were to admit that, then she’s admitting that her business is one of snuffing out a life for pay. It makes her a glorified hit man in heels. The problem is that the science of embryology and reproduction has answered that question — life begins at conception — and the question is not over whether or not the baby is alive, but whether killing this life is acceptable.

Abortion advocates say no problem because he’s too small, because he depends on the mother to grow and thrive, because he lives within the mother’s body. They give plenty of excuses, but dance around the “question” of when life begins because it’s an ugly, ugly truth for them. Ignore the science. Focus on your feelings. Moral relativism is key. After all, what’s murder for one person is just taking care of a little problem for another.

Editor’s Note, 3/24/21: A statistic from a third party stating that 94% of Planned Parenthood’s services to pregnant women is abortion has been removed due to possible statistical inaccuracies.