Lawrence O’Donnell on his show Friday read an email from a woman who said she couldn’t afford either cable or birth control so “please Lawrence,” she wrote, “shout some sense into them.”
The way O’Donnell said that she couldn’t “even afford cable t.v. to watch this program” as though it was the Great Depression and she was going without food rather than cable.
In his haste to carry water for abortion advocates, O’Donnell makes no mention of the Women’s Health Program in Medicaid that already does exactly the things Planned Parenthood does (and even provides mammograms) or the many other clinics and organizations which do the same thing.
If having another access point to women’s health is so important, then why doesn’t Planned Parenthood drop abortions – or why don’t their supporters ask them to stop performing abortions? Is it that the procedure is such a commodity for Planned Parenthood that they don’t want to turn away the millions they make off of it every year? Why does Planned Parenthood and its supporters want to use women’s health as a sacrificial lamb for abortion, if in fact they care about women’s health as much as they claim?
O’Donnell responded to the criticism of his teary display by saying he “failed.” Not on the facts, but just on emotion. Sigh.