Murder Only 3% of the Time

So the Senate voted to defund Planned Parenthood, and for this we ought lift up grateful praise to the Lord for a small victory. However, you’ll likely see the Twitter-sphere abuzz with how calloused these politicians are to deprive women of their healthcare, when abortions are only 3% of what PP does.

Planned Parenthood claims abortions account for only 3% of their services; this is a profoundly deceptive statistic. This is creative marketing. They also count handing out a condom as one of their services. It’s like a Doctor amputating a patients leg, handing him an aspirin and then claiming that the amputation was only 50% of the procedure. Or as Rich Lowry finely illustrated here: “Major League Baseball teams could say that they sell about 20 million hot dogs and play 2,430 games in a season, so baseball is only .012 percent of what they do.”

Nevertheless, by whatever metric you decide to use…it is intolerable to legally allow the dismembering of an unborn infant and then to also fund it via tax dollars. By Planned Parenthood’s metric a serial murderer could claim that only 3% of his activities were murder, and so if you want to execute him you must be against eating cereal and getting dressed in the morning. Hater…