On Monday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren had testy words for politicians out for Planned Parenthood's
This a.m., Joe Scarborough was having none of it - "You can be against the funding of Planned Parenthood without being against the support of women's health. Nice try, Elizabeth Warren.... For Elizabeth Warren to try to conflate the right of a woman to choose with the horrors and the callousness and the grotesqueness of what was discussed over lunch [in the video] is really unfortunate.
When his co-host, Mika Brzezinski, pointed out, "Just to be clear here, she's talking about the issue of defunding Planned Parenthood and its services. She not talking about what's going on in these videos," he didn't buy that either.
"There are troubling things on those tapes, and everybody needs to open their eyes and see that instead of reflexively talking about right-wing attacks on a women's right to choose. Please, stop insulting our intelligence, Elizabeth Warren. Stop."
Joe is another conservative doing a darn good job summing up the right's reasoning to defund Planned Parenthood - because of the horrors, the callousness, the grotesqueness "of what was discussed over lunch." In videos even the producers cop to editing for shock value. He sums up their run-'em-out-of-town reasoning in his impossible-to-dispute claim that "there are troubling things on those tapes." There are - and the producers acknowledge they're being edited for maximum shock value.
I don't think Elizabeth Warren is insulting Joe Scarborough's intelligence, nor the intelligence of anyone clamoring to defund Planned Parenthood based on the videos. She seems pretty spot on. Because defunding the organization won't make a smidgen of difference to providing abortion services - check out the Hyde Amendment. But it will play havoc with the other women's & reproductive health care that make up 95% of its services.
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