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Special Report
Aborting ‘Pro-Choice,’ Promoting ‘Nuance’
Forty years after Roe, Planned Parenthood is calling for changes in its PR strategy.
As the United States –– with over a million abortions a year, one of the highest abortion rates among Western industrialized nations –– prepares to recognize the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, abortion activists are quietly launching a new public relations strategy. Planned Parenthood, after admitting to selected reporters that the “pro-choice” label has lost its appeal, is moving to more “nuanced” language that conveys the “complicated” nature of abortion. The need for an abortion, claims Planned Parenthood, is “situational” and “depends on an individual’s circumstances.” Since no one else can know those situations or circumstances, Planned Parenthood has declared (with its superior standards of morality) that it is “wrong to make a judgment” about aborting a baby.
It appears that Planned Parenthood is responding to a Gallup poll: Americans now tilt pro-life by 9 percentage points, polling 50 percent pro-life to 41 percent pro-choice –– a record low for pro-choice support. Even more ominous is the fact that 42 anti-abortion measures were enacted in 25 states during 2012. One abortion advocate described the pro-life victories as “death by a thousand tiny cuts.” As a result, abortion advocates are facing criticisms in their own camp that they are “tone-deaf” to the “current reality.” Former NARAL president Nancy Keenan, in a stark assessment of the pro-choice movement, said it suffered from “waning enthusiasm and aging leadership,” whereas the expanding pro-life movement is “energetic and intense.” Its own critics acknowledge that the abortion industry’s extreme positions and their radicalism have alienated all but the die-hard, unquestioning loyalists and caused those in the uncommitted middle to avoid being associated with the label “pro-choice.”
A Planned Parenthood official described the “pro-choice” label as “frivolous” and Frances Kissling, well-known abortion advocate, lamented its lack of “gravitas.” With numbers declining for the “pro-choice” position, abortion advocates think that their new gobbledygook will obscure the tragic reality and finality of the abortion “choice.” Also importantly, a nuanced “choice” position will be harder to poll as the sole contrast to the pro-life position.
Planned Parenthood’s new “Not in Her Shoes” campaign emphasizes the importance of being non-judgmental; its YouTube ad features one student who rejects the idea of “defining one another” or putting labels on “this term” (abortion) that “don’t even make sense.” Another student wants to avoid putting “people in boxes” because “abortion is not a boxed-in issue.” A third student goes more universal and philosophical, declaring Roe to be a “symbol of progress for our nation”; therefore, we should remove all the labels, avoid judging others, and “move towards a notion of reproductive justice and equality.” As Steve Ertelt quoted one feminist leader observing, “Most Americans are pro-life with three exceptions: rape, incest, and ‘my situation.’”
The bottom line is that Planned Parenthood is going warm and fuzzy rather than put forward logical factual arguments. One writer described the goal as wrapping advocacy in “rhetorical gauze to soften the blow.” These advocates will talk about being non-judgmental, not putting people or issues in boxes and they will appeal to “reproductive justice and equality” in order to broaden their agenda to address what they view as related issues (child care, homosexual rights, health insurance, and economic opportunity). With nearly 30 percent of the public falling in the “ambivalent middle,” on controversial issues, Planned Parenthood has crafted a strategy to grab that ambivalence, hop on the non-judgmental bandwagon, and provide a deliberately hazy concept enabling individuals to shape their attitude toward abortion into whatever contours fit their preference.
After all, they want to convey, it’s just the wrong words that cause the problems –– in other words, abortion in and of itself is not the problem; it is just the way everyone talks about abortion. Planned Parenthood, and the abortion industry in general, seems to think that they can continue to operate with less regulation than veterinary clinics, treat women with less care and follow-up than a beautician, and everything will be fine as long as they use more nuanced words in their advertising and public relations brochures. Their new approach uses the same deceptions that have misled abortion clients in the past and they are capable of the same pain that has damaged millions of women since Roe. The message is new, but the reality remains the same.
IRONICALLY, PLANNED PARENTHOOD’S new deception strategy coincides with a recent cover story in Time magazine reporting that pro-abortion forces have been losing on the abortion issue –– both at the federal and, especially, at the state level –– in the four decades since Roe v. Wade made access to abortion a “constitutional right.” A “constitutional right,” by the way, that, though they continue to tout as the “crowning achievement of the 20th century women’s movement, came about when seven male Supreme Court Justices (in what many constitutional scholars view as one of history’s worst judicial rulings) imposed the law by judicial fiat.
Other mainstream media have, likewise, chimed in to note the successes of the Pro-Life movement. A Washington Post article by Sarah Kliff spread the alarm, “It’s never been this frightening before!” Kliff came to similar conclusions as the Time magazine article: that the pro-life movement’s incremental strategy is working and the pro-abortion movement is in trouble. As Michael New (political science professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn) noted in a LifeNews.com article, both Time and the Washington Post are worried about “young physicians” who don’t want to provide abortions and “young professionals” who are not interested in “abortion-rights activism.” New calls attention to the fact that both articles portray abortion advocates as “more pessimistic than they have ever been.” It seems the abortion movement elite leadership is worried that this trend will ultimately translate into a drying up of pivotal fundraising streams. This would explain the recent trend to push for more and more taxpayer funding of the abortion cause.
Pro-lifers have always pointed out that the “pro-choice” branding is purposely misleading; women generally choose abortion when they think they don’t have a choice. Often the woman is told that if she does not “get rid of the problem,” the man is “out of there.” Many women are painfully conflicted by their “choice” to abort their unborn child and recognize at some basic level that their “choice” is “wrong.” In fact, the Time article chillingly observes, “In journals scattered throughout the clinic in which women are invited to express their feelings, patients write about non-supportive husbands and boyfriends.” In their discomfort, fear, and innate guilt, they write to “ask God for forgiveness.” Planned Parenthood does not deal with that aspect of women’s health. Where is its concern about that?
Instead of focusing on these hurting women and what is best for all women, the “pro-choice” groups are perpetuating the myth that “most” Americans are on their side in pushing taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand, all-the-time, for-any-reason, without any restrictions or regulation. Obviously, the “pro-choice” activists hurt their cause when they are so unreasonable and oppose any and all restrictions on abortion; for instance, Gallup Data shows that 60 percent of supposedly “pro-choice” Americans support waiting periods and parental consent laws, but pro-choice organizations actively work against such laws. In addition, they oppose reasonable regulations that require doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at hospitals (thus appropriate credentials), to ensure women’s safety.
Technology has revealed the reality that contradicts the pro-choice rhetoric; now doctors and patients can see inside the womb and they recognize what they see as a yet-to-be-born baby. Those mothers-to-be who want their baby post the sonogram images on the refrigerator door; those mothers-to-be who opted for abortion look away from the thumb-sucking or smiling pictures from the womb. This is the main reason they are adamantly against providing women with sonograms; it not to their advantage for women to know the truth.
Abortionists also recognize that as business declines at their clinics, Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) are springing up everywhere. During the time that the number of CPCs has more than doubled, 70 percent of abortion clinics have closed their doors. During 2012, an average of 7 abortion clinics closed each month. At a time when unaffiliated abortion clinics run by doctors and hospitals are disappearing, Planned Parenthood’s abortion business is booming. Last year, it performed a record high 333,964 abortions, while its screening and prevention services dropped by nearly 30 percent (29%). No doubt the cover provided by its reputation for “reproductive health” and the overly-generous support from government grants enables Planned Parenthood to thrive while less deceptive abortion clinics without government largess cannot survive. No wonder Planned Parenthood wants to be even more “nuanced” (or conning) in its rhetoric, continues to talk (falsely) about providing mammograms (no Planned Parenthood clinics have the licenses or the expensive machines required to provide breast cancer screening — there’s little to no profit to be had) and promotes the myth of being primarily a “women’s health facility.”
Concerned Women for America’s (CWA) report, “Cutting the Cord,” summarizes exposés from LiveAction that have revealed numerous unsavory details about the operation of Planned Parenthood clinics, documenting cases of clinics not reporting underage rape and abuse. More than 100 criminal charges were brought against clinics, including “felony charges of late-term abortions and falsifying documents.” Fraud and financial abuse charges –– to the tune of millions of dollars –– allege misuse of taxpayer funds and overcharging the government. Undercover videos reveal some of the more unsavory aspects of Planned Parenthood’s dealings with clients (such as advising how to falsify birthdates to avoid triggering a mandatory police report of statutory rape). While the public is shocked and appalled, most of the mainstream media have ignored the evidence and refused to report the problems.
MANY AMERICANS ARE ALSO shocked to learn about Planned Parenthood’s finances. While abortions were at a record-high, other services declined significantly and federal funding was also at a record high ($542 million in government grants, contracts, and Medicaid reimbursements, totaling 45.2 percent of the group’s annual revenue). Planned Parenthood, according to Americans United for Life, functions under an “abortion-centered business model” that now requires “every affiliate to operate at least one clinic that performs abortions.”
Shockingly, Planned Parenthood performs an abortion every 94 seconds –– repudiating any suggestion that Planned Parenthood exists to promote women’s health. According to Rep. Diane Black (R-TN), “Abortions make up 92 percent of Planned Parenthood’s pregnancy services, while prenatal care and adoption referrals account for less than 8 percent.” Obviously, Planned Parenthood’s financial survival is dependent upon the funds brought in by that 92 percent of abortion services; no wonder it is cloaking its radical agenda with “nuanced” language and rhetoric that makes abortion more palatable. But the evidence is clear: Planned Parenthood is as radical as ever, perhaps even more so.
spike59| 1.22.13 @ 6:35AM
Mciky D's could designate all its' locations 'nutrition centers', but they're not likely to take the Big Mac off te menu; similarly, PP can try all the nuance they want, but their #1 'product' and reason for being is still abortions
spike59| 1.22.13 @ 6:36AM
...oops, Mickey D's...dangit
Jack in Wi| 1.22.13 @ 8:01AM
All this is very true. Where was Romney out telling about this? The statistics on abortion clinics in black neighborhoods alone could have killed him if we had used them as a hammer. The Republicans uses us pro-life people as pattsies, but refuse to articulate our positions. 90% of the Republican vote wants some restrictions on abortion but this vast majority has far less pull on the party then the much smaller groups. When you nominate a pro-abort, pro-homosexuality guy like Romney there is no reason to vote. One thing is sure those that have abortions will be replaced by those who don't. It is time we used the strategy of the Palistinians, breed and replace.
Jack in Wi| 1.22.13 @ 8:07AM
I ment if we had used these statistics against Obama. The reason Romney lost is because he refused to address the social issues in a articulate way. The countryclub gang hates these issues even though most of the party wants them articulated. The Republican elites would rather lose then see us win on anything. The Bush, Rockefeller, and Goldwater families all were big supporters of Unplanned Parenthood. No wonder they hate us.
CJW| 1.22.13 @ 3:02PM
Jack
You would not be dismissed by everyone here as a crank if you would stop the nonsense about Israel being our enemy, and Iran being our friend.
Jack in Wi| 1.22.13 @ 4:23PM
Israel owns most of our political class. It spys on us at will. It also drains hundreds of billions over the years from us in welfare payments. It has hundreds of nuclear weapons with which it threatens the whole world. Iran on the other hand is a poor Middle East country, with no nuclear weapons program. It could easily be as friendly as China or Vietnam, if we would negotiate with them. If we did with Iran like Nixon did with China the price of oil would collapse and the world would be a far better place. The Iranian Hitler is retiring in 5 months, to teach civil engineering. It is time to make peace not war.
Aristocat| 1.22.13 @ 6:48AM
We taxpayers are giving $1/2 Billion every year to Planned Parenthood, and the House Republicans are increasing it every year.
Joellen| 1.22.13 @ 7:04AM
Aristocat - I dont know if your comment is correct, so I'll be doing the smart thing, I'll look into it and make some calls before I comment on your comment.
Planned Parenthood - just call it what it is; Planned Murder - that's what you do isnt it. You take an instrument and you suck out the BABY's brain and tear HIS or HER's limbs apart.
No way can you "pretty" it up deceivers.
This Friday is the PRO LIFE march in DC. Join those who believe that ALL life is precious and GOD"s will, not man's.
Trust me it will be a day that will encourage you that all is not dead in America.
Joellen| 1.22.13 @ 7:07AM
By the way - Purp in Paul Kangor's article dated 1/21 responded at 7:34
to "lay back and enjoy rape".
That's what liberals really inspire in their utopia, control, force, destruction and pain.
Von Mises Jr| 1.22.13 @ 9:45AM
Perp is an abortion survivor. The doctor sucked out his brains during the procedure and he survived.
Al Adab| 1.22.13 @ 2:06PM
Lets see'
6MM dead is a holocaust
55MM dead is our right
How many gun dead in last 40 years?
Seek| 1.22.13 @ 5:21PM
Your chain of reasoning leaves something to be desired.
Maxwell| 1.22.13 @ 8:28AM
Joellen, I'm always the 'Baby Ruth' in the swimming pool (if you remember the scene in the movie). This past Thanksgiving I happened to say to one of the relatives on the wife's side, I'm pro gun, I like my .45's and my AR's & pro life. The look on her face was worth the gas it took to drive to the Thanksgiving celebration. Her response was, oh, I'm pro choice. I said, oh yeah, you are for sucking out the brains of baby out thru a knitting needle and watching it drip out ....well. You are not pro choice, you are pro abortion, just say it!
I'm to old to be a diplomat any more. What is the saying, I know yeah while you were in the womb.
Jack London| 1.22.13 @ 8:00AM
You anti-abortion people need to look at why you are also in favor of restricting contraception services to low-income women - it makes no sense.
Joellen| 1.22.13 @ 8:18AM
ANTI MURDER people, Jack, have the guts to call it what it is. Your feeble attempt to distract from murder to a "grown women" knowing if she can afford to have sex and the responsibility that comes along with it, really does not work.
You people claim "tolerance" yet you ridicule those who adhere to the HIGHER POWER, GOD, and understand that only HE gives life.
You people, who give all creedence to any lifestyle, but wont respect those whose faith tells them that any type of contraption is an act against GOD's will.
You people are deceivers and you hate (yes because if you havent heard Perp advocates that conservatives "lay back and enjoy the rape". Now I dont know about you, but any normal person would be aghast at such hateful rhetoric), because we refuse to bow before your phony wordly rules.
We make sense Jack, you just reject it for your own make believe sense.
RFisher66| 1.22.13 @ 9:39AM
Jack, what proof do you have that anyone is trying to restrict birth control to low income women? How much does birth control cost? Do you even know? Just how many packs of cigarettes or six packs of beer would a low income woman have to give up to pay for her birth control? This is another straw man that people like you throw out there and just expect us to roll over and agree with your premise. Well, I don't accept your premise. Put some facts on the table instead of rhetoric. Point out a law, regulation or even a proposed law or regulation that restricts birth control to anyone. Come up with just one woman who does not have access to birth control if she needs and wants it. I won't hold my breath.
JD| 1.22.13 @ 11:02AM
Because he is dishonest, Jack continues to argue as though there is no difference between taking something from someone vs not giving something to someone.
Jack, using the logic of the Left, you owe me every penny you have. You owe it to me because I could be stealing it from you right now, but I am nice enough to refrain from doing so. I have done you a great favor by not taking everything from you, and so you owe it to me in return for this favor.
Such is the logic of the Leftist who claims that every penny not taxed is a gift from government, to which we owe gratitude (along with anything it might ask for going forward).
merlin| 1.22.13 @ 11:56AM
(sarcasm alert) Hey Jack, got to agree with you on this one. Restricting contraception and providing alternatives to abortion in low income and minority communities works against the same anti-abortion, gun, GOD and Bible conservatives that are anti-abortion. What do they think those minority babies are going to grow up and become, if not a reliable Democrat voter. Are they morons or what? Makes you wonder what their real motivation is. (end sarcasm alert)
I saw a bumper sticker in Wenatchee that said "Abortion - what a beautiful right." I thought it was sarcasm. I wanted to get one until I found out it came from a bunch of wiccans.
Now, a serious question for any pro abortionist. Are you willing to contribute to CareNet or other CPCs? Why not? At best, abortion has to be a sad necessity, not something that is lightly done. Why are you not willing to make choice availible? Makes me wonder about your motivation.
spike59| 1.22.13 @ 12:52PM
condoms are a couple bucks a box, and Walgreens is open 24/7-DON'T you dare to presume to try to tell me what i am or am not in favor of, you imbecilic twit
Bob K| 1.23.13 @ 12:13AM
Jack supports Margaret Sanger's use of Abortion as a form of Genetic Genocide for the lower classes, but it has gone past that now and become Genetic Suicide for his own Liberal Upper Classes.
7-08| 1.22.13 @ 8:02AM
I am sure that every fiscal conservative agrees that we should not fund abortion, however (don’t you meddlers just hate those “however’s”), the longer the pro-life crowd continues to tell grown adults that they are incapable of making decisions concerning their reproductive choices the longer and more decisively they will drag down the conservative voices and lose elections.
Jack in Wi| 1.22.13 @ 8:11AM
The only thing keeping the Republicans alive is the pro-life vote. Do you think that we are all intrested in war and bailouts for the countryclub elites? We lose elections because we nominate inarticulate boobs who refuse to address the issues.
RFisher66| 1.22.13 @ 9:44AM
One million abortions a year pretty well make the point that these grown adults you speak of apparently are incapable of making decisions conerning their reproductive choices. Namely, not haveing unprotected sex, having sex with some loser who could care less if you get pregnant, having sex just anyone for the heck of it and on it goes. Decisions start at the front of the problem, whether or not to have sex in the first place, and shouldn't be relegated to the point in time whent he "chickens come home to roost". If you don't want to get pregnant make a few good decisions BEFORE having sex instead of a bad one later.
spike59| 1.22.13 @ 12:57PM
Deciding whether or not to employ B/C is a 'reproductive choice'
Abortion is the KILLING of a yet-to-be born, unique human being
Rhoetus| 1.22.13 @ 8:17AM
Social issues alone won't make life better and it will only make society marginality better.
spike59| 1.22.13 @ 12:59PM
i guess it depends on which end of the little vacuum cleaner you find yourself
Seek| 1.22.13 @ 5:24PM
Most abortions are performed prior to the 12th week, when the embroyo (proper term) is at most a half-inch long.
Al Adab| 1.22.13 @ 8:35AM
Why does this private organization, or any private organization from Humane Society to AmSpec think it has a moral claim to the dollars of others? Either a cause can stand on its own merits or it should go quietly. Public funding of private groups needs to join the Dodo after all if it gets public money does it not become a mouthpiece for the benefactor?
Jim Adcox| 1.22.13 @ 8:42AM
Happy 40th birthday to Roe v. Wade! How do you define "irony"?
Von Mises Jr| 1.22.13 @ 9:48AM
The other irony is that 50M liberal women culled their own herd. Talk about Walter Lippmann being right about the "Bewildered Herd."
Seek| 1.22.13 @ 5:26PM
Poeple do not abort out of political motive. And a good many women who have an abortion, by the way, are conservatives. I've known a few.
Hardcard| 1.22.13 @ 8:59AM
soros
c. j. acworth| 1.22.13 @ 9:06AM
"One abortion advocate described the pro-life victories as "death by a thousand tiny cuts." "
Well, now they know how the baby feels, don't they?
RFisher66| 1.22.13 @ 9:34AM
As with most issues that we fight with the Left we have decided to fight on their battleground rather than ours. We need to quit just accepting their premises. First, who has ever really known anyone, and I mean even heard of anyone, who had a "back alley" abortion with a coat hanger. Next time that comes up, don't accept the premise, asked for proof. Who do they know personally that has ever had that done. Second, we have to quit santitizing aboriton with words. It's murder and it's time we called it that. Why are we afraid to take the hard line against someone who is intent on taking it with us. The fact that the Supreme Court says abortion is legal doesn't make it so or even right. They once said slavery was legal. Next time your pro choice advocate throws the Supreme Court in your face ask them if they were so in favor of the Supreme Court when they ruled that slavery was legal. We roll over and play dead when we should take a stand for what is right. God hasn't changed, ever, and he certainly is not in favor of abortion.
GobBluthe| 1.22.13 @ 9:55AM
I support tax payer funding abortion for liberals. Most liberals make horrible parents and raise criminals. They should get free abortions and if some of those abortions are botched, then that's killing 2 liberals with one coat hanger.
fmm| 1.22.13 @ 11:01AM
"Planned Parenthood has declared (with its superior standards of morality) that it is “wrong to make a judgment” about aborting a baby."
This very statement works against them as it makes clear that abortion should never be on the table, because it is a" judgment about aborting a baby" to have one.
Lots in this article also does a great job of uncovering the fact that PP abortions are not much different than back alley abortions, as providers are not held to full medical accountability, physical care is of very low quality, and mental care is non-existent. In short, the abortion industry is the worst abomination this country has ever disgorged.
cicero| 1.22.13 @ 1:16PM
The black community voted overwhelmingly for Obama just because he was black. All of his policies are detrimental to their health and well being. They, and their churches, are solidly pro-life, yet the Dem party backs abortion on demand.
The community I grew up in in the 50's and 60's, which was solidly while suburban then, has, in recent years turned black/integrated as a result of the destruction of Detroit. Lo and behold, Planned Parenthood has recently opened a facility in the least integrated section of the city - predominantly black. How transparently sick. Yet they follow in lockstep. He is their own personal "judas goat".
No society or culture can survive long that murders its helpless, for convenience sake.
JD| 1.22.13 @ 1:23PM
As I said in the Reagan article yesterday, Reagan won a victory for nominal conservatism, but in the long run things got worse because Reagan's victory led to the Left redefining everything.
They redefined their Leftism in conservative terms. All their social welfare became "tax credits", government takeovers took the form of "market-based regulations", and redistribution became "equal opportunity". Conservative lingo for every Left wing idea, though the substance behind them was as Left as ever.
And real conservatives? We're "extremists" who "hypocritically" object to "equality", "freedom", "choice", "rights", and "markets" because we oppose the abominations that the Left has applied these terms to.
It was tough to win the ideological war against Leftism, but now we must not only win the ideology, but also win the dictionary. As things stand, the Left owns the dictionary and is using it to suggest to the public that they are the center-right and we are loons.
We don't need to fight on ideology as much right now as we need to fight on facts. Show the public the facts, and the ideology will take care of itself.
cicero| 1.22.13 @ 2:12PM
JD - Right you are. However, we must FIGHT. The Republican party seems to have forgotten what that means. It has to mean more than whining about being out manuevered, or seeking compromise. C ompromise did not win the Civil War, or WWII. Compromise ended WWI, only to be refought 20 years later.
The facts are hard things to compromise with. They are what they are, and they are either right or wrong. If they are wrong, compromise should be out of the question.
Job| 1.22.13 @ 4:42PM
links to cancer and psychoses are undeniable; some say the culprits for these are genetics and red wine but I'd bet a fair assessment would put abortion at center stage. ...meanwhile the idea has occurred to some that this could mean less liberals at some future date where the meek do inherit the earth.
Is abortion murder by abortifacients, manual vacuum aspiration and dilation and evacuation and all abortions in between? Will the debate shift to when does life begin and abortifacients, which I don't think require Kirby or coat hanger? Do we then get to argue regarding whether conception, viability or quickening is when life begins and whether to invoke amendments dealing with "what's not enumerated", free exercise of religion, or due process.
I think these hot button issues hurt conservatives more than help them.
Some have argued that Sotah (Numbers 5:11-31) is abortion; what are the implications there?
Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
Seek| 1.22.13 @ 5:28PM
Your science is about as lame as your respect for liberty.
Job| 1.22.13 @ 5:40PM
ad hominems huh, run out of sticks, stones, facts?
Seek| 1.23.13 @ 2:08PM
No, Job. Actually, I've got a thing for Oscar Wilde-style one-liners, especially if directed toward anti-abortion fanatics who can't define the term "ad hominem."
Job| 1.23.13 @ 5:57PM
ok Seek whatever
SC| 1.22.13 @ 7:54PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....n-to-stay/
OF COURSE, the usual suspects on this site are gonna explode in their venomous fashion, decrying and denying anything that contradicts their warped mind-set...but I think THE AMERICAN PEOPLE have spoken--and this Court Decision ain't going away---(in the foreseeable future)--as much as you might bray about it....
Dimitry_Aleksandrovich| 1.22.13 @ 11:08PM
I noticed when a Planned Parenthood spokeswoman was being interviewed by NPR on the radio that they always refer to abortion clinics as "women's health clinics". I am no Pat Robertson, but as we are entering our fourth decade of legalized infanticide is it any wonder that the moral and cultural fabric of this country has been torn apart at the seams. I am not God but if I was I wouldn't look kindly upon a nation that doesn't protect the most innocent and helpless amongst us.