Planned Parenthood Goes On The Offensive In Florida

by JASmius



As is always the case with every tentacle of the Left, they're never knocked onto the defensive because they're always on the attack:

Planned Parenthood sought an emergency legal injunction on Monday against Florida health officials to block the use of what it says are "new and unpublished" standards to define pregnancy gestation periods.

The legal move filed in circuit court in Tallahassee comes after Florida's Republican Governor Rick Scott ordered a probe last month of the State's sixteen Planned Parenthood locations which resulted in three clinics being cited August 5th for illegally performing abortions in the second trimester.

Planned Parenthood said the abortions in questions were first trimester abortions and that the State had arbitrarily changed the way it measures the first trimester, shortening it to twelve weeks from fourteen.

So split the difference and call it thirteen.  That would be most accurate, assuming the term "trimester" still means what it used to mean and the length of the average human pregnancy is still nine months.  I'm willing to bet it wouldn't change the State of Florida's findings against Planned Parenthood too awfully much.

You may consider it outrageous that PP is counterattacking like this across the country with audacious and outrageous lies, smears, and falsehoods, and it's not as if you'd be wrong.  But this is what they do, this is what the entire Left does, and why shouldn't they?  It's not as though it doesn't almost always work, and they can't always find an allied, compliant, and lapdog federal judge - and, in this case, that they have any other choice.  The only other option for PP would be to fess up and forfeit their half-billion a year in federal funding, and it's not as though something that's slightly less likely than Miley Cyrus and Franklin Graham headlining the same event together is ever going to happen.

It kind of underscores the necessity of keeping the pressure on Planned Parenthood as much as possible for as long as possible, doesn't it?  Because this is a war that is only just beginning.