Tilting At Windmills

The U.S. Senate failed to defund Planned Parenthood today. The vote was 53-46, with two Democrats voting for passage. Under the current rules of the Senate, bringing the measure to a vote was pointless. Every Democrat is on the payroll of abortion PAC's like Emily's List and Planned Parenthood.

Senate Leader Mitch McConnell should have first held a vote on eliminating the filibuster.

The vote is all the more humiliating in the wake of the taunting that Democrats aimed at Republicans. Fauxcahontas mocked the GOP, asking "Did you fall down, hit your head, and think you woke up in the 1950s?" She thinks she is speaking truth to power, but she's really just ridiculing the powerless.

Before I left for work, I tweeted out the following:

As strongly as I support #DefundPP would it stop even one abortion? Other legislative priorities should include #DefundEPA

— Matt Blaine (@chillblaine) August 3, 2015

Defunding Planned Parenthood would not stop one abortion, would not prevent one innocent from being ripped from his or her mother's womb. It wouldn't prevent tax money from being used for abortions, either. Forty percent of abortions performed in California are covered by Medicaid.

And no, defunding Planned Parenthood wouldn't deprive a single woman from receiving health care. It's called Obamacare.

It is my humble desire that every abortion clinic be bulldozed, followed by salting the earth. But it won't happen until the political lobbying in favor of legal abortion is stripped away. Cecile Richards has visited the White House thirty-nine times during the Obama Administration, including Inauguration Day.

Planned Parenthood is a 501(c)(3) organization. A 501(c)(3) must have activities like charitable, religious, educational, scientific, literary, testing for public safety, fostering amateur sports competition, or preventing cruelty to children or animals.

Whether an abortion provider and lobbying group qualifies as a charity is debatable. The moral and just act would be to bulldoze the entire tax code, then salt the earth. Abortion is going to be seen by our descendants as an abomination, and anyone who supports abortion is on the wrong side of history.