Perception is everything

When You Are Blinded By Your Own Piety

There was once a professional who thought he was being religiously persecuted as an evangelical Christian at his high level job. His co-workers on the other hand claim that he had been just objectively offensive, insulting and rude repeatedly. It was personality and had nothing to do with evangelizing. Every time some incident occurred the client thought it was the religious persecution (and he was owed money under a statute precluding it) and the coworkers insisted on their belief that he was just being a jerk and most unChristian. It was impossible for the protagonist to see beyond his paradigm construction and try to see things from the other side's perspective. The more heated it got, the more money he demanded.

I look at that scenario and look at what happened over the Planned Parenthood abortion riders in the budget impasse. The Planned Parenthood people kept insising that they -the bad republicans- were just trying to 'throw women under the bus' and deny and deprive them of free "health care", which included abortion. The other side insisted that abortion is not "health care" for anyone, it is murder of a pre-born yet quite human life, and all the other so called 'benefits' offered by Planned Parenthood for women like mammograms, cancer screenings, etc. were smokescreens, overstated statistically and further, any money supposedly going to that 'free health care' would funnel into abortions one way or another as the clinics expanded exponentially as money is fungible.

The "they are throwing women under the bus" side could not see that abortion is damaging and dangerous to women, and done in unregulated places like Planned Parenthood is outrageously risk-ridden in terms of infection, incidents of covered up abortion hackery, even unreported deaths of women which are later blamed on the emergency care they get at regular hospitals after an abortion went wrong, emotional devastation of losing a child, exponential rates of suicide increase, and the like. The side trying to stop abortion think that they are protecting women's health also. The "they are throwing women under the bus" people are stuck, like the evangelical Christian above, in the paradigm. It's free, it's about a woman's body, it must all be good. It isn't.

Before there is a Senate vote each Senator should go inside a Planned Parenthood clinic. Like a Raid. Each one should go and look at the state of sterilization of equipment and get the medical credentials of each 'doctor' who conducts abortions. Further they should send teams of people in to see what percentage of clinics actually even have any equipment to conduct mammogram testing or pre cancer screening and what they charge for it compared to the going rate at the local hospital or university clinic.
Then they should decide if the money is better spent on putting free cancer screening health clinics attached to major hospitals that have health controls, or university clinics, and segregate this from the influences of the abortion industry- the -we will keep you on the bus so we can carve the life out of you for profit- people.