When people feel endangered, they tend to forgo their aspirations as they grasp for a sense of security. Where the Bradley Manning Wikileaks and Edward Snowden NSA Revelations had finally pushed Americans beyond the intellectual paralysis brought on by the September 11th terrorist attacks to allow for criticism of National Security overreach, the Ukraine Crisis and the rise of the Islamic State have since overwhelmed those concerns. Given this is an era of widespread political dysfunction, unilateral policymaking, and unresponsive governance, the United States and many other nations are at risk from government overreach.
As the Obama Administration has tried to scare Americans into accepting the Iranian Nuclear Deal, instead of framing it as part of a broader vision for US-Iranian and US-Middle Eastern relations, tensions with China have also been growing while national security issues related to climate change now drive the discussion. Due to this era of national security threats, the world is ripe for government overreach, corruption, and oppression. In fact, America’s national security apparatus has stayed busy even in the wake of so many controversies, which is boldly exemplified by the never ending stream of national security leaks.
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Planned Parenthood: A Politically Unsavory and Outdated Institution of the Pre-Obamacare Era8/2/2015 For liberals, organizations like Planned Parenthood are a means of empowering underserved individuals to improve their family health by reducing family size. For conservatives, Planned Parenthood is considered a front to indirectly fund abortion with taxpayer dollars. After a two and a half year investigation by the Center for Medical Progress into the practices of Planned Parenthood, which included a secretly filmed interview with Planned Parenthood’s Senior Director of Medical Services Deborah Nucatola, efforts to defund Planned Parent will gain traction as its apparent selling of tissue makes it a politically unsavory organization.
What made the Nucatola video so unsettling was her treatment of the aborted “fetal tissue” and “body parts” as a commodity. There may be a Constitution right to an abortion while there are limited cases where abortions are medically necessary, but an abortion is always tragic. Abortion providers must remember aborted fetuses are not medical waste to simply be discarded or recycled. Ethics exist, after all, to force medical professional to consider the implications of their decisions and the services they provide. Mentally framing aborted fetuses as garbage thoroughly negates the very purpose of discussing ethics. |
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