“We need a Disney princess who’s had an
abortion. We need a Disney princess who’s pro-choice. We need a Disney princess
who’s an undocumented immigrant. We need a Disney princess who’s actually a
union worker. We need a Disney princess who’s trans.”
So
read the tweet from the Planned Parenthood office in Keystone, Pennsylvania.
The tweet was
posted around 9:30 a.m. and taken down several hours later. But, prior to its
removal, social media users shared captured screenshots of the post.
Planned Parenthood
Keystone President and CEO Melissa Reed, in a statement provided to Fox News,
said: "Planned Parenthood believes that pop culture - television shows,
music, movies - has a critical role to play in educating the public and
sparking meaningful conversations around sexual and reproductive health issues
and policies, including abortion. We also know that emotionally authentic
portrayals of these experiences are still extremely rare - and that's part of a
much bigger lack of honest depictions of certain people's lives and
communities. Today, we joined an ongoing Twitter conversation about the kinds
of princesses people want to see in an attempt to make a point about the
importance of telling stories that challenge stigma and championing stories
that too often don't get told. Upon reflection, we decided that the seriousness
of the point we were trying to make was not appropriate for the subject matter
or context, and we removed the tweet."
A
social media backlash quickly ensued, with one female tweeting: “We need a Disney princess who can stop my money from going to Planned Parenthood
where they spend it on killing future princesses.” Just so.
Ms. Reed purports to
want an honest depiction of “certain people’s” lives and communities? How ‘bout
we start with Christians, since they are mercilessly mocked on nearly every
television show and in nearly every popular movie? Or white male businessmen,
relatively few of whom are the greedy, conniving, bigoted bastards portrayed in
the mass media?
Ms. Reed, do you
really want an “emotionally authentic” portrayal of abortion? If so, in many
cases we would be watching a confused young woman allow someone to reach into
her uterus to snuff out a life. A woman who may be “emotionally scarred,”
haunted even, for the rest of her life.
Ms. Reed’s statement
that, “the seriousness of the point we were trying to make” was not appropriate
for the subject matter or context of Disney princesses is entirely
disingenuous. She targeted Disney princesses for her social-engineering remarks
specifically because animated children’s shows are the only remaining “entertainment” vehicles that haven’t already been totally
given over to progressive’s views on sexuality and the “values” of the LGBTQIA
community.
What’s next? Disney
princesses who have sex with animals? The dead? Their fathers? Donald Trump?
No, that last one they wouldn’t countenance, that would be “icky” and weird…but
all the others would be “challenging stigma and championing stories that too often
don’t get told.”
Planned Parenthood
is, by definition, an existential threat to innocent life. It is therefore also
an existential threat to morality on planet Earth, and to any nation founded on
the belief in the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
What we really need is a Disney princess
courageous enough to say just that.
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