Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNE) has been complaining for months about how it won’t make as much money as it likes—a “shortfall,” they call it. The response is to threaten services and whine about the political climate in a part of the country where states enshrine a right to their services into their state constitutions. Boo, frikkin hoo.
PPNE spends more on lobbying than most “women” earn in a lifetime, but realigning revenue to meet their supposed healthcare needs isn’t an option. Virtue signaling, however, is.
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNNE), the largest provider of abortions in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont announced last week that they have adopted a “weapons exclusion” in their investment portfolio to no longer profit from the “devastating loss of life and sexual and gender-based violence happening in Gaza.”
PPNE left out the bit about the violence against women in Israel that started the most recent ‘troubles.” Chaos ensued as commenters took sides, blasting PPNE for this or that outrage. Someone even reminded them that Muslim women are property, all of which encouraged it to reframe and rephrase.
“PPNNE condemns violence in any form at home or abroad: violence committed in mass shootings in our schools and workplaces; violence committed against reproductive health care providers and patients; violence— including sexual and gender-based violence— committed against civilians of any creed or nationality, including Israeli and Palestinian civilians,” they stated.
I’d be more impressed if you’d mentioned pregnancy care centers specifically, which are under constant threat of violence from people who support you. That would have been a nice touch, and I don’t think you meant that when you said “reproductive health centers” because that is what you call abortion providers. And condemning violence isn’t the same thing as working to prevent it unless you mean not investing or involving yourselves in businesses that perpetuate it, and that’s a huge problem for PPNE.
If you are honest about your commitment, you need to stop taking money from the government – a prominent supporter of violence in America. The Democrat party is, if not an instigator, then an aider and abettor of violence here and abroad. And the Harris campaign, which has sworn military support for Israel while Trump has said he’d make peace a priority.
Can you imagine PPNE having to support Trump because of its stated position on “violence?”
No worries. None of that will happen. PPNE isn’t serious about opposing all violence, even violence that isn’t advantageous to their bottom line. It’s all smoke and mirrors.
