Public Policy; Policing Personal Preference and Planned Parenthood's Persistance

In a post today on RedState, John Hayward covers the recent address of Planned Parenthood by President Obama on Friday. In it he calls out "the most strident abortion radical ever elected to the White House" (in a somewhat paradoxical fashion) for not once using the word abortion, but he also works to back up other claims about Planned Parenthoods business practices and attempts to legitimize the narrative of the left's "failed economic policies and social degeneration(.)" The piece goes from reporting to a complete Op-Ed somewhere after the third paragraph, but the point is the same; public policy on the case of abortion has yet to be fully hammered out and in fact may never be. The divide created over Roe V. Wade in America is deep and incredibly complicated thanks to the diversity of the U.S. population and the significance of religious belief in shaping ideology and public policy as a whole. And while there are certainly a lot of detractors out there, there were also plenty of positive pieces written about the speech from a few "choice" outlets.

So where does all of this leave us? Well it leaves public policy still in turmoil as is the natural state for anything in which both sides think of themselves as socially-forward; thus we remain at political war. As Roe v. Wade continues to stand, those opposed to it continue to fight it in anyway they can short of ransacking the SCOTUS. But it also is a great example of the cycle of politics and how one organization can use its influence--and of course, its money-- to keep standing even in the face of those who say it supports killing infants. While of course those who are pro-choice face a number of challenges such as a sudden surge of restrictions on abortion rights that just go to show how public policy mirrors the discourse of the public at large, an established right being picked at by the minority in the hopes of reclaiming that lost ground and potentially leading to the deaths of hundreds of women at the hands of quack abortion doctors.

The future is bright my friends.