END THE SILENCE - PLANNED PARENTHOOD SCANDAL SENATOR MIKE LEE

 

0:00

mister president last month before the august recess the setup took up

0:05

legislation introduced by my friend senator Johnny Ernst that would have

0:11

ended federal funding for Planned Parenthood transferring its subsidies to

0:15

other women's and community health clinics unfortunately the bill failed on

0:22

its first vote but the questions raised by the Planned Parenthood scandal and

0:27

the challenges it presents to congress and to the american people have only

0:33

grown since then

0:35

at issue are undercover videos released over the last few months that provide an

0:41

unprecedented behind the scenes glimpse inside America's leading abortion

0:46

provider these undercover videos were captured by a pro-life organization

0:52

called the center for medical progress and they contain images and

0:56

conversations unlike anything ever before

0:59

submitted for public scrutiny so far mister president CMP has released

1:05

sixteen hours of footage depicting what appears to be the routine mutilation of

1:11

American children born and unborn the harvesting and sale of those children's

1:16

body parts for profit that means by which Planned Parenthood avoids public

1:22

protection of and perhaps criminal prosecution for their actions and

1:28

finally in many ways the most terrifying of all the nonchalant blood chillin

1:34

amusement Planned Parenthood personnel seem to derive from all of the above

1:39

to date no one has rebutted the evidence contained in these videos

1:47

Planned Parenthood's friends and political client gamely tried to change

1:51

the subject they take umbrage and they shoot the messenger they deflect and

1:59

distract as best they can

2:01

the political equivalent of a check made it lawyer banging his shoe angrily on

2:07

the table even the guilty

2:11

deserve a defense after all but they are guilty

2:15

mister president and we all know it you only have to watch the videos for five

2:21

minutes and you know it's true the subjects of these videos are sincere and

2:27

candid casually sharing the secrets of their grisly business with people they

2:32

think are there coconspirators the evidence points to only one conclusion

2:38

Planned Parenthood really does these horrifying things and Planned Parenthood

2:46

makes money at it and laughs about it over lunch but aside from the primary

2:52

evidence mister president you know how else we know it's true because if it

2:58

were false

2:59

we would know for sure that it was false the mainstream media you see big

3:06

abortions loudest shoe bangor of the mall would be done during planned

3:12

parenthood's vindication from every headline every home page every network

3:18

satellite if these videos were false

3:22

mister president if a pro-life group somehow fabricated this narrative of

3:26

Planned Parenthood's greed barbarism and cruelty it would be a story who are we

3:33

kidding it would

3:35

be story a career-making scoop with fame and a Pulitzer Prizes and lucrative book

3:43

deals and speaking tours awaiting the journalists who broke the story and yet

3:49

if you open a newspaper click on the legacy media sites and turn on the news

3:54

nothing you see nothing the major networks have gone dark on the videos

4:00

over the last month and major newspapers have scrubbed the scandal from their

4:04

front pages why the silence simple they know what's true to the media looked for

4:14

the facts and they found them and then they turned away in the case of the

4:22

Planned Parenthood undercover videos in the court of public opinion as the top

4:27

me in law school we tacit consent here a visitor the media silence indicates the

4:34

media's can send everyone who is watch these videos

4:38

knows that they have the power to change minds and in only one direction so the

4:45

pro-abortion news media's doing everything they can to suppress the

4:49

videos

4:50

exposure so tightly have the wagons been circled mister president that the media

4:56

can't even attack the center for medical progress as much as they would surely

5:00

like to because doing so would require context that context would be

5:08

exceedingly painful here even describing these videos even mentioning them to a

5:13

wider audience can only lead to curious Google searches then tweets and Facebook

5:19

shares and YouTube views and inevitably to public horror at what people would

5:26

see in the organization responsible for that or this planned parenthood's

5:33

friends in the media cannot allow and so they ignore the undercover videos just

5:39

like they tried to ignore the heroin case of dr. Kermit Gosnell in 2013 the

5:47

perennial scandal of dangerous clinic conditions in the horror of partial

5:51

birth abortion in years past every pro-choice activists including those

5:57

with press kit credentials knows that the greatest threat to abortion on

6:01

demand is the truth about what it entails as alexander solzhenitsyn put it

6:10

in his Nobel lecture violence is necessarily interwoven with falsehood so

6:17

the media hide the truth about Planned Parenthood and about big abortion even

6:23

at the expense of their own credibility even to the endangerment vulnerable

6:28

women and the enrichment of monsters like tokens Gollum they must protect the

6:36

precious I'm not a reporter mister president nor am I an editor or producer

6:43

I'm certainly not a network news anchor a job for which I'm afraid I lacked the

6:48

skills experience and a last airline necessary for that position I'm a lawyer

6:54

by training and now a senator therefore I cannot make leading newspapers news

7:00

sites and televisions tell the story but it occurs to me that I can try to tell

7:06

myself here on the senate floor and more than just tell their story

7:13

mr President I can make the case to our colleagues and to our fellow Americans

7:18

and so for the next several weeks for as long as it takes I will come to the

7:23

floor of the senate the american people's great deliberative chamber and

7:28

make that case the public deserves to know the truth about Planned Parenthood

7:33

be in humanity it practices the laws and may be breaking and the lies it tells

7:39

taxpayers deserve to know what their money more than a half

7:43

half billion dollars last year alone is paying for and how their taxes might be

7:49

more consciously spent americans deserve to know what evil is abroad in their

7:56

land and what good can be done to overcome it in the struggle between

8:02

Planned Parenthood and its victims President Obama and his party have sided

8:07

with a rich violence special interest group over the innocent women they

8:12

exploit the tiny children they mutilate and the vulnerable communities they

8:17

poison I harbor no illusions about softening such weaponized extremism with

8:23

a few floor speeches nor do I believe that the 45 senators who voted in August

8:28

to reaffirm Planned Parenthood's eligibility for hundreds of millions of

8:32

dollars in federal funding will change their minds at least not yet but mister

8:40

president the history of our nation is the story of a good and loving people

8:46

who stubbornly if sometimes slowly overcoming narrow prejudicial legacies

8:55

when presented with the truth

9:01

americans have always come to see defend the innate dignity of our once

9:07

overlooked brothers and sisters and welcome them out of the shadows and into

9:11

our hearts and our society

9:14

indeed the gradual embrace of our youngest Americans is well underway and

9:19

in fact it's gaining momentum over time with every Instagram's ultrasound image

9:25

every overjoyed Facebook posts and every advance in embryology and obstetrics

9:32

americans move closer and closer to the truth about the unborn and at the same

9:39

time every new undercover video released by the Center for medical progress is

9:44

bringing us all a little closer to the truth about Planned Parenthood in coming

9:50

weeks I hope these speeches might help my colleagues and anyone else who might

9:54

be listening

9:54

come a little closer to the truth about both as I make the case against using

10:02

taxpayer funds to facilitate protect and promote Planned Parenthood's deceptions

10:08

and violence I hope my colleagues on the other side of these questions will join

10:14

me from time to time

10:15

a good debate is always more fruitful and a monologue but as long as planned

10:22

parenthood's friends remain mute I will endeavor to improve upon the silence and

10:28

in time hopefully to improve upon are inadequate legal protections for the

10:32

dignity of human life as I said even the guilty deserve defense but sort of the

10:42

innocent mister president so did the initial for however vulnerable they may

10:48

be both children in the womb and mothers in the waiting room however forsaken

10:53

however a frayed the innocent are never defenseless their defense you see is the

11:03

truth and I'm going to do what I can to tell it Thank You mr. president you're

11:11

the floor not the absence of a

Check out this episode!