That's bullshit. No one is morally opposed to procedures that save the mother's life at the cost of the fetus. And it is not remotely what Planned Parenthood does, and your own claims support mine. If there were ANY other procedure that was performed as often as abortion, with as many deaths due to lack of access to that procedure, people would say things are fine, and under control, so sad about those deaths, but it's an imperfect world, and you can't save everyone. The vast majority of abortions are procured for reasons of convenience, and NOT for women's health. A family car makes many trips to the hospital, often carrying it a patient. That does not make it an ambulance, or allow the vehicle to be purchased through medical insurance.

That a procedure and institution in widespread use to alleviate the inconveniences of degenerate sexual behavior can occasionally be used to save a life does not make its legality an issue of women's health, any more than drug decriminalization (which I support) is about alleviating medical suffering. They are both about recreation, holding up the rare outlier cases as camouflage, like a criminal organization's charity work.

It's not about the videos. The only people bothered by the videos are abortion supporters using their shortcomings as a strawman argument. They make a lot of noise about some videos they believe they can refute, to avoid confronting the reality of abortion. The Republican party has always been opposed to abortion and to Planned Parenthood, or at least its base has. That is a fact that even your more insane leftwing conspiracy theorists like Joel would not deny. This is not over the videos, at most, they present an excuse to do what they want to do out of principle anyway. If Planned Parenthood was not at issue before the videos, why was there all the fuss over Sandra Fluke?

Who cares if they do? Even if they are not, abortion is still wrong. I don't care how many people were helped by Nazi medical research, the Holocaust was not justified. And if someone came out tomorrow with proof that the human lampshades were a hoax, it would still not lessen the guilt of Himmler and Mengele and the rest. The fact of a murderer being a murderer is rather more significant than what he does with his victim's bodies afterwards.

Why won't the Democrats compromise on an issue that is obviously important to the Republicans? If so many Republicans are opposed to it, how can you justify spending tax dollars on it? Their motives don't matter, the fact is, they have a perfect right to their preferences, and those are all they need to vote as they wish.