Skjellyfetti wrote:I read it as satire for those that claim Planned Parenthood spends most of its money on abortions and that Planned Parenthood and other pro-choice organizations love abortions and encourage abortions.
Although we've traditionally dedicated 97 percent of our resources to other important services such as contraception distribution, cancer screening, and STD testing, this new complex allows us to devote our full attention to what has always been our true passion: abortion
Of course you did. That's the thing about great satire. Its target never gets that its the target. The writer throws them a bone in the beginning, and then proceeds to bury them -- all while as the self-satisfied target focuses on the first joke.
If you ever study satire as a literature form, a key lesson is to pay more attention to the last jokes, not the first one. The first joke is the set-up.
Here's a couple of clues that the joke is on you and your casual indifference to what abortion entails:
"Although we've traditionally dedicated 97 percent of our resources to other important services such as contraception distribution, cancer screening, and STD testing, this new complex allows us to devote our full attention to what has always been our true passion: abortion," said Richards (Note to Sky: This is the "bait" for the target),
standing under a banner emblazoned with Planned Parenthood's new slogan, "No Life Is Sacred." "And since Congress voted to retain our federal funding, it's going to be that much easier for us to maximize the number of tiny, beating hearts we stop every day."
"We really want abortion to become a regular part of women's lives, especially younger women who have enough fertile years ahead of them to potentially have dozens of abortions," said Richards, adding that the Abortionplex would provide shuttle service to and from most residences, schools, and shopping malls in the region. "Our hope is for this facility to become a regular destination where a woman in her second trimester can whoop it up at karaoke and then kick back
while we vacuum out the contents of her uterus."
"All women should feel like they have a home at the Abortionplex," Richards continued. "Whether she's a high school junior who doesn't want to go to prom pregnant, a go-getter professional who can't be bothered with the time commitment of raising a child,
or a prostitute who knows getting an abortion is the easiest form of birth control—all are welcome."
Nineteen-year-old Marcy Kolrath, one of the Abortionplex's first clients, told reporters that despite her initial hesitancy, she was quickly put at ease by staff members who reassured her that
she could have abortions over and over for the next decade before finally committing to motherhood.
