<p>One unanticipated side effect of the political moment we are currently living through is that it has made all participants very honest — particularly Democrats and leftists.</p>
<p>The party that, for years, eye-rolled at allegations of socialism is now practically <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/the-squad-revives-their-feud-with-pelosi-be-aware-when-you-single-us-out-that-were-women-of-color">being run</a> by a self-identified Democratic Socialist. Democratic candidates for president are <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/26/democrats-clash-over-eliminating-private-health-insurance-at-first-debate.html">open</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/_waleedshahid/status/1090090751525117952">eager</a> to eliminate private health insurance, embracing a position even further to the left than systems in the United Kingdom and Canada. All 10 candidates in the second Democrat debate last month went <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-in-debates-democrats-move-toward-open-borders">on record</a> supporting open borders. And Bernie Sanders earnestly <a href="https://twitter.com/ArthurSchwartz/status/1138980759577010177">believes</a> that most Americans actually want to pay more in taxes.</p>
<p>In just the latest episode of truth-telling this week, Planned Parenthood is finally giving up its long-running charade as a women’s health organization and is admitting that it is merely a for-profit abortion advocacy group.</p>
<p>The organization publicly dismissed its president over “philosophical differences.” Those differences, according to a letter posted by the ousted head, Dr. Leana Wen, stem from the fact that Wen apparently thought she was working for a women’s healthcare organization that also performed abortions — rather than an abortion advocacy organization with an overtly political agenda.</p>
<p>“I came to Planned Parenthood to run a national healthcare organization,” Wen <a href="https://twitter.com/DrLeanaWen/status/1151233772181999616">said</a> in her resignation letter. “The new board has determined that the priority of Planned Parenthood moving forward is to double down on abortion rights advocacy.”</p>
<p>This is a startling admission from Planned Parenthood, which for years has insisted that it is, first and foremost, focused on an all-encompassing view of women’s health. “This is health care,” claimed a recent public relations campaign. The group has maintained for years that abortion only constitutes 3% of its services.</p>
<p>In Wen, Planned Parenthood found an <a href="https://twitter.com/DrLeanaWen/status/1150414899018788864">unapologetic advocate</a> for <a href="https://twitter.com/DrLeanaWen/status/1082660449429188612">abortion services</a>. However, she also reportedly balked at the rapacious way the organization wanted to advocate, and celebrate, abortions — in addition to its emphatic embrace of a deeply progressive over-arching philosophy. <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emaoconnor/leana-wen-out-planned-parenthood-president">According to reporting from BuzzFeed</a>, Wen routinely deleted the word “sexual” from the phrase “sexual and reproductive healthcare” in Planned Parenthood press releases and documents, and resisted using abortion as a stand-alone term — adding “abortion care” or rewording it entirely.</p>
<p>Wen also apparently refused to use “trans-inclusive” language, like saying “people,” instead of “women,” and worried that such a progressive posture would “isolate people in the Midwest.”</p>
<p>All of this, including alleged mismanagement, led to Wen’s dismissal.</p>
<p>Her departure comes on the heels of Planned Parenthood <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/trump-abortion-rule-blow-planned-parenthood-64361195">stating</a> it is “not going to comply” with new rules from the Trump administration, which block federal funds from organizations that refer women for abortion. After <a href="https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/issues/health-care-equity/title-x?_ga=2.222149276.567036714.1563409937-835350979.1563409937">stating for years</a> that this money was critical to its healthcare mission of breast cancer screenings, wellness exams, and screening for sexually transmitted diseases, Planned Parenthood is now <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/07/17/742841170/planned-parenthood-officials-say-theyve-halted-use-of-title-x-family-planning-fu">forgoing</a> the funds — solely so it can continue to refer women for abortions.</p>
<p>In taking these steps, Planned Parenthood finally unmasks itself as the abortion-focused advocacy group it has always been, and joins the Democratic Party in being honest about the terms of the abortion debate in America.</p>
<p>Abortion that is “safe, legal, and rare” — the mantra of the Clinton years — has been enthusiastically replaced by abortion that is unlimited, unrestricted, and unregulated. Earlier this year, 44 Senate Democrats <a href="https://amgreatness.com/2019/03/03/getting-the-party-of-infanticide-on-the-record/">went on the record</a> opposing medical care to infants born alive after a botched abortion. Democrats for president are now <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/5/18654627/abortion-elizabeth-warren-hyde-amendment-biden-msnbc">attacking</a> consensus policies which, for decades, have prevented Congress from using taxpayer money for abortion.</p>
<p>The Democrats and their allies are no longer hiding behind a veil of moderation when it comes to abortion. At least they’re finally being honest with voters about it.</p>
<p><em>Rachel Bovard is policy director at <a href="http://www.conservativepartnership.org/">Conservative Partnership Institute</a>.</em></p>

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