Earlier today, Erick Erickson of Red State retweeted a tweet from Kristina Ribali, the Director of New Media at FreedomWorks, linking to a “disgusting” LifeNews.com article accusing Planned Parenthood of promoting a video that shows young women “how to cover up those nasty cuts and bruises that result from a beating.”
The video in question does, in fact, appear to be a demonstration from an obviously abused young woman attempting to conceal the bruises and lacerations on her face with make-up until she hears a noise off-screen and quickly turns off the camera … at which point a message appears that reads:
65% of women who suffer domestic violence keep it hidden.
Don’t cover it up.
Share this and help someone speak out.
A URL for the London-based domestic abuse helpline that produced the ad is then provided. Obviously, the entire purpose of the ad is to juxtapose the scene presented against the real message of speaking out against domestic violence, and LifeNews even eventually admits this, yet still presents the video as if Planned Parenthood is encouraging young women to conceal abuse:
But the way Planned Parenthood headlines it—with “How to look your best the morning after,” teens are mislead by Planned Parenthood into the cover up mentality. On the anti-domestic violence site, the video is introduced with the headline: “Don’t cover it up.” That headline makes a world of difference to young teens who run across the video.
Presumably, the reason Planned Parenthood headlined the video “How To Look Your Best The Morning After” is because the video is titled “How To Look Your Best The Morning After.” The title is intentionally misleading in order to drive home to real message.
And, of course, LifeNews was not alone as the geniuses over at Twitchy are likewise outraged about the video because they are apparently equally clueless:
The video, which is from a legitimate organization fighting against domestic violence, does end with “don’t cover it up.”
But the way Planned Parenthood framed it, the message is just the opposite: “You probably had it coming, girls. May as well try to doll yourselves up afterward.” Appalling.
But, what else can one expect from an organization that routinely aids and abets the purposeful selective aborting of female babies, and covers up statutory rape?
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Heartbreaking and beyond repugnant … Where is the feminist outrage at teaching young women to “look their best” after being violently beaten? So far, crickets. Abortion trumps all, you see.
Planned Parenthood had nothing to do with this video, other than posting it on one of its Facebook pages … but the hatred of the organization has become so pathological that even simply linking to a video urging women not to cover up domestic abuse is portrayed as an effort to encourage women to cover up domestic abuse!
