Follow-up to "You are not free from judgment . . ."

This is a follow-up to yesterday's post about the lies told (and re-told) by Carly Fiorino about the fake video made by David Daleiden and passed off as an indictment that Planned Parenthood "sells baby parts."   Thanks toTrueBlueMajority on DailyKos for the summary:

"There is footage of an intact fetus.  However:

• David Daleiden admits the footage was not obtained at a Planned Parenthood facility.
• No one is talking about “keep[ing] it alive so we can harvest its brain” in the voiceover.
• the woman in the voiceover is not a PP employee
• she is a distraught former employee of StemExpress, a company that obtains samples for medical institutions doing fetal tissue research
• and she is not talking about the fetus in the video and was never in the same room with it.

Not only that, the famous picture later in that same video of two hands cradling a fully gestated fetus is actually a photo of a stillbirth and NOT an aborted fetus.

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It's even worse than that.   Grieving parents have identified the stillborn baby in the video as theirs -- the result of an unavoidable death during delivery of a much-wanted baby.   That part of the video, which Daleiden somehow obtained and misused in this way, seems especially cruel, since it was actually taken by the father as a keepsake memory of their hoped for child, which explains the "two hands cradling . . . "

Shame on Carly Fiorino and others who try to capitalize on the emotions stirred -- and misdirected -- by the scurrilous misuse of someone's pain to garner a few transient points in polls.

Ralph