{"id":1363,"date":"2015-07-16T20:04:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T02:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2015-07-17T09:59:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T15:59:14","slug":"open-letter-to-pp-dr-nucatola-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/2015\/07\/open-letter-to-pp-dr-nucatola-supporters\/","title":{"rendered":"Open letter to Planned Parenthood &#038; Dr. Nucatola supporters:"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/220\/2015\/07\/open-letter.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1365\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/220\/2015\/07\/open-letter-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"open letter\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I\u2019ve observed your responses to Dr. Nucatola\u2019s statements this week, I\u2019ve noticed a contradiction in your language. The contradiction can be illustrated in a comment left by an anonymous PP supporter (\u201cBadgers\u201d) in response to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/2015\/07\/if-they-were-dead-puppy-parts\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">previous post<\/a>\u00a0(\u201cWhat if they were dead puppy parts\u201d):<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1364\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1364\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/220\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-16-at-6.27.27-PM.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1364\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/220\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-16-at-6.27.27-PM-300x298.png\" alt='Comment from, \"What if they were puppy parts\"' width=\"300\" height=\"298\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comment from, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/2015\/07\/if-they-were-dead-puppy-parts\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">\u201cWhat if they were dead puppy parts\u201d<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Notice how \u201cBadgers\u201d referred to the ($30-$100) <em>items<\/em> as, \u201chuman fetal tissue\u201d? As I\u2019ve read your responses, it seems that the validity of your entire position \u2013 that, rather than committing one of the most horrendous crimes ever committed against humanity, you\u2019re making a productive contribution to medical research \u2013 depends entirely on whether or not the <em>biological stuff<\/em> being exchanged for money is, in fact, merely <em>undefined\u00a0biological\u00a0tissue<\/em>, or they are\u00a0<em>specific organs from actual human beings<\/em>. If it is merely undefined biological tissue, then I see your point\u2014why not cut it up and use it for research that would benefit human beings? But, if they are specific organs from human beings, then you have a serious moral dilemma: you are supporting a Nazi Germany type of brutality and disregard for human life in order to advance the well-being of a subset of humanity, namely those humans who are already born.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the contradiction: Your defense of PP &amp; Dr. Nucatela uses the words \u201cfetal tissue\u201d and \u201cbiological material,\u201d yet Dr. Deborah Nucatola, the woman you are defending, PP\u2019s own spokesperson, called these\u00a0<em>tissues,<\/em>\u00a0\u201chearts,\u201d \u201clivers,\u201d \u201cbrains,\u201d and \u201corgans.\u201d Dr. Nucatola used human anatomy language.<\/p>\n<p>I urge you to be intellectually and philosophically honest. You appear to be fighting tooth-and-nail to support of an ideology that, as the words of one of your own representatives\u00a0reveal, isn\u2019t <em>actually<\/em> what you believe and know to be true. I\u2019m worried for the pain and loss your ideology is perpetuating, and the way you\u2019re supporting the free market playing a part in determining the number,s and method, of abortions carried out by PP. But I\u2019m also worried for your souls, and that moment when you will face the One who fashioned in the womb these little human hearts, livers, and brains\u2026 as Dr. Nucatola referred to them.<\/p>\n<p>In the next moment you\u2019re alone and soberly aware of the potential horror you\u2019re endorsing, I encourage you to jump your ideological ship and stand against\u00a0this atrocity.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>zeke<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I\u2019ve observed your responses to Dr. Nucatola\u2019s statements this week, I\u2019ve noticed a contradiction in your language. The contradiction can be illustrated in a comment left by an anonymous PP supporter (\u201cBadgers\u201d) in response to my previous post\u00a0(\u201cWhat if they were dead puppy parts\u201d): Notice how \u201cBadgers\u201d referred to the ($30-$100) items as, \u201chuman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1106,"featured_media":1365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[270,1718,1721,1723,719,1730,1706,1716,339,794,1720,1722,1417,1726,1725,1724,30,718,1000,1727,1703,1719,1501,1729,1728,1717,29],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion","tag-abortion-rights","tag-biblical-position-on-abortion","tag-brutality","tag-cbs","tag-contradiction","tag-dead-puppy-parts","tag-dr-nucatela","tag-heart","tag-human","tag-human-anatomy","tag-ideology","tag-in-pursuit","tag-kidney","tag-liver","tag-lungs","tag-man-on-the-run","tag-nbc","tag-npr","tag-organs","tag-planned-parenthood","tag-pro-choice","tag-pro-life","tag-tissue","tag-tissues","tag-video-of-abortion","tag-zeke-pipher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}