From Katie Yoder Newbusters MRC
"If the media won’t tell the truth, the American people will – by turning to social media, according to speakers at a pro-life rally on Capitol Hill. On Thursday, pro-life leaders called upon Congress to defund Planned Parenthood in the upcoming budget. Students for Life organized the “Women Betrayed” rally, held in light of the recent videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s harvesting of aborted baby parts.
During the event, speakers, such as former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, spoke with the MRC about the “bogus business” and how to work around its PR firm, the “lamestream media.” At the rally, various speakers from pro-life groups, House Representatives, and post-abortive women betrayed by Planned Parenthood shared their powerful testimony. To start off the rally, GOP presidential candidate Senator Rand Paul insisted “not one penny more for Planned Parenthood.” Sarah Palin followed Sen. Paul and slammed the “bogus business” for “butchering babies.”
“Planned Parenthood is not pro-women,” she said. “They don’t want women to think that they are capable enough and strong enough and smart enough to be able to give their baby life and still go to school, still work, still raise their other children. They want women to feel inadequate.” “It’s the most anti-women mission that they could possibly be on,” she concluded, “to tell us that we need to kill our babies in order to have a more convenient life.” Afterwards,
Palin spoke with MRC Culture about working around the media’s pro-abortion narrative, namely through social media. “Thank goodness [for] social media and activists like those you’re seeing today,” she said. “They help render the lamestream media powerless.” “And the people, then, are empowered,” she told MRC Culture. “They can do their own homework by, say, through social media. Being able to hear the speeches, being able to research, say, a candidate’s record on an issue like life and not have to just believe the spin of a biased media.”
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