Readers React: Misleading Planned Parenthood videos show the right’s desparation

To the editor: These underhanded, devious and downright dishonest attacks from the Republican right seem never-ending. (“GOP seeks end to Planned Parenthood money as both parties play to their base,” Aug. 3)

Editorials continue to point out the scurrilous dishonesty of these attacks: an early, downright un-American attack on John F. Kerry’s patriotism, the attempted defaming of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) by the clowns on his right, the silly “birther” circus about President Obama, the edited video by a scheming Andrew Breitbart against Shirley Sherrod in 2010, and now Planned Parenthood.

These attacks from the right are beginning to betray a kind of wild desperation that recognizes the inherent weakness in the message the Republican Party has been trying to sell for way too long.

June Maguire, Mission Viejo

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To the editor: In one video, Planned Parenthood’s senior medical director, Deborah Nucatola, was recorded saying, “You’re just kind of cognizant of where you put your graspers, you try to intentionally go above and below the thorax, so that, you know, we’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I’m not gonna crush that part, I’m going to basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact.”

My God. The “it” she’s talking about is a human being. It’s incomprehensible to me that anyone in a so-called civilized society would even consider something as horrific as this.

Trent D. Sanders, La Cañada Flintridge

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To the editor: Interesting that when an animal rights group releases a secret, highly edited video of farm animal abuse, lawmakers react by passing a law to protect the factory farms.

When an anti-abortion group releases a secret, highly edited video of Planned Parenthood officials, lawmakers react by attempting to defund Planned Parenthood.

Talk about a double standard.

Leslie Sievers, Irvine

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