List of Shame: Sixteen Journalists Accept Maggie Award From Planned Parenthood

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What to wear now?!!!

A necklace of baby parts, perhaps?

As you probably know, "Maggie" is Margaret Sanger. Here's yesterday's post from Katie Yoder at Newsbusters:

While the media stay away from the recent videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s trafficking of aborted baby parts, they are drawn to Planned Parenthood’s annual media awards ceremony. 

During Planned Parenthood’s Maggie Awards for Media Excellence Tuesday night, the abortion giant recognized 16 journalists for pushing “reproductive rights.” From Buzzfeed and Yahoo! to MSNBC, MRC Culture compiled a list of several prominent media attendees – and found a picture announcing the winners. 

Those include Cosmopolitan.com’s Jill Filipovic, for TV & Online Reporting; left-wing magazine The Nation, for Excellence In Media, and TeenVogue.com’s Phillip Picardi, for Youth Media. Salon’s Valerie Tarico won Outstanding Individual Commentary for a piece undercutting liberal claims that no one is pro-abortion. Her story was titled: “I am pro-abortion, not just pro-choice: 10 reasons why we must support the procedure and the choice.” 

With no official list released yet, MRC Culture also searched Twitter to compile a list of media present and/or awarded at the event: 

Buzzfeed – via Casey Gueren 

Colorlines.com – via Akiba Solomon and Aura Bogado 

Cosmopolitan – via Jill Filipovic 

Ebony – via Jamilah Lemieux 

Elle – via Laurie Abraham and Leah Chernikoff 

Esquire – via John H. Richardson 

Mic – via Elizabeth Plank 

MSNBC – via Irin Carmon 

Pearl of Africa documentary – via Cleo Kambugu and Jonny von Wallström 

Salon – via Valerie Tarico 

Teen Vogue – via Phillip Picardi 

The Nation – via Katha Pollitt 

UpWorthy – via Ariel Azoff, Wagatwe Wanjuki and Lori White 

Vice – via Fazeelat Aslam 

Yahoo! Health – via Jen Gerson Uffalussy 

Tai Beauchamp of InStyle hosted the event.

AVE MARIA, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.

Video Tuesday: Brit Hume Slams Abortion

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Say what you like about Fox News--and I should confess that opinions among my Catholic friends are mixed at best--they have a much greater proportion of Christians among their broadcasters and journalists than any other major network. Among other things, this in part leads them to do things no other network would.

Here is Brit Hume, the former long-time anchor of Fox News, and now "Senior Political Analyst" discussing abortion in the wake of the recent and sickening "selling of body parts over salad" revelations:

Whatever comes of the revelations about Planned Parenthood and its participation in the traffic in fetal body parts, those revelations will have achieved one thing--they have parted the veil of antiseptic tidiness behind which the abortion industry has for so long operated. The sight of a senior Planned Parenthood official--and a doctor to boot--discussing the market for fetal body parts, in between bites of salad and sips of wine was stomach turning. That's because it laid bare the essentially brutal nature of abortion. 

Let's be blunt--abortion involves the extraction and killing of a human life, which within a couple weeks of pregnancy has a beating heart. Five weeks in, its hands and legs begin to grow. It is these tiny creatures, and too often ones that are far more developed that are pulled from a mother's womb and crushed with forceps, oh but oh so carefully lest body parts that can later be sold are preserved. 

This gruesome procedure shows the extent to which we as a people have been anesthetized by the estimated fifty-five million--fifty five million!--abortions performed since the Supreme Court discovered a Constitutional right to that procedure, forty-two years ago. 

Will we as a nation not someday come to look upon that decision and what it has done to us, not to mention the fifty-five million, with horror and regret? One can only hope we will.

-Hat tip: Jeremiah Rauwolf