Planned Parenthood Is Awarded the ‘American Nobel’
This week, Hillary Clinton released What Happened, a chronicle of her failed 2016 presidential campaign, and she devotes a section to the state of “reproductive rights” in the U.S. In it, Clinton takes issue with her primary opponent Bernie Sanders’s charge that Planned Parenthood is just another part of the “establishment.”
“Few organizations are as intimately connected to the day-to-day lives of Americans . . . as Planned Parenthood, and few are under more persistent attack,” Clinton counters. “I’m not sure what’s ‘establishment’ about that . . . ”
Though Clinton wasn’t willing to deem Planned Parenthood “establishment” when she penned her book, perhaps she will be now that the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation is honoring the organization with its annual Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award. This is widely considered one of the most prestigious awards in medicine and is often referred to...
Dr. Mark Allison | 1/20/2013
