Earlier this week, BuzzFeed News published an article (Ramesh noted it here in the Corner) about Planned Parenthoods anxieties under the new administration. It included this quote, from Planned Parenthood chief Cecile Richards:

The stakes have become quite clear recently, and theyre very high. . . . The patients I talk to are terrified theyre going to lose their access to health care, and docs and clinicians are terrified that this Senate is going block the women with the least access to health care from getting any at all.

LifeNews.com subsequently tweeted out a summary of the piece under the headline: Cecile Richards: If Planned Parenthood is Defunded Were Terrified Women Wont be Able to Get Abortions. I retweeted that, with a little quip attached, and my tweet went a bit viral.

Since then, several left-wing journalists and activisttypes as well as the author of the original BuzzFeed story have tweeted back that LifeNews.coms tweet misrepresented the original quote. What Richards said is that they were afraid of losing their health care.

Pardon?

Isnt it Planned Parenthoods own contention that abortion is health care? Doesnt Planned Parenthood insist that to deprive women of the right to an abortion is to deprive them of their basic reproductive rights? In fact, isnt Planned Parenthood so committed to this idea that they believe taxpayers should be forced to fund abortions on the grounds that taxpayers fund other basic health-care needs?

Put another way: Wouldnt it contradict what Cecile Richards has spent her adult life advocating to suggest that her understanding of health care excluded abortion?

Dont get me wrong, though: If that iswhats happening, its extraordinarily welcome news.

See the article here:

Is Abortion 'Health Care'? Activists Want It Both Ways. - National Review