To the editor:

Recent videos where Planned Parenthood clinic officials have engaged in the open discussion about the value of the parts of an aborted child has once again caused us to engage in the unpleasant discourse of abortion on demand. Many would like the argument to be about the videos and how they were obtained or edited. This argument is a red herring because it is intended to divert our attention away from multimillion-dollar business that is abortion.

Abortion is not health care. Abortion is the killing of a human being. If you’re Planned Parenthood, you don’t want a sonogram anywhere near your clinic unless, of course, you’re trying to illegally adjust the baby so that it can be removed intact and then killed. Think about that. Removed intact and then killed.

According to a CDC report from November 2014, non-Hispanic black women abort 459 babies for every 1,000 live births. Non-Hispanic white women abort 132 babies for every 1,000 live births. An overwhelming majority of blacks in our country vote for the Democratic candidate every election cycle even though a non-negotiable plank of the Democratic party is abortion on demand.

We see protestors in major urban areas, carrying signs that say “Black Lives Matter.” Well, I can assure you that Planned Parenthood believes black lives matter but only as the sum of their parts.