Planned Parenthood president poses with live babies for 2006 article but declines comment on her aborted child...strange PR or what

This is a picture from a Vogue  2006 article they did about Cecile Richards who had recently taken over the reins of Planned Parenthood. The caption for the picture which was added by  the blog Reasoned Audacity with an accompanying article by Jack Yoest  made me look twice. Apparently Ms. Richards in her inaugural speech revealed that she had an an abortion . Their PR dept. obviously had her pose for this unusual  picture.  Is this the same Planned Parenthood that said that babies are loud, smelly and expensive unless you want one??                                                                                                                                             

Cecile Richards of Planned Parenthood,
in Vogue tells of her aborted child
[not pictured]

A little more research on this picture  brought me to an interesting article  written by Jim 

Jim Sedlak director of STOPP 

"In her inaugural speech to the national conference of Planned Parenthood affiliates, she admitted that she, like millions of American women, once made the difficult decision to have an abortion." The author of the Vogue article said that, when she asked Richards about the abortion, "she declined to discuss it any further."

So, here we have the president of the largest abortion chain in the country refusing to discuss her own abortion and surrounding herself with live, cute babies in an obviously staged picture to accompany an article in a fashion magazine. Not the stuff of which "major" Planned Parenthood presidents are made.

The Vogue feature is revealing in other ways.

First, the thing that strikes you about the babies in the staged shot with Cecile is that none of them are smiling. The child in Cecile's lap has the most neutral look, while the one standing at the front of the desk appears to be screaming. An African-American baby, who is standing in the back against a credenza, seems to have a fearful look on his face. The baby closest to the camera has a wide-eyed expression that almost screams, "Get me out of here!"

Read the full article here