Stupid: Planned Parenthood President calls bishops "ideologues" in NYT

Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood, asked her twitter followers if they agreed with her quote in today's New York Times.

I'm curious if you agree with her quote:

On Sunday, some abortion rights advocates lashed out at the bishops. “It was an unconscionable power play,” said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, accusing the bishops of “interceding to put their own ideology in the national health care plan.”

Let's be clear: all that the bishops were demanding was the status quo. PelosiCare, as currently amended, represents no immediate expansion in abortion funding. Before it was amended, PelosiCare represented a huge expansion in federal funding for abortions. 

This was not an issue of ideology - the vast majority of Americans oppose federal funding of abortions. The only ideology being pushed here is that of Cecile Richards and her friends.

Richard's claim that it's the bishops - not her and her friends - who are pushing an unpopular ideology ties in well with this Politico report which details the behind-the-scenes squabbling that took place between Democrats leading up to the vote on the abortion-neutral Stupak amendment:

Some of the lawmakers argued that Pelosi was turning her back on a decades-long campaign by female Democratic members in support of abortion rights. [Rep. George] Miller rose to Pelosi’s defense, which resulted in an angry confrontation between him and [Rep. Rosa] DeLauro, said the sources.

Miller told DeLauro that there were “more pro-life votes in the House than pro-choice” and that abortion-rights advocates had better acknowledge that reality.

DeLauro is, of course, a vicious pro-abort and one of the top abortion strategists. Her arguments were overcome by the political reality that even more Democrat representatives supported removing federal funding for abortions than supported it.

I'm happy to see the number of individuals in the Democrat party DeLauro can count upon as allies for unrestricted abortion expansion and funding is decreasing.

Unfortunately, pro-aborts still have their "strongest weapon" occupying the White House.

And as for Cecile Richards and her "ideologue" smear, here is my reply. What's yours?