{"id":378082,"date":"2021-04-02T14:56:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T18:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=378082"},"modified":"2021-04-02T14:56:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T18:56:26","slug":"freedom-is-a-right-not-a-privilege-despite-what-the-former-head-of-planned-parenthood-wants-us-to-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/freedom-is-a-right-not-a-privilege-despite-what-the-former-head-of-planned-parenthood-wants-us-to-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Is A Right, Not A Privilege, Despite What The Former Head Of Planned Parenthood Wants Us To Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffreedom-is-a-right-not-a-privilege-despite-what-the-former-head-of-planned-parenthood-wants-us-to-believe%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=378082&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-377.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>During a segment on CNN last month, the former head of Planned Parenthood said that a \u201cvery narrow window\u201d existed for the Biden administration \u201cto tie reopening policy to vaccination status.\u201d Despite being filmed a few weeks ago, the segment went viral on social media in recent days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-medical-analyst-narrow-window-exists-to-tie-vaccination-status-to-people-getting-freedoms-back\"><span>Daily Wire<\/span><\/a><span>, she also warned that as states were reopening that people may not get vaccinated because they would go out and start enjoying their freedoms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cMy main concern is that we\u2019re not going to reach herd immunity because of vaccine hesitancy,\u201d Dr. Leana Wen said. \u201cAnd I know that\u2019s hard for a lot of people to believe, who desperately want the vaccine right now. And they\u2019re thinking, \u2018Oh, well, it\u2019s just a small percentage of people who are actually anti-vaxxers.\u2019 And that\u2019s true.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThere is the anti-science, anti-vaxxer contingent,\u201d Wen continued. \u201cBut I think that there are many more people, millions of people who, for whatever reason, have concerns about the vaccine, who just don\u2019t know what\u2019s in it for them. And we need to make it clear to them that the vaccine is the ticket back to pre-pandemic life. And the window to do that is really narrowing. I mean, you were mentioning, Chris, about how all these states are reopening. They are reopening at 100 percent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAnd we have a very narrow window to tie reopening policy to vaccination status,\u201d Wen added. \u201cBecause otherwise, if everything is reopened, then what\u2019s the carrot going to be? How are we going to incentivize people to actually get the vaccine? So that\u2019s why I think the CDC and the Biden administration needs to come out a lot bolder and say, \u2018If you\u2019re vaccinated, you can do all these things. Here are all these freedoms that you have,\u2019 because otherwise, people are going to go out and enjoy these freedoms anyway. And I fear a situation of coming into the fall, where we never reach herd immunity, and then we get hit by the next surge of COVID-19, in the fall, something that we could have prevented, if we just got people vaccinated now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Setting aside the obvious and brutal irony of the former head of Planned Parenthood lecturing others on being \u201canti-science\u201d when her former organization exists primarily to murder babies in the womb while calling such actions a \u201chuman right,\u201d we need to notice another dangerous ideology demonstrated by her comments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dr. Wen is part of a \u201cliberal\u201d elite who view themselves as uniquely and intellectually qualified to determine what is best for \u201cthe rest of us.\u201d Her comments were replete with examples of arrogant presumption, such as saying \u201cthe vaccine is the ticket back to pre-pandemic life\u201d in the context of asking \u201cwhat\u2019s the carrot going to be?\u201d Most worryingly, there is one sentence which stands aloft in terms of its shameless authoritarian nature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSo that\u2019s why I think the CDC and the Biden administration needs to come out a lot bolder and say, \u2018If you\u2019re vaccinated, you can do all these things. Here are all these freedoms that you have,\u2019 because otherwise, people are going to go out and enjoy these freedoms anyway.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>These words are an intentional bastardization of the meaning of freedom, particularly in the \u201cAmerican\u201d sense. Freedoms are not provided by the government, Joe Biden, or the CDC. These figures and organizations are not the \u201cgatekeepers\u201d to these freedoms. In fact, they exist entirely to <\/span><i><span>protect<\/span><\/i><span> these freedoms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The phrase \u201cpeople are going to go out and enjoy these freedoms anyway\u201d is perhaps the worst part of all. You enjoy privileges. You don\u2019t \u201cenjoy\u201d freedoms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Freedom is a God-given right. If we allow the notion of freedom to be diluted into nothing but a privilege sporadically offered by our \u201cintellectual betters,\u201d then we will no longer be truly free.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Ian Haworth is an Editor and Writer for The Daily Wire. Follow him on Twitter at <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ighaworth\"><i><span>@ighaworth<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a segment on CNN last month, the former head of Planned Parenthood said that a \u201cvery narrow window\u201d existed for the Biden administration \u201cto tie reopening policy to vaccination &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311588,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-377.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Freedom Is A Right, Not A Privilege, Despite What The Former Head Of Planned Parenthood Wants Us To Believe","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-377.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Freedom Is A Right, Not A Privilege, Despite What The Former Head Of Planned Parenthood Wants Us To Believe","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}