“You can’t handle the truth!” Jack Nicholson famously raged in one of his standout performances.

When it comes to Planned Parenthood’s barbarity, now, perhaps including infanticide, many Americans–not just the media–simply don’t want the truth.

That is why I recently wrote in the Weekly Standard that people should not be surprised if nothing much comes of these revelations. From my, “Dangerous Apathy:”

It is all too familiar: When harsh truths about medicalized killing—whether of the unborn, the mentally ill, or the suicidal—first come to light, people are shocked, and calls for reform ring out. But indignation soon cools into resigned apathy.
Will the same moral enervation sap public outrage at Planned Parenthood’s offer of less crunchy abortions to facilitate organ harvesting? Have Americans’ moral sensibilities really been so dulled by relativism that we no longer know a barbaric act when we see one?

Even more water has flowed under the bridge since I wrote that, with more extreme examples of barbarity–and yet, the Cone of Silence remains firmly in place among the usual suspects.

Whatever happens, at least no one will any longer be able to say, “I didn’t know.”

#morallyaccountable