Does the Left want Planned Parenthood to be at the center of the Republican presidential primary? If so, it’s doing a great job of moving Planned Parenthood’s abortion business front and center before the American people. The media keeps attacking Carly Fiorina about her “moment” at the last debate, and now people affiliated with Planned Parenthood are subjecting her to the kind of absurd street theater that plays well on college campuses but looks like bullying everywhere else. Unless you’re a #ShoutMyAbortion type of radical, pelting a presidential candidate with condoms isn’t amusing, it’s aggressively rude and borderline abusive. Moreover, they’re targeting perhaps the most eloquent conservative candidate this election cycle, a person who isn’t backing down one inch in the face of leftist hysteria over her pro-life rhetoric.

Those of us who live in the sub-sub-culture of political activism often forget that most Americans simply don’t know that much about Planned Parenthood. In fact, one poll indicates that a majority of Americans don’t even know Planned Parenthood does abortions. To the extent that they think about Planned Parenthood, millions think “women’s health” or “contraceptives.” But every thrown condom, every angry exchange with Chuck Todd moves us closer to the day when Planned Parenthood is in the public eye not as a health care provider but as baby butchers. Is Planned Parenthood so confident in its identity that it’s willing for the public to see its true identity? Its own rhetoric suggests not. After all, their leaders constantly and disingenuously downplay the extent of their abortion business, knowing full-well that the public would be uncomfortable sending taxpayer cash to an organization that aborts more than 300,000 children per year.

So unless Planned Parenthood wants to empower Carly Fiorina even more, its mob should put down the condom packets. It’s one thing to chant “hail Satan” during obscure pro-abortion rallies in a state Capitol building. It’s another thing entirely to confront a leading presidential contender — and to do so while acting like angry toddlers. Planned Parenthood’s rage is becoming one of the pro-life movement’s greatest assets.