A “featured blogger” for Mississippi's Clarion-Ledger touted the Center for Medical Progress' (CMP) widely debunked sting videos targeting Planned Parenthood to compare doctors who perform abortions to terror group ISIS.

In an August 31 column on the Clarion-Ledger's website, "featured blogger" Daniel Gardner, wrote a piece under the headline “Evil today” which promoted the series of deceptively-edited videos released by CMP that falsely claim Planned Parenthood illegally sells fetal tissue for profit. Gardner wrote that the videos show “barbarous carnage” and asks readers to “compare America's abortion 'doctors' with ISIS” (emphasis added):

Abortion wars in America have exploded this summer with release of 8 videos of grizzly details including graphic video of aborted babies. Center for Medical Progress produced the videos from undercover investigations of Planned Parenthood and StemExpress over the past 3 years.All 8 videos are posted online edited.

I won't describe the barbarous carnage in the videos, but will quote Holly O'Donnell, a technician assisting abortion doctors in San Jose, CA. "'You want to see something kind of cool,'" O'Donnell says her supervisor asked her. “And she just taps the heart, and it starts beating. And I'm sitting here and I'm looking at this fetus, and its heart is beating, and I don't know what to think.”" Cool is evil.

Compare America's abortion “doctors” with ISIS. Yes, I know Hillary Clinton, who fully supports abortion doctors, compared GOP presidential candidates with “terrorists;” but none of these candidates are comparable with abortion doctors, much less terrorists. ISIS is systematically committing genocide against Christians in Syria and Iraq. They use rape, crucifixion, and beheadings to intimidate and conquer Christians solely because they are Christians. ISIS' agenda and goals are pure evil.

Numerous government investigations into Planned Parenthood undertaken in the wake of CMP's claims have found no wrongdoing on the part of the healthcare provider. An independent investigation commissioned by Planned Parenthood found that CMP's videos “contain intentionally deceptive edits, missing footage and inaccurately transcribed conversations.”

Gardner's comparison to ISIS is not far removed from other conservative media which have compared Planned Parenthood and its employees to Hitler and the Nazis. 

An earlier version of Gardner's column that claimed “all 8 videos are posted online” by CMP were “unedited” was updated with a correction stating: "A previous version of this opinion column incorrectly stated the videos posted online were unedited."