I probably used a military, or more precisely, a naval metaphor too glibly, expecting others would pick up on it. I'm sorry.

Bowser's post pointed out some of the background on this decision, he alluded to it being part of an ideological battle being fought over the very existence of Planned Parenthood, and implied this was an end run by conservatives to destroy that group, just as how it was unsuccessfully attacked in Congress, simply because it was known for its abortion and birth control activities.

Even though PP is not allowed by law to fund abortions, it still is on the Conservative hit list, and this latest kerfuffle was another battle being fought in that secret war--a battle being fought out of sight, deep beneath the surface, away from public view.

There's been a lot of this sort of thing in Florida, particularly over the teaching of evolution in the schools and in textbooks, where, for example, Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" was attacked as being unfit to be shown in the public schools because it claimed the universe was created before the world, and that both are over 6000 years old.

Much of the culture war is being fought as guerrilla actions, not out in the open. It is a war of hit and run, sabotage and ambush. It is fought as attacks on TV shows that might be too sympathetic to gays, or too critical of businessmen, or disrespectful of one group or another. Many of these battles are hidden, in the background, because the general public would dismiss them as pointless nit-picking, and the combatants know that.