Planned Parenthood: Limiting Access to Mammograms
It is akin to Planned Parenthood advertising that they have the number for the fire department … but you need to call Planned Parenthood to get it. Would anyone disagree that doing this would imperil people, and can not be defined as increasing “access”?
Cecile Richards’ misrepresentation of Planned Parenthood’s role in providing mammograms only adds to the truth about Planned Parenthood’s ploy. She recklessly advertised that Planned Parenthood can “increase your access” to a mammogram, but that’s not the impression one gets when listening to Live Action’s telephone sting:
In the first call, Planned Parenthood forwards the caller to another Planned Parenthood, who then offers a referral. Many of the other Planned Parenthood receptionists seem confused by the question and clearly do not know how to handle the phone call — they do not appear any more informed than the caller. For the few that did know the correct action to take with the caller, they offer little added benefit besides directing them to another phone number.
For an organization that directs people to call them with such questions, they seem to be quite inept, embodying nothing more than an extra step standing in the way of people trying to get help.
Clearly, Planned Parenthood as a whole is not focused on improving mammogram access, but subverting those looking for mammograms to increase counseling headcounts. Defunding, if it clarifies that Planned Parenthood does not actually perform mammograms, would increase access.
It is way past time to de-fund Planned Parenthood. Let the pro-abortion millionaire and billionaires out there fund it since they agree with their goals. I am also getting tired of those like Nancy Pelosi trying to spin this issue in terms of an attack on women. She thinks, or implies, that the only solution to an unwanted pregnancy should be an abortion.
http://www.bluecollarphilosophy.com/2011/03/an-open-letter-to-congresswoman-nancy-pelosi-on-abortion.html
Pro-abortion absolutists will lie about anything in order to make sure the only choice the woman with an unwanted pregnancy makes is for abortion.
I hope LiveAction keeps exposing these charlatans for what they really are: not helping women, but exploiting them during times when they feel helpless and scared (ie: unexpectedly pregnant) and taking their money in exchange for the lives of their children.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle did a study in the early 1990s —- findings were that teenage girls and young women who undergo abortions are at “high risk” for breast cancer.
They don’t disclose that inconvenient truth!
http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/86/21/1584.abstract?ijkey=c2ba7197c27b0a06a26cd85d26b079b0aed9bce2&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha
ALL NGOs should be defunded. All of them. All activists organizations, student organizations, unions, etc. No federal or state money for any of them. Starve the beast.
Also, only leftist women should have abortions, and they should abort all their babies.
Easy there, Jesus told us to love our enemies. Self defense is one thing, but encouraging them to kill themselves off is quite another.
If PP had their own mammography service I would be surprised. Mammography is tightly regulated with small return on investment for screening only services. The result is that resources are more concentrated these days to hospital based service. It is often a cost neutral or losing department made up for because the surgical, medical oncology, and radiation oncology services need it.
This is deliberate in the way government allocates payment and not bad for patients. Breast cancer, a serious medical problem with considerable success in the past few decades, requires tight integration of Radiology, interventional radiology, surgery, radiation and medical oncology, and general medicine. Not an easy task if you know the biz.
I think what is pointed out is that PP is being deceptive in marketing. That may be true. They probably have a list of places you can get your mammogram but they are not in that business and need to stop that as a tool. Ok to talk about that and help people get the screens they need but they are not a breast cancer center.
Spindok
Fact: abortion increases the risk of breast cancer, especially in young women, those who have never had a child, and those with a family history of breast cancer. Fact: even the pro-choice experts at the New England Journal of Medicine admit this is so. Fact: physicians are now held liable if they fail to advise abortion-minded women of the increased risk.
Planned Parenthood is in business to make money, not to prevent cancer. To claim otherwise is to add hypocrisy to the evil they perpetrate daily. Full disclosure: I am medical director of a pregnancy counseling clinic.
All your facts are incorrect.
Just because you said so too – I imagine.
He does have one fact that is irrefutably correct:
“Planned Parenthood is in business to make money, not to prevent cancer.”
Almost any organization, with the exception of those that are truly humanitarian, like some religious ones, inherently seek to grow and enlarge themselves. That is one way they measure their own success. How do you do that? Increase your resources and faculty, i.e. “make money”. Their normal justification for growth? “We are trying to reach out to more _______”, fill in the blank – pregnant women, students, needy, etc. The same way with government. They never get enough. There is always another program that needs implementation, or a need for more inspectors, etc.
Yes, the claim of PP offering mammogram services is specious. What does cancer detection and prevention have to do with family planning?
Still, by trying to turn this into an action that “limits” access to mammograms, you’re stretching things in a manner that is just as silly as the PP claim.
“….just as silly as the PP claim.”
This “silly” claim is being used to justify the continued existence of Planned Parenthood, to excuse them from being cut from the budget as a government cost saving measure. If the PP program is necessary, their CEO should be able to argue their merits for existence based on actual need, and not lie about their provided services. You are trying to make this seem like a trivial issue. This may be a minor issue, compared to the size of the overall budget, but when a “public servant” purposely lies, I don’t think it’s trivial. She should be fired.
This whole discussion reminds me of many people seeming to have buyers’ remorse after the elections last November. We thought that by voting Republican, we’d see movement on cutting the deficit and creating jobs. Instead, in early January, one of the first bills passed by the US House was H.R. 3 that among other things, tried to change the definition of rape to make it more difficult for rape victims to get assistance, morning-after medication, etc.
#1 Blue Collar Todd: “Pro-abortion absolutists will lie about anything in order to make sure the only choice the woman makes……..” Same can be said for anti-abortion absolutists.
#3 Bloomer: “they didn’t disclose that inconvenient truth…..” I guess the “inconvenient truth” for you is that you didn’t read the fine print in the executive summary of the study you cited: “the results across all epidemiological studies of this premise are inconsistent.” That’s medical talk meaning there are no sure and conclusive findings to support that induced abortions cause a greater occurrence of breast cancer.”
#4 Don Rodrigo: “All NGOs should be defunded…..No federal or state money for any of them” I’m OK with that. Are you including the American Red Cross, the USO & other service organizations that support our troops, various organizations that support local police & fire departments? I assume you’re also including all those fundamentalist Christian NGOs that have gotten federal grant money under the faith-based initiatives of the Bush and Obama administrations?
#6 Harry: interesting that you’re the medical director of a pregnancy counseling clinic, but you also say Planned Parenthood perpetrates evil (assuming you mean they offer birth control & abortion services?). I wonder if you would ever recommend that a woman in danger of dying from a difficult pregnancy actually have an abortion?
Why do you say, “we”, Steve? Are you really so dumb as to believe that people would be dumb enough to believe that you qualify for “we”? And what makes your comment even funnier is that YOU acknowledge that the Republicans are the ones who vote to see movement on cutting the deficit and creating jobs, but then you want us to be disappointed when, in this case, that is what they are attempting to do.
If you voted deficit and jobs, exactly how does calling out PP’s misleading attempt to suck up tax dollars to provide phony “access to mammograms” cause you grief?
I can’t speak for Don Rodrigo but yes, all NGO’s should be defunded. Public funding corrupts everything it touches. There is no such thing as money without strings attached. Let private individuals decide where and to whom they want to contribute to support what they want.
“……one of the first bills passed by the US House was H.R. 3 that among other things, tried to change the definition of rape to make it more difficult for rape victims to get assistance, morning-after medication, etc.”
Not to change the subject, but statements like this, that try to make me feel guilty, also make me suspicious. Oh, our cruel federal government, led by those mean Republicans, when they should have been addressing national debt! How dare they? Your statement does not provide enough information to make an informed decision. Why is the federal government involved in local crime issues such as rape? Is the definition used by PP to treat rape victims at government expense? The PP website makes no mention of treatment of rape victims. If it’s strictly a matter of definition, local authorities can pass laws to provide the victim with whatever services the victim needs. If it’s a matter of who pays for the services, why are the feds compensating victims of local crimes. Who payed for the services previously before the definition change? Is your statement a roundabout attempt to demonize Republicans?
I would recommend a woman in danger of dying from a difficult pregnancy have an abortion IN A HOSPITAL, not PP. Frankly, I think all necessary abortions should be done in hospitals. Keep PP, but eliminate its license to perform abortions; that way, they can perform their stated mission – family planning – and quit the specious actuality.
The following is the ‘propaganda’ out there. Again placing “blame directly on Conservatives.”
http://www.learnvest.com/living-frugally/current-events/planned-parenthood-funding-in-danger-what-you-need-to-know/
Why Is Planned Parenthood Being Targeted?
The organization is a leader in contraceptive and family planning services, operating 800 clinics across the country. Though the majority of their services consist of screenings for STDs???, HIV??? and cancer???, as well as “providing contraceptives”,??? pregnancy tests, counseling and education???, they also provide abortions???, ” making it a target of ‘conservatives’ looking for ways to cut the budget.”
The Federal Government, and their Funding of all and any Services, Planned Parenthood included, which provides entitlements (perpetrated by the Left) for irresponsible, lackluster, lazy, immoral behavior, are nothing but ‘ENABLERS’ condoning abhorrent and ongoing irresponsible behavior by the same. Purposeful Ignorance is no excuse.
People know right from wrong, but they ‘choose not to care’, because that is what the ‘Left’ has taught them. Those who find the truth hateful, hate hearing the truth.
And the ‘left’ considers ‘their’ “programs” and Ideology so good for humanity? I have to ask the question – Why?
Please note, there are those who truly need services. But, I strongly suspect there is tons and tons of fraud perpetrated by those looking to steal from the Tax Payer because they ‘feel’ they are ‘entitled’ to do so.
The government needs to ‘weed’ these thieves out.
Those who find the truth hateful, hate hearing the truth.
Planned Parenthood claiming their purpose is to provide “women’s health care” to the needy is synonymous with the Corleone family claiming their business was to sell olive oil.
Planned Parenthood’s health service claims are a front to mask the stench that they are America’s largest abortion provider. They’ve been busted numerous times just the last three months for egregious lies.
Anybody that doesn’t recognize federal funding granted to Planned Parenthood is being used to provided abortions, whether directly or indirectly, is either willingly blind or blatantly dishonest.
Yup- but they DO Target Blacks and their founder was an admitted KLAN SPEAKER which they DO PRAISE today- watch Maafa21 http://www.maafa21.com
Welcome to Obama care, taxpayers get ripped and the government works live high on the Homers!