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Scarlett Johansson on Defunding Planned Parenthood: ‘We're Moving Backward’
newsbusters.org ^ | April 7, 2016 | Katie Yoder

Posted on 04/07/2016 5:44:56 PM PDT by Morgana

Once again, celebrity Scarlett Johansson is playing defense for Planned Parenthood.

The May 2016 issue of women’s magazine Cosmopolitan features 31-year-old actress Scarlett Johansson (The Avengers) on its cover. Among other things, Johansson declared in the cover story that the recent push to defund Planned Parenthood should not be a priority and moves America “backward.”

Cosmo’s Katie Connor published an excerpt from the upcoming issue where Johansson commented on “cutting the budget for Planned Parenthood.”

Johansson began by insisted that defunding Planned Parenthood – America’s largest abortion provider – should not be the country’s top priority.

“There are countries at war, there's terrorism, global warming, and we're like, ‘We should definitely cut the budget for Planned Parenthood. Let's take away the availability of women's health initiatives!’” she said. “It's nuts. We're talking about preventing cervical and breast cancers.”

She admitted that she herself used Planned Parenthood’s “services” while “growing up.”

“All my girlfriends did—not just for birth control but for Pap smears and breast exams,” she added.

In the end, Johansson said, defunding Planned Parenthood moves America “backward[s].”

“You read about the rise of back-alley abortions, women having to mutilate themselves and teenagers having to seek help in unsafe conditions, and for what?!” she exclaimed. “We're moving backward when we're supposed to be moving forward.”

Johansson also touched on other topics including equal pay and relationships in the issue that hits newsstands April 12.

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: abortion; plannedparenthood; prolife; scarlettjohansson
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To: Adder

Frankly


21 posted on 04/07/2016 6:01:11 PM PDT by Adder (No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
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To: ifinnegan

l like her in Lucy not a bad movie. Movie Celebs should stay out of politics. Always exceptions to anything in this case that be RONALD REGAN.


22 posted on 04/07/2016 6:04:37 PM PDT by nomorelurker
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To: nomorelurker

She is probably even not as bad politically as most of the starlets.

Lost in Translation is probably the only movie I saw her in.


23 posted on 04/07/2016 6:12:18 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Adder
-Mathnet.


24 posted on 04/07/2016 6:29:43 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Morgana

Walking implants. Is there anything they DON’T know?


25 posted on 04/07/2016 6:43:49 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: Morgana
Planned Parenthood should be defunded immediately and allowed to get funding if and only if they spin off their entire abortion business.

The services that Planned Parenthood provide are all covered by ObamaCare. Birth control....its covered. As some have found pregnancy care may or may not be funded but abortion is. Breast exams, STD testing, its all covered by ObamaCare.

So Ladies, get your services through a doctor or medical clinic under your ObamaCare policy and if you don't have one, pay your fine to the IRS and STFU as you probably voted for the Big Zero.

26 posted on 04/07/2016 6:48:30 PM PDT by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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To: Tax-chick; Morgana
You can’t have a free-fornication society without free abortion.

Exactly.

And a free-fornication society is an anti-family, anti-child society. It is a society which has trouble imagining its own future.

27 posted on 04/07/2016 7:04:37 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: Morgana

If “backward” is the opposite of progressive, then yeah, let’s do that.


28 posted on 04/07/2016 7:42:55 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: Morgana

She is just like a rotten egg, it looks pretty and wholesome on the outside, but crack the shell and it’s rotten and smelly inside. That’s why evil is so successful, the rotten soul isn’t readily apparent.


29 posted on 04/07/2016 7:51:42 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: thecodont
It is a society which has trouble imagining its own future.

Good insight.

30 posted on 04/08/2016 3:35:10 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("The world is full of wonder, but you see it only if you look." ~NicknamedBob)
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To: Morgana
If you want an abortion, the Supremes say you have a right to one. But pay for it yourself. Don't expect me to pay for any or all of it.
31 posted on 04/08/2016 8:29:46 AM PDT by JoeFromSidney (,)
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