Posted on 06/29/2017 8:15:16 AM PDT by Morgana
Has CNN found their new Sandra Fluke poster child for “free” birth control?
On Monday, CNN posted a real “tear jerker” tale about a married couple fearing they would not longer be able to get prescriptions for birth control if the GOP’s health care bill passed in the Senate because it would shut down their local Planned Parenthood clinic.
Ariana and Kevin Gonzalez told CNN that they would have to resort to going to Mexico to get the contraceptives they need, since the new bill would likely shut down their local clinic because of slashed government funding. Instead of taking an objective look at health care access, CNN’s sob story reads more like an ad for Planned Parenthood.
CNN Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen’s article hyperbolically entitled, “‘Trumpcare’ Would Send Her to Mexico for Birth Control,” opens by presenting Ariana and Kevin Gonzalez as the average American couple who can’t seem to get birth control anywhere but Planned Parenthood:
All Ariana and Kevin Gonzalez want is birth control. As far as health care needs go, that’s pretty simple. But the California couple says that if the Republican alternative to Obamacare becomes law, they’ll be driving over the border to Mexico to get it.
It’s not that the Gonzalezes don’t have insurance; they have very good insurance through Ariana’s job as a high school teacher. The problem is that “Trumpcare,” as Ariana calls it, would probably run her health clinic out of town. It’s Planned Parenthood, which the Republican health care proposal defunds because it performs abortions.
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As CNN’s Cohen later revealed, the Gonzalezes used to have to wait for weeks between doctor’s appointments when she was being treated for infertility, because of the severe shortage of doctors where they live. After finally getting pregnant, the couple explained that they now rely on PP for birth control because of the short wait times.
What Cohen didn’t mention, is that the county they live in happens to be the second worst in the entire state of California for the ratio of doctors to patients, so it’s not an average representative.
Besides that, waiting for weeks to get a doctor’s appointment is not unusual anywhere, but Cohen acts like it was the end of the world or the beginning of a Handmaid’s Tale:
For Ariana, that means it takes well over a month to get an appointment with her gynecologist and then four or five hours in the waiting room to see him, which means she has to take the day off work. At Planned Parenthood, she gets an appointment the next day and is in and out in about 30 minutes…They say they wish Planned Parenthood had been in their town then, as the clinic, unlike her gynecologist’s office, treats infertility without long waits.
Except this simply isn’t true. PP doesn’t treat infertility, just like it doesn’t offer mammograms and only some of their clinics even offer prenatal care. True to its name, the vast majority of PP’s services amount to birth control, abortions, STD testing and pap smears. Not to mention the obvious fact that Gonzalez would not have to wait hours to get a prescription from any other clinic in her area (of which there are several.)
Yet Cohen didn’t bother to correct any of the falsehoods or hyperbolic statements presented in Gonzalez’s story.
“If the Republican plan passes and Planned Parenthood leaves town, Ariana says, her best option would be to cross the border, where she can see a gynecologist immediately. It’s an option she doesn’t want to take but will if she has to,” Cohen fretted.
She spent the last quarter of the article sounding like a press release from Planned Parenthood, calling the GOP bill “devastating” for the group and warning about all the women who will not be able to access healthcare without it being federally funded.
As their poster child, Gonzalez piled on the pro-Planned Parenthood propaganda by calling the GOP bill “un-American” and “shameful:”
“If (Planned Parenthood’s) doors are shut, you’ll be driving your own constituents to an entirely different country in search of health care, and that’s not America,” she said. “I don’t think that’s who we are as a country.”
She said it scares her to think what will happen if her clinic closes. “I don’t think this is the direction that our country needs to be going. I think we’re taking steps backward,” she said.
She thinks about a photo that made the rounds on social media in March. It showed Vice President Mike Pence and a group of congressmen discussing the passage of the GOP plan, called the American Health Care Act.
“I see a bunch of men sitting around a table, discussing what I should be allowed to do with my body,” she said. “My husband and I can decide what’s best for us.”
She added, “I think it’s shameful, and I think that they should be embarrassed.”
CNN, the fake news network.
Yes, because it just isn’t fair that the government won’t pay for a ‘constitutionally-protected’ right to kill children just because they haven’t taken a breath yet.
As Dinesh D’Souza has said, by that logic, we should expect government to buy us firearms.
Infertility pills and birth control pills. Am I confused or is she confused?
CNN has gone from being known as the ‘Clinton News Network’ to standing for ‘Clearly Not News’.
Maybe PP shouldn’t take all of that record fundraising from the leftist Hollyweird types and spend it on special election candidates?
Go to the damn drugstore. It’s YOUR responsibility....not mine.
Go to Mexico for birth control? Pfffft... Amazon Prime. Whatsamattayou dingbat?
So what? Go across the border then!
Planned Parenthood is a successful business. Taking all the emotion out of their disgusting ‘business’, they are well able to financially stand on their own. The taxpayers should not be having to contribute ANY MONEY to any business, successful or not. NO BUSINESS IS TOO BIG TO FAIL! No funding for any businesses at all! PBS, Artists (NEA FUNDING), etc, need to put on their adult panties and sink or swim in the adult pool. IF an artist is good enough to make a living, then they should be funding themselves. If an artist isn’t good enough to survive without a prop up from taxpayers, they should identify an ability they might have that can pay for their lifestyle. I am fed up with the Government tipping the scales toward their ‘priority groups’ (Crony Capitalism) using money sent in by ALL groups, that constitute the American taxpayers.
Mexico: while abortion is legal, it is legal only during first 12 weeks (”first trimester”), even then it is heavily regulated. Availability varies from one state of Mexico to another. Of the countries of Latin America, Mexico has the lowest rate of abortion.
Twelve weeks is more or less the standard in the world where abortion is legal. In Singapore and Netherlands, 16 weeks is allowed BUT ONLY FOR CITIZENS. They don’t want to engender “abortion tourism.” By reason of the unelected Supreme Court, the majority of states in the US must allow abortion through 24 weeks (”second trimester”).
The other exceptions - allowing abortion until birth - are: (1) Communist China, (2) North Korea, and (4) eight Democrat-controlled states of the U.S.
BC is available at WalMart, I'm sure, in their $4 generic range. Condoms are in the same ballpark.
Or, abstinence doesn't cost a penny.
I used to get my pills from a drug store. I bet they have a few in Texas. :-)
I wouldn’t go to Mexico for anything.
California couple? Hell, you’re already living in Mexico, sweetheart....(doing a Sam Elliot impersonation in my head).
“Go to the damn drugstore. It’s YOUR responsibility....not mine.”
And keep it in your pants untill you can afford a condom.
Well their storyline is apparently that they can’t keep in their pants.
This entire article is bogus, in that, they are pushing the false notion that the only place to go for birth control is planned Parenthood.
And the completely ignore the various over the counter birth control items, available without a prescription, at a reasonable cost.
Planned Parenthood itself CANNOT claim it will not have funds for abortions if it is defunded, because it already claims that other funds, not federal funds, are used for paying for its abortion procedures. Therefor, it may have to cut back on other procedures it performs, but unless it is and has always been lying about federal funds, it should be able to continue to supply as many abortions as it does now.
Typical of Libs/Progs, they are always trying to use duplicitous arguments that when we are alert they can be exposed for doing.
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