Posted on 08/26/2015 3:56:44 AM PDT by Zakeet
THE ANTIABORTION movement seems to have gained new momentum. Thousands of protesters rallied outside Planned Parenthood clinics over the weekend. Republicans in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail are demanding a crackdown on the organization. Several Republican governors have moved to cut off funds, including Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, a state with just two Planned Parenthood clinics that don’t even perform abortions.
Energizing the fight, which threatens to complicate this fall’s federal budget negotiations and could lead to a government shutdown, are notorious sting videos from the so-called Center for Medical Progress targeting Planned Parenthood officials.
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The videos seek to show that Planned Parenthood has violated federal law by selling fetal tissue to scientific researchers. It has long been legal for patients to donate culled fetal tissue for medical research and for abortion clinics to recoup the costs they incur to facilitate the donations. The videos are strategically edited and employ familiar antiabortion shock tactics, such as the use of gruesome images of fetal tissue and inflammatory language; they may show distressing insensitivity on the part of some Planned Parenthood staff but there is certainly nothing close to illegality.
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Defunding Planned Parenthood, meanwhile, would deny women access to all sorts of non-abortion services, such as contraception, cancer screening, sexually transmitted disease testing and so forth.
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“The videos are strategically edited”
Not if you watched the ENTIRE VIDEO (which are available)
you morons!
So many lies. Where to begin?
- Virtually all women now get access to FREE contraception thanks to Obamacare. I don’t like Obamacare but clearly it made PP unnecessary in that sense.
- FREE STD testing is available at any county health department. Our local taxes are already paying for it.
- Planned Parenthood does virtually NO cancer screening. I believe they have all of five mammogram machines spread across hundreds of offices.
Does not sound to me like there is any legitimate need for them to exist.
The videos also showed that abortion procedures were modified to obtain more intact (sometimes live) dead babies and that many patients were not informed about the procedure and disposition of tissue.
As to what PP received for aborted baby parts that will be subject to audit of PP and the Medical Companies. At the very least PP is wide open for lawsuits from patients.
Ganz richtig.
The English word “flack” comes from “Flak-catcher”, a derisive characterization of public relations personnel.
Always wondered about that. Thanks.
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