Posted on 10/05/2015 10:30:37 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
--regarding the repeated, misleading claim that Planned Parenthood ‘provides’ mammograms
We uphold the rating we gave to the president in 2012, and award Three Pinocchios to Planned Parenthood supporters’ continued use of misleading language to suggest that it directly administers mammograms.
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“All of the signatories [of a letter in support of defunding Planned Parenthood] are men. None of whom will get pregnant, or need a cervical screening for cancer, or a mammogram, or a pap smear, or other life-saving services that are provided by Planned Parenthood.”
–---Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on Planned Parenthood funding, Sept. 29, 2015
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Readers asked us to fact-check Planned Parenthood supporters’ claims that the organization “provides” mammograms.
High-profile supporters continue to repeat it, such as comedian Margaret Cho (who tweeted about this repeatedly during the hearing) and Whoopi Goldberg (who referred to it on “The View” the day after the hearing). Miss Tennessee Hannah Robison even grabbed headlines during September’s Miss America contest, when she said Planned Parenthood’s federal funding “goes for mammograms.”
The controversy over mammograms has gone on for many years, particularly after a 2011 interview of Planned Parenthood head Cecile Richards with Joy Behar on HLN.
Richards said: “What’s going to happen as a result of this bill is, if this bill ever becomes law, millions of women in this country are going to lose their health care access — not to abortion services, but basic family planning. You know, mammograms, cancer screenings, cervical cancer.”
The Pinocchio Test
The myth that Planned Parenthood actually offers mammogram X-rays to patients has been long debunked, and needs to stop being repeated.
Planned Parenthood does not administer mammograms, but it keeps being perpetuated by the group’s supporters, including celebrities whose claims have a wide reach.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Who would have thought that genocidal maniacs would stoop to lying???
Why only three? Fifty Pinnochios with flaming britches is more like it
And this is from the Washington Post!
The Washington Post needs to do some investigative reporting and see how often Planned Parenthood bills the federal government for doing Mammograms...
I believe they do an unsafe ‘touch’ thing that is no more reliable than a self examination.... Maybe Michelle Ye Hee Lee can look into it.
Thanks MarvinStinson.
Thanks for the ping. Planned Parenthood is an abortion empire.
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Thanks, Marvin!
How this lame lie can still be perpetuated, I’m sure I don’t know. The Post is starting to do its job.
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