Posted on 03/30/2011 7:46:10 AM PDT by wagglebee
The pro-life organization responsible for recent videos showing Planned Parenthood offering abortions to alleged sex traffickers who prey on women finds the abortion business is misleading about mammograms.
As LifeNews.com reported in February, Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards joined the talk show of pro-abortion activist Joy Behar and defended Planned Parenthood against legislation in Congress seeking to revoke its federal taxpayer funding.
“If this bill ever becomes law, millions of women in this country are going to lose their health care access, not to abortion services, to basic family planning – you know, mammograms,” she claimed.
LifeNews.com and pro-life blogger Jill Stanek followed up with phone calls to various Planned Parenthood centers and confirmed they do not do mammograms.
Today, Live Action released videotaped footage of calls to 30 Planned Parenthood centers nationwide in 27 different states where abortion facility staff were asked whether or not mammograms could be performed on site. Every one of the Planned Parenthood centers admitted they could not do mammograms. Every Planned Parenthood, without exception, tells the women calling that they will have to go elsewhere for a mammogram, and many clinics admit that no Planned Parenthood clinics provide this breast cancer screening procedure.
“We don’t provide those services whatsoever,” admits a staffer at Planned Parenthood of Arizona while a staffer at Planned Parenthood’s Comprehensive Health Center clinic in Overland Park, Kansas tells a caller, “We actually don’t have a, um, mammogram machine, at our clinics.”
Live Action president Lila Rose says the new recordings further confirm Planned Parenthood’s corruption.
“Planned Parenthood is first and foremost an abortion business, but Planned Parenthood and its allies will say almost anything to try and cover up that fact and preserve its taxpayer funding,” she told LifeNews.com. “It’s not surprising that an organization found concealing statutory rape and helping child sex traffickers would misrepresent its own services so brazenly, playing on women’s fears in order to protect their tax dollars.”
Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood director in Texas, also condemned Planned Parenthood’s misleading statements on mammograms.
“For so long PP has touted that they are a provider of mammogram services,” she said. “This is just one of the lies that Planned Parenthood uses to draw people into their clinics. PP is not able to provide quality services on their own, so they are forced to lie to the public about services they don’t provide–and mammograms are just one of those services.”
Both Rose and Johnson call on Congress to revoke all taxpayer subsidies from Planned Parenthood. In the last reported year, Planned Parenthood received $363 million in government money.
“...then somebody at Komen has committed a serious felony”
If we have some of their solicitations, either Komen or PP, that mention that the funds will be used for mammograms and the funds are diverted, then maybe a complaint to the IRS to have their 501(C) exemption revoked or to the Consumer Protection agencies of the various states to have their license to solicit funds revoked would work faster than complaining to criminal authorities.
Citizens can make those complaints.
The info on the Komen website certainly implies that there are mammograms (and even breast cancer treatment) being performed at Big Murder clinics:
http://ww5.komen.org/uploadedFiles/Content/AboutUs/MediaCenter-2/planned_parenthood_winer_2010.pdf
It’s a very cleverly worded press release. When discussing breast cancer, it mentions that mammograms are an integral part of prevention.
But it never actually says that PP does mammograms — in fact, it hardly says that PP does ANYTHING, except to offer “programs”.
“in some areas, the only place that poor, uninsured or under-insured women can receive these services are through programs run by Planned Parenthood.”
So, if PP runs a “program”, and that program signs up women and then helps them find doctors who will do mammograms and other tests, they are in fact “programs run by Planned Parenthood”, even though PP is hardly necessary.
The write-up also uses the words “screening”; that can include doing surveys, and breast self-exams, both of which PP does “offer” (the idea that you need to go to a PP clinic to do a breast self-exam is kind of funny, but I presume the idea is they will teach you how to do it).
And it is true that PP has set itself up as a pass-thru provider for many small communities, in some cases it seems using government money to monopolize the industry so there’s no chance for another provider to step in, except to be a service provider to the PP programs.
It is quite possible that if we stopped all government funding of PP, and instead directed that money to organizations who directly provide the services we want to fund, that we’d get those services popping up throughout those areas where PP holds the monopoly now.
Mamogrm equipment is very expensive nd buying that would cut into their profit margin.I’m surprised they even tried to claim this when it is so easily disproved.I’m not sure they offer even pap smears since I’ve never heard of them doing one?All I know they do is offer BC and abortion and I’d be very suspect of getting BC at place where you know their main buisness is abortion.
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