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Planned Parenthood Abandons TX Poor Women
National Review ^ | November 2, 2013 | Wesley J. Smith

Posted on 11/03/2013 6:16:02 AM PST by grundle

Remember when several states sought to defund Planned Parenthood because they didn’t want public money to go to an abortion provider? Oh, the screaming! These laws were so uncompassionate, PP’s defenders screamed, denying poor women basic health care!

Yet, when Texas law required that abortionists have admitting privileges within 30 miles of an abortion clinic–which would not in any way prevent the clinics from providing poor women ”basic health care”– 12 Planned Parenthood clinics closed. From the CBS DFW story:

"Planned Parenthood will close a dozen clinics on Friday after a federal appeals court reinstated most of the state’s controversial new abortion law. The ruling from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals late Thursday means that many abortion clinics across the state of Texas are required to stop providing the procedure immediately."

If abortion was really only 3% of PP–as the organization claims–would a safety restriction of this kind really force twelve PP clinics to close?

Indeed, the question must now be asked: Where is PP’s compassion? Don’t Texas poor women still need basic Ob/gyn care? Don’t they still need access to cheap birth control? Don’t they still need breast exams? Etc. Etc. Etc.?

What is that old saying? Money talks? Killing fetuses is Planned Parenthood’s real raison d’ etre. The other stuff is clearly just veneer.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: abortion

1 posted on 11/03/2013 6:16:03 AM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

bump...


2 posted on 11/03/2013 6:18:51 AM PST by Popman
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To: grundle

But we were told that PP mostly did breast exams.


3 posted on 11/03/2013 6:25:02 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

If they said it, it was a lie. It is the one thing liberals are good at.


4 posted on 11/03/2013 6:31:07 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (From time to time the.tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.)
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To: grundle

Dear PP,
Don’t Texas poor women deserve continuing substandard care and 2d rate doctors to terminate viable living fetuses into toilets to swim for their short lives until their spinal cords are snipped?

Call it the Gosnell standard

After all it’s in the Constitution, right?


5 posted on 11/03/2013 6:34:11 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: grundle
It's a beginning....truth being revealed.

It was never about the women.....it was always about money...and agenda.

6 posted on 11/03/2013 6:41:43 AM PST by Guenevere (....)
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To: grundle

Women and children hardest hit!


7 posted on 11/05/2013 9:46:44 AM PST by lowbridge
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