The problem about all the other things PP does is mostly they don’t. Call PP and tell them you need a mammogram and they will REFER you to some place that does mammograms. You may or may not be able to get a pap smear done. Very, very few of the PP clinics offer much in the way of women’s health services other than abortion and birth control. They are dependant on doctors spending time away from their practices to offer these services, so a woman never has a relationship with a specific doctor - the care at best is limited and inconsistent.
What PP does best and most is abortion. The public funding would be better spent on properly staffed women’s clinics that offer full services.
“The problem about all the other things PP does is mostly they don’t.”
You are right but so is Trump. It is perception in this case that matter. If the funding for abortions is gone then PP goes away. They have very few other revenue streams. By saying “Stop the abortions but allow the other things” Trump is coming across as a moderate and defecting the untrue, but inevitable demodog attacks about him hating women.
Notice another thing. The demodogs can’t counter the position without admitting the truth. Trump’s stance is a win for him what ever happens. He either gets the dumb blonde who sleeps around vote or he gets the demodogs to admit they are lying.
You are correct and I know that.
Donald was misinformed when he first commented in the press about the awful ghastly PP videos of selling baby body parts. He was told by someone that abortion was only a small part of what PP does, then later he was correctly informed that PP does mostly abortion and very little for women’s health. So he corrected himself before the press several months back.
But still there are women who think PP really does provide a great service for women’s health. They are also misinformed. But Donald is not in the business of educating every American about what the real story is. He has to pick and choose his fights.
So he’s adopted the tack that PP can do women’s health just fine, but not when it comes to abortion. That’s where he is now.
There is also the practical side of the matter. There are hundreds and hundreds of PP clinics around the USA. Some of them are modern state of the art. They were built with federal funds. There’s no reason they can’t be revamped to provide premium women’s healthcare with a name change and a prohibition of performing abortion on demand. I wouldn’t be surprised if Donald had that in mind. It makes sense.