If you are pro-life, you will find this interesting.
“Reproductive health clinic wants you to believe it’s an anti-cancer group that we have to fund to the hilt,” read the subhead under a powerful graphic of a mask cut from Planned Parenthood’s annual report with the words, “Unmasking Planned Parenthood.” It dominated the Viewpoints Section of a recent edition of The Arizona Republic.
The Arizona Republic
A misleading ad campaign by Planned Parenthood in Arizona, featuring a woman who turned to the clinic after discovering a lump in her breast, asserts that 37,000 women who use PP in the state will be adversely affected by the Republican effort to defund the group in its health insurance legislation. TV commercials ask viewers to contact Sen. Jeff Flake. Sen. John McCain was added to subsequent ads.
The opinion piece, co-authored by Cathi Herrod, president of the Center for Arizona policy and Majorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony List, revealed what some of us already knew, that PP plays no cancer detection role nationally or in most communities, especially rural areas.
“As their annual report reveals, Planned Parenthood does not offer mammograms or treatment for breast cancer, and their breast exam rate decline (over the past five years) from 21.3 per 100 patients to 13.4 per 100. They show a similarly large decrease in pap smear testing for cervical cancer,” the women report.
While the commercial leaves the impression that PP completely relies on public funding, Herrod and Dannenfelser write that the group’s annual report is 60 percent privately funded and is one of the wealthiest nonprofits in America. Private donations grew by more than $90 million last year.
The authors also debunk the PP claim that alternative health clinics cannot be found on every corner with the fact that, “in Arizona today, federally qualified health care centers, health department clinics and hospital-based clinics outnumber PP locations by 18 to 1.”
One third, or more than 1.6 million abortions have been committed by PP over the past five years, according to the authors, while fewer than 10,000 women obtained prenatal care in 2015-16 from PP, a 75 percent decline over the last six years.
PP is spending millions of dollars to defeat the effort in Congress to stop taxpayer- funded “baby killing” Republican Senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski have indicated that they would not vote for a new health insurance bill that includes PP defunding.
Senator Booker making a fool of himself. (bizpacreview.com)
In case you missed it, New Jersey’s Democrat Senator Cory Booker foolishly likened the battle to support Planned Parenthood to the day courageous American soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy, during a recent rally. Believe it … he did.
Booker, as you may recall, became the first senator to testify against another sitting senator when he attempted to block the confirmation of Jeff Sessions to attorney general.
