Liberalism in Action: Planned Parenthood Sells Dead Baby Body Parts

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Fox Devoted 10 Segments In One Day To Hyping Edited Video's False Claims About Planned Parenthood



http://mediamatters.org/research/201...ping-ed/204541

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Repug reachout to the female vote going full blast

Republicans Use Veterans Bill To Attack Planned Parenthood

A bill that would have helped female military veterans receive fertility treatments and counseling on Wednesday fell prey to the Republican war against Planned Parenthood.

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) abruptly pulled her bill to end a ban on fertility treatments for female veterans receiving care at VA hospitals from the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee after Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) attached amendments targeting Planned Parenthood and other family planning organizations.

Tillis on Wednesday said he introduced the amendments because he believes the VA should focus on existing problems in the VA health system rather than introducing new programs.

"I'm concerned that we have a problem with priorities," Tillis said on the Senate floor. "I'm concerned that maybe the focus isn't where it needs to be to make sure that we take care of the most pressing problems for our veterans."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b08f57d5d3af83

NC Confederate Tillis' priority is War on (poor) Women, pandering to his Christian Taliban base.

[russellgoat]

Abortion is necessary to stop society from having a lot of criminals and other filth. I just wish people realize that we should also deport the filthy Mexican and Central American kids that will become gang members.

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Fox Hosts Have No Idea What Planned Parenthood Does Or How Obamacare Works

Fox hosts Bill O'Reilly and Andrea Tantaros advocated for entirely eliminating Planned Parenthood's federal funding, which helps provide critical women's health services across the U.S., by wildly misrepresenting what the organization spends on abortion and the services they provide.

Congress long ago barred Planned Parenthood from using federal funds for abortion, but the release of two deceptively edited videos -- which attempt to smear the organization's legal practice of allowing women to choose to donate fetal tissues from their abortions to biomedical research -- has nevertheless reanimated anti-choice activists' campaign to defund the nonprofit.

Jumping off of the controversy, O'Reilly stated unequivocally on his July 22 show that "Planned Parenthood should be defunded, period. I don't want my tax dollars going to them."

Fox contributor Juan Williams attempted to push back, explaining that by defunding all of Planned Parenthood, "you're talking about taking away medical access to millions of women." But O'Reilly insisted "It wouldn't take away anything," and Fox host Tantaros agreed:

TANTAROS: I want to jump in on the women's health point because that's actually a crock. Look, you don't have to be pro-life to be horrified by these videos. A number of my pro-choice friends are horrified by these videos, the same way they were horrified by Kermit Gosnell. And look, here's my view on Planned Parenthood. It provides services now, those services are provided under Obamacare. So, we don't really need Planned Parenthood.

O'REILLY: 90 percent of their services are abortion-related.

TANTAROS: But here's my deal, I don't want to pay for it. It's a business, let private funding go to Planned Parenthood, taxpayer dollars should not have to go to crazy towns like San Francisco and to places like Planned Parenthood.

In fact, Obamacare does not guarantee women access to the critical health services Planned Parenthood's 817 clinics across the country provide, nor are "90 percent of their services" abortion related.

The Affordable Care Act requires that insurance companies cover preventative women's health care services and prenatal care, and has already saved women over $1 billion dollars on birth control by reducing co-pays and deductibles. The law also established funding to construct health centers to increase access to health care.

But the law does not guarantee that there are clinics accessible to provide women these health services. Some local pharmacies may stock prescription birth control, for example, but they aren't equipped to perform pap smears, conduct exams for breast cancer, or provide treatment for sexually transmitted diseases.

That kind of critical women's health care is provided at the hundreds of Planned Parenthood clinics. According to their most recent annual report, from October 2012 to September 2013 their clinics performed almost 900,000 pap tests and breast exams, over 3.5 million birth control information and service requests, and nearly 4.5 million tests and treatments for STIs.
The same report (once again) confirmed that only 3 percent of Planned Parenthood's services were abortion-related.

As Vox's Sarah Kliff recently explained, Planned Parenthood receives "more than $500 million annually in government funding, mostly through Medicaid and grants," and that money is crucial to helping them provide this health care to millions of American women. "Because Planned Parenthood is such a large provider in this space," Kliff writes, "it's hard to see other clinics stepping in to fill the gap that [defunding] would leave."

Anti-choice attempts to shutter women's health clinics -- including Planned Parenthood centers -- around the country have already created a massive health crisis in states like Texas, where 13 million women live but currently only have access to a handful of clinics.

Fox has repeatedly hyped this most recent deceptive campaign against Planned Parenthood, with the network devoting 10 full segments in just one day to hyping the video's false claims.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/07...enthood/204551

... is why old, white people who watch Fox are so ing stupid, ignorant, inflammable.

[Wild Cobra]

Recent attacks are part of a decade-long pattern of illegal harassment by extremists, whose focus is banning abortion and preventing women from accessing preventive health care at Planned Parenthood health centers.

In a letter to Congress yesterday, Planned Parenthood detailed how recent attacks are part of a decade-long pattern of illegal harassment by extremists, whose focus is banning abortion and preventing women from accessing preventive health care at Planned Parenthood health centers.

In the letter to House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, Planned Parenthood outlined:

How videos released were edited to falsely claim that the organization violated laws,

How the broader attack was perpetrated,

The extremist ties of the individual who led the fraud, and
What additional tapes the extremists may be planning to distort to make false charges.

Here’s what you need to know:

Planned Parenthood is the most trusted women’s health care provider in this country and has been for nearly 100 years. Nothing is more important to Planned Parenthood than patients’ health and safety. That’s why we are fighting back hard and calling this what it is: part of a decade-long campaign of deceiving the public, making false charges, and terrorizing women and their doctors — all in order to ban abortion and prevent women from accessing care at Planned Parenthood.

Already, conservative politicians have begun to use this fraud campaign to justify legislation to defund Planned Parenthood — which would cut women off from birth control, lifesaving cancer screenings, and other services. Anti-women’s health politicians also are using the fraud campaign to push for legislation banning abortion, both federally and in states.

The Truth About the Video and the Extremists Behind It

Responding to a request Friday, the letter to the congressional committee included these important facts:

Misleading Edits

An analysis of the heavily edited, nine-minute video released last week compared to the uncut 162-minute video: The longer video shows that a Planned Parenthood staffer said 10 different times that Planned Parenthood would not sell tissue or profit from tissue donations. All 10 instances were cut out and the video was edited to falsely claim she said the opposite.

Related Attacks

The man who perpetrated the fraud, David Daleiden, has participated in at least 10 separate fraud campaigns over the last eight years involving gaining access to Planned Parenthood health centers or offices under false pretenses, taping staff (and sometimes patients) without their knowledge on at least 65 occasions (not counting the latest fraud), and misleading the public with heavily edited tapes and false charges.

Another man involved in the fraud, Troy Newman, is the leader of Operation Rescue, whose members have bombed abortion clinics and murdered Dr. George Tiller in his church.

Corporate Espionage

This latest attack started approximately three years ago and included the creation of a phony company claiming to be a health care organization. Daleiden then embarked on a campaign of corporate espionage with Planned Parenthood as its target. The fraud included possible violations of state and federal recording laws and tax laws, as well as the possible use of a false state identification card.

The Months Ahead

Based on initial analysis, Planned Parenthood believes that Daleiden may have thousands of hours of videotape that he will use to edit deceptively into short clips to make false claims, likely for many months.

Among the areas that Planned Parenthood said it expects to see on video are:

Illegal, secret recording in a highly sensitive area of a health center where tissue is processed after abortion procedures, a serious invasion of women’s privacy and dignity.

Offers from impersonators posing as health care professionals to pay various sums of money for tissue or organs, from $100 to $1,600 – offers which could be illegal, and which Planned Parenthood staff refused.

Leading and vague questions and discussions about how abortions are performed to get footage that could be edited to suggest wrongdoing, regardless of the fact that Planned Parenthood staff made clear they would not violate laws.

Cynical and ugly questions about whether tissue from African American patients could be isolated to use for research to find a cure for sickle-cell anemia, presumably to edit deceptively and manufacture false and inflammatory video involving race.

Impact on Planned Parenthood Patients

The letter reiterates that as a high-quality health care provider, Planned Parenthood has extremely high standards and takes swift action any time those standards are not being met.
What we know right now: A group of extremists who have intimidated women and doctors for years — in their agenda to ban abortion completely — are not “do enting” misdeeds; they are making false accusations.

From all that is known today, the only people who have broken laws are the extremists who have hounded women and Planned Parenthood doctors for years.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...d?detail=email

LOL...

A "He said - She said" argument.

LOL...

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LOL...

A "He said - She said" argument.

LOL...

AGW denier DENIES all facts that don't fit his ideology.

[TheSanityAnnex]

I'm pro-choice but watching those videos was sickening, edited or not.

[DarrinS]

Memo to all PP employees:

Stop talking about selling DBBP.

[Spurminator]

I mean I get sick watching videos of open heart surgery and live births, but if it's not illegal, I try not to let it ruin my day.

Anyway, I'm sure all of these investigations will lead to some damning findings.

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sure all of these investigations will lead to some damning findings.

Benghazi!

We know from the 9/11 Commission how Repugs do "investigations"

[spurraider21]

Benghazi!

why do you always laugh about benghazi and bring it up jokingly?

[TheSanityAnnex]

why do you always laugh about benghazi and bring it up jokingly?

He celebrates the death of US military members weekly.

[Wild Cobra]

why do you always laugh about benghazi and bring it up jokingly?

Because he likes it when innocent life is snuffed out.

[RandomGuy]

Define "crunchy"

Again, another chicken dodge.

[RandomGuy]

Because he likes it when innocent life is snuffed out.

Define "life".

If I have a small biopsy removed, is that a "life"?

Both cases are human cells that cannot exist outside a body without assistance.

Are we going to have vigils for the 10,000 cells that die every time you comb your hair?

At some point, we will be able to manipulate genetics to be able to switch on the capacity to turn into cell types on and off at will. What then?

If I can take a blood sample, and morph those cells into a cute baby, does that make it wrong to have a nose bleed?

[Roux]

At the end of the day, your at ude enables losers.

If that's they type of sorry ass you are, then I pity you.

Society should not have to be burdened with other peoples irresponsibility. Society should have a say in such matters that affect us all. We all have differing opinions on what's best.

At least I don't condone the murder of innocent like you do.

Do you have any morals?

So who is to pay for these unwanted children? Also, how exactly does this affect you? If you don't believe in abortion then awesome for you. No one is forcing you to do so. All people ask is that you don't take away THEIR choice. This doesn't exactly affect you at all really. If we are going to for our choices than let us.

[Roux]

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[Roux]

I think if the woman is raped it overrides that fact. It's not difficult for me to reconcile my belief that a fetus is human and that if it is a result rape the mother can make a choice in that instance and make an exception on whether to abort/kill it. It's not that the life is any less important or less of a life. It's a sad situation but I would be a able to sympathize with the mother making that choice. I cannot sympathize otherwise.

A terrible,sad situation where you would in that instance legalize "murder"? GTFO with that non-sense. So if she chose to get drunk, s, gets knocked up, & should have a choice, you want to take it away. But If she get's drunk then starts walking around the wrong side of town and gets raped, you want to give the choice back. This is a do or don't situation in line with your morals. It doesn't hurt you so how about you s just let us sinners go to in peace huh?

[Roux]

Im not putting zero value on the fetus in that instance. It's just that I think in that instance a women's choice is paramount to the fetus. I think the possible psychological effects of carrying/having a child borne out of rape makes not having that option a danger to mother.

I am curious to see how many more rape cases we see in this world of yours.

[Wild Cobra]

Define "life".

If I have a small biopsy removed, is that a "life"?

Both cases are human cells that cannot exist outside a body without assistance.

Are we going to have vigils for the 10,000 cells that die every time you comb your hair?

At some point, we will be able to manipulate genetics to be able to switch on the capacity to turn into cell types on and off at will. What then?

If I can take a blood sample, and morph those cells into a cute baby, does that make it wrong to have a nose bleed?

That's right.

Rationalize...

[Wild Cobra]

So who is to pay for these unwanted children? Also, how exactly does this affect you? If you don't believe in abortion then awesome for you. No one is forcing you to do so. All people ask is that you don't take away THEIR choice. This doesn't exactly affect you at all really. If we are going to for our choices than let us.

It the allowing our society to slip into this complacency of immorality.

That affects everyone.

[Blake]

It the allowing our society to slip into this complacency of immorality.

That affects everyone.

that's right......rationalize

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speaking of rape and abortion ...

Women and Girls Raped in Conflict Need Abortion Care—but the US Is Standing in Their Way

An international campaign is demanding that the US overturn the Helms amendment, saying it defies the Geneva Conventions.

In 1973, Jesse Helms, a newly elected United States senator and an ideologue contemptuous of the United Nations, dismissive of international treaties and completely devoid of compassion for the world’s poor, put his name on an amendment to the landmark 1961 United States foreign assistance act banning any use of US funds to support abortion in family planning globally.

Over more than four decades, the Helms amendment has been reinterpreted, reinforced, and expanded in American aid policy to the point of rising to a violation of internationally recognized rights of women.

An international campaign is now urgently demanding that the United States put an end to this policy, saying that the Helms amendment defies the Geneva Conventions on the rules of war, which the US has pledged to uphold since the 1950s.

The US is effectively violating the universally accepted nondiscriminatory healthcare provision in the conventions by forcing its prohibitions on abortion on medical aid work by others in conflict areas.

In an age of unconventional warfare and terrorism, thousands of women suffer and die as a consequence of rape and other sexual abuses. Those who survive need a lot of help to repair their battered bodies—and sometimes that includes abortion.

“The US abortion ban is a major reason that female war rape victims around the world are being denied abortions in humanitarian medical facilities,” the letter said. “This is a matter of utmost urgency as recently demonstrated by the use of rape and forced impregnation by extremist groups such as ISIL and Boko Haram as tactics of warfare to further their ideological goals.”

http://www.thenation.com/article/women-and-girls-raped-in-conflict-need-abortion-care-but-the-us-is-standing-in-their-way/

Jesse Helms, the racist Confederate "Christian" south and the Repug rape caucus ("you're rape baby is a gift from God") ing up America and the planet, "for Christ".

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Batman and Robin slapped

Mike Lee and Ted Cruz’s Effort To Defund Planned Parenthood Gets Squashed By Senate

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/07/...iticus+USA+%29

[Winehole23]

blasts from the past, video hoaxes prompt swift political reaction:

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=134685
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=159389