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(46,301 posts)
Wed Sep 9, 2015, 12:50 PM Sep 2015

Bobby Jindal shows again just how stupid he is...

Yeah, all the problems are Planned Parenthood's fault, NOT him!

Bobby Jindal Blames Planned Parenthood For His State's Abysmal Poverty, STD & Teen Pregnancy Rates

Submitted by Miranda Blue on Wednesday, 9/9/2015 12:12 pm

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal yesterday blamed his state’s high teen pregnancy rate, its third-in-the-nation poverty rate and its sexually transmitted infection crisis on Planned Parenthood, claiming that the women’s health provider, which operates two clinics in the state, had failed to make “things better.”

Jindal, in an interview with Iowa talk radio host Simon Conway, reacted to a Des Moines Register editorial that criticized him for cutting off Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood in his state in the wake of recent smear videos. The newspaper’s editorial board notes that few states have a greater need for Planned Parenthood’s services, including affordable STI tests and treatments and contraception than Louisiana, which has some of the highest teen pregnancy and STI rates in the countries, and some of the nation’s worst poverty.

Planned Parenthood's two Louisiana clinics conduct tens of thousands of STI tests and other health services each year; neither provides abortions.

But Jindal insisted that his state’s abysmal public health and poverty record is just proof that Planned Parenthood is “awful at what they do.”

“If they’re doing such a great job, why aren’t these things better?” he asked. “We should cancel their contract for no other reason, just that they’re awful at what they do.”

Under Jindal’s leadership, Louisiana’s spending on STD prevention has plummeted. Last year, Jindal signed a bill barring Planned Parenthood from providing sex education in public schools.

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bobby-jindal-blames-planned-parenthood-his-states-abysmal-poverty-std-teen-pregnancy-rates#sthash.2XlfPx4z.dpuf

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Bobby Jindal shows again just how stupid he is... (Original Post) Archae Sep 2015 OP
PP is the current whipping boy (girl?) of the right... TreasonousBastard Sep 2015 #1
Like cutting off vaccines and then blaming doctors for a flu epidemic. yellowcanine Sep 2015 #2
Does Gov. Jindal even listen to himself? gratuitous Sep 2015 #3
Is he still in the race? LOL livetohike Sep 2015 #4
Poor Bobby Sherman A1 Sep 2015 #5

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
3. Does Gov. Jindal even listen to himself?
Wed Sep 9, 2015, 01:14 PM
Sep 2015

All external indications are that he's a smart man; but these quotes make him sound like someone babbling away in a padded cell and playing with his own feces.

livetohike

(22,126 posts)
4. Is he still in the race? LOL
Wed Sep 9, 2015, 01:17 PM
Sep 2015

It is kind of funny watching those at the bottom of the pile scrambling for relevance.

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