Louisiana: Women Don’t Need Planned Parenthood. They Have Dentists.

[ErikJ]

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/09/louisiana-said-women-could-go-dentist-if-planned-parenthood-were-defunded

The task seems straightforward: Make a list of health care providers that would fill the void if Louisiana succeeded in defunding Planned Parenthood. But the state, which is fighting a court battle to strip the group of hundreds of thousands of dollars in Medicaid funds, is struggling to figure out who would provide poor women with family planning care if not Planned Parenthood.

Nowhere is this struggle more apparent than in a recent declaration by Louisiana's attorneys that there are 2,000 family planning providers ready to accommodate new patients. A federal judge, reviewing the list in an early September court hearing, found hundreds of entries for specialists such as ophthalmologists; nursing homes caregivers; dentists; ear, nose, and throat doctors; and even cosmetic surgeons.

"It strikes me as extremely odd that you have a dermatologist, an audiologist, a dentist who are billing for family planning services," said the judge, John deGravelles, who will determine in the next week whether it is legal for the state to end Planned Parenthood's Medicaid contracts. "But that is what you're representing to the court? You're telling me that they can provide family planning and related services?"
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[Luminous Animal]

1. All the better to chew your dick off so I don't get pregnant.

[procon]

2. Sure, why not, a cavity is just like a vagina.

Afterall, George W. Bush appointed a veterinarian to head the women's health section of the Food and Drug Administration, so dentists are actually a step up considering Republicans low regard for women.

[DirkGently]

3. What about barbers?

I hear they used to do blood letting or what have you.

Missing the boat on that one guys.

[Tsiyu]

4. Many males are just dumber than a box of rocks

and meaner than Voldemort.

But they love sex, oh they loooooooooooooooooooooooove sex. But wymmins is supposed to grin and bear it or she's a ho. They truly are like the Saudis, except they like their women to drive so the men can be drunk all the time.