Salon: Tearful Jason Chaffetz, Planned Parenthood killed my parents
Tearful Jason Chaffetz opens Planned Parenthood hearings by suggesting the organization killed his parents
http://www.salon.com/2015/09/29/tearful_jason_chaffetz_opens_planned_parenthood_hearings_by_suggesting_the_organization_killed_his_parents/
Utah Representative Jason Chaffetz opened the House’s Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s hoax-inspired hearings into Planned Parenthood by tearfully implying that the organization is responsible for the deaths of his parents, both of whom succumbed to cancer.
Chaffetz — who was on “Fox & Friends” earlier that morning sounding very confused about the evidentiary value of the videos behind the hearings — began by noting that his wife works for a plastic surgeon who treats women who have had mastectomies. He lamented, and not for the last time, that Planned Parenthood doesn’t perform mammograms, though he neglected to mention that like almost all gynecologists in private practice, the organization refers women to a radiological center for that particular procedure.
“Cancer in this country kills about 1,500 people a day,” Chaffetz said. “A day — and yet our federal government only spends $5 billion to fight it. If they were shooting 1,500 people a day, if there were rockets coming in, we would be fighting this with everything we’ve got.”
His point, of course, is that “we don’t spend enough on cancer,” instead wasting tax-payer dollars on Planned Parenthood. “The question before us is does this organization, does Planned Parenthood really need federal subsidy? Does it need federal dollars?”
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BTW Planned Parenthood does screenings for ovarain cancer. 
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I can't help but wonder about the bitter irony of Republican showboater Chaffetz's comments about Planned Parenthood and his newly-discovered concern for women's health 
A few years in Texas, former Republican Governor Rick Perry, who is anything BUT pro-choice, announced an initiative to require girls to get vaccinated against the human papillomavirus. You'd think that even the conservatives in Texas would go for this, right?
WRONG. Perry's initiative was denounced by Radical Right activists and politicos and stopped before it could get going. Radical Rightists bitterly denounced the vaccination program as "promoting" or "endorsing" "promiscuity."
Result: a lot of HPV infections leading to uterine cancers and more than a few deaths.
And the same cast of characters are currently enrolled in the right-wing Whack-astani crusade against Planned Parenthood.
Spare me your tears, Congressman Chaffetz. I think you're a howling hypocrite and that your antics are a threat to the public health of your district, your state, and the rest of the USA. 
