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Wed Sep 30, 2015, 11:51 AM Sep 2015

Planned Parenthood's enemies defund the truth

The only thing that has been defunded in the Planned Parenthood debate is the truth...those pushing to defund Planned Parenthood speak of the funding the organization receives as a waste of money.

They might want to check first with the Congressional Budget Office, the nonpartisan research operation that provides lawmakers with unbiased information.

It issued a report this month saying that defunding the organization would end up costing taxpayers $130 million over the next 10 years while at the same time causing as many as 630,000 Planned Parenthood patients to lose access to birth control, STD screening, and other reproductive services.


http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2015/09/29/montini-and-congress-and-planned-parenthood-and-defund/73032710/

To add to the rampant hateful stupidity of the right, you have Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey banning the selling of "fetal tissue" something that does not happen in any state. His state doesn't even have a center to collect donated tissue. So another dangerously ignorant man displays his monumental ignorance of female reproductive issues. I think these self-appointed experts should be given a female anatomy test where they correctly label all our reproductive organs and explain how they function as well as explaining what they think happens inside a Planned Parenthood office before they are allowed to even spout off on the topic.

BTW Congress, having a prescription for viagra does not make you an expert on women's reproductive health.

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