House Republicans Attack Planned Parenthood, Utterly Fail At Basic Math
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House Republicans Attack Planned Parenthood, Utterly Fail At Basic Math
Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) betrayed not only a nakedly partisan agenda to punish the women's health organization by withdrawing federal support, but also a complete dishonesty with basic math.
At a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing to discontinue federal tax funding for Planned Parenthood, committee chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) betrayed not only a nakedly partisan agenda to punish the women’s health organization by withdrawing financial support, but also a complete dishonesty regarding basic math.
During his grilling of its president, Cecile Richards, Chaffetz displayed a graph that purports to show “abortions up, life-saving procedures down,” in an attempt to visually demonstrate that Planned Parenthood’s non-abortion services have been dramatically overtaken by abortion.
In fact, as Richards noted, the graph was created by the anti-abortion group Americans United For Life, which has been petitioning Congress to defund Planned Parenthood since at least 2011. She advised him to check his source.
Chaffetz repeatedly demanded that Richards explain the graph to the committee — a tall order since it makes absolutely no sense. Even if we were to take the numerical data here at face value, the graph, as designed, is disingenuous at best and criminally idiotic at worse.
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Courtesy DK user Brainwrap http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/29/1426029/-I-ve-corrected-the-chart-Rep-Chaffetz-presented-at-today-s-Planned-Parenthood-hearing
Chaffetz's AUL chart
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The corrected chart
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