Planned Parenthood challenged on purported mammogram claim

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Source: The Washington Post

A conservative activist group seeking to discredit the Planned Parenthood Federation of America released audio tapes Wednesday that it said contradicts claims the organization made that it provides mammograms.

A spokesman for Planned Parenthood, however, immediately denied that the group claimed to provide mammograms and released the transcript of a television interview with the group’s president it said showed her statements were taken out of context.

The dispute comes as Planned Parenthood tries to fight off efforts in Congress to cut off the group’s funding.

In a news release, the Los Angeles-based group Live Action claimed that “opponents of defunding Planned Parenthood have argued in Congress and elsewhere that the organization provides many vital health care services other than abortion, such as mammograms. Most prominently, Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards recently appeared on The Joy Behar Show to oppose the Pence Amendment to end Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer subsidies, claiming, ‘If this bill ever becomes law, millions of women in this country are gonna lose their healthcare access — not to abortion services — to basic family planning, you know, mammograms.’”

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/planned_parenthood_challenged_on_purported_mammogram_claim/2011/03/30/AFjCFO3B_story.html

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Yes, it is that slimy group Live Action, but we need to be aware of misinformation campaigns!

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1. I don't care about mammogram's anyway

there are plenty of day clinics that offer mammogram's for free. Just got a post card on one being held next month. But Planned Parenthood is the main place for many of us women to go for our yearly exams and pap smears. In all the years I have gone there for my pap's, I know they have never "offered" abortions. They can put you in contact with a doctor or clinic, but that's it. It's the birth control pill and family planning that is important to most women I know that go there.

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2. I'm so tired of these punks and their immature bullshit.