Only 3% of Planned Parenthood operations go to performing abortions. No tax dollars fund abortion.

[flpoljunkie]

Targeting Planned Parenthood. On Friday, notwithstanding the eloquent testimonies of legislators like Rep. Gwen Moore of Wisconsin and Rep. Jackie Spier of California, the House adopted Indiana Rep. Mike Pence's amendment denying funds to Planned Parenthood. Abortion is only a small part of what Planned Parenthood does. According to the organization's records, only 3 percent of its operations go to performing abortions, while fully 84 percent goes to contraception and screenings for sexually transmitted diseases and cancer. Despite the fact that the Hyde Amendment prevents tax dollars from funding Planned Parenthood's abortion services, conservatives have long targeted the group anyway -- most recently through a series of videos falsely purporting to show the organization abetting underage sex trafficking. The continuing resolution also defunds Title X, the only source of government funding for family-planning services, effectively denying large numbers of low-income women their only access to health-care services. The Guttmacher Institute concludes that nearly six out of 10 women who obtain care at a family-planning center consider it their primary source of care.

http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=five_reasons_to_hate_the_continuing_resolution

[elleng]

1. PLEASE don't confuse them with facts!

[femrap]

2. Pence needs

his penis tied into a pretty bow.

[bigwillq]

3. K and R (nt)

[Ian David]

4. If you screen women for cervical cancer, they might not die after having sex!

And if THAT happens, the terrorists win!

:sarcasm:

[backscatter712]

5. We need to give more money to Planned Parenthood: to fund retroactive abortions.

The events in Wisconsin show they're needed...

[ehrnst]

6. That's why they keep describing PP as "the largest abortion provider in the country"

and not "women's health care." They know that they'll lose the argument against funding Planned Parenthood based on facts. Their base stops reasoning after hearing the word "abortion" and they know it.

You can just as well call the military the largest group of trained killers in the countr.

[jwirr]

7. But to the Catholic anti-abortion people birth control is abortion. nt

[flpoljunkie]

8. I believe most catholics support access to birth control.

[jwirr]

9. Yes, but not the radicals and they are the problem.

[flpoljunkie]

10. Indeed, they are.

[LisaM]

11. Why do you single out Catholics?

You're telling me right-wing evangelical Protestants are pro-choice?

[ProudDad]

12. Probably because Roe v Wade

is heading for another showdown in SCOTUS...

Where there's a 5 to 4 right-wing Catholic majority now...

And, given their performance in Citizen's United, they don't give a shit about "settled law" and "precedence" or even rational argument against their built-in prejudice and bias...

That's why so many of the egregious anti-choice laws being passed in states now aren't being fought out in Federal Court -- because if one reaches STOCUS, the Catholic majority will use the opportunity overturn Roe...

[jwirr]

13. Because Lutherans do not oppose birth control and as far as I know

neither do other protestants. At least they didn't used to.

[LisaM]

14. Mike Pence is a Protestant

http://www.adherents.com/people/pp/Mike_Pence.html

[jwirr]

15. I was speaking of the doctrinal stance of the churches. Granted most

right wing churches are non-confessional churches which means they do not have set official doctrine. This group may or may not believe in the idea of birth control. I did not include them in my statement because I was not sure - the Catholic Church has never denied its official stance on birth control regardless of what their members may practice. That is why they were the subject of my first statement. I was saying what they openly profess.