*FACTS* about Planned Parenthood, and the dirty move to try to defund it.

[Soral]

As you can see in the chart atop this post, abortion services account for about 3 percent of Planned Parenthood’s activities.That’s less than cancer screening and prevention (16 percent), STD testing for both men and women (35 percent), and contraception (also 35 percent). About 80 percent of Planned Parenthood’s users are over age 20, and 75 percent have incomes below 150 percent of the poverty line. Planned Parenthood itself estimates it prevents more than 620,000 unintended pregnancies each year, and 220,000 abortions. It’s also worth noting that federal law already forbids Planned Parenthood from using the funds it receives from the government for abortions.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/what_planned_parenthood_actually_does/2011/04/06/AFhBPa2C_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein



So with those facts in mind... What is the purpose of republicans shutting down the government, just because PP will still have funding???????

Let's ask a republican...........

So how exactly is the rider banning federal funding for Planned Parenthood about jobs?

That's a question Gingrey had a bit of a tough time answering at a news conference with freshman Republicans in the House on Friday morning.

"Well I think these policy riders are very, very important and our conference feels very strongly about this," Gingrey said in response to a question from Chad Pergram of Fox News.

"For example, we have always been against spending the taxpayer dollars to fund abortion," Gingrey said. "Elective abortion may be legal, but it should not be funded by the taxpayer and it never has. So to have that language very specifically in this CR, in this appropriation as a rider, is not unusual at all."

But how is the abortion issue and defunding Planned Parenthood about jobs?

"Well, it's about spending cuts, uh, certainly it's about spending cuts. As you look at the two short term -- the two billion and the four billion -- every time we take a cut, we're cutting things that we think are unnecessary spending on the part of the taxpayer," Gingrey said. "So from that perspective, the main issue is to cut that spending and then we will grow jobs."

Federal money is already banned from funding abortions. What the GOP's rider would do is cut the $75 million that goes to Planned Parenthood and the $317 million aid program for family planning.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/04/ga-republican-tries-to-explain-how-abortion-rider-is-about-jobs-video.php

[gratuitous]

1. One of the worst aspects of this

Will be the Republicans suddenly giving up on this deathless struggle and coming to terms with the Democrats. Two very bad things will happen: Republicans will whine - as they always do - about how Democrats want to kill babies; and Democrats will pretend that fending off this stupid assault on women is somehow a positive victory, when it's merely a rearguard action against an aggressive adversary, who won't think twice about launching the assault again whenever they choose.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. +1000

:thumbsup:


Once again the repukes are Lucy and the Dems are Charlie Brown.

[KT2000]

2. Their delusions

must not be negotiating points. They may as well send that O'Keefe loser in to do their negotiating for them. The edit the truth to feed the crazies in this country.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. The repukes will do and say ANYTHING to get what they want...

This kind of disgusting ploy does not even surprise me.
It just validates my opinion of them.