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Originally Posted by dellinger63
Planned Parenthood now has 800 health centers in the United States. The most controversial services are their in-clinic abortions and emergency contraception services. But the organization also offers breast exams, cervical cancer screening and vaccines for sexually transmitted diseases.
Just sayin
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Yes, they provide abortion services. Abortion counts for a monstrous 3% of all the services they provide in a calendar year.
While federal money is not going to pay for those abortions, the GOP rallying cry is "funds are fungible! They will wind up paying for abortion one way or another!"
Let's just say that were happening. I'll be a fun guy and just concede that for the sake of this argument, even if I don't believe it. If the GOP were really, truly concerned about that, then the genuine proposal to make would be to cut Planned Parenthood's funding by 3%, that way, if the money
were fungible as claimed, that 3% would no longer exist, and Planned Parenthood would naturally have to take the hit for any financial shortfalls that came about from the abortion services they provide.
But that'd be a honest proposal, a word that I know is damn near impossible for any rank and file GOP'er to find themselves capable of dealing in when it comes to talking about vaginas and anything that happens in, near, or around them. So, yes, let's just throw all women's reproductive healthcare under the bus (particularly affecting poor women and women of color), so that we can try to win an ideological fight over abortion.
Willing to sacrifice women's health to score points? Yep, sounds pretty in line for the GOP.