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riversedge

(70,242 posts) Thu Jul 30, 2015, 02:03 PM Jul 2015

Editorial: Planned Parenthood attack is a manufactured crisis for women’s health care

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Planned Parenthood attack is a manufactured crisis for women’s health care
Originally published July 29, 2015 at 6:07 pm Updated July 30, 2015 at 6:37 am

M. Ryder / Op Art (M. Ryder)

Planned Parenthood is under attack again by discredited activists. Elected leaders must not take the bait and defund family-planning programs.

By Seattle Times editorial board
The Seattle Times

ONE anti-abortion group’s campaign against Planned Parenthood — the most prominent name in reproductive health care — is a threat to patients everywhere.

A fake biotech company called Center for Medical Progress has released undercover videos in a quest to end Planned Parenthood’s safe and legal abortion services. This could do serious damage to the vast majority of the organization’s patients trying to avoid an abortion in the first place through preventive health care.

Now lawmakers in Congress are threatening to defund the agency’s invaluable services that have a proven track record of helping women. That won’t reduce abortions since federal money is already prohibited from paying for elective pregnancy terminations.

Disappointingly, seven state lawmakers are urging Washington’s governor to stop any state money from going to Planned Parenthood, and 34 are urging the state attorney general to investigate whether its affiliates are violating any laws..................

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Editorial: Planned Parenthood attack is a manufactured crisis for women’s health care (Original Post) riversedge Jul 2015 OP

k/r Dawson Leery Jul 2015 #1

Another Editorial via STLtoday.... riversedge Jul 2015 #2

Excellent! "The Center for Medical Progress" is a fake bio-tech "firm", disguising another James O'Keefe Fred Sanders Jul 2015 #5

That the PP scam and smear is an orchestrated, manufactured political operation as a fact has to be exposed, the lying Fred Sanders Jul 2015 #3

The GOP don't care about women. Iliyah Jul 2015 #4

Outrageous! dem in texas Jul 2015 #6

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)

1. k/r

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Thu Jul 30, 2015, 02:09 PM

Jul 2015

riversedge

(70,242 posts)

2. Another Editorial via STLtoday....

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Jul 30, 2015, 02:10 PM

Jul 2015

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Photo published for Editorial: Birth control, sex education prevent abortions better than...
Editorial: Birth control, sex education prevent abortions better than videos: http://bit.ly/1OC9id0 via @STLtoday

Anti-abortion crusaders who want to prevent abortions should be lined up to support birth control clinics and sponsor sex education programs and to help the poor find jobs and money
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July 28, 2015 3:45 pm • By the Editorial Board

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Serious opponents of abortion should be lined up to support birth control clinics. They should sponsor sex education programs. They should help mothers find work so they can feed and educate their children.

They shouldn’t be using hidden cameras to obtain secret video of doctors who work for Planned Parenthood discussing the distribution of fetal tissue and body parts with people who have misrepresented themselves.

Those tactics are more about gotcha politics and about defunding a nonprofit organization that provides services to women and poor people than they are about helping women prevent unwanted pregnancies.

As the late Dr. Alan Guttmacher, former president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and a leader in the International Planned Parenthood Federation, wrote after the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, “those who oppose and those who favor legalization of abortion share a common goal — the elimination of all abortion,” through better, safer, cheaper contraception..................

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

5. Excellent! "The Center for Medical Progress" is a fake bio-tech "firm", disguising another James O'Keefe

Reply to riversedge (Reply #2)

Thu Jul 30, 2015, 03:04 PM

Jul 2015

smear campaign, funded and orchestrated with the helping hand of GOP operatives and the RW Echo Chamber, in a nutshell.

All a lie. No more fucking lies from the insane GOP.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

3. That the PP scam and smear is an orchestrated, manufactured political operation as a fact has to be exposed, the lying

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Jul 30, 2015, 03:00 PM

Jul 2015

liars of the GOP operatives behind this have to be exposed.

The fact that the mass media is inexplicably ignoring the source of these distorted videos and the funding behind the propaganda operation is surely another act of media negligence.

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)

4. The GOP don't care about women.

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Thu Jul 30, 2015, 03:01 PM

Jul 2015

To them, women should be subservient to men, and make babies.

dem in texas

(2,674 posts)

6. Outrageous!

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Jul 30, 2015, 06:32 PM

Jul 2015

It is outrageous that the pro-life must use dishonesty and lies to prove their point. Even worse is that all the Republican lawmakers, both in Congress and the state level are ready to jump on the band wagon. The Center for Medical Progress had to use false names, fake company and manipulated videos. The Republican politicians should have condemned them for their dishonesty, but NOT ONE OF THEM has spoke out against this sleazy group of people. Disgusting.

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