Predictable: 4th Video Attacking Planned Parenthood Also Re-edited for Max Impact

This Card I'm Holding Says PP Has to Go Away

(Far too Too Many Abortions We GOPers Profess)

Green  Arrow: Percentage for Abortions - 3%)

(that equals about 1 in 10 seen patients)

The GOP making headlines here.  And here.

GOP LAWMAKERS PLEDGE BUDGET FIGHT OVER PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND TO TOTALLY DEFUND IT

First some facts and right up this one is key: The so-called “under cover journalistic videos,” released by the California-based Center for Medical Progress, are heavily edited. Extended clips include Planned Parenthood employees saying repeatedly that the group does not profit from fetal tissue donations, but natch, those parts are edited out for max effect and that is my point.  

Planned Parenthood cannot use the money it receives from the Federal government for abortions of any kind according to HHS: “By law, Title X funds may not be used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning.”  Plus, Medicaid funding is restricted by the Hyde Amendment to only abortion cases involving rape, incest, or endangerment to the life of the mother.  Some states use their own funds under Medicaid to go beyond that. Seventeen states and, until recently, the District of Columbia pay for “medically necessary abortions.” 

A controversy over a series of edited and thus slanted “undercover” videos of a Planned Parenthood staff member discussing the medical details of the abortion process and donation of fetal tissue released by an antiabortion group is spilling over into the budget debate.

A group of 18 House Republicans sent a letter to leaders vowing to vote against any budget bills until Planned Parenthood’s funding is revoked. The letter was signed by conservative members of the House Freedom Caucus including Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC), Tim Huelskamp (R-KS), and Jim Jordan (R-OH) (from the Hill).

The GOPers’ latest “rally cry” …. “We must act to fully defund Planned Parenthood. Please know that we cannot and will not support any funding resolution — an appropriations bill, an omnibus package, a continuing resolution, or otherwise — and that contains any funding for Planned Parenthood, including mandatory funding streams.”

Note: Primary goals and services from PP mostly do not include abortions (roughly 3% only and with their population that equates to 1 of every 10 women seen).  All sorts of other critical and timely female health issues are at stake here. However, the GOP is blind to the overall mission of PP based on the slanted and bias videos out recently (heavily edited to fit anti-abortion agenda) and designed to do just what we are seeing as the end result: DEFUND an important program for women and their health issues and concerns.

Here is 50 state chart (.pdf) showing health care centers that receive Federal funds – so, will video teams seek them out and make slanted videos, too (I wonder).  

The sad fact is that viral videos hit the airwaves, are accepted as the gospel and media all across the Internet reinforce it on Talk Radio (mostly right wing talk shows) and elsewhere, then the facts and details pour in, but as the case in so many cases, the damage is done. No amount of facts will overcome strong opinion and even so, when the facts are clearly honest, “Area 51” conspiracies overwhelm us… Now the seat of government has joined the crazy crowd.  

Planned Parenthood is striking back, too, and with plenty of facts on their side like here and else where like here, One very good PP explanation seen in this short clip:

This issue is far from over and the rabid GOP moves anyway possible to hamper a woman's choice in her own health care decisions. Why am I not surprised at this latest dirty trick. Stay tuned.