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Watch the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekgiScr364Y
Then read the text, alright?
"Prenatal care. These are the kinds of services folks depend on Planned Parenthood for.”
- Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards
Planned Parenthood is spending millions of dollars in advertising right now, saying they support “choices” for pregnant women, but nothing could be further from the truth…
Despite Planned Parenthood’s claims, Live Action’s investigative team found that prenatal care is virtually non-existent for mothers who actually want to keep their babies. We documented it in our NEW investigative video, which you can see HERE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekgiScr364Y
Our investigators contacted all 41 Planned Parenthood affiliates in the United States, reaching out to 97 facilities, and discovered only FIVE offered any sort of prenatal care at all.
By turning away pregnant women for prenatal care, it’s obvious Planned Parenthood has one priority - and supports only one option - for most women: abortion.
But that doesn’t stop Planned Parenthood from lying to the public about its prenatal services. In fact, this is all part of Planned Parenthood’s strategy to protect its $550 million in taxpayer funding -- by downplaying the 887 preborn children they dismember, poison, and starve to death every day.
With the fight to defund Planned Parenthood in full force in Congress, we need to act quickly and share this information with more Americans so that, they too, know the truth: Planned Parenthood is not a “health care provider,” they are an abortion corporation.
Please share this video with your friends on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/liveaction/videos/10154911641473728/.
And for your friends who aren’t on Facebook, email them this link.
In the following weeks, Live Action will be releasing more videos exposing Planned Parenthood's relentless focus on abortion and the lack of authentic health care. Live Action’s groundbreaking investigative report will shatter the narrative and the myths Planned Parenthood so desperately want the American people to believe.
Now is the time to deal a crippling blow to the abortion giant - the lives of preborn children are depending on us. Together, we can put an end to Planned Parenthood’s lies and the state-sponsored killing of children.
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Monday January 30 2017, @11:57AM
I'm surprised you didn't double-check your info before writing an entire post based on it — that doesn't seem entirely like you.
I can't watch the videos at the moment, but I know which ones you're referring to, and both were shown to be heavily edited. One supposedly showed a PP official claiming that they sought to profit, when the unedited version made it clear she said they were aiming to recoup costs, not profit [factcheck.org]. The producer of the other video admitted on camera that it actually showed a miscarriage, not an abortion [politicususa.com].
FactCheck.org is pretty good about smacking both Democrats & Republicans when they stretch the truth, so I used two of its articles (one catching each party) to check the info on Planned Parenthood's services:
As part of catching Obama flubbing it by claiming it provides mammorgams, it gave this info [factcheck.org]:
According to Planned Parenthood, its medical staff performed 747,607 “breast exams/breast care” in 2010 [and] 769,769 Pap tests.
In addition to mammogram referrals, the group says it helps low-income patients find grants and assistance to pay for mammograms … Contraception is one of the group’s largest categories of services provided — 33.5 percent of services in 2010. […] The largest category is testing and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases (38 percent). Cancer screening and prevention services — which would include breast exams — made up 14.5 percent of all medical services. Abortion made up 3 percent, with 329,445 abortion procedures in 2010.
Planned Parenthood says it served about 3 million people in 2010. That would mean about 25 percent of its clients received a breast exam or breast care, or about 1 in 4. About 11 percent of clients, or 1 in 9, received abortion services. Contraception services and STD testing and treatment totaled well over 3 million for each category.
This entry tackled the "9x%" claim directly: [factcheck.org]
[The claimed figure] only counts certain direct services provided by Planned Parenthood to its pregnant clients: abortions, prenatal services and adoption referrals. It also discounts the millions of health services provided to women who are not pregnant, including those seeking to avoid unwanted pregnancies […] But that overall figure leaves out other services provided to pregnant women.
For example, the annual report says that 65,464 additional “family practice services” were provided to men and women, some of whom may have been expecting. Nearly 1.2 million pregnancy tests were given to women, some of whom may have been pregnant at the time. And 17,817 men and women received “other procedures,” including services for low-income pregnant women through the Women, Infants, and Children federal program.
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Abortions accounted for 3 percent of the nearly 10.6 million total services provided by Planned Parenthood clinics in 2013, according to its annual report.
Some services it provided in addition to abortions were:
4.5 million tests and treatment for sexually transmitted infections
3.6 million contraception related services
935,573 cancer screenings including breast exams and Pap tests
1.1 million pregnancy tests and prenatal services