Defunding Planned Parenthood Is Not a 'War on Women'

on May 27, 2011 at 11:35 AM

In the same week that ultra-liberal personality Ed Shultz has been suspended from MSNBC for calling conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham a slut, Democratic Congresswoman and DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is claiming that the GOP agenda is essentially a war on women.

Ms. Wasserman Schultz arrived at her illogical conclusion by citing the predominantly Republican call to defund Planned Parenthood of federal funds:

It's just so hard for me to grasp how they could be so anti-women as they are. If you look on balance at the entire record, their record is anti-women, their record is a war on women and it's a priority for them.

Apparently, wanting to defund a corrupt organization of our limited taxpayer dollars equals an intense hating of the female sex. Just in case anyone was wondering, Planned Parenthood is very profitable, which raises the question of whether or not it should be taxpayer funded.

According to Wasserman Schultz, since Republicans voted to cut funding for Planned Parenthood, the evil right wing is trying to deny poor, destitute women their right to basic health services -- basic health services that don’t include abortions. As we all know, the Hyde Amendment prohibits federal funds from paying for abortions.

So Republicans must be trying to deny women mammograms and other life-saving cancer screenings.

Except that Planned Parenthood doesn’t generally provide mammograms.

Planned Parenthood is not an awesome organization. It has been caught repeatedly lying about the development of fetuses, aiding illegal underage sex rings, and generally wreaking havoc in women’s lives.

For anyone, let alone a Congresswoman and the head of the Democratic National Committee, to say that wanting to defund Planned Parenthood is declaring a war on women is silly at best.

I’d say that a liberal man referring to a female pundit as a slut is much more akin to war than an entire movement wanting to defund a corrupt organization of taxpayer dollars.

But what do I know? I’m just a crazy Republican.

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Comments (51)

Precious333

on May 27, 2011 at 12:04 PM

Planned POarenthood should really be called planned unparenthood! They are anti-family, anti-children, anti-women, anti-minority groups (such as african americasn) and anti-specail needs people. Just look up the foundings of Planned Parenthood. Look at what they do. (http://www.dianedew.com/sanger.htm)

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Facebook comment from Elise N Hoffman

on May 27, 2011 at 12:15 PM

I stand with young girls who have been exploited by adult men whose crimes were concealed.

I stand with women who live with regret because they were conned into believing it was "just tissue."

I stand with parents of teenage daughters whose lives were forever changed behind their backs, without having been afforded the opportunity to guide their own children through the tempest.

I stand with other women like me, who don't believe our worth depends on our legal ability to murder our unborn children and don't wish to furnish funds to an organization that so debases women.

I stand with doctors who provide real, comprehensive health care to low-income women in TRULY non-profit Community Health Centers with no motive but compassion.

Screw Planned Parenthood.

"War on women"? I AM a woman. Planned Parenthood's disgusting ethics are NOT what I want for my daughters. I AM PRO-WOMAN.

billsfan1104

on May 27, 2011 at 12:16 PM

What I get so tired of, is when you disagree with a liberal on womens issues, you suddenly hate women. Which is farther from the truth. I do not want tax dollars going to an organization that can survive on donations and from their services. And they need to stop lying about how they provide mammograms to the public.

Nonmember comment from Susan

on May 27, 2011 at 12:18 PM

Yeah, that woman said that back in the 1920, they have since changed and do not support that at all. Back then, most people believed those things. Ever heard of Eugenics? Speaking of Eugenics, that's what hitler was all about, and Volkswagen, Ford, Bayer, Coca-Cola and IBM supported Hitler and Eugenics. So if you hate planned parenthood for what they have said and since CHANGED, you're a hypocrite if you still support the above listed companies who have also changed.

meatball77

on May 27, 2011 at 12:20 PM

Planned parenthood prevents MORE abotion than Anti-Abortion folks because LECTURING women and telling them to keep their legs shut (even if they're married and just can't afford a baby) doesn't prevent pregnancy birth control does.

Not allowing women and teens easy access to birth control WILL increase the number of abortions and unplanned pregnancies (which cost tax payers tens of thousands of dollars over the life of the child each) how is that good fiscal policy?

How is it not anti-woman to not have easy access

You want an alternative to planned parenthood that does it as well and as cheaply as they do then go create it, but it doesn't exist. There is no place that is as easy or as cheap for women and teens with no health insurance to get birth control which keeps them in school, in the workforce and off of public funding.

Nonmember comment from Anon

on May 27, 2011 at 12:25 PM

Personally, as a woman, I feel that the abortion industry and pro-"choice" movement is a war against women AND certain categories of children.

hoticedcoffee

on May 27, 2011 at 12:28 PM

Wow - Elise Hoffman - I bow to you. So well said!

butterflymkm

on May 27, 2011 at 12:42 PM

I'm 100% prochoice & yes I believe there is a war on women from the right. And Jenny please get your facts straight, thr live action thing was proven false & wasted lots of your precious tax dollars by forcing the FBI to investigate something that never happened. Without planned parenthood and places like it, abortions will increase do to lack of available birth control. And if you outlaw abortions or make them damn near impossible to obtain, women will still get them, history has proven this. And a lot of those women AND their feti will die. I say defund corrupt lieing Crisis Pregnancy Centers (who, yes some of them, recieve tax dollars) & leave PP alone. I stand with PP.

Nonmember comment from Amy

on May 27, 2011 at 12:51 PM

No. It's more like a war on poverty.

Shanin22

on May 27, 2011 at 1:02 PM

Meatball77 is right, Planned Parenthood decreases the need for abortions. As a college aged woman, a large majority of my friends receive their birth control from Planned Parenthood. Without them, I'm sure at least a few unwanted pregnancies would have happened by now. Their options would have been abort or get government aid to support the child.

So you don't want women having abortions... you don't want them on government aid... and you don't want Planned Parenthood. Well, you're out of options... unless you happen to own a chastity belt company, lol.