Next Verse, as Incomprehensible as the First

[lagilman]

And once again, the GOP is wasting time (and our per-hour tax dollars) trying to defund an organization that exists solely to ensure that women are able to afford basic and essential health care.

And their stated reasons?  To stop abortion and the selling of fetal tissue.  Except

a) Federal law already restricts PP from using federal funds to provide abortions  (the Hyde Amendment), and

b) by offering affordable contraception and reproductive care, PP actually REDUCES the chance of women having an unwanted pregnancy that would lead to an abortion,  AND

c) It is illegal to sell fetal tissue, but it IS legal for scientists obtain fetal tissue for research purposes from a variety of sources, including hospitals, nonprofit tissue banks, and, yes, in some cases, abortion clinics. Which means that tissue that would otherwise have been considered medical waste is instead used to save lives via research into currently-deadly diseases costing us millions in dollars and thousands in lives.

(and the video claiming to show that PP is somehow avoiding those laws has been exposed as a heavily-edited sham)

So why are the GOP so determined to shut down PP?  You know why.

 And it's not about saving tax money. Or stopping abortions.

Comments

[badgermirlacca.livejournal.com]

Or as Dori says, "Welcome to the Republic of Gilead."

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

Did you see The New England Journal of Medicine editorial? The pointed out that "the contraception services that Planned Parenthood delivers may be the single greatest effort to prevent the unwanted pregnancies that result in abortions."

Yep, definitely not about abortions.

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe1510281