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Obama: Women 'Rely' on Planned Parenthood for Mammograms; FDA: No They Don't | CNSNews.com
Obama Admin Concedes Planned Parenthood Doesn't Do Mammograms | LifeNews.com
He knew it was a lie, not that he didn't lie about a lot of other things also.
During Tuesday's second presidential debate, President Barack Obama said that women "rely" on Planned Parenthood for mammograms, but, according to the Food and Drug Administration, no Planned Parenthood facility in the United States is licensed to do mammograms.
During Tuesday nights debate against his Republican challenger Mitt Romney, Obama said, When Gov. Romney says that we should eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood, there are millions of women all across the country who rely on Planned Parenthood for not just contraceptive care; they rely on it for mammograms, for cervical cancer screenings. Thats a pocketbook issue for women and families all across the country, and it makes a difference in terms of how well and effectively women are able to work.
Last June, the Department of Health and Human Services said in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that no Planned Parenthood clinic in the United States has mammogram equipment.
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Live Action, on a related note, conducted a similar investigation by calling Planned Parenthood clinics around the United States trying to schedule mammograms. They were told by the clinics that they did not do mammograms but could be referred to a separate, non-Planned Parenthood facility.
When you repeatedly hear pro-Planned Parenthood, pro-abortion politicians, whether its [Vice President] Biden or President Obama or Planned Parenthood executives pushing this lie [about mammograms], its because this is their whole case for the public to justify taxpayer funding, Lila Rose, founder of Live Action, told CNSNews.com.
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Obama mentioned Planned Parenthood, the nations largest abortion provider, five times during Tuesdays debate.
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Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion-provider in the nation. According to its own fact sheets, Planned Parenthood performed 985,731 abortions between 2008 and 2010 329,445 in 2010 alone. Planned Parenthood also receives taxpayer money every year and got $487.4 million in 2009-2010.
Obama Admin Concedes Planned Parenthood Doesn't Do Mammograms | LifeNews.com
A deliberate effort is underway to rebrand Planned Parenthood as an integral provider of healthcare services, without which untold millions of women would lack basic medical care, or so the story goes. Thus, whenever any effort is made to cut off funding for the nations largest abortion provider and stalwart financier of leftist politicians, were told there is a war on women.
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Yes, mammograms. Perhaps there is no greater falsehood than the deceitful, and largely successful, attempt to persuade Americans that Planned Parenthood performs mammograms. It doesnt.
When the Komen Foundation announced in February that it would no longer provide grants to Planned Parenthoodpartly due to the fact that Planned Parenthood does not directly provide mammograms its ideological and political supporters sprang into action. They decried Komens decision to eliminate funding for this imagined provider of mammograms. Planned Parenthoods Executive Director, Cecile Richards, , made the claim. So did President Obama. And an unsuspecting public was led to believe that such bold claims, by people who should know, must be true.
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And the presidents campaign together with Planned Parenthoods ads continue to beat this drum (almost as if they were coordinated), building off the earlier confusion to frighten voters about the prospect of a Romney administration cutting off funding for Planned Parenthoods cancer screenings.
Anytime someone suggests to you that Planned Parenthood performs mammograms, I encourage you to share with them this letter from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services demonstrating that its untrue. No Planned Parenthood clinic in the country is authorized to perform mammograms.
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When President Obama and other Planned Parenthood partisans were making their mammogram claims, Alliance Defending Freedom filed a Freedom of Information Act request to seek any certificates held by any Planned Parenthood clinic or affiliate in the country. The response from President Obamas own HHS is that no such certificates exist. No Planned Parenthood affiliate in the nation possesses the necessary certification to perform mammograms under federal law. Subsequent e-mails to the department further confirmed this fact.
He knew it was a lie, not that he didn't lie about a lot of other things also.