Planned Parenthood's Mammosham

Before you sign up to race for the cure, maybe it's best to get up to speed on what, exactly, you're running for. A few years ago, the Susan G. Komen Foundation, which raises millions of dollars a year for breast cancer research, admitted that it gives a portion of its proceeds to Planned Parenthood. When people grilled the Foundation on their partnership, Komen tried to tamp down the controversy by saying that Planned Parenthood "provides vital services." Considering the latest news, they might want to change that statement to "refers for vital services." Apparently, Planned Parenthood doesn't need our tax dollars for free mammograms--because they don't offer them! Pro-lifer Jill Stanek did some digging, and it turns out that one of the organization's biggest arguments for government funding is completely invalid. "If [the pro-life provisions in this budget] ever becomes law," Cecile Richards has warned, "millions of women in this country are going to lose their health care access, not to abortion services, to basic family planning--you know, mammograms, cancer screenings, cervical cancer."

That's interesting, Stanek says, because not one Planned Parenthood in America performs mammograms. Even the organization's website tells women to "ask your local health care provider, health department, or staff at your local Planned Parenthood center about where you can get a mammogram in your area." Obviously, Richards and friends will stoop to any level of deceit to keep the government checks rolling in. Meanwhile, what business does Susan G. Komen have funneling money to an organization that a) does nothing to prevent breast cancer, and b) lies that it does? There are plenty of respectable health clinics out there (1,200, in fact) that would host the screenings without promoting abortion--a procedure that may have more to do with causing breast cancer than curing it.

Washington, DC: Where History Comes Alive and Babies Don't

Women get some unusual gifts on Valentine's Day--but who knew that free abortions were one of them? Starting February 14, Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington shared the love by opening its doors to the first city-sponsored abortions. Until this administration came to town, it was illegal to take money out of our pockets and use it to directly finance the killing of D.C.'s unborn children. That all flew out the window in the 2009 omnibus, when the Democratic leadership insisted on giving District abortion doctors a direct pipeline to government dollars. Although the policy has taken awhile to implement, the city seems to have plenty of interested customers. One local clinic said that "women appear to be well aware of their new coverage and that the office has gotten 'quite a few calls and made quite a few appointments'" for abortion. "They must have good knowledge of it," said one office manager. "Lisa Truitt, interim associate director for managed care at the D.C. Department of Health Care Finance, said that while Medicaid covers a portion of most of the health expenses incurred by the District's poorest residents, abortions are reimbursed fully by the District."

Thanks to the last Congress, the capital of the free world is also the capital of free abortions. This is incredibly significant now, as House and Senate leaders wrestle over the new budget. As part of the continuing resolution that House members passed last week, the District would go back to the way things were before President Obama, when there was a freeze on D.C. taxpayer-funded abortion. That's all up in the air, now that both parties can't seem to come to an agreement on budget cuts. Instead of passing a longer CR, leaders are floating the idea of two-week bill that would keep the government running and give them more time to hammer out the details of the next seven months.

Meanwhile, the GOP is trying to speed up negotiations with Senate Democrats to beat the March 4 deadline--and that could mean dropping some of the "controversial" language like the pro-life provisions. In political speak, that's what liberals call a "clean bill." But the Left's version of a "clean bill" is still awash in abortion funding. Nobody wants to see the government shut down, but there are some issues--like taxpayer-funded abortion--where the facts have prevailed and over 70% of Americans say NO! Every week that Congress puts off these budget talks is a week that you and I are directly funding abortion. Contact your leaders and tell them the cradle of liberty is no place for the government to take out a contract on the unborn!

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