Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Senator Jon Kyl's Lies About Planned Parenthood "Not Intended to be Factual Statement"

In case you missed this piece of nincompoopery...
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Last week, Arizona Senator Jon Kyl claimed that "well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does" was abortions.  Wow.  I though it did cancer screenings, contraception, etc.
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Turns out, it was a lie.  Or as Senator Kyl's office said (and I must quote here because it is asinine nicompoopery)  that the senator's remarks were not intended as "factual statements" .  In slightly longer form from an Arizona Newspaper... "The senator's remark "was not intended to be a factual statement but rather to illustrate that Planned Parenthood, an organization that receives millions in taxpayer dollars, does subsidize abortions," Kyl's staff says in a statement."
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So what does Planned Parenthood do...
According to the organization, it breaks down like this:
Contraception (including reversible contraception, emergency contraception, vasectomies and tubal sterilizations): 4,009,549 services
Sexually transmitted infections testing and treatment: 3,955,916 services
Cancer screening and prevention: 1,830,811 services
Other women's health services (including pregnancy tests and prenatal care): 1,178,369 services
Abortions: 332,278 procedures
Miscellaneous (including primary care and adoption referrals): 76,977
Total services: 11,383,900
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So, if you look a little more you see that more it does 13 times  as much contraception services abortions.  It does 12 times as much Sexually transmitted infections testing and treatment.   6 times as much work in Cancer screening.  Twice as much Prenatal Care as abortions. four times as much women's health services.
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Not factual indeed.