<p class="p1"><em>NPR</em>&rsquo;s health policy correspondent Alison Kodjak stated that Planned Parenthood clinics may be the closest places in rural areas for women to get mammograms. But the fact is, Planned Parenthood is ;not licensed to do any such thing.</p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><em>The Washington Post</em> revealed in the past that these clinics don&rsquo;t even have mammogram machines. Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood president said the clinics do breast exams, but do not have mammogram machines.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Since this is the case, Kodjak lied about the organization&rsquo;s services while on <em>NPR&rsquo;s All Things Considered.</em></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">&ldquo;Well, it depends a little bit on the make-up of the states, obviously. It&#8217;s states that are run by Republican legislatures with Republican governors who are likely to support this kind of legislation. States with rural &#8211; a lot of rural areas are likely to see a lot of impact because these clinics aren&#8217;t everywhere. So if Planned Parenthood is the closest clinic where you can get family planning services &#8212; and ;when I say that, I&#8217;m talking about pap smears, mammograms, birth control and in some cases obviously abortions &#8212; you might have to travel very far to get those services. You might not get them at all,&rdquo; said Kodjak in response to a question about what states will be impacted by President Donald Trump&rsquo;s recent move to reverse former president Barack Obama&rsquo;s measure to preserve Planned Parenthood&rsquo;s funding.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Brit Hume, longtime journalist, was quick to call out <em>NPR </em>for poor fact-checking.</span><span class="s1"> ;</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">It seems a little late in the game to be getting this well-eastablished falsehood wrong, tweeted Hume with a linked to a Media Research Center&rsquo;s NewsBusters report that said &ldquo;<em>NPR</em> spreads old lie that Planned Parenthood offers mammograms.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">&ldquo;On Friday&rsquo;s &lsquo;All Things Considered,&rsquo; <em>NPR</em> health policy correspondent Alison Kodjak was the offender as she reported on President Trump&rsquo;s reversal of Barack Obama&rsquo;s attempt to preserve Planned Parenthood subsidies in [GOP] states that moved to defund them,&rdquo; ;writes the report.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Not only did<em> NPR </em>feature a guest who obviously doesn&rsquo;t actually know what services Planned Parenthood provides, the program with the ironic name of <em>All Things Considered</em>, did not offer all perspectives, like the counter anti-abortion viewpoint. ;</span> ;</p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">The public is probably pretty confused at this point to what services Planned Parenthood clinics actually offer. Richards has said on record that her organization is &ldquo;essential&rdquo; due to its prenatal care. However, the nonprofit Live Action revealed in a video investigation that 92 out of 97 clinic contacted in their research refused to offer any prenatal care.</span><span class="s1"> ;</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">&ldquo;Planned Parenthood says it&rsquo;s a champion of women&rsquo;s health care, yet prenatal care, which is an essential service for expectant mothers, is virtually nonexistent,&rdquo; said Lila Rose, president and founder of Live Action. &ldquo;Our investigators who wanted to keep their babies were turned away by 92 out of 97 Planned Parenthood centers. It&rsquo;s clear that despite its claims, abortion is the priority and the only option for pregnant women that visit Planned Parenthood.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong>Author&rsquo;s note:</strong> We did some digging on our own and called a few of our local Planned Parenthood clinics. All of them said they only offer mammogram referrals and don&rsquo;t offer the service at the clinic. So again, a liberal media outlet is failing to properly fact-check. How much clearer can it get that Planned Parenthood, actually has nothing to do with parenthood? It seems like strictly a pregnancy preventive organization.</p>
<p class="p1"><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:</strong> The argument that Planned Parenthood is the only place to get a mammogram ;has been thrown at me so many times, I really did believe it. I&#8217;m grateful to the writer for clearing this up. ;</p>