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The Beginning of the End For Planned Parenthood? Richards is Running Scared

<p class&equals;"MsoNormal" style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;" align&equals;"center">In a recent interview with <em style&equals;"mso-bidi-font-style&colon; normal&semi;">BuzzFeed<&sol;em> <em style&equals;"mso-bidi-font-style&colon; normal&semi;">news<&sol;em>&comma; Cecile Richards&comma; president of the Planned Parenthood&comma; admitted that the organization may be in major trouble&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&ldquo&semi;The stakes have become quite clear recently&comma; and they&rsquo&semi;re very high&comma;&rdquo&semi; said Richards to <em style&equals;"mso-bidi-font-style&colon; normal&semi;">BuzzFeed News&period;<&sol;em> &ldquo&semi;The patients I talk to are terrified they&rsquo&semi;re going to lose their access to health care&comma; and docs and clinicians are terrified that this Senate is going block the women with the least access to health care from getting any at all&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">President Trump has promised to defund Planned Parenthood and in an act of desperation&comma; the organization has switched its messaging to appear as though the clinics rarely perform abortions&period; Recent ads focus on their &ldquo&semi;other&rdquo&semi; services like cancer screenings&comma; STI tests&comma; and contraceptives&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&ldquo&semi;Highlighting areas like these is part of a post-election shift back to the center for Planned Parenthood&period; Within months of the presidential election&comma; the women&rsquo&semi;s health provider overhauled its strategy from campaigning for federal coverage of abortions to running ads in which a patient tells a story of a Planned Parenthood nurse telling her not to have an abortion&comma;&rdquo&semi; writes <em style&equals;"mso-bidi-font-style&colon; normal&semi;">Buzzfeed&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">Richards has called this sudden change in marketing strategy as &ldquo&semi;an education campaign&rdquo&semi; to &ldquo&semi;fill in a picture for people&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;about their non-abortion services&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">But&comma; the truth is Planned Parenthood is just trying to hide the fact that abortion is where it makes its real money&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">86&percnt; of its revenue is derived from doing these procedures&comma; even though only 97&percnt; of the organization&rsquo&semi;s clinics don&rsquo&semi;t offer these services&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">Another argument made by those who support Planned Parenthood is that the other community healthcare centers can&rsquo&semi;t &ldquo&semi;successfully absorb Planned Parenthood&rsquo&semi;s&rdquo&semi; patients&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&ldquo&semi;A number of physicians and clinic directors at non-Planned Parenthood federally qualified health centers in the rest of his district said the four health centers would not be able to successfully absorb Planned Parenthood&rsquo&semi;s roughly 6&comma;000 patients at their two clinics in Ryan&rsquo&semi;s district&period; Organizations like Wisconsin National Right to Life Commission insist nonprofit pregnancy-care organizations can pick up the slack post-defunding&comma; though many of these do not provide STD testing or contraception&comma;&rdquo&semi; writes <em style&equals;"mso-bidi-font-style&colon; normal&semi;">Buzzfeed&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">However&comma; this is not the case&period; There are other options that are given on the Wisconsin Department of Health Services&nbsp&semi;website&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&ldquo&semi;Our goal is making sure women get the kind of care they need and we believe that can best be achieved by putting money into community health centers&comma; which provide similar services as Planned Parenthood but vastly outnumber them&comma;&rdquo&semi; said Paul Ryan&comma; Speaker of the House&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">While&comma; Richards argues that it would be a healthcare crisis if Planned Parenthood is defunded&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&ldquo&semi;We&rsquo&semi;ve got a lot of work we&rsquo&semi;re doing on contingency&comma;&rdquo&semi; said Richards to Buzzfeed&period; <span style&equals;"mso-spacerun&colon; yes&semi;">&nbsp&semi;<&sol;span>&ldquo&semi;but there&rsquo&semi;s no way to overstate what a health care crisis this would be for women if they were blocked from going to Planned Parenthood&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">In response to Planned Parenthood&rsquo&semi;s attempt to be seen as more than abortion clinics&comma; The Susan B&period; Anthony List &lpar;SBA List&rpar; is releasing ads to expose the organization for what it really is&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">Here is the script of the recent SBA list ad&&num;8211&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&ldquo&semi;Voice Over &lpar;VO&rpar;&colon; What is Planned Parenthood really about&quest; Breast cancer screenings&quest;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">Cecile Richards&comma; Planned Parenthood President&colon; &ldquo&semi;We do not have mammogram machines at our health centers&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">VO&colon; Prenatal care&quest;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">Audio of Phone Call with a Planned Parenthood employee&colon; &ldquo&semi;No&comma; we don&rsquo&semi;t do prenatal services&period; I mean&period; It&rsquo&semi;s called Planned Parenthood&period; I know it&rsquo&semi;s kind of deceiving&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">VO&colon; Planned Parenthood does abortions&period; 300&comma;000 a year&period; And it&rsquo&semi;s faced federal investigation for selling baby body parts&period; Planned Parenthood doesn&rsquo&semi;t deserve our tax dollars&period; Redirect their funding to real health care centers for women&period;<span style&equals;"font-family&colon; Calibri&semi; mso-ascii-font-family&colon; 'Times New Roman'&semi; mso-hansi-font-family&colon; 'Times New Roman'&semi;">&rdquo&semi;<&sol;span>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">Live Action&comma; a human rights organization against abortion&comma; does ongoing investigations on Planned Parenthood&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&ldquo&semi;Live Action&rsquo&semi;s new video&nbsp&semi;series&nbsp&semi;titled&comma; &ldquo&semi;Planned Parenthood&colon; The Abortion Corporation&comma;&rdquo&semi; reveals former managers of Planned Parenthood affiliates discussing that most of their clinics did not offer OB&sol;GYN services&comma; pre-natal&comma; and other basic healthcare services for women&comma;&rdquo&semi; writes <em style&equals;"mso-bidi-font-style&colon; normal&semi;">Breitbart&period;<&sol;em> &ldquo&semi;Despite the fact that Planned Parenthood has marketed its &ldquo&semi;pre-natal services&comma;&rdquo&semi; Live Action&rsquo&semi;s undercover investigators were turned away for those services at 92 different facilities where the staff said they do not provide pre-natal care&comma; but do specialize in abortions&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">So will the federal government finally defund Planned Parenthood&quest; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">The house is supposed to vote on a resolution that would remove Obama&rsquo&semi;s regulation halting the government from defunding organizations based on political reasons&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&ldquo&semi;The House Rules Committee passed the resolution Tuesday along a party-line vote&comma; 7-4&comma; and the full House will likely vote on it later this week&comma;&rdquo&semi; writes <em style&equals;"mso-bidi-font-style&colon; normal&semi;">The Hill&period;<&sol;em>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&ldquo&semi;Now that Republicans have majorities in both chambers and a GOP president&comma; they&rsquo&semi;re facing increased pressure from anti-abortion groups to move quickly on their promises to cut funds to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">So&comma; things are not looking good for the pro-abortion organization&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&ldquo&semi;The American people elected a president and Congress committed to stopping taxpayer funding of abortion and abortion businesses&comma;&rdquo&semi; says Marjorie Jones&nbsp&semi;Dannenfelser&comma; president of SBA List&period; &ldquo&semi;We urge Congress to continue working towards this goal&period; Planned Parenthood is a profit-driven&comma; abortion-centered business that does not need or deserve taxpayer dollars&comma; and redirecting their taxpayer funding to community health centers would be a win for women&rsquo&semi;s health&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&nbsp&semi;<strong>Author&rsquo&semi;s note&colon;<&sol;strong> If Planned Parenthood is defunded&comma; this doesn&rsquo&semi;t mean women are barred from visiting these clinics&period; The organization is causing hysteria by creating a false narrative that they are the only women&rsquo&semi;s healthcare provider&period; If the organization would stop killing babies&comma; then it would likely keep getting federal funding&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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