facepalm of the day

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by OldDog

That's funny. The Congressional House Republicans passed a measure that wouldn't only defund PP, but would redirect its funding to community health centers around the country. There are around 700 PP clinics, but around 9000 CHCs. Many of them even perform mammograms instead of sending their patients in to other clinics or health centers that do. Of course, they don't lobby and donate large sums of money to pro abortion Democrats through their "outreach" arms as does PP. And their leaders didn't pledge to turn their clinics into "the largest kick-butt political organization." Because wymen!

Uh huh. Engage long enough and a person's honest attitudes start to emerge.

To the meat of what you said- you mean 9000 community health clinics that do not have the staff or facilities to address an influx of people who need reproductive health care. Let's hear from an actual person who actually deals with actual reproductive health care, rather than right-wing GOP congress critters, shall we?

"If Planned Parenthood tomorrow went away, there's a good number of patients just in my service area that no longer have a doctor or no longer have a place to go for OB/GYN services," said Mark DeFrancesco, a physician in Waterbury, Connecticut, who is president of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and published an op-ed this month opposing efforts to end Planned Parenthood funding. "If they start calling my office, it's going to be, 'Well, we could take you but it might be two, three months down the road.' If they call other places, it might be, 'We can't even take you.'"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b0e333e54b844e

Planned Parenthood is a vital source of health care for women and men in this country. Defunding it would be disastrous for hundreds of thousands of people.

As for them performing abortions: