facepalm of the day

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by OldDog

Yes, my cover is blown. I am anti-abortion. And I am anti-PP because they are pro-abortion. They are so pro-abortion that they do more than any other "provider," and their share of that despicable market grows every year. They provide abortion under the guise of women's health, but every year they do more abortions and less of nearly everything else, while every year they receive more government money. They perform about 20 abortions for every prenatal care visit and about 200 abortions for every adoption referral. PP is in the abortion business, and it's subsidized by tax dollars.

Your cover is blown because you are opposed to PP. Because you don't mention anything about visits to dispense contraception vs. visits to perform elective abortion (note: 34 percent of visits to PP are to obtain contraception, vs. 3 percent for elective abortions). Why? I suspect you don't care. The fact that PP prevents 515,000 unintended pregnancies, and 216,000 abortions (via contraceptive services) doesn't matter. But it bears repeating- over half a million unintended pregnancies, and almost a quarter of a million abortions are PREVENTED by Planned Parenthood. Every year.

I have a friend who genuinely anti-abortion (she is also celibate by choice, so she has no dog in the unintended pregnancy game). She is, however, ardently in support of birth control being available to anyone who wants it. Because she is actually anti-abortion, not anti-woman. And she gets that people are going to have sex and that is a non-negotiable part of life. You can't just say "keep your legs crossed." (which, of course, is only ever said to women. Boys are expected to be boys, amirite?)

Right-wingers oppose abortion. They also oppose access to birth control, and feel that employers should be allowed to impose the religious values of the company's owner on their employees, too. They use incorrect information about birth control to justify this (claiming things like the morning after pill, and birth control pills, and IUDs prevent implantation of fertilized eggs, when every available bit of evidence points to exactly the opposite, that they do not).

And they want to defund the organization that has devoted 97 years to keeping poor women from getting pregnant before they are ready to be. Ninety-seven years. There's a reason the organization is called Planned Parenthood. Emphasis on "Planned."

People who oppose access to birth control and who oppose safe access to abortion, and who also oppose state-supported pre-natal care and post-natal care for infants and children of poor mothers (and right-wingers oppose all these things) view pregnancy as an appropriate punishment for women having sex.

And that's a terrible view to have of women and babies.

https://www.plannedparenthood.org/fi...he_Numbers.pdf