A bit ago, I offered this little sampling of an idea I had about abortion being offered under the adar in healthcare legislation as “preventive care” — as a form of population control.
You know how America and other .. what did they call them? industrialized (rich) nations .. take care of poorer nations and offer “women’s health” around the globe?
I see it as a form of population control.
Here in the United States, there isn’t a “formal, albiet, under-the-radar” sort of population control. Or, the public doesn’t acknowledge it, doesn’t want to acknowledge it, doesn’t want to think about it.
Abortion is such a messy issue, after all. I may not want to do it, or believe in it, but if you want to, go right ahead, my friend. It’s your ”right.” Please .. I don’t want to think about it.
I wonder at the level of outrage if the UN, citing some obscure UN measure, declared the United States in violation of women’s rights by not having abortion accessible within 10 miles of every woman .. and claiming UN-ish jurisdiction, declared , stepped in and set up a chop-shop on every street corner in Suburbia, USA.
This is just what backers of nationalized healthcare are intent on doing.
And it’s not just my opinion.
Planned Parenthood vocalizes it on their website:
Affordable Birth Control and Other Preventive Care
Planned Parenthood believes that all people deserve access to birth control and other preventive health care, including breast and cervical cancer screenings, and testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections. In fact, more than 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood health centers do is preventive and primary health care*, helping women and families make responsible decisions about their sexual and reproductive health, their lives, and their futures
Today, one in four women who receives contraceptive care does so at a women’s health center. One in six women who obtains a Pap test or a pelvic exam does so at a women’s health center, as do one-third of women who receive counseling, testing, or treatment for sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. This basic health care is essential, particularly during difficult economic times, to give women the tools they need to protect and support themselves and their families.
Only by working hand-in-hand with national, state, and local leaders can we implement commonsense measures that will prevent unintended pregnancy and ensure affordable access to contraception and other preventive care.
Planned Parenthood is committed to ensuring that no woman has to wonder how she’ll afford her next birth control pack, Pap test, or sexually transmitted infection test.
*That 90% figure includes abortions. According to this statement, Abortion, therefore, IS preventive and primary healthcare, according to Planned Parenthood.
The rest of the statement following the highlighted is obfuscation — the throwing-out of benign “women’s health” terms such as pap tests, pelvic exams, counseling, testing and treatments for STDs.
The world knows Planned Parenthood terminates pregnancies. Why wasn’t it included in this litany of “women’s health”? You CANNOT believe abortions account for only 10% of their business, so abortions MUST be included in that 90% preventive and primary health care figure.
If you still cannot believe that abortion is considered preventive care and is included in that 90% preventive and primary health care figure, TELL ME HOW “one in four women” and “one in six” and “one-third” add up to 90%.
If ONLY benign “women’s health” services such as pap tests, pelvic exams, counseling, testing and treatment for STDs made up more than 90% of Planned Parenthood’s biz — well, then that’s a very poor business model, isn’t it? Women can get this sort of “women’s health” care at their local clinic. Provided free by the state through medicaid if needed.
Planned Parenthood = women’s health.
Planned Parenthood = abortion.
Planned Parenthood IS preventive and primary health care.
Planned Parenthood’s preventive and primary health care INCLUDES abortion.
And since they plainly state on their “Protecting Abortion Access” page, that “Planned Parenthood believes every woman should have access to the full range of reproductive health care” and that “removing restrictions on abortion access” and “expanding the number of abortion providers”are among their goals, you can draw the conclusion that getting an abortion will be as easy as going to your corner store for a gallon of milk. You or your neighbor, your best-friend’s kid or your 16-year-old daughter.
The killing of the unborn will become as flippant and inconsequential as any errand that needs to be “taken care of.”
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In a couple of years, when you’re sitting there in the waiting room, after having been summoned for your pap smear or mamogram or H1N1 vaccination, you can rightly wonder about that 14-year-old teenage couple sitting before you, tightly holding hands, the boy’s arm around the girl as she quietly weeps into a crumpled napkin.
It won’t be the pro-life picketers outside that will give your hunch away.
When Obamacare passes, you’ll know that your neighborhood clinic provides abortion on demand.
Planned Parenthood will be shouting “Victory for Women’s Health!” from the rooftops of their abortion mills.
This is here.
Steve Maley
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The bill MUST be killed just to KILL Planned Parenthoods...
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Saturday, December 19th at 6:54AM EST (link)chances of getting BILLIONS to kill innocent children!
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Planned Parenthood care is then associated with STDs
Uma Richie (Diary) Saturday, December 19th at 7:49AM EST (link)Adding up those percentages wasn’t the right analysis. The 1/3, 1/4, and 1/6 are not mutually exclusive.
What I find interesting is that, supposing Planned Parenthood’s patient base is stable, their patients count as 25% of the women getting contraceptives, but 33% of the women who have STDs.
Basically, a healthy woman going into Planned Parenthood to get contraceptives has a higher chance of contracting an STD in her ensuing sexual activity than a healthy woman who gets contraceptives from her doctor.
I will grant that my there are other explanations such as that women might be embarrassed and prefer the anonymity of a clinic when discussing STDs, but two possible causes are unconscionable.
1. Women who use Planned Parenthood may have language and education barriers and thus less adequately understand the mechanics of STD transmission.
2. Planned Parenthood doesn’t care about women’s health.
Uma, that's brilliant.
Veronica (Diary) Saturday, December 19th at 2:10PM EST (link)I understood the mutual exclusivity — will change the language of the post, later for clarity, ty.
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