Planned Parenthood opposes GOP plan to expand access to contraception. Really.

[koshergrl]

"On Monday, Planned Parenthood .... came out against proposals which would increase access to contraceptives. Why? Some Republicans have come out in favor of them. It is the clearest indication yet that Republican triangulation on an issue central to the “war on women” meme is succeeding beyond Republicans’ wildest expectations.
"Recently, a handful of prominent Republican candidates and officeholders have embraced a proposal which would allow select forms of pharmaceutical birth control to be purchased over-the-counter and without a prescription. Planned Parenthood’s reasoning for their opposition is that the public and not the state would have to pay for it.

“These politicians, including Gardner, who voted repeatedly to repeal the new health care law, have consistently voted to take away the birth control benefit,” a Planned Parenthood release published last week. “That is what makes this empty gesture especially insulting to women. Meanwhile, women’s health champions like Mark Udall fought for those benefits.”

Awesome. Always thinking of improving the lot of wimmins, that PP is...

Planned Parenthood opposes GOP plan to expand access to contraception. No really. Hot Air

 

[koshergrl]

The comments are always enlightening:

"But of course. Expanded otc access would mean less $$$ for them, fewer babies they could murder."

Planned Parenthood opposes GOP plan to expand access to contraception. No really. Hot Air

 

[TEA Party Patriot]

Republicans are now flip-flopping on the issues of abortion and immigration.

This is why I'm a TEA Partier first and a Republican second. We need to vote out the fakers that want immigration reform (code for amnesty) and abortion on demand.

 

[WinterBorn]

This is very surprising. Not the PP stuff, but that the GOP has a plan to expand access to contraceptives.

 

[HenryBHough]

Beginning to look like some of those abortionists may eat their own products and will do or say anything to prevent shortages.

 

[Iceweasel]

Planned Parenthood knows which side its' bread is buttered on but a handful of Republican candidates and office holders are not the GOP.

 

[Tresha91203]

This is very surprising. Not the PP stuff, but that the GOP has a plan to expand access to contraceptives.

Most conservatives are all for contraceptives. Well, most that I know. Let's say "many."

 

[Iceweasel]

This is very surprising. Not the PP stuff, but that the GOP has a plan to expand access to contraceptives.

Most conservatives are all for contraceptives. Well, most that I know. Let's say "many."

True, the difference is that most conservatives aren't demanding that the public pay for it.

 

[Care4all]

from one of the links in the original op link, where they missed or intentionally neglected to include this from Planned Parenthood's action group, regarding over the counter birth control...

THEY APPROVE OF IT, not disapprove of it as the op/ article claims...

Planned Parenthood Action Fund supports any effort to expand access to birth control, including efforts to make some forms of birth control available over-the-counter (OTC).

The Truth About Over-the-Counter Access to Birth Control - Planned Parenthood Action Center

 

[Moonglow]

This is very surprising. Not the PP stuff, but that the GOP has a plan to expand access to contraceptives.

I guess they finally figured it out that just saying no is not a good contraception...

 

[Tresha91203]

PP is guilty of "muddying the waters, too" by insisting that Republicans are anti birth control. Many Republicans are very pro contraceptive, many are pro contraceptive except for abortificants, and most (that I know anyway) are perfectly willing to stay the hell out of it completely but can't because they are being forced to pay for someone else to get what they believe to be an abortion. For some of these people, it would be committing a mortal sin every single day of their life, damning them to hell.

There are sooooo many more important health issues, life threatening ones even, that we could be advocating getting for "free." Why is contraception the one that needs to be "free?" IMO, it is specifically to attack religion. We are so Orwellian now that young minors can get medical procedures and rx drugs without parental consent, children who do not understand the risks or side effects. Can't give a tylenol to a 12 year old, but can give them an abortion ... and the parent is somehow the bad guy? It is absurd.

 

[Care4all]

PP is guilty of "muddying the waters, too" by insisting that Republicans are anti birth control. Many Republicans are very pro contraceptive, many are pro contraceptive except for abortificants, and most (that I know anyway) are perfectly willing to stay the hell out of it completely but can't because they are being forced to pay for someone else to get what they believe to be an abortion. For some of these people, it would be committing a mortal sin every single day of their life, damning them to hell.

There are sooooo many more important health issues, life threatening ones even, that we could be advocating getting for "free." Why is contraception the one that needs to be "free?" IMO, it is specifically to attack religion. We are so Orwellian now that young minors can get medical procedures and rx drugs without parental consent, children who do not understand the risks or side effects. Can't give a tylenol to a 12 year old, but can give them an abortion ... and the parent is somehow the bad guy? It is absurd.

Can you truly give an abortion to a 12 year old without the parent's permission tresha?

and as far as those other things you complain about, it's up to your State and the people within your State. Many states have legislated that a minor can not get an abortion without the parents being notified and other states have enacted that an elder teen can get an abortion without their parent's permission.... so it varies by what your State gets through as legislation....

 

[Tresha91203]

In some states, yes. In some states you have to notify a parent but not get consent.

Parental Consent and Notification Laws

Do you think we trend more progressive or less? States are losing ground on this, not gaining. It won't be long. Anyone who fights allowing minor children access to abortions without parental consent are deemed waging a war on women rather than protecting children. Funny how some 17 year olds who commit crimes are just children, but when it comes to certain medical procedures and rx drugs, a 14 year old is a woman.

PP is guilty of "muddying the waters, too" by insisting that Republicans are anti birth control. Many Republicans are very pro contraceptive, many are pro contraceptive except for abortificants, and most (that I know anyway) are perfectly willing to stay the hell out of it completely but can't because they are being forced to pay for someone else to get what they believe to be an abortion. For some of these people, it would be committing a mortal sin every single day of their life, damning them to hell.

There are sooooo many more important health issues, life threatening ones even, that we could be advocating getting for "free." Why is contraception the one that needs to be "free?" IMO, it is specifically to attack religion. We are so Orwellian now that young minors can get medical procedures and rx drugs without parental consent, children who do not understand the risks or side effects. Can't give a tylenol to a 12 year old, but can give them an abortion ... and the parent is somehow the bad guy? It is absurd.

Can you truly give an abortion to a 12 year old without the parent's permission tresha?

and as far as those other things you complain about, it's up to your State and the people within your State. Many states have legislated that a minor can not get an abortion without the parents being notified and other states have enacted that an elder teen can get an abortion without their parent's permission.... so it varies by what your State gets through as legislation....

 

[koshergrl]

This is very surprising. Not the PP stuff, but that the GOP has a plan to expand access to contraceptives.

Only to a brain washed progressive nutbag. We have never opposed access to contraceptives. We have opposed STATE FUNDED contraceptives.

See the difference? No?

 

[koshergrl]

PP is guilty of "muddying the waters, too" by insisting that Republicans are anti birth control. Many Republicans are very pro contraceptive, many are pro contraceptive except for abortificants, and most (that I know anyway) are perfectly willing to stay the hell out of it completely but can't because they are being forced to pay for someone else to get what they believe to be an abortion. For some of these people, it would be committing a mortal sin every single day of their life, damning them to hell.

There are sooooo many more important health issues, life threatening ones even, that we could be advocating getting for "free." Why is contraception the one that needs to be "free?" IMO, it is specifically to attack religion. We are so Orwellian now that young minors can get medical procedures and rx drugs without parental consent, children who do not understand the risks or side effects. Can't give a tylenol to a 12 year old, but can give them an abortion ... and the parent is somehow the bad guy? It is absurd.

Can you truly give an abortion to a 12 year old without the parent's permission tresha?

and as far as those other things you complain about, it's up to your State and the people within your State. Many states have legislated that a minor can not get an abortion without the parents being notified and other states have enacted that an elder teen can get an abortion without their parent's permission.... so it varies by what your State gets through as legislation....

As you know, yes, you can. It happens all the time. Which is why progressives like Care4All will continue to fight any sort of oversight of PP abortion abbatoirs. PP acolytes don't want anyone to know exactly how old the girls they are abusing are, or how often they aren't reporting abuse, or how old the babies they are killing are, or how many of the girls die as a result. They don't want the public to know the percentage of PP $$$$ is paid by human traffickers, child abusers, pedophiles, and pimps.

 

[hadit]

As usual, the "war on women", anyone being "anti-woman", or in general just being seen as a meanie to "feminists" boils down to only one thing, abortion.

 

[koshergrl]

Yup. If you think that women should be protected from pimps, human traffickers, and the revolting abortion industry nutjobs that are proliferate, you are *anti-woman*. Because if you're *pro-woman* you will endorse the sex industry, baby killing, incest, sexual abuse, human trafficking and murder....because those are the activities that our abortion industry protects and thinks women should be engaged in.

 

[hadit]

Yup. If you think that women should be protected from pimps, human traffickers, and the revolting abortion industry nutjobs that are proliferate, you are *anti-woman*. Because if you're *pro-woman* you will endorse the sex industry, baby killing, incest, sexual abuse, human trafficking and murder....because those are the activities that our abortion industry protects and thinks women should be engaged in.

Feminists used to protest pron, because they saw it as degrading to women. Not so much any more. Now, if you protest pron, you're "anti-women".

 

[koshergrl]

Yup.

Because the PORN industry pours dollars into the ABORTION industry, from both ends.

 

[Blackrook]

When I was a kid, Democrats would pick up babies and kiss them in front of the cameras.

A lot has changed since then.