Woman’s Healthcare Needs Unmet by Planned ‘Murderhood’

We’ve all heard it: Planned Parenthood (PP) is providing for women’s healthcare needs.  To be opposed to PP and defunding it’s more than $500-million in annual taxpayer money would hurt women’s healthcare!  Really?!  Did you know the PP does not even provide one of the most essential health services for women— mammograms?

U.S. Sen. James Lankford (OK-R), co-author of the recent bill to defund PP, told CBN News that no PP facilities are licensed to do mammograms.  “Planned Parenthood talks about mammograms all the time; that they actually refer people to mammograms, but they don’t do any.  None of their facilities actually are licensed to do mammograms,” Lankford said.

That’s also being confirmed by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). ADF points out there are more than 8,000-licensed mammogram facilities in America, but none of them belong to PP.  ADF tweeted: “Zero facilities are licensed to do mammograms.  PP, women don’t need you!  DefundPP.”

Lankford told CBN that Republicans are not trying to cut money for women’s health; they’re just trying to send it to groups that actually do provide healthcare.  “We want to be very, very careful with this because there has been the argument that Planned Parenthood is all about women’s health. Planned Parenthood is actually the single largest provider of abortion in the entire country,” Lankford explained.  “They’re the largest abortion provider, but they’ll also say ‘we do things like referrals to women’s health,’ ” he continued.  “Now they don’t actually do the women’s health; they refer them to another clinic.”  Lankford went on to ask, “Why would we have money go to the group that refers?  Why don’t we send it to the actual caretakers? …Why don’t we send the money to the place that actually does the mammograms, the actual entity, [rather than] this clinic that’s just referring? – when really they’re an abortion clinic more than anything else.”  Lankford concluded by saying that Republicans have other bills aimed at decreasing abortions coming up in the fall as well, including a bill that targets partial-birth abortion.

Rev. Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.

Chaplain (Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army

Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel