VA PP: advising of free testing and treatment at health dept. even though PP collects $MM in Title X money to do it.

Listen carefully to the so called "professional" staffer in the undercover video in Roanoke, VA. Starting at 8:53 she informs him that he can get STD testing and treatment  free at the health dept. She points out that if they test and he is positive they are supposed to report it to the health dept. who contacts you to discuss who your partners were etc. so  why not go there and get free testing and treatment. 

Then she goes on to tell him that another source of free testing is donation of blood. They test to screen for STD routinely so that is another free source. Per Live Action who called several blood donation centers to inquire about this advice, they were told that if you test positive they simply tell you that you were ineligible for blood donation without giving you specifics as to why and understandably are not happy with being used in this manner.

But here is my real rub with this.....I finished the Vigil for Victims today at our local PP in Nashville to defund PP. As I  told the news person covering the event...PP gets $363MM/yr. in our tax dollars. Now they will say that it is to do STD testing and provide BC. But hey, this PP staffer is telling the man that he can get this all free at the local health dept. or free testing when you go to give blood. Which brings up my point. County health depts. should be the ones to get  all the Title X monies since they do free testing and treatment. Notice the PP staffer said we have to charge while you can get it for free there.




Just another  example of  their institution corruption!