WASHINGTON, D.C., March 30--A series of new undercover
phone calls reveals that contrary to the claims of Planned Parenthood CEO
Cecile Richards and other supporters of the nation's largest abortion chain,
the organization does not provide mammograms for women.
In the tapes, a Live Action actor calls 30 Planned
Parenthood clinics in 27 different states, inquiring about mammograms at
Planned Parenthood. Every Planned Parenthood, without exception, tells her she
will have to go elsewhere for a mammogram, and many clinics admit that no
Planned Parenthood clinics provide this breast cancer screening procedure.
"We don’t provide those services whatsoever,” admits a staffer at Planned
Parenthood of Arizona. Planned Parenthood’s Comprehensive Health Center clinic
in Overland Park, KS explains to the caller, “We actually don’t have a, um,
mammogram machine, at our clinics.”
Opponents of defunding Planned Parenthood have argued in
Congress and elsewhere that the organization provides many vital health care
services other than abortion, such as mammograms. Most prominently, Planned
Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards recently appeared on The Joy Behar Show to
oppose the Pence Amendment to end Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer subsidies, claiming,
“If this bill ever becomes law, millions of women in this country are gonna
lose their healthcare access--not to abortion services--to basic family
planning, you know, mammograms.”
The calls were recorded by Live Action, the youth-led
pro-life group responsible for recent undercover videos showing Planned
Parenthood staff, from management on down, willing to aid and abet the sex
trafficking of young girls at 7 clinics in 4 different states , They can be viewed here.
. Live Action president Lila Rose says the new recordings further confirm
Planned Parenthood’s corruption: “Planned Parenthood is first and foremost an
abortion business, but Planned Parenthood and its allies will say almost
anything to try and cover up that fact and preserve its taxpayer funding. It’s
not surprising that an organization found concealing statutory rape and helping
child sex traffickers would misrepresent its own services so brazenly, playing on
women’s fears in order to protect their tax dollars.”
Former Planned Parenthood Director Abby Johnson notes
that the recordings demonstrate Planned Parenthood is not a comprehensive
health care provider. “For so long PP has touted that they are a provider of
mammogram services. This is just one of
the lies that PP uses to draw people into their clinics. PP is not able to provide quality services on
their own, so they are forced to lie to the public about services they don't
provide--and mammograms are just one of those services."
Both Rose and Johnson call on Congress to revoke all
taxpayer subsidies from Planned Parenthood. In the last reported year, Planned
Parenthood received $363 million in government money.
The new undercover recordings are available here
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