Memphis paper hypes the PP argument against MS Personhood Amendment

The Commercial Appeal in Memphis which makes no secret of their advocacy for the abortion industry has an editorial in today  using the term "fertilized egg" showing their ignorance of biology or  their willingness to use inaccurate terms to advance their agenda. 

They also don't mind repeating scare tactics and misinformation advanced by Planned Parenthood who are so  desperate to defeat this that they using the resources of PP in other states. I have previously noted that Barry Chase, Memphis CEO of PP is a board member of Mississippians for Healthy Families along with an ACLU lawyer and another PP executive from another state. 

Their despicable robo call put out implying that popular Gov Haley Barbour is opposed to the Personhood Amendment was personally denounced by him and he demanded that they cease. He has already voted for the amendment via the absentee ballot and made this public.

The Commercial Appeals put forth the inaccurate scare tactics of women dying from ectopic pregnancies, banning IVF etc.  The advocacy of the CA is well known as well as their willingness to play fast and loose with the facts.  

Memphis PP CEO has time and money to send to MS

 Well I see Barry Chase, CEO of Memphis PP has got time and money to send to MS! He has the time to be on the board of Directors for Mississippians for Healthy Families ....which is a shell organization of ACLU and PP execs...trying to pretend they are from Mississippi.

Barry Chase:

• President of Memphis Regional Planned Parenthood 

"You may remember Memphis Planned Parenthood President and "Mississippians For Healthy Families" founding officer Barry Chase from the undercover investigation done by Lila Rose of LiveAction in 2009.
Rose's hidden-camera video shows her entering Chase's Planned Parenthood of Greater Memphis Region (PPGMR) offices posing as a 14-year-old who was impregnated by her 31-year-old boyfriend.
Chase's employee coached Rose to lie about the age of her boyfriend before a judge in order to obtain a judicial bypass of Tennessee's parental consent law for abortion. LiveAction accused PPGMR of violating a Tennessee law that requires health professionals to report suspected cases of sexual abuse of minors to law enforcement immediately."

 

 

(You can download your own copy by clicking here.)


We wondered who the officers of this nominally "pro-family" group were. Surely they must be stalwart defenders of family values... right?

"Hey... why do those names sound so familiar? Turns out all three are major activists for other, not-so "family friendly" organizations; organizations whose names the overwhelming majority of Mississippians are already all too familiar with"

 

Memphis PP continues to whine via Commercial Appeal

This woman knows no shame. And why  the Commercial Appeal to continue to use her  to write op eds is a total mystery.

 Wendi C. Thomas continues to shill for Planned Parenthood with an op ed decrying the loss of Title X funds to Christ Community Health Care ending with a plea  straight from PP prez Barry Chase  to donate $$ to PP giving them the website and to tell the county commissioners that you are upset and you vote .
She cries real tears because according to Barry Chase, the well paid, prez said that they had to do the following:

"Last week, Planned Parenthood was forced to put up this sign, in English and Spanish, in its waiting room:
"Attention: Shelby County has currently refused to fund our patients for family planning healthcare, which includes birth control and medical services. Please see the front desk staff for the cost of your services. Payment is expected at time of service."

As one commenter said: What a novel idea...paying for services... 

CCHS is supposed to take over in early November and PP is claiming that their Title X money is already gone so they are  denying they are referring them early but putting up the sign is not really referring them   according to  Chase who said ..."they have television sets  and read the newspaper so they know that CCHS beat out PP."  Really?? Interesting concept for those who are unable to pay for their own bc services.

It is the Christ in Christ Community Health Services that  so annoys Ms. Thomas. She has nothing good to say about those "evangelicals" who oppose abortion and thinks it is only a matter of time before their faith does not allow for them to violate the law and not refer for abortions.  

MemphisPP: refers to CCHS for mammograms

You recall that the well paid 'but I work hard for my $$' PP prez Cecile Richards said on national TV that PP does mammograms . She must have been in make up and missed the memo that PP does not do mammograms.


Enter youth led...Live Action who with their trusty telephone book called around to Planned Parenthood asking the M question. As in can I get a mammogram here... You may also recall that in Memphis Christ Community Health Services beat out PP of Memphis in getting the Title X family planning monies to which local PP prez Barry Chase said...that's not fair. We did not know the standards in the bid process. Of course PP is not used to having standards. But I digress...watch this quick video and Memphis enters at 1:52 saying we do not do mammograms but refers to Christ Community Health Services..... 
HT: Live Action posting 

Memphis PP whine continues......

 Whine  alert!  

Barry Chase of PP Memphis says  ...IT'S JUST NOT FAIR .....from Commercial Appeal

"Planned Parenthood president and CEO Barry Chase complained about the process. "We just learned what the standards were for comparing the proposals this morning," he said Wednesday."

Ummmm you did not know about standards or you are just not used to caring about standards???  Standards ??? Are we are supposed  to have standards???

In a written statement, Planned Parenthood said it is better equipped for the task than is Christ Community. "This change disrupts the lives of the many women and girls who understand that at (Planned Parenthood) they will receive unbiased, accurate, nonjudgmental, nonreligious health care," the statement reads.

So you don't like people of faith providing care for people even though they do not proselytize?

Christ Community is a Memphis-based organization that operates six medical clinics, a mobile clinic for the homeless and three dental clinics.

PP has one facility......but hey they are better prepared????

CEO Burt Waller said the organization is nondenominational. "Everyone who we encounter, we want to experience the love, compassion, grace and mercy that Christ exhibited. That doesn't mean we expect them to believe what we believe."
He said the group already offers family planning.

Love, compassion, grace and mercy....gosh who would want that ??? At PP  a minor can get thrown under the bus by sexual predators with cash!! Perhaps Christ Community might actually obey the law!! What  a novel approach!!!

Memphis PP fights for program they would operate at a loss?? Why??

 What should have been a cut and dry situation never is that way when Planned Parenthood is involved. As the article noted this mess all started when Yvonne Madlock Director of Shelby County (Memphis)Health Dept. indicated she would not accept all of the Title X monies for family planning services because of capacity issues and insisted she would outsource a portion of it. All other 94 counties in TN provide these services through the health dept. 

Madlock temporized, advising the state Health Department that the Shelby County Health Department was not equipped to provide a full level of services on its own and would have to sub-contract or “partner” with one or more local agencies if it was to administer the entire local package of $1,345,000 in Title X funding. (The portion of the grant being out-sourced is $397,900.)

Previously all of this money was automatically given to Planned Parenthood. This time a Request for Proposal (RFP) was used after pressure from TN citizens came into play. Sounds logical doesn't it. Isn't this Standard Operation Procedure for businesses. Madlock admitted that all 3 bidders met basic standards but based on scores on service related criteria, the recommended provider was Christ Community Health Services.

A six-person panel of officials from the Health Department and county government recommended approval of the bid from Christ Community on the basis of the Center’s higher cumulative score on a checklist of previously established service-related criteria. According to Yvonne Madlock, Health Department director, the aggregate scores were: Christ Community Center, 95.33; Planned Parenthood, 88.88; Memphis Health Center, 84.54.

Over and done and on with business, right?  We want the citizens to have the benefit of the best provider. No....Barry Chase CEO of Planned Parenthood came to whine and complain that they did not know what they were doing when they scored the bidders and PP should win what they acknowledge is a "loss leader."

 Commissioner Heidi Shafer, who chairs the commission’s Hospital and Health Committee, noted pointedly during Wednesday’s discussion that all of the agencies that had bid for the Title X contract would necessarily be operating at a loss.

So Barry Chase being a good CEO is fighting tooth and nail over a contract that is acknowledged to be operated at a loss. Why would he do that? Because $$ is fungible and as former directors of Planned Parenthood Abby Johnson has told us that PP needs tax payers $$ to survive and increase foot traffic for the profitable end of their business....abortion. Listen to her say.....they can't survive without our tax dollars.


Photo: Memphis Flyer

Memphis....its not fair and now wants 2nd chance at getting tax $$

Barry Chase CEO can't stop whining and complaining and stomping his feet until he gets his way. 

Christ Community Health Services scored higher than Planned Parenthood  in their ability to supply the needed services for family planning and was  awarded the Title X money.  But fair is fair right? Not when it comes to PP. 

They convinced the Shelby County Commision to hold off a final decision and give PP another chance to make its case. The vote to give them a 2nd chance was along party line 6-4 with Democrats siding with PP.

Tell us again Barry how you lose $$ on family planning!!

"  In response, Tennessee Right to Life called on (Governor) Haslam to keep his campaign promise not to fund Planned Parenthood if elected to office. ACTION: Contact the Shelby County Commission "

Memphis PP CEO bemoans the possible loss of TN tax $$....ignores the A word and forgets the recent sting video from Live Action...

Memphis Flyer posts an op ed by Barry Chase CEO of Memphis PP... who is so concerned that Title X money in Memphis may go to the public health departments and end his cozy deal for all these years. Last year the General Assembly ended the preferential treatment of PP  saying they cannot automatically get a cool 1 MM of TN tax dollars into their coffers. They have to compete for the money along with other venues such a county health departments. Of course in two metropolitan areas, Nashville and Memphis, their alliance with PP has caused them to bow out of the business but that may change. 

Of course his op ed never mentions that A word and of course does not refer to the embarrasing undercover sting opereation showing a staffer in his venable PP clinic covering up sex abuse of a minor and advising a girl posing as underage how to circumvent the parental notification law and cover up for her "cash up front"  much older man who impregnanted her. This is a violation of the law to report sex abuse of minors. So this worthy  organization can certainly be trusted to keep immaculate records nd make sure the  invisible firewall between tax money and abortion money is kept separate. They hire and pay the staff  with benefits and rent etc  with fungible money. The same  hand  that hands out  birth control pills is the same hand that assists and/or performs abortions and mammograms. Wait... sorry wrong....PP does not do mammograms, do they? Someone needs to tell the president of PP to stop saying that. How embarrassing when the national President of PP goes on national TV to state this "misinformation."

"And to be very clear, long-standing federal law prohibits the use of any of these funds for abortion services either directly or indirectly."

SSSSUUUURRRREEEE... and the auditing of this takes place??? Not on your life. Say isn't this the same PP that was caught aiding and abetting sex abuse of minors??? Well, yes it is....PP is the nation's largest abortion chain. Title X money belongs in county health depts and by the way they do mammograms. If you place is so wonderful use private money raised by true believers.

To refresh your memory Barry....