Sign InRegisterForgotten password?

RebelmouseTwitterFacebook
Advertisement

Women’s Health Clinics Offer $10 Discount, “Pro-Life” Fanatics Freak Out

The right wing war on women’s reproductive rights
Wingnuts • Views: 26,906

On the day after Thanksgiving, a couple of women’s health centers in Florida offered a $10 discount on a clinic visit — leading to a freak-out by anti-abortion nuts, who seem to think that because the clinics are affiliated with Planned Parenthood, this can only mean one thing: the evil Planned Parenthood is selling discounted abortions.

Health Center Specials - Planned Parenthood - South Florida and the Treasure Coast:

The propaganda originates at crazed anti-choice website Lifenews.com: Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic Offers Black Friday Discount | LifeNews.com.

A Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in souther Florida is offering a black Friday discount — including $10 off a visit to the abortion center today.

Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast offered the special, saying, “Visit our West Palm Beach or Kendall Health Center for special after Thanksgiving savings on Friday, November 23rd.”

Pro-life blogger Jill Stanek noticed the Black Friday discount and responded, “Planned Parenthood brings new meaning to the term, “Black Friday,” doesn’t it?”

This is all it takes to provoke right wing bloggers into raving about killing babies. Just a couple of examples out of many:

The always-insane Jim Hoft thinks this is the beginning of something, but he doesn’t say what: It Begins… Planned Parenthood Offers Black Friday Discounts on Abortions.

With a picture of a fetus, of course.

Rick Moran at PJ Media says this $10 discount on a clinic visit is so despicable, everyone should agree immediately to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood even if you’re not an anti-choice fanatic: The PJ Tatler » Giving New Meaning to the Term ‘Black Friday’.

Even if you are pro-choice, the inappropriateness and tastelessness of such a “discount” has to disturb you. And if anything, it should renew calls for defunding the organization. If PP wants to act like a commercial concern by taking part in Black Friday “sales,” it doesn’t need federal money to prop it up. It can survive on its own in the marketplace by retailing abortion and other health-related services just like any other business.

It shouldn’t need to be pointed out again, but just to emphasize how stupidly deceptive this attack is, Planned Parenthood clinics provide a wide range of women’s health services, not just abortion — and in fact, abortions account for only about 3% of what PP health centers do:

^ back to top ^

Turn off ads by subscribing!
For about 33 cents a day, our subscription option turns off all advertisements at LGF!
Read more...

► LGF Headlines

  • Loading...

► Tweeted Articles

  • Loading...

► Tweeted Pages

  • Loading...

► Top 10 Comments

  • Loading...

► Bottom Comments

  • Loading...

► Recent Comments

  • Loading...

► Tools/Info

► Tag Cloud

► Contact

You must have Javascript enabled to use the contact form.
Your email:

Subject:

Message:


Messages may be published in our weblog, unless you request otherwise.
Tech Note:
Using the Contact Form
LGF Pages Create a Page

This is the LGF Pages posting bookmarklet. To use it, drag this button to your browser's bookmark bar, and title it 'LGF Pages' (or whatever you like). Then browse to a site you want to post, select some text on the page to use for a quote, click the bookmarklet, and the Pages posting window will appear with the title and text already filled in.

Last updated: 2013-05-26 5:26 pm PDT

Recent Pages
Randall Gross
FBI Admits to Using Drones Over U.S. Soil
FBI Director Robert Mueller admitted to Congress Wednesday that drones are already being used over U.S. soil. While the use of surveillance drones domestically -- both by local and federal law enforcement agencies -- has been long anticipated and ushered in by a lobby with a powerful congressional caucus of supporters, Mueller's admissions highlighted the lack of legislation currently in place to govern the ...

8 minutes ago
Views: 23 • Comments: 0
Tweets: 0 • Rating: 0
Skip Intro
‘Cliff’ From ‘Cheers’ Wants Allen West to Spread His ‘Gene Pool’ Across America
Conservative actor John Ratzenberger, who is best known as the character "Cliff" from the television sitcom Cheers, on Friday called for former Rep. Allen West (R-FL) to take "something from his gene pool" and "put it everywhere across this great country." Ratzenberger was introducing West at the Faith and Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority conference. He also called West a "real American." "We should ...

11 hours, 49 minutes ago
Views: 163 • Comments: 5
Tweets: 0 • Rating: 4
FemNaziBitch
An Open Letter From UniteWomen.org to Serena Williams
While my anger and disbelief did not subside, I soon moved to sadness. Do you live in such a protected bubble that you would blame the victim of rape and excuse the perpetrators? Many have joined you in this victim blaming...unfortunately that is the culture in which we live. Your contribution to this culture as a role model for girls and women makes your ...

16 hours, 28 minutes ago
Views: 121 • Comments: 0
Tweets: 0 • Rating: 2
theliel
The Game - Now officialy into full on Sexual Assault Mode
From feministing.com Turns out Reddit - home of pedophiles, ephibists and other "Jelly Belly" lovers now is putting out a book! Advice offered? Get CLOSE to her, damn it! To quote Rob Judge, “Personal space is for pussies.” I already told you that the most successful seducers are those who can’t keep their hands off of women. Well you’re not gonna be able to ...

18 hours, 2 minutes ago
Views: 190 • Comments: 1
Tweets: 0 • Rating: 3
Heywood Jabloeme
The GOP Dilemma Over the Voting Rights Act
It's particularly heavy baggage for Republicans. While Democrats and civil rights groups stand largely united behind the broadest interpretations of the Voting Rights Act, for Republicans it's a trickier matter. On one hand, they are eager to reach out to minority voters. They eagerly tout their charismatic, high-profile minority officeholders like Sens. Tim Scott or South Carolina and Ted Cruz of Texas, Nikki Haley ...

19 hours, 11 minutes ago
Views: 67 • Comments: 0
Tweets: 0 • Rating: 0
Cap'n Magic
Jack Shafer: Snowden vs the Dragons
Reuters: But even the press in aggregate is not a friend to whistle-blowers, as its recent treatment of Snowden attests, what with the deep dives into his teen years (including photos), his education and employment history, his reputation as a loner and a “brainiac,” his pants-down hijinks, his online scribblings, his dancer girlfriend, his predilection for (in his own words) “post-coital Krispy Kremes.” Squeezing ...

1 day, 7 hours ago
Views: 104 • Comments: 1
Tweets: 0 • Rating: 1
Romantic Heretic
Jesus Christ sues GOP for slander
I wish this was true. If for no other reason than to watch heads explode.

1 day, 11 hours ago
Views: 285 • Comments: 6
Tweets: 0 • Rating: 6
William of Orange
Jail reckless bankers, standards commission urges
Senior bankers guilty of reckless misconduct should be jailed, a long-awaited report on banking commissioned by the government has recommended. The Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards was set up by Chancellor George Osborne last year after a number of scandals involving the industry. Jail reckless bankers, standards commission urgesThe cross-party group's fifth report attacked the lack of accountability of bankers and also said some ...

1 day, 12 hours ago
Views: 135 • Comments: 1
Tweets: 1 • Rating: 3
Dancing along the light of day
Boeing nets orders for 102 stretch 787s
LE BOURGET, France — Boeing Co. won major orders from five customers for a stretched-out version of its popular 787 Dreamliner jet at the Paris Air Show Tuesday, further evidence of a strengthening market for more expensive long-haul jets.Boeing announced the formal launch of its 787-10 program at the Paris Air Show on Tuesday and says it already has commitments for 102 jets from ...

1 day, 12 hours ago
Views: 107 • Comments: 0
Tweets: 0 • Rating: 1
DO WINGNUT WORDS SHOW THEY EVOLVED BRAINS?11!!
Baker’s Graduation Cake Mix-Up Ends in Purr-fect Mistake
When Laura Gambrel, 22, of Zionsville, Ind., graduated from Indiana University in May, she wanted to keep the celebration pretty low key. She didn’t walk at the ceremony, nor did she have a party because she planned to go right back to the university this coming fall for grad school. It seemed only fitting then that the one thing her mother attempted to do ...

1 day, 14 hours ago
Views: 258 • Comments: 4
Tweets: 0 • Rating: 8
 Frank says:

Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.