Why Planned Parenthood Won't Provide Mammograms

President Barack Obama, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards, and countless supporters have claimed again and again that Planned Parenthood provides mammograms. President Obama did so in the second presidential debate, describing the “millions of women all across the country who rely on Planned Parenthood for . . . mammograms.”

The problem is the mammogram claim is untrue, as was just cleverly highlighted by “Schedule Your Imaginary Mammogram Day,” a phone campaign that found no Planned Parenthood clinics capable of breast cancer screening. Planned Parenthood has neither the license nor the machines. The most the abortion giant has ever done is refer women to outside mammogram providers, filling the role of the Yellow Pages or Google.

Yet the claim is persistently made, despite its falsehood, in order to rebrand Planned Parenthood not as the abortion business it is, but instead as a health care provider.

Key to that health care narrative is the claim that Planned Parenthood provides substantial cancer-screening services, such as mammograms.

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John Adams

planned parenthood, along with the aclu, are probably the most evil organizations active in the US today other than religious organizations that don't preach the True Gospel.
- Esteban Cafe
  
  Sir, what 'religious organization' would you equate to PP ?
  And what is the "True Gospel" ?
  Have you, sir, ever left one church for another ? If so, how did you know the one you went to is the "True Gospel" ? What informated you that the one you left was no longer preaching the "True Gospel" ?
  "By their fruits ye shall know them…" Please point out your fruits that we may know you. Please point out the "evil" in other religious organizations that would equate to PP.
  - John Adams
    
    I would consider every religious organization that doesnt preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ in a way that can bring redemption to the soul worse than planned parenthood. A brief, representative, uncomprehensive list would include mormons, jehovah witnesses, islam, hinduism, buddahism.
Esteban Cafe

"Why Planned Parenthood Won't Provide Mammograms" ? Because they're an abortion mill. Mammograms are not their core competency.

It is an abattoir of children