The power of ignorance: Planned Parenthood

The gop's extreme attempt at defunding Planned Parenthood shows how incredibly ignorant they are of the services provided by PP for women and men. Unlike the gop who believes the solution to teen pregnancy is duct tape and a $50,000 speaking engagement by Bristol Palin, PP actually provides education services, family planning services, and low cost birth control.

Something the members of the gop might benefit from. For instance, Rep. Sean Duffy (R) who complained that his government salary of $174,000 and free healthcare was not enough to feed his 6 kids. Duffy might consider contacting Planned Parenthood for an affordable and safe vasectomy.

But, like the way they run their party and elections, the gop will keep their low income, lowbrow, ignorant base from learning the truth about Planned Parenthood. From the President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast:



Statement from Peter J. Durkin, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast On Potential Government Shutdown Over Women’s Health

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Rochelle Tafolla
April 8, 2011
(713)831-6573 CELL: (713)775-8099

Houston, TX — Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast (PPGC) released the following statement today after Congressional budget negotiations stall over women’s health.

“Shutting down the United States government over extremist ideology is an outrage,” said Peter J. Durkin, President & CEO of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast. “This extreme proposal would deny millions of women preventive health care including well woman exams, lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, HIV tests and more.”

“Attacking Planned Parenthood’s preventive health care hurts women, does not cut the deficit or fix the economy, and must be stopped.” ###

BACKGROUND: More than 90 percent of the health care Planned Parenthood provides is preventive.

Last year, PPGC provided:

• · 110,471 preventive health care visits
• · 104,179 tests for sexually transmitted infections
• · 51,430 people received family planning services
• · 23,929 HIV prevention counseling and testing visits
• · 17,489 Pap tests (cervical cancer screenings)

Nationwide, every year, Planned Parenthood doctors and nurses nationwide provide:

• · nearly one million screenings for cervical cancer
• · 830,000 breast exams
• · affordable birth control to nearly 2.5 million patients
• · nearly four million tests and treatments for sexually transmittedinfections, including HIV testing

Read fact sheet on Planned Parenthood health services here:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/PPFA/Planned_Parenthood_Who_We_Are.pdf

Rochelle Tafolla
Vice President, Communications & Marketing
Planned Parenthood
4600 Gulf Freeway
Houston, TX 77023
Ph: 713.831.6573 Fax: 713.535.2573