Hundreds Of Women Try Unsuccessfully To Schedule A Mammogram At Planned Parenthood

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The Federalist: Hundreds Of Women Try Unsuccessfully To Schedule A Mammogram At Planned Parenthood

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015 By Bre Payton

Hundreds of women called their local Planned Parenthood clinics Monday to schedule a mammogram, but none were able to successfully secure an appointment. That’s because the nation’s largest abortion providerdoesn’t actually offer them.

 

The phone calls were part of “Schedule Your Mammogram Day,” an event organized by And Then There Were None, a pro-life organization, to raise awareness of Planned Parenthood’s deceptive claims on women’s health.

 

hThe misconception that the nation’s largest abortion provider has been offering mammograms is a common claim, repeated by the media. During the Miss America competition last week, Miss Tennessee, Hannah Robinson, parroted one of Planned Parenthood’s favorite talking points when answering a question about whether the $1 billion abortion corporation should lose some of its taxpayer subsidy. Robinson said:

ttp://thefederalist.com/2015/09/22/hundreds-of-women-try-unsuccessfully-to-schedule-a-mammogram-at-planned-parenthood/

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I Went To Planned Parenthood For Birth Control, But They Pushed Abortion

Sarah Owens
September 28, 2015

 

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My Second Visit to Planned Parenthood

 

Two years into college, I found myself late—yes, that kind of late. Now, I knew it was probably nothing, but I wasn’t sure, and I wanted to be. Like a lot of college students, I drank on weekends and if I were pregnant I didn’t want to harm the child. Again, due to embarrassment, I didn’t go to the doctor I knew. I was afraid, even at 20 years old, that a pregnancy test would somehow show up on a bill that went to my parents. If I wasn’t pregnant I didn’t want the test to ever come to light. So, again I trekked to Planned Parenthood, this one located right off campus.

 

I had to fill out a form. On it you check the boxes of things you are willing to consider. The options essentially broke down to 1) abortion 2 adoption 3) parenting. I chalked it up to alphabetical order that abortion came first. At this point in life, I still solidly fell on the “I would never have an abortion, but other people should be able to” side of the fence. I checked options B and C, took the test, and was taken into a room to hear my results. Before getting those results, I was interrogated.

 

“Why won’t you consider abortion?” the representative asked. “You realize what a strain on your life parenting would be, don’t you?” I explained that abortion just wasn’t something I personally believed in. She scoffed at me before finally telling me I wasn’t pregnant.

 

I left the office and cried. Maybe it was relief, but I mostly felt hurt and manipulated. What if I had been pregnant—would she have been able to sway me? How many others have passed through those doors and were swayed to terminate, who felt the strain—financial, physical, or mental—that parenting might cause so decided it would be easier to just “fix the problem”?

 

Some Choices Create a Baby

 

Therein lies the problem. As I’ve gotten older and more informed, I came to realize “pro-choice” isn’t a choice at all. I realized it’s not about female rights, but about the rights of the unborn child. The “choices” liberals fail to take into consideration are the choices that lead to a pregnancy. Since when did fear of the unknown become cause to end a life?

 

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