Comments on: Newsflash, jackasses: Planned Parenthood is a health care provider

By: Anu

Anu — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:33:50 +0000

Did anyone notice that Jon Stewart made fun of the Planned Parenthood gift certificate on tonight’s show? I was thoroughly disgusted and had to change the channel. He even implied that the only thing you could use it for would be an abortion by saying that you could have saved the money and bought a condom instead, or something to that effect. I’ve lost a lot of respect for the guy.

By: ThickRedGlasses

ThickRedGlasses — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:08:12 +0000

William, I hope you’re not implying that it’s okay for kids to buy firearms . . . .

By: William

William — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:48:29 +0000

Let’s say that the Wal-Mart giftcard you give to your kid will be used to buy a rifle.

…Whats wrong with that? Other than the fact that it’d be giving money to a shitty, sexist company like Walmart, that is.

By: ThickRedGlasses

ThickRedGlasses — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:41:28 +0000

You know what we need to do? Launch our own pseudo-outrage. Let’s say that the Wal-Mart giftcard you give to your kid will be used to buy a rifle.

By: PlatosCavern

PlatosCavern — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:12:22 +0000

William: 25 bucks would barely cover a month’s worth of birth control (from a normal pharmacy). Abortions tend to be about 400-500 dollars, and considering that they are same-day surgery, inexpensive. Which is something few people on the other side acknowledge when they go on and on about how the abortion “industry” is a billion-dollar a year operation. If it is, it’s operating at a loss. When was the last time you had same day surgery uncovered by insurance for less than a thousand? Hell, my dental appointments cost nearly twice what my abortion did. But I digress.

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Of course, it would be fine if somebody got their wife/daughter/girlfriend/cousin/niece/friend a gift certificate for PP services and they wanted to use it on an abortion. But morely likely people will be using it for copays and checkups and medication and prevention of pregnancy, which strangely enough leads to the prevention of abortion. Don’t know why the pearl clutchers bemoaning the existence of these certificates can’t make that logical leap.

By: William

William — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:35:41 +0000

OMG! That means PP must have killed 17.4 baybees per abortion!

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By: Chicken Girl

Chicken Girl — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:42:36 +0000

“What they neglect to mention that while Planned Parenthood of Indiana provided 5,000 abortions last year, that was out of 92,000 total patients.”

OMG! That means PP must have killed 17.4 baybees per abortion!

By: Maritzia

Maritzia — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:23:42 +0000

If I had any young female friends, I would definitely be getting them a PP gift certificate for Christmas. What a better way to tell them you value their health and you believe in their ability to make sound decisions about their own bodies and their ability to procreate (or not as the case may be). I live in a college town, and for many of our young, female students, Planned Parenthood is the only place they can get affordable birth control. Needless to say, I’m a huge supporter. I just wish I had enough money to support them more.

By: News Reference

News Reference — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:28:12 +0000

The LATimes blog is written by Andrew Malcolm, a Republican public relations agent that’s gone into MSM “blogging” but effectively is doing what he’s always been doing: Republican public relations.

Andrew Malcolm is effectively a Republican troll and you just got punk’d because not only did you respond, you linked to his vile Republican propaganda page.

The LATimes has been significantly corrupted (journalistically) since a right-winger from Chicago, Illinois bought the Los Angeles, California paper and immediately started to eliminate excellent journalists for a quick profit.

By: William

William — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:22:50 +0000

A thought experiment: Lets take the argument that these gift certificates were for abortion for granted, just for a second. Say a woman got a $25.00 gift certificate from Planned Parenthood and thought to herself “oh boy, now I can get that abortion I’ve had my eye on!”

Would $25.00 actually cover the procedure at a planned parenthood clinic? Now I’m no expert on the price of an abortion and I know PP often works on a sliding scale, but something tells me that 25 bucks isn’t going to be the deciding factor for many (any?) women.

Being a jackass is parking in a handicapped spot without a need to or throwing garbage out your window on the interstate. The bloggers mentioned aren’t being jackasses. At best they’re painfully stupid, at worst they’re liars which, last time I check, was as mortal a sin as having an abortion (not that I buy into the idea of sin, but if you’re gonna you can’t exactly be selective).