Bozell to CNN: Planned Parenthood Lies on Your Network, It's Time to Correct the Record
By Brent Bozell | March 30, 2011 | 14:43
Editor's Note: The following is a statement issued earlier today by NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell concerning an exposé of Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards’ statements on CNN Headline News.
Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards appeared on CNN's Headline News channel claiming that de-funding Planned Parenthood would prevent if from providing women with mammogram services. This has been proven absolutely false. A group called Live Action has released an audio investigation with proof from numerous Planned Parenthood clinics whose staff clearly state they do not provide mammograms, yet the President of the organization went on national television and stated the exact opposite.
The evidence has been presented, and CNN’s Headline News (HLN) has the opportunity here to display true journalistic integrity. How will Headline News respond to the evidence of Cecile Richards’ lie on its network? We call on CNN’s HLN to correct the record, and it should be done by Joy Behar to her viewers. There should be consequences to lying on national television, and if CNN wants to maintain the respect and trust of their viewers, they should ban Cecile Richards and her lies from appearing again.
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Mammography is highly
Submitted by stratman on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 3:35pm.
Mammography is highly standardized and regulated because breast cancer is the number one litigated medical situation, reflective of the difficulties in interpretation. Not just any radiologist reads mammograms, at least in most radiological groups. Radiologists who further specialized in mammograms and read mammograms consistently/regularly are utilized. The same is true for radiology technologists who perform mammograms. Because of the liability and the specialized training and numbers of films read needed to maintain qualifications, it would be an impossibility for Planned Parenthood to staff their clinics with appropriate radiologists and techs. The mammograms when ordered would be done off site and would not require expense more than the prescription/order, ie paper/ink or electricity for the computer to send the request plus staff time in completing the task.
stratman:
Submitted by j. frank wilson on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 5:53pm.
Most Planned Parenthood clinics refer people to available mammogram providers. PP does what it claims to do - facilitate access for those who need them.
At least one clinic, however, does directly provide this service - for free:
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/ppwaco/BCCS%20Komen-28753.htm
From your link: "The
Submitted by stratman on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 6:43pm.
From your link:
"The Breast and Cervical Cancer Services program (BCCS) offers clinical breast examinations, mammograms, pelvic examinations, and Pap tests throughout Texas at no or low-cost to eligible women. The goal of Texas' BCCS is to reduce mortality from breast cancer and cervical cancer in Texas."
Going to the BCCS link and looking at the PDF file which lists BCCS sites in Texas, there are a number of Planned Parenthood locations, most which appear to duplicate services in the same community/city. More listings may duplicate services with the area located, but I am unfamiliar with the geography of Texas.
The argument that Planned Parenthood should not receive Federal tax money that is utilized directly or indirectly for the performance of abortion stands. Any Federal tax dollars that helps pay for anything inside or outside the structure where abortions are performed, even if unrelated directly to the explicit care involved in the abortion, promotes and or contributes to abortions performed at that site.
Federal tax dollars helping to pay even a light bill, or rental, part or whole, of a location, or the accountant who examines the books where more than abortions are performed, facilitates the performing of abortions since the business operations and physical location are inextricably intertwined. A complete divestiture of abortion services, operationally and physically, from the rest of services performed by Planned Parenthood should satisfy requirements in receiving federal tax dollars for non-abortion services.
Any co-mingling of funds should be treated as potential federal crimes subject to strict penalty. Any other argument is a shell game to propagate Planned Parenthood's promotion and performance of abortions.
they should ban Cecile Richards
Submitted by Hologram5 on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 4:34pm.
Yeah, they're in bed with her, it'll never happen.
Still Doing Propaganda The Media Matters Way, Huh?
Submitted by TheReal7Sticks on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 6:34pm.
It appears you have decided to transform Newsbusters in to an anti-abortion propaganda organ, which isn't the most surprising seeing as how you seem to be going apoplectic over Planned Parenthood's policy on mammograms, which last time I checked, was as far from an abortion as you can get. Though I suppose it's not that surprising given the history you have with your ol' man, eh?:
Time Magazine: The Anti-Abortion Campaign; Monday, Mar. 29, 1971
excerpt: "Sons of Thunder. Some of the harshest words against abortion have come from church spokesmen. After New York State passed one of the most liberalized abortion laws in the country last year, the Roman Catholic bishops of the state warned Catholics in the medical profession that participation in an abortion would earn them automatic excommunication. In Boston, Archbishop Humberto Medeiros caused an ecumenical fuss by calling abortion "the new barbarism." Yet the conservative Protestant journal Christianity Today went further, describing abortion-on-demand as "mass homicide." Such language, argues Lawyer John Noonan, an articulate foe of abortion (see box), obscures the issues. "Abortion is not murder; it is abortion," he says, "just as manslaughter is not murder; it is manslaughter."
"None of the angry words have equaled the angry action of the ultra-right Sons of Thunder in Washington, D.C. Dressed in khaki shirts and red berets, they invaded a Washington clinic last May to protest the abortions performed there; among the invaders was L. Brent Bozell, brother-in-law of William F. Buckley and, along with Buckley's sister Patricia, an editor of Triumph magazine. Triumph's editorial support of such activism caused William Buckley last week to write that "such analyses discredit the anti-abortion position." It is the gentler arts of persuasion, so far, that have won some victories for the anti-abortion forces. Liberalized abortion has been thwarted either in the courts or legislatures in Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Ohio, North and South Dakota, Indiana, Kentucky and Massachusetts.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944324-2,00.html#ixzz1I...
It appears you have met your match in me, someone that you fear the most: Someone who has no life and all the time in the world to write comments on the internet.
7 Vulgars
Submitted by Radical1979 on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 6:39pm.
Time magazine, what an impartial source. /sarc off
Being pro-life is a conservative viewpoint. You know, like this website.
Try not to be quite so ignorant.
Wow, think much
Submitted by UpNorth on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 7:07pm.
of yourself? If you're as lifeless as you claim, do carry on.
And, isn't occupying the office/workplace/legislature a tactic lionized by the left? Why would you find that troubling?
"It appears you have met your
Submitted by NC Cop on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 6:50pm.
"It appears you have met your match in me, someone that you fear the most: Someone who has no life and all the time in the world to write comments on the internet."
Met our match? LOL!!! You're like the 10th person a week that comes here claiming supreme dominance and knowledge over conservatives. Pretty pathetic.
"someone that you fear the most"
Fear? What because you come here with left wing propaganda, citing noted left wing sources? Yeah, we're terrified here.
"Someone who has no life"
Hey! We agree on something!!! How's life in Mom and Dad's basement?
7Vulgars
Submitted by Radical1979 on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 7:14pm.
Not only has no life, he has no intelligence.
Seriously, Rad,
Submitted by UpNorth on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 7:18pm.
I think the Stickman may have been drinking very early today.
He's Baaaaack!
Submitted by HockeyKid on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 9:01am.
Holy cow, Sticks-for-brains, how do you do it? You still only have one boring argument: "both sides do it, so there!", and in this case you have to dig up an article from 1971 to support your lame argument?! You're right about one thing: you have no life.
It's clear that the only match we've met here is the one you lit to get high.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
No life?
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 10:11am.
Someone who freely admits to having "no life" and is known as "TheReal7Sticks" wrote, "It appears you have met your match in me".
I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.
double
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 10:40am.
double
So why didn't Mother Sticks go through with it?
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 4:15pm.
Was it the money? Did she lose her nerve? Did she wait too long? Did she have a divine revelation of the wonderful son and fine man you would turn into?
Please, we must know... you have been carrying this guilt for far too long, and it is clearly unhealthy...
so why did YOU get to live while millions of others didn't?
Bravo Zulu to Live Action
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 9:38am.
We need more exposes like this and O'Keefe's. There is so much fraud and dishonesty among the special interest groups that the Left can't guard it all.
Dear Mr. Bozell, Suggesting
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 10:06am.
Dear Mr. Bozell,
Suggesting CNN Headline News should "display true journalistic integrity" is like suggesting Ted Nugent should play easy listening music: it ain't gonna happen and I believe we all know it. Should I assume you made the suggestion with tongue somewhat planted in cheek? I really have a hard time believing that you believe Joy Behar will be willing to correct the record.
But, on the other hand, stranger things have happened.
Jon Stewart
Submitted by dliston on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 12:10pm.
I am wondering why Newsbusters hasnt done an article on Cecile Richards appearance on Jon Stewart? She said a lot of crazy things. 99 percent of women dont think contraception and abortion a religious issue? How about her stating birth control hasnt been this big of a topic since the 20's and Prohibition? Even Jon Stewart knew that was a gaffe and tried to steer her in the right direction.