NYT Rushes to Texas Planned Parenthood's Aid in Front-Page Story
The New York Times defended the Texas branches of Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion provider, on the front page Thursday: "Women in Texas Losing Options For Health Care" was reported by Pam Belluck and Emily Ramshaw, a reporter for the Texas Tribune, which produces a twice-weekly local section for the Texas edition of the Times.
Ramshaw was last covered in Times Watch in January, lamenting the "bureaucratic nightmare" instigated by a pro-life law. (When was the last time the Times complained about overregulation?)
On Thursday the Times jumped on a personal anecdote of a poor mother having a hard time because of anti-choice Republicans in the Texas state house, while underselling the Planned Parenthood-abortion connection.
Leticia Parra, a mother of five scraping by on income from her husband’s sporadic construction jobs, relied on the Planned Parenthood clinic in San Carlos, an impoverished town in South Texas, for breast cancer screenings, free birth control pills and pap smears for cervical cancer.
But the clinic closed in October, along with more than a dozen others in the state, after financing for women’s health was slashed by two-thirds by the Republican-controlled Legislature.
The cuts, which left many low-income women with inconvenient or costly options, grew out of the effort to eliminate state support for Planned Parenthood. Although the cuts also forced clinics that were not affiliated with the agency to close -- and none of them, even the ones run by Planned Parenthood, performed abortions -- supporters of the cutbacks said they were motivated by the fight against abortion.
Now, the same sentiment is likely to lead to a shutdown next week of another significant source of reproductive health care: the Medicaid Women’s Health Program, which serves 130,000 women with grants to many clinics, including those run by Planned Parenthood. Gov. Rick Perry and Republican lawmakers have said they would forgo the $35 million in federal money that finances the women’s health program in order to keep Planned Parenthood from getting any of it.
The text box employed this loaded language to portray Texas as cutting off its nose to spite its face: "A state that's willing to give up $35 million to keep it from Planned Parenthood."
A 2009 Congressional Research Service report cited federal estimates that Title X helps prevent nearly a million unintended pregnancies annually. Reproductive health experts say that saves money, that every dollar spent on family planning saves about $4 in maternity and infant care.
Some experts also say the financing helps prevent about 400,000 abortions annually. Opponents of Title X and government financing of family planning say these effects are exaggerated.
“Eliminating Title X would not outlaw contraception,” said a spokesman for Ron Paul. “People would simply have to pay for contraceptives with their own money or money donated by private sources.”
The Times concluded with another poor woman undergoing hardship with multiple children:
Many San Carlos patients struggle to reach Edinburg from their homes in impoverished neighborhoods called colonias. Maria Romero, a housecleaner with four children, who had a lump in her breast discovered at the San Carlos clinic, has no way to get there.
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We all know the stats are false
Submitted by c5then on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 5:44pm.
And the stories are designed to tug at the heart and elicit a tear.
I'm sure that the women's church's would be more than willing to help.
Maybe if PP of Texas would eliminate abortions as one of it's "many services" they could get back to actually helping women's health instead of using it as a political tool.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Let me get out the world's
Submitted by Schofield Kid on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 5:56pm.
Let me get out the world's smallest violin for the illegal housemaids who can't find a way to get to the "free abortion clinic." She somehow finds a way however, to get to the houses she cleans. She should just do what illegals do in my area...go to the nearest ER. Also I'm sure there are family health clinics that don't cater exclusively to women. As for the lump she says they found...there's no way to confirm whether it's cancerous at PP cause guess what, they don't do mammograms. So she'd would have to go to a regular clinic anyway. Sorry, lefty trolls, I don't buy in to the whole "womens health" bs. The primary overwhelming purpose of PP is to provide abortions and they can do it quite efficiently without federal funding.
World's Smallest Violin
Submitted by Skunk Ape on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 6:15pm.
In stereo where available.
Why, exactly, do you think it's "illegals" getting abortions?
Submitted by calends on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 9:53pm.
Most "illegals" are Catholics. I'm guessing most of the abortions are from Texas Southerners, who, coincidentally, are probably also "conservatives," and "Christians." I think it's hilarious that illegal aliens get branded "breeding cockroaches" (if not something akin to that, similar in tone) and also get branded "baby killers," with zero evidence. My wife's family is here illegally and none of them would ever consider having an abortion.
Even if Planned Parenthood's "primary overwhelming purpose" was something other than abortion (it is...) that doesn't give validity to their abortion business because the evil of abortion outweighs the benefits (well, including the lobbying, philosophically driven sex ed programs, "patriarchal war on women" nonsense etc... Abortion does bring in a significant amount of money to the clinics (about 25-35%), so it is very profitable. Planned Parenthood does breast exams which is often the first step in detecting breast cancer. I believe they incorrectly stated that they do mammograms and that's when all of that came up.
Fact of the matter is...Texas, like most "Southern Conservative and Christian" states, is tied to the cheap labor that illegal aliens bring. This is what we should do - for all of the businesses that are ILLEGALLY hiring illegal immigrants we should force them to pay for health care in the event one needs a serious medical procedure. To blame the "illegals" for getting "free healthcare" when they are enabled to come here by these businesses is rather silly. A man needs to provide, and wants to have a healthy family - both of which are "conservative" values. Of course there are those that come here and quickly become criminals, or already were criminals, but painting with a broad stroke is what the Left does; let's try not to get so caught up with emotion.
Another sleeper account activated.
Submitted by UpNorth on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 10:00pm.
Calends, meet your clone, er, buddy, er, fellow paid troll, VD, Van Damage the porn star, or Venereal Disease, whatever. 2 years and 30 weeks and you've posted on all of two threads? Mahvelous. Welcome, troll.
Oh, and if the eyewash you posted about your wife's family being here illegally is true, and I doubt it, I certainly wish the ICE and Border Patrol good luck, hope they find them and ship them to their country of origin.
This is what astounds me.
Submitted by calends on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 10:42pm.
My wife's family pays taxes (with the social security cards THE GOVERNMENT gave to them), are model citizens/Christians that go to church (her father is an assistant pastor), pay tithes, bust their asses constantly. My wife has straight A's and just graduated Magna Cum Laude from a state university. Her brother is a staunch Conservative.
And yet...there are still incredible douches out there that pretend like they know what "illegals" are like. Any man would do what they have to to keep their family out of poverty, but for some reason you can't empathize with that, and then pretend like you're "pro-family."
Your inability to see the other issues (enabling people to live and work here illegally and demand work at low wages) and grow up is what causes the party to lose the votes. As far as I'm concerned you certainly don't speak for Christian Conservatives, maybe the political ones that put "politics" over everything, and fly into a rage when it appears someone isn't staying in-line.
I've been visiting this website for years and agree with most of the articles, so calling me a "troll" so you can dismiss everything I say, isn't going to work. In fact just recently I posted an article from NewsBusters about how the news networks are trying to paint the rejection of the HHS mandate as a war on women to which one of my (perhaps ex) friends replied:
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This article is 100% silly goosery. The framing of the argument is absurd political hackery. Count the amount of times the word "liberal" appears in this. This is not grounds for serious discussion man, this is destructive echo chamber trash.
Coverage for birth control is not a violation of freedom of religion. When a personal belief is in direct contradiction with society, it simply must take a back seat. Just because the bible says it's ok to kill someone for suggesting you worship a different god (Deuteronomy 13:6-10) doesn't mean that society must be ok with or respect that belief.
Providing coverage for birth control is not an attack on a belief. That's monstrously absurd. Birth control is a critical piece of modern society. It's not about teenagers hooking up, married people are allowed to have sex without being forced to risk extra children too man!
If people are true believers then THEY DON'T HAVE TO USE BIRTH CONTROL. No one is forcing anyone to wear a condom or take a pill. This is about providing coverage for a medical service to others who MAY NOT believe in the same thing. That is the true core of freedom of religion.
----------And later...
If anyone I'm actually friends with on here is on the side of the Republicans on this birth control thing, just de-friend me now before I vaporize your brain with chainsaw logic missles. Holy shit what a completely insane and damaging stance to take. Insulting, stupid, ignorant and MONSTROUSLY regressive. Stick your balls in a blender. Gahhhh!!"
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I shouldn't have to prove that I'm part of "the group" for people to listen or understand a basic argument.
Um, nope,
Submitted by UpNorth on Sat, 03/10/2012 - 11:44am.
Your wife's family aren't "model citizens", they aren't citizens, at all. They're Illegals. If you can't grasp the concept, it means they have no legal basis to be here, they broke the law to be here, they're breaking the law by remaining here. You are correct, however, that there are many "who can't empathize with that".
Her father is an assistant pastor? Would that be in a sanctuary church? Her brother is a "staunch conservative"? Not if he's here illegally.
2 years and 30 weeks old account, and this is your 2'nd post?
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 10:02pm.
Welcome to NewsBusters, troll.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Actually, I've been here for a while...Thank you very much.
Submitted by calends on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 10:17pm.
It always amazes me how some people think they can invalidate everything you say by calling you a "troll." Are you going to tell on me too, maybe try to get me banned? This may hurt your blessed heart, but I'm just as "Conservative" as the next guy (at least in many points) but I'm Christian first, and that, should force anyone to at least TRY to be honest.
I have been doing this since the Usenet days
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 10:48pm.
I can smell a troll from 6,000 miles out in my sleep.
It always amazes me how some people think they can invalidate everything you say by calling you a "troll."
Yep, there is nothing quite like numerous prior experiences, is there?
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Oh Dave,
Submitted by calends on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 10:53pm.
Nah, I see it a lot with little babies that don't have a better argument than "OMG YOU MUST BE TROLL," or can't discuss simple matters like an adult. Particularly on tech blogs that get frequent "Mac VS. PC" and "X-Box VS. Playstation" fights.
Anyone who comes here illegally
Submitted by Radical1979 on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 10:05pm.
is a criminal.
Some state have laws preventing employers from asking about immigration status before hiring. Sound crazy doesn't it?
Since I can't edit my post...
Submitted by calends on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 10:14pm.
[edit]
I just looked up some stats:
"Of Texas resident women with a reported age who obtained an abortion in 2006, 59.9 percent were 20-29 years. Approximately 12.1 percent of abortions were obtained by women 16-19 years of age, while only 0.9 percent of abortions were obtained by teens 15 years of age or younger. The mean age of Texas residents who obtained abortions in 2006 was 26.1 years, and the age at which the greatest number of abortions were performed was 22 years."
"Among Texas residents with reported race information, 34.2 percent of abortions were obtained by white women, 23.6 percent by black women, 36.3 percent by Hispanic women, 5.9 percent by women of other racial/ethnic groups. In comparison, the 2006 Texas female population 15 to 44 years of age was 43.4 percent white, 12.8 percent black, 39.4 percent Hispanic, and 4.4 percent other racial/ethnic groups."
http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/chs/vstat/latest/nabort.shtm
The numbers are about even I think. I'm guessing that, correcting for the population numbers, Hispanics have about 10% more abortions (not that significant of a number when you consider income gaps between the groups) than Whites, and Blacks are about even with Whites. But this is on-the-fly calculation.
Even if you don't correct and those dirty filthy Mexicans were shown to have more abortions, what is the correct response to that? Probably the sound of crickets for you. Now, if you're a Conservative Christian the response my be a bit more tempered.
Heh
Submitted by ant on Sat, 03/10/2012 - 11:06am.
You've manufactured your own outrage. The only phrase regarding "dirty, filthy Mexicans" and abortions comes from you. The article and the first post you commented on refer to the 'clinics' service for cancer screening and such, abortions weren't mentioned, except by you. Strange, you're a conservative but you have a typical liberal emotional knee-jerk response to a subject created in your mind by your own lack of reading comprehension. No wonder you look like a troll
Besides that, I doubt your numbers, why would illegals even bother having abortions? Babies are their meal ticket, It entitles them and their families to benefit from the hard-earned labor of the tax-paying citizen (that is, if they find a job that hasn't been taken by those same illegal aliens).
Ant, not to mention, the whole anchor baby thing.
Submitted by UpNorth on Sat, 03/10/2012 - 11:44am.
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Yes, UpNorth
Submitted by ant on Sat, 03/10/2012 - 11:51am.
Nothing is more convenient than liberal interpretations of the Constitution.
It must be the season, or the weather or something.
Submitted by UpNorth on Sat, 03/10/2012 - 12:01pm.
Maybe it's spring, the weather warms, the ground gets warm and the trolls emerge from under the bridge.
VD, this guy, I wonder who's next? Never mind, answered my own question, ifight has joined the triumvirate of trolls.
⇒ Tough luck PP
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 7:22pm.
The big bucks is in abortion, so you can't see putting down the butcher knife.
Your craving for veal is all too well-known.
How many of these women are actually citizens/legal residents?
Submitted by drsamherman on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 8:27pm.
I would venture few, if any of them, are.
Houston is the Abortion Capital of Texas, if not the United States. Dallas is not far behind, nor is Austin or San Antonio.
The Texas legislature is more than happy to give up the $35 million to drive Planned Parenthood out of the abortion business if it can. These liberal idiots act like funding for free sex is somehow a constitutional requirement.
A C T
Submitted by kilrod on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 9:57pm.
"Houston is the Abortion Capital of Texas". That "capital" would'nt be located in the black neighborhoods of Houston would it Dr. Sam?
kilrod "the Birther"
If an unborn child cannot trust you, why should I,??
And what if it were "Whites"?
Submitted by calends on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 10:09pm.
Man, if you are going to make statements like that at least provide a context. Surprise! There are black conservatives that recognize the black genocide that is abortion. I recommend you read up on the historical reasons why inner city populations have the most abortions. Would you really prefer blacks not have abortions? It's hard to tell from your post.
Ok so I just looked up some stats:
"Of Texas resident women with a reported age who obtained an abortion in 2006, 59.9 percent were 20-29 years. Approximately 12.1 percent of abortions were obtained by women 16-19 years of age, while only 0.9 percent of abortions were obtained by teens 15 years of age or younger. The mean age of Texas residents who obtained abortions in 2006 was 26.1 years, and the age at which the greatest number of abortions were performed was 22 years."
"Among Texas residents with reported race information, 34.2 percent of abortions were obtained by white women, 23.6 percent by black women, 36.3 percent by Hispanic women, 5.9 percent by women of other racial/ethnic groups. In comparison, the 2006 Texas female population 15 to 44 years of age was 43.4 percent white, 12.8 percent black, 39.4 percent Hispanic, and 4.4 percent other racial/ethnic groups."
Now, if you adjust for the fact that there are lower populations of Hispanics and Blacks everything evens out nicely between Blacks and Whites I'd imagine. Hispanics would have a higher rate than both, but correcting for income I'm sure that the gap would lessen to about even.
I guess they're all just dirty filthy Blacks, Whites, and Hispanics.
Houston is the largest city in Texas.
Submitted by drsamherman on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 9:59pm.
It also has very weak zoning laws and an openly liberal city council. It is the main part of Sheila Jackson Liar's congressional district.
Outside of the fact that I did part of my medical training in Houston, I avoid the city.
Since I can't correct my post...
Submitted by calends on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 10:09pm.
The numbers for Whites and Blacks would even out. Hispanics would have a higher abortion rate regardless, but correcting for income and the ability to care for a child I imagine that gap would close.
Texas Tribune [TT]
Submitted by Longdrycreek on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 10:01am.
is a left wing paper of minor importance except to the liberals. The tug at your heart stories are designed to enlist sympathy but offer little constructive solutions other than, as in his case. fund Planned Parenthood fully and completely.
However, PP is well funded in the federal budget and I am sure the national organization can subsidize those struggling units in Texas that we cut off from the state funds.
It is not about money only but about dominance. 'We win, you lose." Nothing more than a power play and the stories play on emotion.
"Colonias"? As in
Submitted by ant on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 11:01am.
"Colonias"? As in 'colonizing'? Poor little illegal law-breaker can't get to the citizen-provided health clinic...but she made it across the border.
If Americans are out of work, but many illegals are filling jobs (as I see in my town) how does the left suppose any tax-supported 'entitlement' programs or 'clinics' are to remain open to these same illegals while the American worker tax-base shrinks?...because despite the obvious lies, illegals are largely NOT paying taxes. Just ask the old man in my local paper that gets calls and letters from the IRS regarding the delinquent taxes of over 50 people that fraudulently used his address for their 'documents'. Strangely, all their surnames are Hispanic.
Who's fault is it that Hispanics are taking jobs?
Submitted by calends on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 10:46pm.
The businesses, or the Hispanics that just want a job?
Fine the businesses, tell them that if they don't stop they'll have to "sponsor" all of their illegal workers. If I had a chance to make money and not live in a dung-hole of a city emigrate illegally too.
Incompatono
Submitted by Boudin on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 10:49pm.
For not sealing the boarder currently.
~Yeah!
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 10:51pm.
Then they can come here and turn our cities into dung-holes!
Win-win.
And how, do you propose, they do that?
Submitted by calends on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 11:01pm.
It's that Spanish culture. D'eahs sumfin eeevel bou' it.
Of course if we actually sealed our borders and prosecuted companies that hire illegal immigrants this wouldn't be a problem, but again, you're blaming the wrong people. And, by the way, have you ever been to the South? Not much difference between a White ghetto, Black ghetto, or Hispanic ghetto. Maybe we should just ship the whole South out of the country?; the point being wealth a happy life does not make. Some of the most affluent cities are "Liberal" and there's a lot of support to be had with poor populations that have Conservative values.
~Hi, I don't think we've met
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 11:13pm.
I live in the South. I always have. I'm a horticulturist; ever hear of the landscaping industry?
Now, I'm not going to take your little hand and explain anything to you in detail at the moment because I've got more interesting and fruitful things to do, like sleep, but I will give you a little reading material so you can educate yourself.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6848672&page=1#.T1rGXDEge68
Wasn't it obvious I wasn't talking about the cartels?
Submitted by calends on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 11:31pm.
I was attempting to level the playing field a bit. For a lot of irrational turds that talk about "illegals," an "illegal" is an abstraction and all of the sudden there's something inherently _evil_ about, oh, Mexicans, Chileans, Bolivians, Peruvians, Colombians, etc...etc...Like there's something in their brains, or makeup that is almost...cursed. It actually reminds me of arguments made by a lot of Black Nationalists about whites, that whites can't help but being racists, that it's in our blood. The larger issue is - some conservatives can be absolutely filthy human beings, but as long as they have some "illegal" abstraction to compare themselves to, all is right-as-rain.
I also said that the borders should be closed. Oh well.
~Oh well, let's just leave out all the icky truth
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Sat, 03/10/2012 - 8:33am.
And then your self-righteous rants and tone of sneering condescension might seem justified.
Perhaps, just perhaps, the fact that the cities these illegal immigrants come from are "dungholes" might, just might, have something to do with the people who live in them and they way they live their lives. Then, they come here, and they continue, to the best of their ability, to live the way they lived in the dunghole. When you have enough of them clustered together, lo and behold, you have a dunghole.
And that goes for any people who create dungholes when they gather together, regardless of skin color. But why don't you go ahead and keep telling yourself that the white people hate the poor brown people, except for you, because you're better than all the other white people.
Ridiculous.
Submitted by ant on Sat, 03/10/2012 - 12:12pm.
"Illegal" is an abstraction? No, it's a trespassing foreign National who is not only violating the law, but in our Country's case, being rewarded for it by our treasonous 'public officials'. "It's because they're brown, you irrational turds!!" Yeah, you sound just like a conservative. I wonder if that group of illegal mexicans that gang-raped a 19-year old American girl were only arrested 'cause they're brown. Or is that illegal? Don't you think it strange that a group of 12 men all working together on a farm would ALL agree to commit such a crime? If one of my co-workers had suggested something like that to me and asked me to participate, he'd find himself in a heap of trouble...but, hey, maybe it's just cultural. After-all, the age of consent and respect for women's sovereignty( right not to be raped) is much different from ours in other countries..perhaps we should just accept this example of 'dung heap' culture as 'diversity'. Maybe you're right, let's take a look at what we should 'tolerate' in order to NOT appear 'racist'.
-Breaking the laws of the Country by remaining illegally, ID fraud, and sucking the system dry from entitlements, hospital care and education.
- The calls for Aztlan, "down with the gringo system", and the trampling of the American flag.
- that any sign of patriotism from citizens shall be re-named 'racism'.
-That foreign flags hang along the streets in American cities (yes, I see this all the time.)
-Tax evasion, legal for some, illegal for Americans (the Obama administration being the exception).
-That everything you have, including your land, is 'theirs'.
-The 8 of the top ten of the FBI's most wanted are illegal Latinos.
-Allow foreigners to vote in our elections, get driver's licenses, send them to college (over and above citizens that can't afford college).
-Import (and this is in reference to your 'dung heap' culture.) dung heap culture, such as crime, political corruption (interestingly, already seeing much of that dishonest political system in large illegal communities...guess it's hard to scrape the sh*t off your shoes when breaking the law to leave your own little dung heap for America's door), anti-white racism, Mexican jingoism, attraction to minor females, poverty, diseases such as tuberculosis or parasites, like bed-bugs (apartments here are now infested with them since the rampant introduction of the 'new Americans'), balkanized communities and a separate language, the risk of terrorism, gang activity (thanks, El Salvador!), limited job opportunities and the depression of wages for blue-collar Americans, resentments, another victim group to 'pander' to and buy votes with, money sent out of our economy, closed hospitals, bi-lingual education (in which, American kids fall behind), racist 'Latino studies', special rights and privileges, calls for 'Shariah' law, honor killings..basic surrender to the Islamic way of life and governance.....
-I forgot to add, some things I've noticed through personal observation and which can be backed up by media articles....A cultural, 'macho' attitude toward drunk driving, mistreatment of animals (ie. cock-fights, dog-fighting and 'keeping' horses and livestock in a CITY environment), an ambivalent 'this ain't my country anyway' attitude toward littering and dumping of trash (I've seen dozens at job sites literally get up and walk away from all the trash their lunch had created, left to blow away in the wind). Yeah,that's what this country needs..more of that third-world crap..
Tumbler, is that you?
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 10:54pm.
ROFL!
I guess you finally finished plucking the cactus I told you to, what, nearly five years ago now?
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Hispanics can have any job
Submitted by ant on Sat, 03/10/2012 - 11:49am.
Hispanics can have any job they strive for..illegal aliens, on the other hand...
Whose fault is it? In descending order..
Our governments, for dereliction of one of their PRIMARY duties.
Illegal aliens themselves for knowingly breaking the law, and as in this case, creating false documents that would fool many employers to begin with. Would you be at fault if a man showed you a fake badge and you thought he was a cop..or should the blame lay at the feet of the man posing as a cop? It's like a community agitator that only wants to be a basketball star deciding to convince everyone that he's Presidential material.
And employers who knowingly hire illegals.