During the 2016 Miss America Competition, one of the runners up, Miss Tennessee, Hannah Robison, was asked a question by a judge about taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood. Not only was the question phrased in a way that distanced the abortion giant from its main business of abortion (and neglected to mention the undercover videos that exposed Planned Parenthood selling baby parts), but Miss Tennessee's response in front of millions of viewers could have been mistaken for an advertisement - complete with the lie that Planned Parenthood provides mammograms (for the millionth time, they don't!)
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Chris Harrison: All right. Well. Miss Vanessa Williams. You're up.
Vanessa Williams: Hello. Take a breath. It's a tough one. Some legislators are threatening to shut down the government over federal contributions to Planned Parenthood, even though no federal funds can be used for abortions. Should Planned Parenthood funding be cut off?
Hannah Robison: I don't think Planned Parenthood funding should be cut off. The $500 million that gets given to Planned Parenthood every single year goes to female care. It goes for scanning for cancer, it goes for mammograms. And if we don't give that funding to Planned Parenthood, those women will be out of health care for reproductive causes.
Aside from the mammogram lie, Robison is also wrong in saying that without Planned Parenthood, women "will be out of health care." In the GOP Senate bill to defund Planned Parenthood, all the money that would have been given to Planned Parenthood would instead be redirected to other organizations that provide women's health care. Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) has also pointed out, "We have 9,000 community health centers that do everything that Planned Parenthood does, but they don't get into abortions."
Neither should the Miss American pageant. Instead they just gave Planned Parenthood millions of dollars worth of free advertising in their fight to keep half a billion dollars worth of your tax money while continuing to abort and sell baby parts.
