Posted on 10/15/2012 1:18:55 PM PDT by ColdOne
full title..Biden: Planned Parenthood ‘Under Law Cannot Perform Any Abortion;’ Planned Parenthood: We Did 985,731 In 3 Years
(CNSNews.com) - Vice President Joe Biden said at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse on Friday that Planned Parenthood “under law cannot perform any abortion.”
Planned Parenthood itself has published fact sheets indicating that it did 985,731 abortions in just the three years from 2008 through 2010. These included 324,008 abortion in 2008, 332,278 abortions in 2009, and 329,445 abortions in 2010.
Biden made his remark in response to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney position that he would defund Planned Parenthood.
“And now these guys pledge that they are going to defund Planned Parenthood, which under law cannot perform any abortion,” said Biden. “You heard it last night again.”
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What an jive-talking embarassment ol’ crazy uncle has become. Will someone please put him out of our misery?
He’s crazy, evil, or lying. Or perhaps all three.
No doubt about it, he is crazy, he is evil, and he is lying.
When are you all going to realize, it just doesn’t matter?
D’s can say ANYTHING, tell ANY lie, fabricate any datum, and the lame stream media will reach up their rectums and pyank their livers out through their backsides to cover for them.
If he was an R, there’d be six news weeklies all with covers of Biden in a straightjacket. Editorial cartoons with Obeyme as Pinocchio would be everywhere. The three-second top-of-the-hour radio news blurbs where 90% of people get their ‘information’ from would all be “Biden and Obama caught in another lie” without any further elaboration.
It. Just. Doesn’t. Matter.
Rats have trouble imagining anything taking place without a federal subsidy.
Another day - another DUH!
Courtesy of the dumbest man even in the Senate and now setting the low bar for VP.
PP doesn’t need the federal subsidies. It has the Komen money.
“Biden may have confused whether Planned Parenthood can legally perform abortions with whether it can legally use the federal subsidies it receives to directly fund an abortion.”
Unfortunately, there’s a distinction between what’s legal and what actually happens. De facto, many tax dollars do end up funding abortion-related services.
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/08/31/more-tax-funding-it-gets-more-abortions-planned-parenthood-does/
Money is fungible. A tax $ spent on admin saves a nontax $ for abortions
“A tax $ spent on admin saves a nontax $ for abortions”
Exactly. Overhead costs are roughly 50% of a typical MD’s practice, so even under the law, tax dollars could be used to cover half of a PP clinic’s costs and its administrators could still “technically” claim that no tax dollars were used to DIRECTLY fund abortions. Nationwide, more than one third of PP funding comes from government grants and contracts. http://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/AR08_vFinal.pdf
PP likes to say that only 3% of its services are abortions, but that’s an apples to oranges comparison. It’s like an auto mechanic saying only 3% of his services are for engine overhauls and all the rest is oil changes. The latter obviously are far less expensive than the former even though they might well constitute the lion’s share of “services” when counted numerically. I’d love to see an honest accounting of what share of PP resources actually are consumed in providing abortions. I’m guessing it’s one third to one half.
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