USING THE HEAVILY DOCTORED PROPAGANDA ANTI-PLANNED
PARENTHOOD VIDEOS AS AN EXCUSE, BOBBY JINDAL HAS JUST
ANNOUNCED THAT HE WILL BE ELIMINATING MEDICAID FUNDING FOR
PLANNED PARENTHOOD IN LOUISIANA, WHICH MEANS TWO CLINICS.
LOUISIANA, A STATE THAT HAS A HORRIBLE PROBLEM WITH UNPLANNED
PREGNANCY, STDS, HIV SPECIFICALLY, LOUISIANA WILL
THEORETICALLY LOSE A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF THEIR FUNDING.
THIS
IS WHAT HE SAID.
IN RECENT WEEKS IT HAS BEEN SHOCKING TO SEE
REPORTS OF THE ALLEGED ACTIVITIES TAKING PLACE AT
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FACILITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
PLANNED
PARENTHOOD SHOWS A DISREGARD FOR HUMAN LIFE.
IT IS NOT WORTHY OF
RECEIVING PUBLIC ASSISTANCE FROM THE STATE.
ACCORDING TO BOBBY
JINDAL, THEY SHOULD LOSE MEDICAID FUNDING IN LOUISIANA.
AND OF THE REPORTS I SAW ON THIS POLICY CHANGE BY BOBBY JINDAL
WENT INTO WHAT I FELT WAS AN IMPORTANT FACT, DO THOSE TWO
PLANNED PARENTHOOD CLINICS IN LOUISIANA CONDUCT FETAL ORGAN
HARVESTING OR FETAL ORGAN RESEARCH?
THEY DO NOT.
BUT FOR
SOME REASON EVEN THOUGH THAT IS HIS RATIONALE FOR CUTTING
MEDICAID FUNDING, IT DOESN'T SEEM TO MATTER THAT THEY ARE NOT
A PART OF IT.
AND I DON'T KNOW WHY NONE OF IT -- THE LA TIMES
IS GREAT, TALKING POINTS MEMO IS GREAT, WHY DON'T THEY CALL THE
FUCKING ORGANIZATION AND FIND OUT IF THEY ARE TAKING PART OF
IT?
I TALKED TO JEWEL BUSH, SHE ANSWERED IT IN A MINUTE, SHE
WORKS AT PLANNED PARENTHOOD IN LOUISIANA.
WHY DOESN'T SOMEONE BRING THAT UP TO BOBBY JINDAL WHEN HE
SPREADS HIS BULLSHIT?
>>HE WOULDN'T ENGAGE ANYWAY.
>> IT HAS BEEN A WEEK SINCE THE LAST TIME.
HE IS A TERRIBLE --
I'M SO GLAD HE DOESN'T GET TO SIT WITH THE BIG BOYS AT THE
DEBATE ON THURSDAY.
LOOK, AS I SAID, THOSE CLINICS IN BATON
ROUGE AND NEW ORLEANS DON'T OFFER ABORTION SERVICES OR TAKE
PART IN THE FETAL ORGAN HARVESTING, BUT WHAT DO THEY DO?
WHAT WILL WE LOSE OUT ON IF THE CLINICS ARE SHUT DOWN?
THE
PLANNED PARENTHOOD GULF COAST STATE DIRECTOR SAID, LAST YEAR
IN LOUISIANA, PLANNED PARENTHOOD PROVIDED MORE THAN 15,000
HEALTHCARE VISITS.
MEN AND WOMEN TURN TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD FOR
BASIC PREVENTATIVE HEALTHCARE SUCH AS LIFE-SAVING CANCER
SCREENINGS, WELL-WOMAN EXAMS, BIRTH CONTROL, TESTING AND
TREATMENT FOR SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS.
MORE THAN 4300 LOW
INCOME, UNINSURED WOMEN AND MEN WERE ABLE TO ACCESS HIGH-QUALITY
AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE THROUGH THE SAFETY NET PROVIDED BY
MEDICAID FUNDING.
THEY NOW HAVE 30 DAYS NOTICE THAT THE FUNDING
WILL BE ELIMINATED, AND WE DON'T KNOW YET WHAT PERCENTAGE OF
THEIR FUNDING IT WILL BE, OR WHAT THE VALUE WILL BE IN TERMS
OF DOLLARS, BUT WE DO KNOW THAT NATIONWIDE, MEDICAID REPRESENTS
75% OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD'S GOVERNMENT FUNDING.
SO IT WILL
BE A SIGNIFICANT PORTION, AND THE PEOPLE LIVING IN THE
COMMUNITY WILL LOSE OUT.
THEY WILL NOT LOSE OUT ON ACCESS TO
ABORTION OR WHATEVER IT IS THE CONSERVATIVES THINK THEY WILL BE
CLEANSING BY GETTING RID OF THE CLINICS, BUT THEY WILL LOSE OUT
ON CANCER SCREENINGS, STD INFORMATION, REFERRALS TO
HOSPITALS, SEXUAL EDUCATION AND ALL THOSE SORTS OF THINGS.
IT IS
A GOD DAMN SHAME THAT BOBBY JINDAL WILL PROBABLY PAY NO
POLITICAL PRICE FOR, BECAUSE NOBODY WILL CALL HIM ON HIS
BULLSHIT.
>>IT IS A SHAME THAT THE DEMOCRATS ARE WEAK ON THIS.
THERE IS NO PUSHBACK FROM THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ON THIS ISSUE.
IN FACT, EVEN IN THE NPR STORY THEY SAID THAT SOME DEMOCRATS
ARE STILL WARY OF THE STORY.
AGAIN, I CAN'T STRESS ENOUGH TO
GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS.
THESE WEAK KNEED MOTHERFUCKERS AND DEMOCRATS ARE WORTH A SHIT.
>>IT IS PATHETIC.
IT HAS BEEN LEGAL LONGER THAN I HAVE BEEN
ALIVE THANKFULLY, TO GET AN ABORTION IN AMERICA.
THERE
SHOULD NOT BE ANY STIGMA ANYMORE.
IF YOU WANT TO STAND UP
FOR THAT AS A LAWMAKER, IT HAS BEEN LEGAL FOR FUCKING DECADES.
IF YOU CAN'T DEFEND HEALTHCARE ACCESS, WHAT THE HELL CAN
YOU DEFEND, AND WHY DO YOU DESERVE OUR VOTES?
>>WHERE IS BILL GATES, GEORGE SOROS, WHERE IS BILL
CLINTON'S INITIATIVE TO FUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD?
>>I WOULD LIKE IT IF THEY WOULD STEP UP.
THERE ARE RICH LIBERALS WHO DO DONATE --
>>HOW MUCH MONEY DOES PLANNED PARENTHOOD NEED TO RUN EVERY
YEAR?
$1 BILLION?
THERE HAS GOT TO BE A RICH BILLIONAIRE, AND THEN WE
CAN STOP THIS AND WE CAN GET HEALTH CARE TO POOR WOMEN.
>>AS I POINTED OUT, I AM SURE JR COULD PROVIDE MORE INFO IF THERE
IS TIME, LOUISIANA HAS A HORRIBLE SITUATION NOW WHEN IT
COMES TO STI INFECTIONS SPECIFICALLY, HIV RATES, IT IS A
TRAGEDY RIGHT NOW.
WHAT THEY NEED IS MORE CLINICS, NOT
DEFUNDING THE ONES THAT THEY ALREADY HAVE.
I KNOW THE AREAS
THAT ARE LOSING THE CLINICS ARE PROBABLY NOT AREAS THAT VOTED
FOR BOBBY JINDAL TO BEGIN WITH, BUT IT SUCKS THEY WILL HAVE TO
SUFFER FOR HIM CALLOUSLY TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THIS
PROPAGANDA BULLSHIT OVER PLANNED PARENTHOOD.
>>I BET THOSE AREAS DID VOTE FOR HIM.
THIS IS THE AMERICAN
TALIBAN.
YOU HAVE TO BE AFRAID OF ISIS, MUSLIMS, BUT THE
AMERICAN TALIBAN, THEY ARE DRAGGING US BACK TOWARDS THE
DARK AGES, RIGHT?
AND THEY ARE RIGHT HERE IN AMERICA.
AND THOSE
ARE THE PEOPLE WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO FIGHT, BECAUSE
WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO INFLUENCE.
OUR OWN GOVERNMENT
HERE, CHOMSKY TELLS US IT IS OUR MORAL RESPONSIBILITY TO DO
SOMETHING ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT WE CAN INFLUENCE, AND THAT
STARTS AT HOME, AND THAT STARTS WITH THE AMERICAN TALIBAN.
ALL
THESE PEOPLE ARE, AGAIN, FOCUSED ON RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS, A
RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION, ISIS, WHICH HAS NEVER DONE ANYTHING TO
ME.
WE HAVE THE TALIBAN, WE HAVE ISIS RIGHT IN AMERICA, AND THEY
ARE GUYS LIKE BOBBY JINDAL, GUYS WHO WANT TO TAKE HEALTHCARE AWAY
FROM WOMEN, GUYS LIKE GOVERNOR PENCE WHO WANT TO MAKE BEING A
HOMOSEXUAL A CRIMINAL.
THESE PEOPLE RIGHT HERE IN OUR OWN
COUNTRY -- AND TO PRETEND THE PROBLEM IS OUTSIDE IS WRONG.