by Rachel MacNair, Project Coordinator (816-753-2057)
I took this picture in a bookstore when I was visiting Napa, California. It struck me how it was making its pro-PP point. The breast exams and Pap smears are the forms of cancer screening that PP provides, so that service is double-listed. Note that abortion isn’t mentioned at all.
I mentioned to the bookstore clerk that prenatal services are rarely offered by Planned Parenthood, as mentioned on the bag. Also, they don’t offer mammograms at all. She then actually told me that she had gotten a mammogram herself at PP.
I clarified with her that she meant the PP there in Napa. Then I whipped out my smart phone, googled ‘Planned Parenthood Napa,’ and found the page for that specific clinic.
It showed they do mammogram referrals, not mammograms themselves. And prenatal services weren’t listed at all.
I showed this to the clerk. Her only remark was that I should check with the company. I said this was the company’s website.
This story is an example of how the services PP actually provides can be documented. PP lists the services each individual clinic provides on the individual clinic’s webpage, easily found on PP’s website. No one needs to take our word for it.
You can see for yourself that “prenatal services” is rarely listed. Abortion is practically always listed, either providing them or referring for them.
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