Courtesy of Raw Story:
“Planned Parenthood was my health care provider when I didn’t have insurance after I graduated from college,” the “Hunger Games” star says in a video released on President Barack Obama’s YouTube channel on Wednesday. “Yes, I got birth control, but it was for my massive migraine headaches and my heavy flow. Yeah, I’m on the record saying I have a heavy flow.”
“The services that they provide — what is it? Ninety-five percent of them don’t involve anything controversial. So for that little 5 percent that Mitt Romney decides he doesn’t agree with, he’s going to take away cancer screenings?” Banks continues. “What is he doing? He’s going to take away people’s access to health care close by. We’re talking about working-class ladies who need health care.”
“President Obama has not compromised on women’s rights and that’s why President Obama needs to stay in office,” she concludes.
Okay well of course my headline was mostly tongue in cheek except the part about Elizabeth Banks being the "hot girl" in the FYOV movie. That is where I first noticed her and have been a fan ever since.
However the point she makes in this ad is of course a very important one for women to realize. The mission of Planned Parenthood is to provide health care services, and educational services, to people who need them, NOT to promote abortion as the Right Wing would have us believe.
Mitt Romney has jumped on the bandwagon to vilify Planned Parenthood and has even said he will "get rid of it." That is an incredibly ignorant and insensitive statement to make.
In my opinion NO woman who cares about other women could possibly support the Republican ticket in 2012.
By the way I am still a huge fan of Elizabeth Banks, and her "heavy flow" admission does NOTHING to deter my admiration. (And how cool is it that the actress who played Laura Bush in Oliver Stone's movie "W" is making this ad for the President?)
Praise Todd Palin has received from trainers on the show, including the Greatest Sniper in American History, Chris Kyle, US Navy SEAL: “Going through that knee-high mud will drain anyone except Todd Palin. He’s kind of like God walking on mud out there,” and “you don’t need Chuck Norris. Send in Todd Palin.”
ReplyDeleteLuckily for you a convenient boycott is available so you don't have to watch Todd make a fool and liar of you.
BTW, how's that chicken sandwich boycott coming along?
Nice job, troll, getting in there with a completely off-topic post at 5 in the morning about the biggest fool and liar in Alaska. Since you know so much about Todd Purseholder, tell me--how much did he claim on his federal income taxes for his interstate prostitution ring? Have you SEEN "Boys Will Be Boys: Media, Morality, and the Coverup of the Todd Palin Shailey Tripp Sex Scandal"?
DeleteWhen you can explain a relationship between Todd Palin & Elizabeth banks I might understand why Griff didn't take your juvenile insane love of all things Palin & throw it to the junk heap of internet spam where it rightly belongs
DeleteSomeone is up awfully early in Wasilla this morning.
DeleteThe struggle for equal rights has always been difficult because of idiots like you. And who is surprised that Todd is good at traipsing through mud, it's his natural habitat.
DeleteClerk: Yep, that fish is called General Sherman. They say he's five hundred pounds of bottom-dwelling fury, don't you know. No one knows how old he is, but if you ask me, and most people do, he's hundred years if he's a day.
DeleteCustomer: And, uh, no one's ever caught him?
Clerk: Well, one fella came close. Went by the name of Homer Simpson. Seven feet tall he was, with arms like tree trunks. His eyes were like steel: cold, hard. Had a shock of hair, red, like the fires of Hell.
(The Simpsons "War of the Simpsons", 1991)
D'oh....
LOL boy, this site really gets to you doesn't it? Just circling like a vulture to post your spew the instant Gryph updates anything. Good thing you're not a hater.
DeleteFor the record, I support the chicken guy's right to make his 1st Amendment-protected superstition-based feelings public, just like I support the rights of those protesting those ideas. See, that's how America is designed to work. But I wouldn't expect you to understand how America is designed to work. You probably believe the Founding Fathers were all Christians.
Next you'll be telling us what a wonderful carpenter he is. Yep another Bob Villa.
DeleteOh, and who held his purse while he was traipsing thru the mud?
Todd is a KNOWN PIMP.
DeleteTodd is Anti-American Treasonous SCUM.
Todd should be hung for being a traitor.
BTW, The boycott's going great. Chick-Fil-Hate will be out of business this time next year. BOOM! Any other questions?
Palins are at home in the mud.
DeleteTheir home is a pig sty. PROVEN.
Bristol = Pigstool
Willow = Wallow
Piper's initals are P.I.G for pete's sake!
Yup that's the Piglin "family".
LOL!
Effie Trinket! Sorry, just finished reading The Hunger Games series. I really admire Elizabeth Banks for speaking out on women's rights and supporting President Obama. Not that I would need any additional reason to vote for him, but she's cool.
ReplyDeleteNice ad. I think it's great that she included the statement: "I don't want to talk about that stuff with my employer. That's for me to talk about with my doctor." It's important to know that aside from cutting off all federal funding of Planned Parenthood, the Teapublicans want to allow employers to remove birth control and to elect to remove any health care procedures, tests or treatments that they wish from their employees' health care plans. Think about that. I almost don't believe it after having typed it myself. Scary fucking country we are living in.
ReplyDeleteI'm not much of a fan of ads that give reasons for using birth control for things other than birth control. The major reason women - married or single take birth control pills is to prevent pregnancy.
ReplyDeleteThe fight for the right for women to stop spending 30 years of their lives pregnant, the fight for single women to stop carrying the guilt (via a babe) for unmarried sex was fought and won 40 years ago - and now the GOP wants to restart that war. For that reason alone NO women should ever vote for anyone that supports GOP policies.
The ad is fine - but it would be so much better if she said I use birth control to avoid unwanted pregnancy.
I see your point, but I'm surrounded by RWNJs and can only (partially, sort of) get through to them by discussing my health issues. I have severe endometriosis and no insurance; I rely on Planned Parenthood for my BC (hormone regulation, really). As I think you're pointing out, discussing the need for BC as contraception shifts the terms of the debate completely. And while I agree with you that women should have access to BC for whatever reason they want/need, if I talked about it in terms of contraception or even choice, I would be shot down and shut out immediately. I would be judged by these people's morals (which is also a significant problem, of course).
DeleteEssentially, I believe women should have choices. Overwhelmingly, the Republicans I know do not agree. So I explain the need for birth control in terms of my own condition, regarding which my choices are limited to a few costly and extreme interventions. This changes the issue from moral opinions--I could believe everything they do, follow their proscriptions, make the same lifestyle choices they would, etc., and nothing about my health would change--to medical necessity.
Slightly O/T--I have photos from my last surgery that show my abdominal cavity covered in endometrial tissue, with a couple of massive hemorrhagic cysts added for good measure. They're quite disgusting, and I got rather faint and nauseated when the doctor showed them to me.
Ever since Rush Limbaugh said he wanted a porn tape from Sandra Fluke--so he could see how she was using her BC--I've considered sending him scans of those photos, so he can see how I'm using MY BC.
This is a great ad. And all so true. Thanks for posting it.
ReplyDeleteGryphen, I hope you're FINALLY starting to see the awesomeness of Mittens Rmoney now. Let me explain.
ReplyDeleteOk, say, for example, you come home one day and your hot young wife, we'll call her "Elizabeth", informs you that she's taken ill in her lady parts and won't be able to pole dance for you anymore... um, on the dancing pole you installed in your bedroom. And she's going to die unless she gets expensive medical treatment but you don't have insurance and there's no Planned Parenthood for even basic screenings. See what a buzzkill this can be? Oh, did I mention your hot young wife is the actual smoking hot Elizabeth Banks? Bummer, right?
Now, imagine you live in RmoneyWorld. And you have FIVE wives! And THREE of them are even HOTTER than Elizabeth Banks! (The fifth one looks like Danny Bonaduce in drag, but that's a story for another time...) So, now when Elizabeth Banks tells you she's dying and you have no insurance, you can give her a comforting hug and look over her shoulder at the three hotter wives and mouth the words "I love you guys" to them and know everything is going to be just fine.
And that is why I have endorsed Williard Millard Mitten "Mitt" Rmoney for president in 2012.
You have a very wonky mind - and I love the way you think :)Thanks Beldar for the laugh to start my day.
DeleteYou are hysterical!
DeletePraise for Todd Palin is only done for your kind of viewer...little bits of hype to bring larger audiences to watch the show, not just Todd! He is not a "star" in any sense of the word! He was given Jack Osbourne's place when NBC reneged on his contract.
ReplyDeleteWhat is this post doing here?
ReplyDeleteI, too, used planned parenthood while in college for pap smears and the pill. I had severely irregular periods and the pill regulated them so well. This organization is sorely needed and should not be eliminated!
ReplyDeleteElizabeth Banks: local girl from the Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts, a rural area in which she lived in the one "big" city (Pittsfield) which is tiny but still a metropolis compared to Wasilla.
ReplyDeleteRaised with solid values, a good public education, and, clearly, a gorgeous face and a beautiful mind.
Thanks, Elizabeth, for being candid, honest, and courageous.
I hope other "stars," of all stripes, will have the gumption to endorse Obama from the heart. Not just the big Hollywood names, but the regular actors who will testify about how our President can affect the lives of people like them. And how the Republicans want to erase the rights that we've taken for granted.
Great Article on Huffpo today,
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/10/eric-fehrnstrom-romney-_n_1754252.html
about Eric Fehnstrom, with this quote:
This is the same Eric Fehrnstrom who now serves as Mitt Romney’s chief media strategist and right-hand man. He's become not just a campaign surrogate, but Romney's surrogate, with a preternatural ability to know exactly what his candidate needs. On top of his responsibilities as Romney's alter ego, he's the muscle behind Sen. Scott Brown's (R-Mass.) re-election campaign, having guided Brown's historic insurgent takeover of the late Ted Kennedy's seat in 2010. GQ recently dubbed Fehrnstrom "Romney's balls" in a glowing profile."
I would just like to add how apt that last line analogy is, because just like Rmoney's real balls, Eric Fehnstrom stinks quite a bit, being so close to an such an asshole.
Please consider a donation to Planned Parenthood in addition to your vote for Barack Obama. It serves a real purpose for millions of women.
ReplyDeleteIf you are so inclined, make it to their abortion fund, which is held separate form other funds. It is used for poor women in desperate straits to pay for abortions. Yes, is the pregnancy is s result of rape, the woman must still pay for the abortion.
ReplyDeletePlanned Parenthood provides prenatal care to women who could otherwise not afford it so that they can give birth to healthy children. They assist with nutritional and nursing education.
ReplyDeleteWhy do the Republicans hate unborn and newborn children?
I've been volunteering once a week for the Obama campaign in my new home, North Carolina. Let me tell you it's a big switch for a woman from the Pacific NW.
ReplyDeleteThis week we went from "informational calls" to "persuasive calls". That's where you address concerns with voters who haven't made up their minds. We only address the issues that the person we call brings up - we don't force issues on them. When women bring up healthcare as a concern, a fair debate is "women's health care". They ALL know that Romney is not going to take care of them. It's the tipping point that at least makes them take a second look at President Obama.
This election is not going to be won on the backs of the faithful. It's going to be won on the backs of the current "undecideds" whom we MUST motivate if we don't want the Romney Money Machine to steal it.
Thanks for this. You are right.
DeletePlanned Parenthood was a lifeline for me in high school. Yes, high school. I was 18 and had just started having sex with my boyfriend. I was too afraid to tell my mother and I ended up at Planned Parenthood. This is probably TMI, but during the physical exam, they offered to bring out a mirror and show me what they were doing. It taught me to understand my body and also to respect it. I'm now a nearly 50-year-old with my own business and a wonderful family. If I had gotten pregnant at 18, who knows what might have happened? (Okay, I can guess, given that my best friend in high school chose not to go to PP with me and instead got pregnant. She's now just barely making ends meet and her kids have an incredible amount of college debt.) Like other commenters here, I do wish that we were less circumspect about what we need birth control for, but I appreciate any ad in favor of Planned Parenthood.
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