I received this in my e-mail box late last night from a source who is on a certain Grizzled Mama's mailing list. (Yes Sarah, I have spies EVERYWHERE.)
Governor Palin's statement:
The greatest fiscal challenge facing our country today is our government’s dangerously unsustainable debt and its practice of deficit spending. Whatever side you’re on in the abortion debate, surely you can see that our taxpayer dollars should not be used to fund abortion at any time, let alone these hard economic times. And yet that is what has been happening with the taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood – the nation’s largest abortion provider, which is awash in scandal after revelations of its dishonesty with the American public. They receive an average of $1 million taxpayer dollars per day; and regardless of what they had promised the public in their campaign ads, new investigative reporting shows that they are not really using our tax dollars to provide women with mammograms and other real health care services. It’s simply freeing up funds that they can then invest in their primary money-making endeavor: abortion. Planned Parenthood doesn’t really offer women who find themselves in less-than-ideal circumstances any real choice. They don’t show women that they have the power, capability, strength, and love within themselves to choose the blessing that is life. They don't explain the resources that are available to parents who want to give their child life. They don’t show them that adoption is a beautiful choice too. What they offer is not true empowerment or “choice” or women’s health care. I join Rep. Mike Pence and others of conscience and common sense who are leading the charge to end the taxpayer funding of the nation’s largest abortion provider. We recognize that not only is our country buried under Mt. McKinley-sized debt, but that the truest measure of any society is how it treats those who are least able to defend and speak for themselves. Surely the individual resources of a generous country can come to the aid of women in need without the taxpayer funding of abortion.
Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, that is written in the above statement is completely false. Clearly Palin knows her followers well enough to know they will never fact check anything she says, and simply accept it like it came down from atop Mt. Sinai on stone tablets.
However for those of us who think, instead of believe, her statement flies in the face of the true verifiable facts.
Like many of the most aggressive recent Republican attacks on Planned Parenthood, Palin is basing her claims that "investigative reporting" revealed anything unscrupulous on highly doctored, misleading tapes obtained by that paragon of honest reporting James O'Keefe, and his sidekick Lila Rose.
The truth about what services Planned Parenthood provides are contained in the graphic below.
The profoundly positive impact that Planned Parenthood has on the communities they serve is revealed in this recent article by the AP:
Over the decades, Planned Parenthood played pivotal roles in easing laws against contraception, popularizing the birth control pill and setting the stage for the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that established a woman's right to have an abortion.
Abortions account for only a small fraction of the services provided by Planned Parenthood — mainly providing contraception, screening for cancer and testing for sexually transmitted diseases. Many of the clients are low-income women with few other options for non-emergency health care.
At many clinics, demand is high. On a recent workday, the waiting room at the Brooklyn health center, which occupies an entire floor of an office building, was filled to overflowing, and center director Nellie Santiago-Rivera said her 35-member staff often sees 150 patients a day.
Most of the Brooklyn clients are black and Hispanic women in their 20s, many without a primary-care doctor of their own.
"This is their community health center," said Evelyn Intondi, a Planned Parenthood nurse-midwife.
As you can see those who most need Planned Parenthood's services are "low income" which in Palin's mind can only mean "non-white," therefore she feels free to place her Red Naughty Monkey Pump heel right on their already oppressed neck without worrying about any serious backlash. Hell THEY would never support her anyway!
And of course since this is Palin there is also the issue of her incredible hypocrisy on this issue. Everybody already knows about the famous "Wite Out" incident from her book "Going Rogue," but in fact there are multiple rumors of another one as well which. with my fingers crossed, I hope might be revealed in at least one of the many books coming out about the Grizzled Mama this next year.
Of course even if that were to be revealed, in impossible to ignore black and white, the Palin-bots would suddenly be stricken with temporary illiteracy and refuse to comprehend what was written on the pages of a book they would perceive as an attack on their Queen. In other words, one containing facts, instead of the Palin approved fantasy they have come to accept as reality.
