Talk about tyranny.  How emasculated do they really feel?

The small penis party managed another tiny victory.  I’m sure that’s what they told themselves, anyway.  In another resounding example of….

You know, I don’t really understand what they’re trying to do.  A vote against common sense?  Lying extravagantly? They voted against non-discrimination.

They voted down the law that said that states must obey the federal laws.  Federal law requires states to reimburse any group for medical care that meets all the standards, and can’t discriminate against groups just because they don’t get kickbacks–

Principles!  I mean, because they feel like it.  No, no, no, it’s all based on principles!  Solid, moral principles!  Cancer screenings are just a pretext for a deep state agenda.  The federal government has been tyrannically dictating to the states about not discriminating.

Anyway, Republicans being dumber than mud, many red states have discriminated against Planned Parenthood services anyway, because… again, I get a little lost about that part.  If you read the press releases, the Republican claims are end-to-end nonsense.

I keep saying this, but the government doesn’t fund — that is, provide general funding in advance — Planned Parenthood any more than they fund Kaiser Permanente.  They reimburse allowable healthcare expenses, and then only after the fact.

Anyway, the tiny hands party gets so frothy about Planned Parenthood, I looked into their reasons.

Planned Parenthood is funded by liberals, and is an arm of the Democrat Party.

Many conservative sites start out deeply tribal: Planned Parenthood is bad because liberals and democrats — that other tribe! — supports it.  Deeply depressing, but unsurprising.

Planned Parenthood is an independently wealthy entity.
Planned Parenthood’s corporate profits come at the taxpayer’s expense.
Planned Parenthood is a lucrative corporation that can fund themselves. 

So, because Planned Parenthood is a profitable corporation with assets, they don’t deserve to receive any federal money?   Really?  Hand to god, I saw it over and over.  It’s certainly a new ideological branch of the feeble party: “Republicans against big business! True conservatives shun market success!”

Big news to Halliburton, I’m guessing.

Planned Parenthood is the largest provider of abortions in America—and the largest recipient of federal funding for family planning.

Sure, in a ‘last one standing’ sense.  Violence and gamed laws have forced out smaller providers.  Abortion is about three percent of the work PP does, but it’s there. And because it’s illegal for the feds to fund abortion services, the rest comes from donations, which they assume means ‘liberals’.

As for the family planning part, um… freedom?  “The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.”  Don’t they talk a big game about freedom?

Women have other options for seeking primary care, contraception, STI testing, and cancer screening.

So the free-market, Republican argument is that women are just choosing badly, and it’s up to the government to restrict the markets and pick the right supplies in order to show them the best way to get medical care?

I’d vote ‘freedom’ here, too.

Any money to PP goes straight to abortions!

Don’t these people worship enterprise and business? Is basic financial arithmetic beyond them?  Reimburse a service and you’ve paid for… that service.

But suppose, like most good businesses, they do earn some profit.  Are anti-abortion goons insisting that those profits are ill-gotten?  That profits are bad? Are they saying the government should control what people do with business profit?

I don’t remember seeing that one in the Republican party platform.

There were reams of disproven accusations along with open speculation:

PP sale of baby body parts.
PP caught dumping stream-cooked fetal remains across state lines….
PP failed to report the sexual abuse of young girls.
PP has a history of rampant Medicaid fraud.
PP has a history of breaking the law in general.
PP promotes gendercide and selective abortion of the disabled.

Jesus, it’s just depressing.  I honestly doubt anyone really believes all this.  Their ‘reasons’ were transparent excuses to hide their real motives.

I support the choice to abortion, and yet I can also see the ethical reasons against it.  There is room for discussion and shared goals, like needing fewer abortions.

I don’t see any of that here, though.  All I can see are excuses, control, and profit.