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05 December 2015

NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION AGAINST EXTREMISM AND VIOLENCE & Domestic Terrorism is Terrorism. 5DEZ15


I stand with Planned ParenthoodPLANNED PARENTHOOD is healthcare for any American who needs it. If they can't provide the service at their clinic they will help the patient get the care they need. They are more pro-life than most politicians today, Please donate if you can, and also click the link to sign the petition to the Dept of Justice to investigate the attacks on Planned Parenthood clinics domestic terrorism. I did both,  click the links below. From the Bold Progressives / PCCC and +Ultraviolet Info 

STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH PLANNED PARENTHOOD
Join the National Day of Action Against Extremism and Violence on Saturday, December 5th.

Statement from Planned Parenthood:
To those who go to unimaginable extremes to close our doors:
We deplore your violence.
We reject your threats.
We fight your legislation to limit reproductive rights and health care in every corner of our country.
We believe your actions and words hurt women -- whether by making it impossible to seek health care or by creating a climate of disrespect and hostility that fosters extremist violence.
The Washington Post and NBC News reported that the domestic terrorist who shot and killed people at the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood ranted about "no more baby parts" as he was apprehended.
Planned Parenthood's statement continues:
We demand an end to the incendiary rhetoric from anti-abortion activists and lawmakers that demonizes Planned Parenthood doctors and patients. The smear campaign and false accusations that motivated the attack in Colorado Springs must stop.
We aren't going anywhere. Planned Parenthood has been here for nearly 100 years, and we will keep being here as long as women, men, and young people need health care with dignity.
To those who go to shocking extremes to close our doors, know this:
These doors stay open.
Thanks for being a bold progressive.
-- Kayla Wingbermuehle, PCCC Organizing Team
Want to support the Warren wing? Senator Elizabeth Warren says, "When PCCC members donate millions in small-dollar donations and make millions of phone calls for progressive candidates, leaders in Washington, they take notice." Chip in $3 here. 

Domestic Terrorism is Terrorism. 

In the wake of another attack on Planned Parenthood--the sixth terrorist attack on a clinic in four months--the Department of Justice is still M.I.A.1 So we're going big with this hard-hitting new ad featuring UltraViolet members to get the Attorney General's attention.
Watch this video on Facebook, then share it with your friends.
Not on Facebook? You can watch and share here.

 


Published on Dec 3, 2015
Tell the Department of Justice to investigate domestic terror attacks at Planned Parenthood. Patient safety MUST be protected. Call (202) 353-1555
More than 300,000 people have signed petitions demanding an investigation, and earlier this week we delivered the signatures to the DOJ along with our allies at CREDO, NARAL, and Courage Campaign.
But we can't stop there. We have to keep up the pressure, and that's where you come in. This new ad is designed to push the DOJ to action before things get even worse. We need to make sure it's seen far and wide. Please share this widely with your friends and family.

Sources:
1. Calls Grow to Define Clinic Attacks as Domestic Terrorism, New York Times, December 2, 2015

There was ANOTHER violent attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic.
The latest attack was in Claremont, New Hampshire, where someone broke into a Planned Parenthood health center and used a hatchet to destroy equipment and exam rooms, and break water and sewer lines, flooding the entire center.2
This is the fifth terrorist attack on Planned Parenthood since July--and the mainstream media have mostly ignored them.3 Local officials are investigating--but these are acts of domestic terrorism and require the resources of the Department of Justice. One week ago, the Justice Department actually created a Domestic Terrorism division for cases exactly like this.4 That's why we're joining our friends at NARAL Pro-Choice America to demand the Justice Department open a domestic terrorism investigation. Will you sign the petition?
Two weeks ago, someone vandalized the Claremont Planned Parenthood health center--spray-painting it with hate speech.5 Then, Wednesday night, this second attack occurred, which forced the clinic to close temporarily. It's the only Planned Parenthood clinic in this rural area, and the clinic's closure is cutting off access to countless women in need of health services. This comes after four arsons at clinics across the U.S., one in California, Washington, Illinois, and Louisiana.6 The violent attacks against Planned Parenthood must be stopped before another clinic is forced to shut its doors.
Anti-abortion violence has a long history in this country, and it turns deadly. In fact, the co-founder of the organization that released the doctored anti-abortion Planned Parenthood videos is linked to violent militants like Operation Rescue, the group associated with the murder of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller.7
The good news is that the Department of Justice can choose to combat these attacks. The attacks on Planned Parenthood health centers are acts of terrorism, and if the Justice Department takes action, it can deter future attacks. If we all stand up together with our friends at NARAL, we can make sure the Justice Department listens.
Add your name.
Thanks for standing up.
--Nita, Shaunna, Kat, Karin, Adam, Holly, Kaili, Kathy, Onyi, Susan, Clarise, Anathea, Audine, Ryan, Shannon, Vanessa, Megan, Kaytee, and Libby, the UltraViolet team

Sources:

1. Searching for Answers and Comfort After Killings at Planned Parenthood, New York Times, November 29, 2015
2. Planned Parenthood office in Claremont heavily damaged by intruder, WMUR9 ABC, October 22, 2015
3. LA Times And WA Spokesman-Review's Coverage of Planned Parenthood Arsons Shines Compared to National Print and Cable News, Media Matters for America, October 9, 2015
4. Department of Justice Creates New Post to Combat Domestic Terrorism, Politicususa, October 16, 2015
5. Planned Parenthood office in Claremont heavily damaged by intruder, WMUR9 ABC, October 22, 2015
6. Four Arsons In 74 Days At Planned Parenthood Clinics, Southern Poverty Law Center, October 2, 2015
7. Co-Founder Behind Planned Parenthood Video Has Close Ties to Abortion Clinic Violence, RH Reality Check, July 17, 2015





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18 November 2015

Here's What the Latest Investigation of Planned Parenthood Just Revealed & How the Attack on Planned Parenthood Is Hindering Cures for Deadly Diseases 18NOV&26OKT15


HYPOCRISY, lies, misinformation and deception continue to be spewed about +Planned Parenthood by the republican presidential candidates and gop / tea-baggers in congress. These are the same "pro-life" people who promote and legislate for cuts in family health care, WIC, and other social safety net programs. Their propaganda campaign also effects funding for research in many diseases. These from +Mother Jones.....

Here's What the Latest Investigation of Planned Parenthood Just Revealed

—By
| Wed Nov. 18, 2015 6:00 AM EST
Government investigations of Planned Parenthood in response to a series of deceptive videos produced by anti-abortion activists continue to lead to nothing.
On Monday, a 48-page report released by Washington state's Attorney General Bob Ferguson stated that his team's investigation into allegations about Planned Parenthood profiting from sales of fetal tissue "found no indication that procedures performed by Planned Parenthood are anything other than performance of a legally authorized medical procedure."
After undercover videos filmed by David Daleiden and his anti-abortion group, Center for Medical Progress, went viral, legislators across the country called for probes of Planned Parenthood operations. So far, none of these investigations have turned up any wrongdoing.
What that have done, however, is have a chilling effect on important research into cures for diseases including diabetes, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's, as Mother Jones reported last month. That Planned Parenthood was cleared of any misconduct in Washington is particularly notable because Washington is one of only two states that allows patients to donate tissue to scientific research. (California is the other.)
Despite the lack of evidence from these state investigations, Republicans in the US Senate continue their attempts to defund Planned Parenthood; they are currently working to pass a fast-track "reconciliation" package that aims to dismantle key components of Obamacare and rescind Planned Parenthood funding.

How the Attack on Planned Parenthood Is Hindering Cures for Deadly Diseases

People with Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and other afflictions will pay a price, scientists say.

—By
| Mon Oct. 26, 2015 5:00 AM EDT
Since July, an anti-abortion group's deceptively edited videos targeting Planned Parenthood for allegedly profiting off sales of fetal tissue appear to have prompted at least four arson attacks on Planned Parenthood clinics. And even though the allegations were bogus, the vilification of the women's health organization has done additional damage: Violent threats and a political chill in the wake of the videos have begun to undermine potentially life-saving research on diseases including diabetes, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's. Fetal-tissue donation programs essential to such research have been shut down, supplies of the tissue to labs have dwindled, and legislation is brewing in multiple states that could hinder cutting-edge scientific studies.
"It's anti-progress," says Gail Robertson, a veteran researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who uses cell lines derived from fetal tissue to study heart disease, including sudden cardiac death, the largest cause of natural death in the United States. "We're in a fight for the future of cures to the diseases that will affect us all."
Since the 1990s, Robertson and her colleagues have developed pharmaceutical technology using cells from embryonic tissue known as the HEK line—research credited with saving lives from fatal heart disease. "If lawmakers were to say, 'You can't use HEK cells because they come from fetal tissue,' it would be impossible to continue my work in my lab," Robertson says. "It’s something we use every single day."
"The CEO of StemExpress should be hung by the neck using piano wire and propped up on the lawn in front of the building," one person threatened.
According to Theresa Naluai-Cecchini, a scientist at Birth Defects Research Lab at the University of Washington in Seattle, the political controversy has hurt the work at her lab, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health and also supplies other scientific researchers with fetal tissue. "We are in the last year of funding, and if we are unable to supply tissue to the research community we would have to close," she says. "We may be able to obtain an extension, but the climate in DC does not look favorable in an election cycle."
Naluai-Cecchini told the Seattle Times that over the past year her lab has distributed 1,109 tissue samples to more than 60 researchers elsewhere who are working on solutions for spinal cord injuries, eye disease, cancer, and HIV. That supply line relies on about two to three samples per day coming into Birth Defects Research Lab, which has long been the lab's norm. But over the past month, Naluai-Cecchini told Mother Jones, only five specimens in total have come in. If that trend continues, she says, "promising research would stop until a commercial alternative is found. The cost of research would increase dramatically, and new findings would take considerably longer."
Before the videos were released by anti-abortion activist David Daleiden and his group, the Center for Medical Progress, a total of six Planned Parenthood affiliates in Washington state and California had tissue donation programs. Three of the programs have since been shut down, Liz Clark, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, told Mother Jones. One clinic discontinued donations to labs after the videos prompted personal threats against some of its employees, according to Clark. Two other programs lost their contracts with biomedical companies due to the controversy.
"My immediate reaction was, 'Oh, I'm going to have to move the lab'," said one researcher, regarding a Wisconsin law that would ban her work.
One of those companies, StemExpress, a tissue provider in Placerville, California, cut ties in August following the congressional inquiry into Planned Parenthood—and after personal threats against the company's CEO, Cate Dyer. According to a complaint filed in a Northern California district court by the National Abortion Federation, an anonymous commenter threatened Dyer, calling her a "death-profiteer" and offering a $10,000 bounty on her head. "The CEO of StemExpress should be hung by the neck using piano wire and propped up on the lawn in front of the building with a note attached," the commenter said, also posting Dyer's home address. The threats were posted on Fox Nation by someone using the handle "Joseywhales," according to the Huffington Post.
The legal complaint was filed on July 31; on August 15, StemExpress released a statement: "We value our various partnerships but, due to the increased questions that have arisen over the past few weeks, we feel it prudent to terminate activities with Planned Parenthood."
The legal complaint (read it here) states that Planned Parenthood's medical director, Deborah Nucatola, who appeared in the first of 10 videos released by the anti-abortion group, received similar death threats. Mother Jones contacted additional researchers who work with fetal tissue, but they declined to speak on the record about threats, fearing for their safety.
Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress did not respond to inquiries from Mother Jones about the fallout from their videos.
In Wisconsin, where scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1990s pioneered research with human embryonic stem cells‚ lawmakers are now considering a ban on the use of fetal tissue that could hinder today's cutting-edge research. That includes ongoing efforts at the university to find new antibiotics as existing ones grow ineffective. The bill's lead sponsor, Republican Rep. Andre Jacque, originally proposed legislation that would make it a felony to sell, donate, or experiment with fetal tissue in any capacity.
"My immediate reaction was, 'Oh, I'm going to have to move the lab'," says Laura Kiessling, one of the researchers in Madison. "Because you can't stop—you really want to do the research."
Jacque has since revised the bill to allow for the use of cell lines that were obtained before January 1 this year. But the latest version would still outlaw the scientific use of fetal tissue obtained after that date, potentially halting progress on treatments for spinal injuries and Parkinson's disease, according to Kiessling. "I think what's upsetting is that the logic of the legislation is not clear," she says.
"I would ask the public to reflect on family members—people you care about who have been saved by this technology."
Robertson adds that the legislation doesn't allow for scientific advancement down the road. "The HEK line was so critical," she says, "but we don't know what [new lines] will be critical in the future."
Thirty-eight states explicitly permit fetal-tissue donation for research, while six states currently ban such research, including Ohio, which is now also moving to make reimbursement for fetal-tissue samples illegal. In mid-October, Planned Parenthood announced that it would no longer accept reimbursements for its fetal-tissue donations in order to "remove beyond the shadow of a doubt the ludicrous idea that Planned Parenthood has any financial interest in fetal tissue donation."
Now, lawmakers in nine states are proposing bans similar to the one on the table in Wisconsin, and more are likely to follow, says Elizabeth Nash, a state policy expert at the Guttmacher Institute, which studies sexual and reproductive health. Americans United for Life, a prominent anti-abortion group, has included a fetal-tissue ban in its model legislation for 2016, and Nash anticipates that AUL's language will surface in a wave of legislation proposed in 2016 in light of the group's past collaborations with conservative lawmakers. (In 2010, for example, AUL's Federal Abortion Mandate Opt-Out Act was used as a model in Tennessee and Louisiana for opting out of insurance coverage for abortion in any circumstance.)
At the federal level, Republican Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin has sponsored a bill expected to be taken up at the beginning of next year that would outlaw fetal-tissue research nationwide.
"I would ask the public to reflect on family members—people you care about who have been saved by this technology," Robertson says. "Think about the unanticipated implications of supporting these kinds of legislation."
 A Federal Judge Gave an Epic Defense of Planned Parenthood That Everyone Should Read
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28 August 2015

Jeb Bush: Planned Parenthood isn't involved in women's health 25AUG15

jeb bush is a Christian and a liar, deceiver and manipulator, none of which are Christian characteristics and are violations of the 10 Commandments (lying and bearing false witness).  He, and the other republican candidates who are spreading these lies about Planned Parenthood should be ashamed not only for their actions but also because it only increases the perception among non-believers that Christians are liars and deceivers and manipulators of the truth. And they should also be ashamed for advocating denying millions of women and their families access to the health care they need because Christ doesn't advocate turning away from the needs of the least among us. From +PolitiFact .....
 
Pants on Fire!
Bush
Planned Parenthood is "not actually doing women’s health issues."
— Jeb Bush on Tuesday, August 25th, 2015 in remarks at a town hall in Colorado

Jeb Bush: Planned Parenthood isn't involved in women's health

By Lauren Carroll on Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 at 3:43 p.m.
Republican presidential candidate and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks during a town hall style campaign stop n Englewood, Colo., Aug. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Planned Parenthood is not involved in women’s health issues, said Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush.
At a town hall in Englewood, Colo., Aug. 25, an audience member asked Bush about his record on women’s health, as well as what he would do for women’s health, particularly for veterans, as president.
"When I was governor, we expanded those programs through community-based organizations, and that’s something I think the federal government needs to continue to do," Bush said. "I, for one, don’t think Planned Parenthood ought to get a penny, though. And that’s the difference because they’re not actually doing women’s health issues. They're involved in something way different than that."
Bush, who cut off state funding for Planned Parenthood as governor, then pivoted to talk about veterans affairs.
Bush’s claim that the organization is not involved in women’s health caught our attention. Setting aside the issue of abortion, Planned Parenthood offers many other medical services -- most of which seem obviously related to women’s health.
We reached out to Bush’s campaign, and it directed us to a tweet that Bush posted, after Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton criticized his Aug. 25 remarks. Bush’s tweet said, "PP (Planned Parenthood) treatment of unborn has been horrifying. Let's support quality women's health programs instead."
The National Library of Medicine defines "women’s health" as "the branch of medicine that focuses on the treatment and diagnosis of diseases and conditions that affect a woman's physical and emotional well-being."
While "women’s health" encompasses all health issues as they pertain to women, reproductive health in particular is Planned Parenthood’s primary focus. The organization offers contraception, sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment, pregnancy testing, prenatal services and cancer screenings, including breast exams. (No, Planned Parenthood does not provide mammograms, but it conducts breast exams and refers women to other clinics for mammograms.)
In total, Planned Parenthood saw 2.7 million individual patients in 2013, and it provided nearly 11 million services, according to its most recent annual report. About 12 percent of patients received an abortion, (assuming one procedure per abortion patient), so the remaining 88 percent of patients received other health services.
Here’s the section of the report breaking down services provided in 2013:

Our friends at the Washington Post's Fact Checker also looked at Bush's claim and gave it four pinocchios, their lowest rating.
Our ruling
Bush said, Planned Parenthood is "not actually doing women’s health issues."
It’s hard to reconcile Bush’s statement with the fact that -- setting abortion procedures aside -- Planned Parenthood offered more than 10 million services in 2013. Those services included contraception, breast exams, pregnancy tests, pap tests and STI testing and treatment. Bush is opposed to abortion, but it doesn’t make sense to say that Planned Parenthood isn’t addressing women’s health issues.

About this statement:

Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 at 3:43 p.m.
Researched by: Lauren Carroll
Edited by: Angie Drobnic Holan
Subjects: Abortion, Women

Sources:

CNN, "Jeb Bush: Planned Parenthood 'not actually doing women's health issues,'" Aug. 25, 2015
Planned Parenthood, "Services" fact sheet, July 2015
Planned Parenthood, "2013-2014 Annual Report," December 2014
PolitiFact, "97% of Planned Parenthood's work is mammograms, preventive care, O'Malley says," Aug. 3, 2015
PolitiFact, "Fox Business reporter: 95% of Planned Parenthood's 'pregnancy services' were abortions," Aug. 4, 2015
PolitiFact, "Jeb Bush held $1 million 'hostage' for abstinence-only education, Emily's List says," May 20, 2015
PolitiFact, "Jeb Bush says he cut off funding to Planned Parenthood as governor," Aug. 7, 2015
Email interview, Bush spokeswoman Allie Brandenburger, Aug. 26, 2015
 

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21 August 2015

Investigations Prove the Planned Parenthood "Sting" Videos Were a Bust 20AUG15

I just really wish these Christian politicians and their supporters who oppose Planned Parenthood actually lived their faith and would propose, support and pass legislation in their states that provided the health care for women, children and families Planned Parenthood does. Christianity doesn't turn away from those in need, it doesn't allow people to suffer because they can't get the health care they need, and it doesn't leave people wallowing in poverty, without adequate food, housing and educational opportunities. AND real Christianity shouldn't tolerate political / social campaigns, no matter the issue or the politics involved, based on lies, deception, and manipulation. There is nothing Christian about these campaigns against and investigations of Planned Parenthood and Christians should not support them and should actually speak out against them. From +Mother Jones .....

Investigations Prove the Planned Parenthood "Sting" Videos Were a Bust

South Carolina launches a probe, even though other states have found a whole lotta nuthin'.

—By
| Thu Aug. 20, 2015 6:05 AM EDT
Mallory Benedict/PBS NewsHour/Flickr
Since undercover videos that captured Planned Parenthood staff discussing fetal tissue donations were released last month, GOP officials in more than 10 states have clamored to launch investigations into the organization. On Tuesday, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley joined that group, ordering her state's health department to review the policies and practices of all abortion clinics in the state, including the three operated by Planned Parenthood.
"These practices are not consistent with the laws or character of our state," Haley wrote in her letter to the state agency tasked with regulating abortion clinics, adding that it "cannot allow an organization with broken internal oversight and a flawed corporate culture to behave the way Planned Parenthood has in other states."
In the videos, recorded surreptitiously and released by the anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress, Planned Parenthood officials talk frankly about the organization's tissue donation program and the costs associated with donating fetal tissue from an abortion. Though fetal tissue donation is a long-standing and legal practice in the United States, and has contributed to medical advancements like the polio vaccine, conservatives have used the videos to attack the health care organization, saying they provide evidence that Planned Parenthood illegally profits from the sale of aborted fetuses. And they've pushed for investigations to unmask this purported criminal wrongdoing.
But so far, those investigations are falling flat. Completed probes in Georgia, Indiana, Massachusetts, and South Dakota have spent thousands in taxpayer money but turned up no evidence that Planned Parenthood is trafficking in the sale of fetal tissue. And in most of the other states that have launched investigations—including Ohio, Arizona, Texas, and Kansas—Planned Parenthood affiliates don't even have fetal tissue donation programs, making it hard to believe the states will find any illegal activity related to the practice. In Louisiana, where Gov. Bobby Jindal ordered an investigation in mid-July, Planned Parenthood does not even operate a single abortion clinic.
"In every state where these investigations have concluded, officials have cleared Planned Parenthood of any wrongdoing," Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of Planned Parenthood Federation, told the Huffington Post. "We've said all along that Planned Parenthood follows all laws and has very high medical standards, and that's what every one of these investigations has found."
Not every governor has taken the bait. Democratic governors in Minnesota and Virginia have rejected state legislators' pleas to look into the group, saying they won't waste time investigating programs that don't exist in their states.
"As far as I'm concerned, there's no basis for an investigation at taxpayer expense into a private nonprofit organization that has stated they don't engage in those practices," Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton told local reporters after he received a letter from GOP lawmakers asking him to take action.
Other states have taken another approach since the release of the videos: Governors in Alabama and Arkansas, along with Louisiana's Jindal, have moved to block Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, which they may not be able to do under federal law. Meanwhile, public opinion of the organization remains high. A recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that despite weeks of bad news, Planned Parenthood is still more popular than every major 2016 presidential contender, the NRA, and the Supreme Court.
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