in local gannett rag: Planned Parenthood = Abortion Group

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Planned Parenthood is coming under intense scrutiny by Tennessee lawmakers and members of Congress, with a vote on a measure to de-fund the organization to be taken up in the U.S. Senate as early as next week.

Energy and Commerce Committee Vice Chairman Marsha Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican, has asked for a Congressional investigation, while fellow Republican Rep. Diane Black of Gallatin introduced a bill to strip all federal funding of the organization for one year while an investigation is completed.

Meanwhile, two state lawmakers — Sen. Mike Bell, a Riceville Republican, and Rep. Jeremy Faison, a Republican from Cosby — have set an Aug. 19 "fact-finding meeting" to examine enforcement of a Tennessee law banning the sale of an aborted fetus.

Any Congressional action to suspend funding would have limited impact in Tennessee, one of a handful of states to have already largely de-funded Planned Parenthood. Abortion clinic directors in Tennessee have said they have complied for decades with the sale ban, enacted in 1989.

http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2015/07/24/planned-parenthood-under-scrutiny-tennessee-nationally/30627841/

[Arkansas Granny]

1. Do people not realize or do they choose to ignore the fact

that by providing sex education and contraceptives , PP greatly reduces unwanted pregnancies, thereby reducing the number of abortions overall. That doesn't even take into consideration the number of lives saved by the health screenings they perform.

[historylovr]

2. They choose to ignore it, of course.

They know, but they don't care, and they count on a large part of the ones they're appealing to to be totally ignorant of all the facts.

[Fred Sanders]

3. You can not control weak minds without owning the media, as Fundies do in TN.