Brit Hume blasts NPR for reporting BLATANT lie that Planned Parenthood provides mammograms
And NPR wonders why Americans are tired of funding them.
NPR Spreads Old Lie That Planned Parenthood Offers Mammograms https://t.co/DK4wASnjrN pic.twitter.com/uYk8SXTfL5
— NewsBusters (@newsbusters) April 17, 2017
Via NewsBusters:
On Fridays All Things Considered, NPR health policy correspondent Alison Kodjak was the offender as she reported on President Trumps reversal of Barack Obamas attempt to preserve Planned Parenthood subsidies in red states that moved to defund them. Heres where the truth got mangled: CORNISH: Can you tell us more about the states where this could have real impact?
KODJAK: Well, it depends a little bit on the make-up of the states, obviously. It’s states that are run by Republican legislatures with Republican governors who are likely to support this kind of legislation. States with rural – a lot of rural areas are likely to see a lot of impact because these clinics aren’t everywhere. So if Planned Parenthood is the closest clinic where you can get family planning services — and when I say that, I’m talking about pap smears, mammograms, birth control and in some cases obviously abortions — you might have to travel very far to get those services. You might not get them at all.
It seems a little late in the game to be getting this well-established falsehood wrong. https://t.co/Q0SiesDVsf
— Brit Hume (@brithume) April 17, 2017
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