Discussion for article #241248
Seth Meyers did a pretty good piece on this last night. And as he said, there is no Y-axis.
Republican Logic: When the FACTS don’t support your claim, make shit up and display it as if it was FACT.
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Wilmore said. “But as long as abortions are happening — and they are happening — don’t we want to make sure women have a safe place to have them?”
I suppose that's true, as long as the ***"GOP"*** and ***"we"*** don't share any part of their circles on your Venn Diagram.Stop thinking this is just about abortion. All the liar Women’s & Crisis Clinics the Republicans want to fund don’t prescribe contraception.
Why is it that whenever the Pope says something they disagree with like climate change, they say we shouldn’t be getting scientific advice from the Pope. Yet when it’s women’s health issues, they want us to listen to advice from congressMEN.
The rise in the number of abortions being performed is almost certainly due to GOP sponsored legislation designed to make abortion difficult to provide. women in those states have no choice but to go to PP because they have shut down providers who don’t have the necessary capital resources.
The drop in the number of preventive treatments is almost certainly the result of the same effect. Clinics that used to be PP affiliated have dropped the affiliation in response to state laws designed to attack PP.
So the numbers shown in the chart, if true reflect the results of GOP lawmaking, not policy shifts by PP.
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Obamacare also was a factor, something that would be more evident if the chart showed annual figures instead of just the first and last year.
There was a big one-year drop in the cancer-screening and prevention treatments at PP in the last year. Not coincidentally, Medicaid expansion took effect 3-months into that year, giving many patients that used to rely on PP greater access to other providers. Presumably, PP treatments in that category will fall again as the number of uninsured women continues to drop as a result of Obamacare.
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“don’t we want to make sure women have a safe place to have them?”
Depends on who “we” is. I sure do. But there are folks who are so opposed to abortion they think relegating it to the back alley and the deaths that come with that a righteous thing. Deserved. And Wilmore isn’t going to move the thinking of a single one of them.
Yes, that would be it.