The battle in Washington to stop Planned Parenthood from using public funds is heating up. Yesterday, even Democratic Senator Joe Manchin came out in favor of defunding the organization on the heels of undercover videos showing the organization selling fetal body parts, possibly in violation of the law.
Well, Planned Parenthood is fighting back by using a very deceptive talking point:
Cutting millions off from health care because you’re opposed to 3% of PP’s services is hardly supporting women. #StandwithPP #S1881
— Planned Parenthood Action (@PPact) August 3, 2015
Planned Parenthood has long claimed that only 3 percent of their services are abortion. But this statistic is incredibly misleading. Students for Life has put together a good video explainer — using figures from Planned Parenthood’s own annual report — on why counting abortions as a percentage of total services is deliberately misleading:
If you don’t want to take Students for Life’s word for it, know that the editorial board at USA Today has concluded the statistic is so misleading they refuse to use it:
@Heminator @USATopinion editorial refused to use it. More accurate to say 12% from using number of abortions and number of actual patients
— David Mastio (@DavidMastio) August 4, 2015
