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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWoman strips to show fresh mastectomy scars as Virginia official calls to defund Planned Parenthood
Roanoke County Supervisor Al Bedrosian was interrupted by a breast cancer survivor as he was pushing to defund Planned Parenthood at a recent press conference in Virginia. According to The Roanoke Times, Bedrosian had been on a crusade to defund the United Way since a conservative group released deceptively edited videos of Planned Parenthood employees speaking about fetal tissue donations.
Lets make everybody happy, Bedrosian told a group of anti-abortion activists in front of the county administration building. Those that want to support Planned Parenthood, go for it. Do it. Well continue to pray on our side that we get out of this business of killing babies, but you can do it if you want. Thats freedom in America. But to actually enhance, facilitate or enable it through county government is where I have a problem.
A woman who was identified as Leigh Anne Woods by WDBJ walked up the podium and took her shirt off as Bedrosian was speaking. You have a problem because they perform abortions, look at everything else they do, they save lives! Woods said. Its more than birth control, she insisted. Its more than abortion. They save lives.
Woods told WDBJ that she wanted to show the county supervisor the scars from the mastectomy she had just weeks earlier, and she credited Planned Parenthood for saving her life.
Full story + video
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/woman-strips-to-show-fresh-mastectomy-scars-as-virginia-official-calls-to-defund-planned-parenthood/
AllFieldsRequired
(489 posts)So the adults will take action to save the lives of women, and the children, i.e. teaparty, will pray while denying women access to health care
madamvlb
(495 posts)Runningdawg
(4,517 posts)n/t
SunSeeker
(51,564 posts)bjobotts
(9,141 posts)from Nicholas Kristoffs article in NYT "
This in a country where half of all pregnancies are unintended, where 30 percent of American teenage girls become pregnant by age 19.
The Guttmacher Institute, which studies reproductive health, calculates that Title X family planning centers (PP) prevent about one million unintended pregnancies a year, of which 345,000 would have ended in abortion. It says that every year Title X clinics (PP) avert some 53,000 cases of chlamydia and 8,800 cases of gonorrhea, and save the lives of 1,100 women who would otherwise die of cervical cancer.
In other words, Title X prevents an abortion about once every 90 seconds...."
This should be shoved in the faces of all those ignorant or misinformed senators who voted to defund Planned Parenthood as they have no idea how much good this organization provides
Bring it up at all council hearings where you're allowed to talk.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)mercuryblues
(14,532 posts)where my scar is from the cancer that PP caught when I went for my yearly exam.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Stay healthy, mercuryblues
mercuryblues
(14,532 posts)thanks to PP. They caught it early enough to treat every time. Since then I have had 3 children. Isn't that what those anti PP fuckers are all about, giving birth? Apparently they don't want women healthy enough to have kids to begin with.
Contrary1
(12,629 posts)I guarantee they couldn't look at mine without wincing. Two mastectomies, a failed reconstruction, six surgeries in all.
It would be worth going topless, just to shut them up...even for a minute.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)How fun it might be to give those crackpots some shock and awe!
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)I have had reconstruction since the BMX, but the scars are still there. My early dx likely saved my life and I proudly wear these scars as testament.
Standing in solidarity.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Stay healthy, Ruby
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)Brickbat
(19,339 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)much respect.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Solly Mack
(90,769 posts)sheshe2
(83,785 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)turbinetree
(24,703 posts)accountable------------------I want to know and see what he had to say.
I probably know what it looked liked his mouth dropping to his god damn right wing knees
Good for her and anyone other woman that does this-----------------YEAH
mountain grammy
(26,623 posts)bulloney
(4,113 posts)What percentage of PP funding has been spent on abortions? 3%? The remaining funding goes primarily toward services that save lives or make healthier lives. But clowns like Bedrosian don't pay attention to things like that. They like the attention they get by showboating against abortions.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)The federal funding that PP receives ONLY goes to exams, care and education.
Congress hasn't funded abortions at PP or anywhere (with some exceptions) since the early 1990s, per the Hyde Amendment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Amendment
Raster
(20,998 posts)Planned Parenthood supports WOMEN, plain and simple. And that is what the misogynistic reich-wingers cannot tolerate.
FUCK 'EM!
ismnotwasm
(41,986 posts)Thats a horribly difficult time, and she used it to to help others.
Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)This is the most awesome story ever! I'm going to have to see if I can find this woman and send her a card of appreciation. What incredible courage she must have!
Lars39
(26,109 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)In your face, you religious dickhole.
Juicy_Bellows
(2,427 posts)Just what I was thinking.
prayin4rain
(2,065 posts)MerryBlooms
(11,770 posts)I wish her many many years of good health and happiness.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)DirkGently
(12,151 posts)Can't have Planned Parenthood.
No way, no how.
Hekate
(90,708 posts)Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)You are my hero.
If only every woman had your courage in the face of woman-hating zealots.
kimbutgar
(21,155 posts)Because any man who is against planned parenthood is a sexist jerk or a cruel politician who's doing this for votes.
I predict this news conference will come back someday and bite him in the a$$.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)punguin54
(47 posts)flamingdem
(39,313 posts)!!!
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)K&R this thread for her bravery.
Uncle Joe
(58,364 posts)Thanks for the thread, DonViejo.
SwissTony
(2,560 posts)And it seems we have some equally amazing women here on DU.
As a mere man, I bow to you.
Raster
(20,998 posts)Thank you, Leigh Anne Woods! Person of courage!
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,627 posts)allan01
(1,950 posts)every four years this shit to defund planned parenthood , acorn, now united way? gee, when are these jerks going to govern ? they dont know how . or want to. however they feel that they own congress and the white house and get upset when their right of ascention gets interuppted esp by a black man who beat them fair and square . good show mamm
Stuart G
(38,428 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,662 posts)Not a woman, but I have a cancer scar, too. Melanoma. Again, early detection and diagnosis with rapid treatment saved me from what could have been much, much worse.
Any anti-PP rhetoric invites scornful, derisive responses from me. I have too many women in my family to let this go unfought.