By Michelle Malkin
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
The Hollywood Women for Obama Club wants you to vote with
your "lady parts." I want the women of America to vote with their
lady smarts. The latest ad from a trio of Tinsel Town actresses spreads one of
the stupidest lies about Mitt Romney this election cycle. Fantasyland needs a
fact check.
According to starlets Scarlett Johansson, Eva Longoria
and Kerry Washington, the GOP presidential ticket wants to "end"
funding for "cancer screenings." If you and your reproductive organs
don't vote for Obama, the doe-eyed celebrities ominously imply, people will
DIE, DIE, DIE!
This scare-mongering falsehood has been repeated
endlessly by Planned Parenthood and the Obama campaign itself. An official
Obama for America ad released in August accuses Romney's running mate, Paul
Ryan, of backing measures to "allow employers to deny women access to
cancer screenings." It also is being used by demagogic Democrats in key
Senate races (in Montana, for example).
This much is true: Romney and Ryan do indeed support
ending all federal taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood's billion-dollar
empire. One-third of the budget of the nation's largest abortion provider,
which masquerades as a comprehensive health care provider, comes from
government.
But here's what the famous femmes don't tell you: Planned
Parenthood does not provide women with mammograms. PP's "women's
health" mantle is a sham. An undercover investigation of 30 Planned
Parenthood clinics in 27 different states, conducted by pro-life group Live
Action, confirmed that the abortion provider does not perform breast cancer
screenings. "We don't provide those services whatsoever," a staffer
at Planned Parenthood of Arizona admitted. Planned Parenthood's Comprehensive
Health Center clinic in Overland Park, Kan., acknowledged: "We actually
don't have a, um, mammogram machine, at our clinics."
But don't just take Live Action's word for it. In June
2012, the Obama Health and Human Services Department responded to a request for
information about how many Planned Parenthood clinics were certified to operate
mammogram facilities. "Our search did not find any documents pertinent to
your request," HHS told the Alliance Defense Fund.
Got that? Fraudulent Hollywood harridans and their hero
in the White House have been deliberately deceiving women into thinking that
eliminating Planned Parenthood subsidies would mean a catastrophic end to
affordable cancer screening services. But the abortion provider's purported
"referral services" to outside mammogram facilities are negligible --
especially given the widespread availability of free and low-cost breast and
cervical cancer screening services across the country supported by both private
and public grants.
Wait, that's not all. In the real world, it's the Obama
administration, not Republicans, who have actively presided over and promoted a
drop in cancer screenings for both men and women over the past four years. You
can thank Democratic crusaders for health care rationing in the White House.
They want all the glory of championing socialized medicine, but cut and run
from the consequences at election time.
Under Obamacare, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
(USPSTF) will be empowered to determine which health care services are
"medically appropriate." For nearly three decades, the federal panel
of primary care physicians and epidemiologists has issued nonbinding guidelines
and A-F ratings of recommended medical procedures. But as Forbes columnist Dr.
Paul Hsieh explains:
"ObamaCare links insurance coverage of preventive
medical services to their USPSTF rating. ... (U)nder ObamaCare, Medicare
payment decisions will become increasingly controlled by the new Independent
Payment Advisory Board, explicitly created to reduce Medicare spending. ... To
reduce costs, many private insurers will likely drop coverage for "C"
and "D" rated services. Hence under ObamaCare, the USPSTF guidelines
will likely become the de facto standards for both government and private
health insurance coverage."
And that means dropping coverage for the very services Scar-Jo
and her femme friends are accusing the GOP of threatening.
Note: The USPSTF is the same review panel that advised
cutting back on routine ovarian cancer screenings last month, recommended fewer
prostate cancer screening tests in May 2012, and proposed mammogram
restrictions for women over age 50 in 2009.
In fact, the Mayo Clinic reported this summer that
mammogram screenings for women in their 40s have declined nearly 6 percent
since the Obama panel announced its decision in 2009. "Comparing mammography
rates before and after publication of the new guidelines," the Mayo Clinic
wrote, "researchers found that the recommendations were associated with a
5.72 percent decrease in the mammography rate for women ages 40-49. Over a
year, nearly 54,000 fewer mammograms were performed in this age group."
It's no surprise the Hollywood "cancer
screening" horror ad script was written by left-wing actor/director Rob
Reiner of "All in the Family" and Archie Bunker fame. These
Obama-promoting meatheads and their hysterical handmaidens inhabit a
manufactured world impervious to facts and fiscal realities.
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