"We are giving money to corrupt organizations like Planned Parenthood that are committing crimes and enabling young minor girls and covering up issues I don't even want to talk about it because it is so disgusting," Bachmann fulminated.
"This organization has by their own records performed 324,008 abortions in 2008 and 2009," she insisted, "and that’s in addition to the trafficking of underage girls that has gone on under Planned Parenthood’s nose.”
Asked what evidence there was to support Bachmann's claims about involvement in sex trafficking, a spokesperson pointed to a heavily-edited video released last February by an associate of James O'Keefe, whose videos of ACORN employees allegedly fostering underage prostitution led to the Congressional defunding of that organization. Lisa Rose's video similarly appeared to show a Planned Parenthood clinic manager advising a pimp on how to run his operation.
At the time, Planned Parenthood noted that it had previously the FBI of suspicious visits to a number of its clinics, suggesting the possibility of a hoax. It also fired the employee shown in the video. However, Rose has demanded that Congress defund Planned Parenthood, and Bachmann has now joined in that call.
So despite the video being proven to be another O'Keefe-style hoax special months ago, Bachmann is treating the nonsense as truth and making public statements as a Member of Congress that Planned Parenthood is a criminal organization involved in trafficking of underage girls. She has no independent evidence of this. It doesn't matter to her. Only her agenda to publish "bad women" does.
As Bon and I have repeatedly pointed out, Planned Parenthood provides a number of low-cost reproductive health services to women and does so in a responsible manner so that women can be educated and given contraception to keep them from having children they cannot afford to raise. Bachmann herself has literally dozens of adopted children that she is a mother to, and as an adopted child I certainly can testify there are other options for poor women besides abortions, and there are loving people out there who would love to care for a child.
But having the government force women to have children is wrong, period. And all indications are that Bachmann will soon announce her bid for the Presidency. Can you guess what President Bachmann's first executive order would be?
I can. Won't it be great to have a President making decisions for the country based off of right wing hoax videos?
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