First off, thank you for your contribution to this country.

However, I think there are a few things wrong with your response.

Firstly, as it has been stated many times, factually the abortions that are performed by Planned Parenthood are not paid for with federal dollars. That already is against the law. The money they receive is for other woman's health services.

I actually don't agree that you should have to pay for any of your health care. I think anyone that has ever served in a war should be taken care of, because being able to say "this was caused by war" and "this wasn't" is impossible for 99% of diseases. You took care of us, we should take care of you.

Also, statistically, woman have more high risk problems earlier on in their life than men do, and it is a lot more expensive to pay for a woman's health care than a man. This isn't being sexist, it's just a fact.

Finally, I'd like to point out that, as it has been said many times, for every dollar spent on Planned Parenthood, that is four dollars that are saved elsewhere... which means if we basically net three dollars for every dollar we spend to Planned Parenthood. We're saving money.

Well then, you men folk better figure out a way to start having children, because if this is just "our problem" and not yours, but you care so much for the birthing of children, I'd think the best solution would be to fund a way for men to have the babies. Then you won't even need us women, and we can all just die and leave men the world to themselves, where you would, apparently, be happier for it.

Bill, the government can't use your tax dollar to pay for abortions. It's called the Hyde Amendment.

yeah it says the person who sponsered the bill has a name callled hyde, so if that means hyde wants ti hide something, you must be correct, as the hyde amendment has cost millions of heartbreaks in the usa

lol , ooopsy you couldnt stay on topic,,,, & God ? please dont act as if you have compassion or mercy in you, CLEARLY you dont & one day it will catch you & you will reap what you have sown

never said you will get whats coming to you AFTER you die

ha...republicans are against safe sex...so is the church

you mean the church pastors use condoms as the rape little boys?

ann, you respond to the comment "if Republican women...have used Planned Parenthood services" as if abortion is the only service Planned Parenthood provides. haven't you been listening to what Lawerence and others have said about the other services that Planned Parenthood provides-cancer screenings and birth control being just 2 of the many services that they provide. birth control cuts down the number of abortions performed at Planned Parenthood and at other places who provide that service. even though it is against the teachings of the church, catholic women do use birth control, and i am sure that catholic women have also had abortions. you are very naive if you think good republican christian women or good republican christian women who are also catholic are exempt from using birth control or having an abortion; not that i care, it is none of my business. i do care though about republicans trying to take health care services away from those who need it, as we all do not have access to the same level of care, as it is very expensive. women have a right to decide if to take birth control, or if to have an abortion-even though the teachings/beliefs of the church are very explicit on this-it is a sin. i am sure that the decisions that many women in the catholic church make regarding their reproductive health are made with angst and cause them to have much guilt.

not everyone on planet earth is blessed with good physical and mental health or financial stability for whatever reason. sometimes in life our human brothers and sisters need a hand up. the difference between you and me is that i don't mind paying for those who need help. are there people who take advantage of and abuse the system? of course. but, i just don't think about that part of it because there is no way to avoid some of that. i think the bigger problem is when the sacrifice isn't shared by the rich. i do understand why they don't want to pay more taxes, but the rich will be OK. some of the people who need the services like Planned Parenthood provides may not be OK. i just don't understand why you all are so upset about helping the poor and needy and vulnerable. just because the country is broke, this does not change the circumstances of the people who are in need. i still think it is a better decision to take money from the oil companies who are subsidized, and increase taxes for those who can afford to pay more. 300 million helps out many women who need it. i'm not tired of helping those in need. why don't you try having a less judgemental attitude about the people who receive these services, people you know nothing about.

The 1930's? You're being far to generous! I'm figuring they want us to go back to the 1840's!

Wow! It is clear we are not spending enough on education! I can barely read your posts! Not just because they are some of the most obsurd comments i have ever read but you you can't spell for $#iT!

I am a member of the tea party and I am not selfish or greedy, but I want people to be responsible. Don't forget, abstinance is the best birth control and it is FREE. There are clinics that will give mamorgams free and your female exams. Thank you.

Yeah there are now clinic BUT your brethren wants to ELIMINATE them. Seriously abstinance? how can any person who is capable of thought say this WHEN PRIEST CAN NOT ABSTAIN FROM SEX WITH LITTLE BOYS

annon you milking the system for money by not working today? & ONLY a true teabagger can say that rape has nothing to do with sex

That's funny I was thinking the same thing about you.

Bully for you.

Do you find that dropping your mindless conservative talking points is changing anyone's mind? Or do you sleep well at night convinced that you taught us something when you are basically a ditttohead dumping loads of BS on the conversations of everyone here?

Did it occur to you that the chart LD used had the source as "Planned Parenthood" clearly in the lower left corner. Wouldn't the argument be better not coming from the FOX who guards the hen house? That chart gave the fact as given by Planned Parenthood and none of you noticed it! Maybe LD was not completely honest having used this biased chart.

Peter, where else would you get the information?

One would think all those laws those states recently passed forbidding Sharia law would negate these kinds of laws, but Republicans don't see the irony.

You need to retake your course in the science of LOGIC.

@ Crackhead....... Interesting name.

What rights do women enjoy that men do not that are being taken away by Republicans through de-funding (Not having the taxpayers pay for their abortions)Planned Parenthood?

Things Planned Parenthood's 'Truth Team' Forgot to Mention
This was quoted by Jonathan Alter in a March 14 opinion piece posted on Bloomberg Opinion. But Congress already spends billions every year for women's health care, through Medicaid, Medicare and other programs. De-funding PPFA is about no longer coercing taxpayers to contribute to the nation's largest abortion chain.

CODE PINK interesting name & very misleading as code pink favors not killing babies in war. There is a severe wall between planned parenthood's money involving abortion & breast exam or prostate cancer, yet you brainwashed fools seem to think there is not BUT when the chamber says its not using foreign money in usa elections OF COURSE you brainless folks say of course the chamber would never do that,,,,,, typical teabagger speak

code pink favors not killing babies in war.

I favor not killing babies PERIOD! Pure sarcasm, I favor the war in Iraq and do not particularly like CODE PINK, thus you are correct, a very interesting name.

There is a severe wall between planned parenthood's money involving abortion & breast exam or prostate cancer.

If you speak this to be a fact ....... Show us the proof!

you brainwashed fools seem to think there is not

Opinion not based on facts.

when the chamber says its not using foreign money in usa elections

They have proven they are not, and it is NOT illegal to do so. But when the public sector unions claim to not use membership money for political purpose (That would be determined to be illegal by the SCOTUS) that becomes impossible, yet they still do it.

you brainless folks say of course the chamber would never do that,,,,,, typical teabagger speak

More opinion not based on facts.

hey code pink go check your water there is fluoride in it & there is a kenyan in the white house & there are commie in the senate & house go check quick before it gets worse,,,,,,,,,,,,,, you are completely insane

Pretty scary a second revolution. Can you not grasp that the debt of this nation is what is going to take our freedoms from us. I would like to know how old you are. Yes, abortion is legal in this country, and as such be upheld as such. But do you think that buy all the regulations that the government wants today is going to make you free? Think about that. And careless talk of a second revolution comes from a young mind, a rash mind, a dumb mind, or perhaps a dangerous one.

You are absolutely right in saying everyone has the right to choose including not to pay for some another person's abortion. Did that right to choose ever occur to you or are you that blinded by LD'd crap?

what about my right to not have tax payer dollars kill others in war? oh i see you fools think that ONLY you have the right to control every penny of the gov & the rest of us should just say hail hitler

I am 56 years old I have lived longer than most of you twitters have. If you want to cut government spending cut out the redundent departments in Washington, stop creating committees to analyze ever aspect of American life, we don't need to measure pickle stems to have a standard but we have a department in washington that gets paid tax dollars to do that everyday. Stop buying thousand dollar toilet seats (which of course is funding for black ops projects) The only reason we are in the middle east is the oil, if we had electric cars we wouldn't care about the oil, lets all pull off the blind folds, America has been doing whats in its on interest around the world from Vietnam to Libya. In America at least we have the freedom to agree or disagree on things. Stand by that right might be next to go. I may not agree with what some of you have written here, but I'll defend to my death your right to say it.

my right to not have tax payer dollars kill others in war?

Sorry Jason..... That is NOT a right! You have NO right in this country to hold back taxpayer dollars used legally (The AUMF-Iraq) in defense of the country, its people, and their interests!

you fools think that ONLY you have the right to control every penny of the gov

Please clarify whom you are talking about. What fools, and what right are they exercising to control EVERY penny the government receives?

the rest of us should just say hail hitler.

Stupid statement, Hitler has nothing to do with the use of taxpayer dollars in a legal and proper way to do what the main purpose of the federal government is, to defend the country!

Jason....... Enough with the "Progressive Socialism."

fluoride in your water is going to kill you

Does it not strike you and the other Concerned Men around here that you are, in fact, men, and that your authority on the issue of women's bits and our respective needs therein is less than credible because you are men? While you can claim to support Planned Parenthood (whatever "support" means), you are whistling Dixie out of the other side of your mouth because you know that it will not matter to you, as a man, because it is always a woman's problem. These are "women's issues" not "human issues" to you, because you lack the empathy to understand that women are human. It would never occur to you to withdraw public money from the organizations that test for prostate cancer because they provide vasectomy services (which are equally responsible for the prevention of the births of millions of children each year and is on the same spectrum with abortion), precisely because you know that birthing is really not your problem. Yet, you cannot see how callous that makes you.

What is really horrifying about this rider and the continued efforts to kill Planned Parenthood is that men like you are willing to see women die more often due to lack of access to the healthcare they need for the same reason you don't want to pay for abortions: when women are not breeding by choice or by medical causes, their lives are not worth that much to you. When they do breed, if it is not your child, you could not care less what becomes of them.

That is the reason this enrages many women. Even if they can't bring themselves to quite connect those dots because it's a horrifying thing to understand about men like you, they instinctively know that to do this is to devalue our lives by reducing our value to society strictly in reference to whether we are fertile and breeding. The logical outcome of this mentality is the deaths of all women who are not breeding, and all those who do breed who are not capable of bearing those children alone. This confines women to one choice: marry a man and have children. Otherwise we risk society disposing of us, or allowing us to die. If you don't understand the threat inherent there, then you do not really understand enough about Planned Parenthood to say you support what it does, because what it does is save lives like mine.

Is that because they free up money which does not have to be used for their other services so that have a fund of their own mone to fund abortions? If you disagree where do the get the abortions funds and I am asking for a specific answer not a LD run around.

abortion funds are donated,,,,,,,,,,,,, the origal post here is 100% correct , you teabaggers say planned parenthoods money is used for abortions BUT of course the chamber would never use foriegn money in usa elections

Please don't misunderstand me, HChase. I don't want to take federal money away from Planned Parenthood. In fact I'd like to see them get more of it, because I agree that they're doing important work. (Yes, even though I'm male.) I just don't think that, in reality, they can separate abortion dollars from dollars devoted to other services. But I disagree with the Hyde Amendment, as well.

fiscally responsible, hahahaha again , after the dems GAVE away everything FISCALLY to the teabaggers, you loons could not take yes for an answer & had to go after womens services. you idiots would have more credibility IF you would have said these fiscal thing while gwbush was taking us down this path BEFORE 9/11

One more thing that you don't know is there is donation made for the service that is not pay for. So get over yourself really.

In case it's not clear, I support what Planned Parenthood is doing, including giving women access to abortions. But it makes me uncomfortable to hear people say that since federal funding for abortions is prohibited, Planned Parenthood is using other money for that.

Really! Ok....... NOT really. What "other money" would they be using? Show us their revenue. PP is the largest provider of Abortions in the US. If the money means so little why the fuss. I will tell you why. BECAUSE OF THIS!

The Planned Parenthood Federation of America finally released its 2008-2009 Annual report detailing its financial figures. The report shows it received more government funding, which has translated into more abortions.

The nation’s largest abortion business released a factsheet in September showing the number of abortions it performed in 2008 increased to 324,008, a 6.1 percent increase over the 305,310 abortions it did in 2007.

The total government grants and contracts received by PPFA affiliates from government sources including state, local and federal governments, increased from $337 million to $350 million in 2009. The new report shows that figure has increased again to $363 million, though it does not specify what portion of the figure was received from each level of government.

Government grants accounted for 33% of Planned Parenthood’s income compared with just 28 percent for private donations. Income from its abortion centers generated another 37 percent.

by Abby Johnson | Washington, DC

Planned Parenthood has been misleading Congress and American taxpayers for many years. I know — I was part of the deception. For eight years I worked at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas, and for two of those years I was the clinic’s director.

Here are the ways Planned Parenthood is deceiving the public — and taxpayers — about what it does.

Deception No. 1: Taxpayer funds don’t go to pay for abortions. This defies common sense and basic logic; of course taxpayer money helps to finance abortions at Planned Parenthood clinics.

Planned Parenthood gets one-third of its annual budget from taxpayer funding, and it performed a total of more than 650,000 abortions in just 2008 and 2009 (the last year for which figures are available).

Think for a moment how much it costs to pay for someone to perform the abortion, other medical staff for support, their health benefits packages and malpractice insurance to cover all of them, and then multiply it by more than 650,000.

As clinic director, I saw how money received by Planned Parenthood affiliate clinics all went into one pot at the end of the day — it isn’t divvied up and directed to specific services.

And while Planned Parenthood says abortions make up just 3 percent of its services, I found they used an sleight of hand, unbundling family planning services so each patient shows anywhere from five to 20 “visits” per appointment (12 packs of birth control would show up as 12 individual visits). It does the opposite for abortion visits, bundling them together so each appointment shows as one visit. This skews the numbers. You have an overwhelming number of “visits” for family planning compared to abortion, even though you may have seen the same number of patients.

there is donation made for the service that is not pay for.

A donation for services rendered....... That is a good one! Who makes up the difference in cost, the taxpayer? It is time PP gets de-funded! This is NOT about rights, it is like public sector unions, about political pay-offs!

quick look behind you something is coming

the rights of women.

What rights do women have that men do not have. Because if it is for one specific group of people ..... IT IS NOT A RIGHT!

paranoia will destroy ya

LD is not a jouralist in the true sense of the definition. He is an entertainer making tons of money leading you down his path to prosperity. He sure has you fooled but of course he says what you want to hear.

peter i know you think hannity is a journalist , you think glen beckerhead is a jornalist & you think fox news actually does news. who has been fooled here?

100% original dude, & i stand on what I say,,,, idiot EVEN fox news(ask bret bair) has like 20 hours a day OF NOT NEWS SHOWS

lol @ annon thinks

@ Williams

peter i know you think hannity is a journalist , you think glen beckerhead is a jornalist & you think fox news actually does news. who has been fooled here?

Ok I will answer this........ YOU!

Did you get someones name wrong here?

100% original dude, & i stand on what I say,,,, idiot

Really..... who is the idiot here?

fluoride will get ya better watch out also the dems are trying to help people, & who knows those people might not agree with your completely insane paranoia