-By Warner Todd Huston
One-time disgraced Miss America, actress Vanessa Williams, asked Miss Tennessee about her thoughts on the move in Congress to defund Planned Parenthood.
“Some legislators,” Williams asked Miss Tennessee, “are threatening to shut down the government over federal contributions to Planned Parenthood, even though no federal funds can be used for abortions. Should Planned Parenthood funding be cut off?”
Sadly, Hannah Robison replied with what seemed like a paid ad for Planned Parenthood, one filled with several lies and inaccuracies.
“I don’t think Planned Parenthood funding should be cut off,” Robinson said. “The $500 million that gets given to Planned Parenthood every single year goes to female care. It goes for scanning for cancer, it goes for mammograms. And if we don’t give that funding to Planned Parenthood, those women will be out of health care for reproductive causes.”
All of this is, of course, untrue. Planned Parenthood offers comparatively little by way of “health care” for women while the largest amount of its funding goes to its abortion mill services. Further, it doesn’t offer any mammogram services at all.
It is simply a fact that the notorious abortion mill operator that has recently been shown to be selling to scientific research facilities the organs and parts of babies born alive does not offer mammogram services, a fact even the left-wing Washington Post proved out.
But even the lie that PP delivers mammogram services aside, Miss Tennessee was wrong about what the defunders in Congress have been proposing.
Robinson claimed that without the funding going to PP, women would be losing “healthcare” services. This is simply untrue. Those who have proposed defunding PP did not simply propose that the spending be stopped. They proposed that it be redirected to other service providers. So, in actuality, no health care services at all would be lost for women.
As Kentucky Senator Rand Paul noted, “We have 9,000 community health centers that do everything that Planned Parenthood does, but they don’t get into abortions.”
Sadly, Miss Tennessee seemed to have no idea what she was talking about. She is either very stupid or maybe she did know what she was talking about and her goal was less to inform and tell the truth and more to push Planned Parenthood’s propaganda.
Finally, it is noteworthy that Singer and actress Williams is back with the Miss America pageant. Williams herself found infamy in 1984 with the nude lesbian photo scandal that forced her to turn in her Miss America crown. Williams was the first African American crowned Miss America but lost her title when nude photos emerged showing her in multiple lesbian sex poses. Williams did not disclose to the pageant that she had posed for the photos and when they emerged after her momentous win she was forced to resign her title.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing news, opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that wrote articles on U.S. history for several American history magazines. Huston is a featured writer for Andrew Breitbart’s Breitbart News, and he appears on such sites as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, Wizbang.com, and many, many others. Huston has also appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN, and many local TV shows as well as numerous talk radio shows throughout the country.
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