The anti-abortion group Live Action has released another video that attempts to expose Planned Parenthood’s “lies.” While previous videos were populated with colorful fake pimps and prostitutes, this one focuses on a topic sure to capture the public’s attention: mammograms.
According to the Washington Post, the group settled on this salacious topic after Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards said on the Joy Behar Show that the organization provides mammograms. The group released this statement:
“Opponents of defunding Planned Parenthood have argued in Congress and elsewhere that the organization provides many vital health care services other than abortion, such as mammograms. Most prominently, Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards recently appeared on The Joy Behar Show to oppose the Pence Amendment to end Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer subsidies, claiming, ‘If this bill ever becomes law, millions of women in this country are gonna lose their healthcare access – not to abortion services – to basic family planning, you know, mammograms.'”
As shown in the video, the group secretly recorded phone conversations between a woman pretending to want a mammogram and Planned Parenthood employees at 30 clinics in 27 states. In every call, the woman is told she’ll need to go to another healthcare provider because the clinic doesn’t do mammograms.