{"id":15143,"date":"2012-04-24T20:34:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T00:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.www.liveactionnews.org\/?p=15143"},"modified":"2013-04-03T01:10:44","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T05:10:44","slug":"the-president-and-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/the-president-and-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"The President and Planned Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last month, President Obama released a video<\/a> in which he applauded Planned Parenthood and vowed his continued support of the organization. In this video, he expressed his belief that Planned Parenthood promotes the health of women:<\/p>\n

So when some professional politicians casually say that they\u2019ll get rid of Planned Parenthood, don\u2019t forget what they\u2019re really talking about: eliminating the funding for preventive care that millions of women rely on and leaving them to fend for themselves. That\u2019s why last year when Republicans in Congress threatened to shut down the government unless we stopped funding Planned Parenthood, I had a simple answer: \u201cno.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He praised them for being \u201ca mission that stands above politics,\u201d and he promised to never stop fighting for them.<\/p>\n

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Fast-forward from last month\u2019s video announcement to last Friday\u2019s employment announcement, which further tied the president to Planned Parenthood. Tait Sye, once a media director for Planned Parenthood, has now joined the Department of Health and Human Services as the deputy assistant secretary for public affairs.<\/p>\n

The American Center for Law and Justice spoke of the significance<\/a> of the decision: \u201cNormally, an appointment to a deputy assistant to anything in our federal bureaucracy is hardly worth a mention. But this personnel choice is yet another indication of the tight relationship between the president and Planned Parenthood.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Obama administration and HHS have demonstrated their unrelenting bias in favor of the abortion industry throughout the healthcare debate and in the way in which the law is being developed,\u201d stated<\/a> Charmaine Yoest, president of the Americans United for Life.<\/p>\n

While a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood, Sye spoke of his opinion<\/a> concerning the provision of birth control: “Birth control is basic healthcare and women should have access to birth control, no matter where they work[.] … It should not be left up to a boss’s personal beliefs whether his employees should be allowed birth control coverage[.]”<\/p>\n

What does this mean<\/a> for our politics in the months and years ahead if Obama stays in office?<\/p>\n

For Tait Sye and Planned Parenthood, when it comes down to a choice between religious conscience rights and a government mandate to coerce conscience, the government wins. When it\u2019s a choice between Planned Parenthood and the First Amendment, Planned Parenthood prevails. … Given the enormous influence that Planned Parenthood continues to wield with HHS, including this latest shift in personnel, HHS might as well rename itself, for it\u2019s fast becoming: the U.S. Department of Planned Parenthood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Do we want the agenda of Planned Parenthood to become America\u2019s agenda? This is where the Obama administration would like to take us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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