{"id":201917,"date":"2019-05-15T11:24:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T16:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=201917"},"modified":"2019-05-14T11:16:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T16:16:05","slug":"amy-klobuchar-false-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/amy-klobuchar-false-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Klobuchar says Planned Parenthood does mammograms. That’s a lie."},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a Fox News town hall<\/a> on May 8th, Amy Klobuchar, one of 21 Democratic presidential candidates, repeated the false claim that Planned Parenthood<\/a> provides mammograms, a claim so old and so often debunked that many have stopped repeating it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn their lifetime, one in five women go there,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd most of them are going there for contraception, birth control, they\u2019re going there for mammograms, they\u2019re going there for cancer screenings, and yet over and over again, this president has tried to cut that funding for Planned Parenthood,\u201d she said, referring to President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

READ: Extreme: Where current Democratic presidential candidates stand on abortion<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The subject came up when she was criticizing the Trump administration\u2019s\u00a0Department of Health and Human Services rule<\/a>, which cuts funding to organizations who do not have a \u201cclear financial and physical separation between Title X funded projects and programs or facilities where abortion is a method of family planning.\u201d The rule could strip Planned Parenthood of up to $60 million annually<\/a> in Title X funding. The rule is not currently in effect, as it was enjoined by a judge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a subsequent tweet<\/a>, Klobuchar repeated classic pro-abortion messaging, without correcting her error about mammograms. \u201cHealth care decisions should be between patients and their doctors,” she wrote. “Period. #KlobucharTownHall.\u201d But plenty of people weren’t having it.<\/p>\n

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@amyklobuchar<\/a> Planned Parenthood doesn’t provide mammograms, Amy. Google it. #KlobucharTownHall<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Josey Wales???? (@clint4usa) May 8, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n