Planned Parenthood CEO’s False Mammogram Claim Exposed
By , Published March 30th, 2011

Contact: Kate Bryan, 323.454.3304, media@liveaction.org

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 30–A series of new undercover phone calls reveals that contrary to the claims of Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards and other supporters of the nation’s largest abortion chain, the organization does not provide mammograms for women.

In the tapes, a Live Action actor calls 30 Planned Parenthood clinics in 27 different states, inquiring about mammograms at Planned Parenthood. Every Planned Parenthood, without exception, tells her she will have to go elsewhere for a mammogram, and many clinics admit that no Planned Parenthood clinics provide this breast cancer screening procedure. “We don’t provide those services whatsoever,” admits a staffer at Planned Parenthood of Arizona. Planned Parenthood’s Comprehensive Health Center clinic in Overland Park, KS explains to the caller, “We actually don’t have a, um, mammogram machine, at our clinics.”

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.”

The calls were recorded by Live Action, the youth-led pro-life group responsible for recent undercover videos showing Planned Parenthood staff, from management on down, willing to aid and abet the sex trafficking of young girls at 7 clinics in 4 different states. Live Action president Lila Rose says the new recordings further confirm Planned Parenthood’s corruption: “Planned Parenthood is first and foremost an abortion business, but Planned Parenthood and its allies will say almost anything to try and cover up that fact and preserve its taxpayer funding. It’s not surprising that an organization found concealing statutory rape and helping child sex traffickers would misrepresent its own services so brazenly, playing on women’s fears in order to protect their tax dollars.”

Former Planned Parenthood Director Abby Johnson notes that the recordings demonstrate Planned Parenthood is not a comprehensive health care provider. “For so long PP has touted that they are a provider of mammogram services.  This is just one of the lies that PP uses to draw people into their clinics.  PP is not able to provide quality services on their own, so they are forced to lie to the public about services they don’t provide–and mammograms are just one of those services.”

Both Rose and Johnson call on Congress to revoke all taxpayer subsidies from Planned Parenthood. In the last reported year, Planned Parenthood received $363 million in government money.

The new undercover recordings are available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq0kBkUZbvQ

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  • modernmom

    It seems like the women’s pro-choice movement has forgotten that half of the babies aborted are women. What about their rights?
    I know the agony of unplanned pregnancy, but of all the women I have talked to, the ones who chose life, were far happier in the long-term than those who chose abortion. It is a decision that never leaves your mind, and can’t be taken back. Life is not about the moment, it is about eternity. Chose eternity.

    • Republicanistan

      How many raped women have you talked to and how happy were they to find out they were pregnant?

      • Me

        And how often do abortions occur b/c the woman was raped?

    • Kitcatlover

      1. A fetus does not have the right to a women’s body. It’s that simple. 
      2. Just because you’ve talked to certain women who regret having abortions does not mean that all women reget having abortions. 
      3. Also most of the women you’ve talked to who have had abortions are probably pro-life, so obviously they regret it. But there are plenty of other women who do not regret their decision. You do not have the right to infringe on their ability to make decisions about their body.
      4. If you want less women to abort their babies instead of pushing the moral argument that it’s wrong you should really start establishing charities that support women who are pregnant and cannot provide for their baby. 

      • Me

        1.  So an unborn baby doesn’t have the right to live in your demented mindset.

        2.  Lots of people don’t regret murdering people.  Doesn’t make them right.

        3.  So we don’t have the right to make murdering unborn babies illegal.

        4.  There already are plenty of charities out there if you would get out of your little bubble.

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  • Bannon

    More lies for superstitious simpletons.

    Go ahead. Call your local Planned Parenthood and schedule a free mammogram. Get off your fat fascist bottom and find out if you’re being used and lied to.

    PP PAYS FOR this essential health service for poor women. And LIVE ACTION knows they lie to you. They think you are stupid enough to fall for it without checking for yourself.

    After you confirm this vital service PP provides, please spend the next few days looking for ANOTHER organization in your community that does the same. You’re very lucky if you find one.

    And, in general, stop hating women. Please?

    • guest

      Wow, just because we disagree with PP doesn’t mean we hate women. I’m a woman! And PP will REFER you to someone else. They don’t actually provide the service. And as for them paying for it, you can’t get it paid for directly from the Komen Foundation and other organizations, you just have to be willing to check.

      • Republicanistan

        and your point is?

        • Me

          PP doesn’t provide mammograms themselves.  The money can always go to the mammogram providers themselves instead of going to Planned Parenthood.

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BMJIJ2TV3CDNU5TCDSBXN7S4NI MaryHolloway

    Planned Parenthood today releases the 840,000 breast exams each year…now unable to save women since lack of funding….(cheese with that whine?) Breast EXAMS are done with the hands, which as informed women, we are conducting routinely on our own breasts; HOWEVER, LET ME BE PERFECTLY CLEAR! Moveon.org accuses Komen of denying mammograms yet PP DOES NOT NOW NOR EVEN HAVE THE EQUIPMENT TO PERFORM SUCH A PROCEDURE……One little WORD “EXAM” exposes the WHOLE ROTTEN BARREL!!

    • Republicanistan

      PP provides the funding for those they refer to a radiologist for a mammogram. What part of that is not clear to you?

      • Me

        Then it’s a waste of taxpayer money to give to Planned Parenthood.  Just give the money directly to the place that does mammograms.  What part of that is not clear to you?

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  • DoTheResearch

    That’s funny…Here’s a brochure from last year advertising a Planned Parenthood FREE MAMMOGRAM clinic..
    http://www.sistasofaz.com/documents/FREEMAMO_1.22.10.pdf 
    So exactly what “False claim” is being made in that video?

  • Elaine Spencer

    This article deliberately twists what CEO Cecile Richards actually said. Yes, she mentioned mammograms but Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards did NOT state that Planned Parenthood provides mammograms!!! 
    Planned Parenthood EDUCATES women about breast care which includes mammograms.
    http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-topics/womens-health/breast-cancer-screenings-21189.htm
    “Planned Parenthood doctors and nurses teach patients about breast care,
    connect patients to resources to help them get vital biopsies,
    ultrasounds, and mammograms, and follow up to make sure patients are
    cared for with the attention they need and deserve.”

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  • Guest

    They spend $104,000,000 on fundraising and public policy…..and they’re quibbling over a paltry $350,000 in tax payer money.  Think of all the mammograms THAT could buy!

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/G3U2GIZSWLPZKLB2TJZ2BMWYFI David

    By the same reasoning, my insurance company does not provide knee replacements because they don’t have an operating room. How stupid! You people are without honor.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/G3U2GIZSWLPZKLB2TJZ2BMWYFI David

    If Steven Ertelt, the “author” of this ”expose,” were working for me at my newspaper as an investigative reporter, he’d be fired! The idiot called 30 Planned Parenthood centers when all he had to do was go to their website, type in a state or zip code, and the services offered by that Planned Parenthood Center would have automatically come up on his webpage. He’s a real Andrew Dumbbart!

  • Bobbiland

    Since abortions significantly increase the rate of breast cancer, and Planned Parenthood is the world’s largest abortion provider–does it EVER make sense for a
    breast cancer concern like SGK to give money to an outfit whose actions PROMOTE breast cancer?!?!?!?

  • kayaker

    This article is a lie & the video is just a product of clever editing and really not all that clever.  Here is the page from Planned Parenthood’s website concerning Breast Cancer Screenings:

    http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-topics/womens-health/breast-cancer-screenings-21189.htm

    It states the following:  ”Planned Parenthood doctors and nurses teach patients about breast care, connect patients to resources to help them get vital biopsies, ultrasounds, and mammograms, and follow up to make sure patients are cared for with the attention they need and deserve.”

    Nowhere does it state that they actually provide the mammogram.  They do breast exams and provide referrals for mammograms, etc.  There is nothing misleading about that.  Please check for yourself.

    • Republicanistan

      Classic example of the righties trying to make someone a liar when they are providing the resources for people to get mammograms, just because the don’t actually do the radiological procedure at their clinics.

      Anytime it takes more than one sentence to explain something they get a little confused.

      • Me

        Actually it’s a classic example of Marxists trying to make themselves sound honest when they really aren’t.

        Women will still be able to get mammograms if Planned Parenthood isn’t funded with taxpayer money.

    • Me

      In other words, it’s an inefficient waste of money and time, LOL.

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  • Anonymous

    Thank you so much for posting this!  I  had been looking for a succint evidence to share with my readers.  

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