But this time it's all women, though especially minority and poor women (who'd have guessed?). Links below the fold.
In yet another of the incessant attacks by the right on Planned Parenthood--because, you know, women don't need no stinkin' right to sex education, birth control, cancer screening, or abortion (a legal medical procedure, I'll remind them)--Andrew Breitbart is supporting a video (made by Lila Rose, an anti-woman, anti-abortion wacko) that supposedly reveals a Planned Parenthood employee aiding a child sex trafficker. The video is apparently heavily edited. Never mind the fact that, after visits to several Planned Parenthood clinics by men posing pimps who engaged in conversation about sex trafficking, Planned Parenthood alerted federal authorities to the possibility of an underage sex operation.
If you'd like more on Andrew Breitbart's particular brand of sleaze, I'll refer you to the Media Matters excellent Refresher Course on Andrew Breitbart's Dishonest Tactics.
I'd also like to remind the conservative nutjobs attacking Planned Parenthood and other places where women go to get safe, affordable health care what happens when these services are not accessible. Anyone remember the sicko who was just caught in Pennsylvania, running an illegal abortion clinic? Women died there. I can't blame any person or persons for the fact that the supposed "doctor" was a one-man horror show, but I can--and will--blame the conservative movement against women for the climate that allowed that man to profit from butchering women. Never should a woman have to make the decision to have a medical procedure at the hands of someone unqualified, at the hands of someone preying on them because they are poor or minority. NEVER.
Planned Parenthood is a necessary resource for women everywhere, but the anti-woman conservative movement would have their clinics close their doors to the women who need their services the most. I'm not particularly down with that (actually, I'm pretty fucking pissed off about it, but somehow managed to get through this diary without dropping one f-bo...whoops). You?
CREDO has more information and, of course, a petition. Not much, but it's a start. Let's nip this bit of misinformation in the bud.