BPAS "Please ask your MP to stand up for Northern Irish women"

As you know, abortion is currently illegal in Northern Ireland except in the most extreme circumstances, and as a result hundreds of women are forced to travel to England every year to end a pregnancy they feel unable to continue. Despite being UK citizens and UK taxpayers, the government has refused to provide NHS-funded abortion care for NI women, and therefore they must personally meet the cost of not just their travel but also the treatment they need.  But today, MPs have tabled an amendment to the Queen’s Speech to allow NI women access to NHS-funded abortion care in England – and we need your MP to join the fight.  Tell your MP to support calls for Jeremy Hunt MP to reverse the current policy. You can email here – it takes just 1 minute and all you need is your postcode. Hundreds of Northern Irish women are forced to travel for abortion care, at a huge personal and emotional cost, every year. Tell your MP to do all they can to ensure that, until women are able to access the care they need in NI, they can access NHS-funded abortion care in England. Thank you for your support, The bpas team

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Whatever you think of Planned Parenthood, this is a terrible and dishonest chart - Vox

On Tuesday morning, Congress held a hearing on Planned Parenthood, as conservative Republicans try to build the case for defunding the organization after a pro-life group released a series of "sting" videos critical of the organization. During the hearing, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) showed this chart to make the point about Planned Parenthood's activities:

This @AUL chart was just projected on-screen by @jasoninthehouse in #PPAccountability hearing http://t.co/Nc6W57HDKp pic.twitter.com/DIh31T9I76

— Bound4LIFE (@Bound4LIFE) September 29, 2015

This is not how charts work! Since 935,573 is a larger number than 327,653, the pink line should be above the red line. Here's what you get if you chart the numbers accurately...

Read the full exposé here: Whatever you think of Planned Parenthood, this is a terrible and dishonest chart - Vox

Undercover Planned Parenthood Videos Were Altered, Analysis Finds - The New York Times

WASHINGTON — Planned Parenthood on Thursday gave congressional leaders and a committee that is investigating allegations of criminality at its clinics an analysis it commissioned concluding that “manipulation” of undercover videos by abortion opponents make those recordings unreliable for any official inquiry.

"A thorough review of these videos in consultation with qualified experts found that they do not present a complete or accurate record of the events they purport to depict," said the analysis of a private research company...

Read the full report: Undercover Planned Parenthood Videos Were Altered, Analysis Finds - The New York Times.

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Of course, this won't stop the hysterical anti-abortion lobby, whose entire strategy is based on lies, emotion and bullying, rather than science. It's bad enough that even medically necessary abortions can't be covered by State funds, because bigotry. The ultimate aim of the campaign is in any case to deny reproductive health care to the poor, especially poor women.

Anti-Abortion Group Admits to Falsifying Latest Video

Anti-abortion extremists who are releasing heavily edited, deceptive videos about Planned Parenthood have acknowledged that their latest video included false and misleading information. They posted a clarification to their YouTube page yesterday that an image they suggested was from an abortion was actually a photo of a stillborn fetus...

Read the full exposé here: Anti-Abortion Group Admits to Falsifying Latest Video

Encyclopedia of American Loons: #1292: Keith Ablow

Dr. Keith Ablow is a psychiatrist, author, and media personality, who tends to appear on such intellectually enlightening shows as The Tyra Banks Show and Glenn Beck as an expert on psychoanalysis. He even writes for Fox News’ blog devoted to health matters, where he tends to make claims that go against all evidence when it serves a particular political point, and runs a self-empowerment community based around his book Living the Truth. Though his credentials are fine, his psychiatric analyses of famous individuals or talk-show guests on the basis of thirty-second interviews or news headlines have not been recognized as methodologically sound by any psychiatrist with any integrity...

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