Susan B. Anthony List, Alliance Defense Fund push investigation of Planned Parenthood

[ehrnst]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/02/07/146544591/planned-parenthood-remains-in-cross-hairs

"A 23-page memo from the Susan B. Anthony List and the Alliance Defense Fund outlines what those groups' leaders say are a series of funding irregularities uncovered in various state and federal audits of Planned Parenthood affiliates.

"These problems reveal a pattern of gross financial mismanagement," said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of SBA List.

Steven Aden, the Alliance Defense Fund's senior counsel, added, "The 10 state audits amounted to nearly 8 million dollars in waste, abuse and potential fraud."

Planned Parenthood, however, brushed off the accusations. "This document is part of a campaign by conservative groups seeking to outlaw access to reproductive health care and uses recycled or overstated allegations," the organization said in a statement."

[eShirl]

1. I *really* resent them using Susan B. Anthony's name to attack women's health care.

how dare they

[ehrnst]

2. They love co-opting the language of progressives

"Women are being exploited and used by men when they have abortions, and let the man off the hook."

"I support the rights of unborn women."

"Women deserve better"

And of course - taking the name of Susan B. Anthony, because of one statement against abortion in an unsigned opinion piece in her newspaper.

[MisterP]

4. that's one of the big things that came after like 1975: right-wing mirroring

rather than just barking orders even more loudly, they met Public Citizen with PR academies; they adopted Winter Soldier and Sanctuary techniques to bring us "Sandinista antisemitism" and Kuwaiti incubator babies; they responded to the CIA investigations with the hilarious "Mitrokhin Archive"

[MisterP]

5. also, fake debunking ("the REAL Levin video," "Liz Fowler isn't an insurer," the Misurasata)

[DCKit]

3. No kidding, but they have no shame, so what's to be done? nt