I heard that on the news this morning and was going to start a thread on it. You beat me to it. What he SAID was that 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood did was abortions. When it was proven to him that it was exactly opposite of what he said, and that 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is OTHER than abortions - things like pap smears and breast exams, his office came out with this disclaimer.
Why couldn't they just use plain English, and said "He intentionally LIED"??!!
http://www.npr.org/2011/04/13/...bortion-foes-see-redJust last Friday, for example, Republican Sen. John Kyl of Arizona said on the Senate floor that "if you want an abortion, you go to Planned Parenthood. And that's well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does."
In fact, just the opposite is true; well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is NOT abortion. Kyl's office later said his speech "wasn't intended to be a factual statement," which, among other things, got him ridiculed by both Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
"Last year we provided nearly 1 million pap smears, 830,000 breast exams, nearly 4 million tests and treatments for [sexually transmitted diseases], including HIV," she said.
In fact, Richards notes, 1 in 5 women in the United States has visited a Planned Parenthood clinic. For many women, going to Planned Parenthood is about more than just getting birth control. "For more than half our patients, Planned Parenthood is the only nurse or doctor they will see all year," she says.