Snopes defends planned parenthood

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snopes is showing its bias

https://www.dailywire.com/news/30346/supposedly-objective-snopes-planned-parenthood-paul-bois
For some unbeknownst reason, Snopes felt it necessary to label an article out of the satirical site Babylon Bee as “False,” as if people clicking on their articles could not decipher that for themselves.

The hilarious piece, titled “Planned Parenthood Defends Bill Cosby: ‘Sexual Assault Is Only 3% Of What He Does,’” brilliantly satirizes Planned Parenthood’s oft-repeated talking point that abortion is only 3% of their services.
snopes used a pie chart the wash post gave three pinocchios to, what do we have a battle of the fact checkers?
The supposedly unbiased site goes an extra step further by providing a Planned Parenthood pie chart of their purported 2016 division of services. LifeNews notes that Snopes failed to mention that the “Washington Post Fact Checker gave that statistic ‘Three Pinocchios.’”
 
Planned parenthood only has 3% of the business in abortions. Yes, it’s a sin for a baby to die and it’s also a sin to allow women to suffer. Breast Cancer, uterine Cancer. Womens healthcare is real. What happens to these women when they dont have access to these services. Praying that we find some way through these horrible choices. God loves all. Poverty is so sad and troubling, health care is not free. Praying for guidance.
 
i guess the people who work for Snopes are not the brightest bulbs in the pack!
 
When Snopes started out, they were just about debunking urban legends and it was fun to read.

But if the subject is anything political, the bias starts to leak through.

But at least now I know that Mikey from Life cereal commercials did NOT in fact, die from eating Pop Rocks with soda.
 
What happens to these women when they dont have access to these services.
most have access to other facilities where they can get the needed services
According to the Congressional Research Service, nearly two-thirds of U.S. counties have a federally qualified health center and 13 percent have a Planned Parenthood clinic, and 12 percent of all counties have both. (wash post)
planned parenthood only has 3% of the business in abortions.
how do you know that it is only 3% of its business?
While each service is listed separately, many clients received multiple services. A woman may get a pregnancy test, birth control and a pap smear, but she would be counted three times, once for each service, in the annual report.
the 3% is a manipulated number.
we don’t know how many pregnant women Planned Parenthood serves every year or how many they refer to private providers for prenatal care, because the organization does not report that information.
 
It amazes me that people still have no idea about what women do when they live in poverty. Single mothers, divorced mothers. I have seen planned parenthood clinics do so much good. Abortion rate has dropped, women are getting healthier,. Poverty has so many hardships. Go to a clinic and watch, see the women that are served more for their physical health. The church cannot help everyone. Funds are not limitless. As much as I do not want abortion, I do not want women to continue to suffer, physical needs are not met. Praying for the poor, the immigrants. God Bless
 
I’ve seen people take the Onion seriously, the Babylon Bee is even less well known. A lot of people are unable to suss out satire, and if it’s well executed satire it’s even more difficult to do so. This article here presumes that “everyone knows it’s satire!” which is objectively untrue, making this at best an opinion piece as opposed to an news article. Below you will find a link to a blog that collects examples of people on social media not understanding that an article is satire.

http://literallyunbelievable.org/

If the function of the site is to point out that a news article that is being presented as true is false, even if it is satirical, than getting offended that it is performing it’s function is looking for things to get mad about.

Isn’t there enough actual things to get mad about? Shouldn’t you be focused on real problems instead as opposed to non-problems manufactured by a site for clicks and attention that labels itself as a site for conservatives in their very own bylines? By spreading these links to stories that are designed to offend, all that is accomplished is that you are generating hits and therefore potential ad revenue for a website that makes money off of angry internet people.
 
There are alternatives in community health centers and other providers who do not provide abortions.
 
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Wait. Are you suggesting that in order to provide poor women access to cancer screening, the cost is just a few sacrificed babies? What is this, a Brothers Grimm story?

It is not a sin for a baby to die. It is a sin to murder babies. Murdering babies is not some tradeoff for healthy youthful women.
 
Non profit does not mean it’s a charity.

Most universities are non profit but that doesn’t mean they don’t make money hand over fist.

This is what I found when I googled.

Planned Parenthood/Income
229.9 million USD
2011
Image result for how much money does planned parenthood make

Makes me want to be a non profit!
 
how do you know that it is only 3% of its business?
It’s based on how medical coding is done. Every procedure done gets coded and recorded. If you had an STDs test and then received treatment that is 2 procedures.
the 3% is a manipulated number.
Having worked on software that among other things had to work with ICD coding I disagree. I do think this method of counting probably doesnt align with how the general public might think it would work. But it’s a standard way of counting. With additional info I think an average person could understand it.
 
Has anyone looked at the post on Snopes?

Did Planned Parenthood Defend Bill Cosby?​

Reports that the nonprofit organization defended the comedian after his felony sexual assault conviction stemmed from a Christian-themed satire site.

CLAIM​

Planned Parenthood issued a statement in defense of Bill Cosby after the comedian was convicted of felony sexual assault.

RATING​

FALSE

Origin​

On 26 April 2018, comedian Bill Cosby was found guilty on three counts of aggravated indecent assault.

Shortly thereafter, the satirical web site Babylon Bee published an article claiming that Planned Parenthood had issued a statement in defense of the former sitcom star, arguing that sexual assault only made up a small percentage of Cosby’s actions
[…]
The Babylon Bee is an entertainment web site with long history of publishing satirical articles. In this case, the web site appears to be spoofing an often-quoted statistic about the nonprofit organization; although many people may equate it with abortion, Planned Parenthood’s annual report states that these procedures only make up 3 percent of the medical services that they provide
[…]
Other satirical articles put out by the Babylon Bee include stories that playing Christmas music before Thanksgiving is now a federal crime; the California Christians must now register Bibles as assault weapons; and that during Hurricane Harvey, televangelist Joel Osteen sailed his luxury yacht through Houston handing out copies of his book.
From reading the comments in this thread one would think that Snoped didn’t recognize the source as a satirical site. But from reading the article on Post they plainly state it is satirical. I get this was made for other people that do not recognize the source as satire and entertainment.
 
Women dont have these options. You ignore the facts of womens health. Then you really dont care about the children that die or are born into this world with horrible birth defects because of poor care. You must have options in place before pushing to close planned parenthood. Murder you say, then we are all responsible for the children who are dying, the women who are dying. The poor are the most giving people, because they understand what it’s like to have nothing, they know sorrow and they have compassion. Yet we as a world ignore that pain. Abortion is wrong, but so are all of us for allowing people to suffer. We are a people that have lost are humanity, we have lost our Christ like caring.
 
I never said it was a charity. It’s a non-profit.

I think you may be confusing non-profit with non-for-profit.
 
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