http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/10/18/first-links-10-18-12/ A First Things Blog Sat, 25 May 2013 03:12:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/10/18/first-links-10-18-12/comment-page-1/#comment-77325 Bret Lythgoe Sat, 20 Oct 2012 12:22:00 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=49472#comment-77325 David Nickol: certainly PP deserves credit for providing these much needed services. And if it did provide just these things, I can’t imagine anyone would do anything except praise it profoundly. But it doesn’t. It also provides abortions, which indisputably end human lives. I find it telling that Pres. Obama, (who I think is admirable in some ways) never mentioned the abortion function in the second debate. If this is such a popular “service” for women, why not mention it, along with mamograms, etc.?

]]> http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/10/18/first-links-10-18-12/comment-page-1/#comment-77185 David Nickol Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:36:38 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=49472#comment-77185 It is common knowledge among those who pay attention to the pro-life campaign against Planned Parenthood that it does Pap tests (which screen for cervical cancer) and clinical breast exams, but refers clients to other medical facilities for mammograms. This information is right on their web site. If one takes Obama to have said Planned Parenthood routinely does mammograms in house, then he spoke inaccurately. His point, however, that Planned Parenthood provides important services for women other than contraceptives is correct. Pap tests and clinical breast exams are not trivial screening methods in the fight against cancer in women.

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