Planned Parenthood's 'Project McCain'

McCain's response is what you would expect from him.

If McCain gets elected you're going to hear this answer at the podium every single day.

"I don't know enough about that to give you an answer."

Does that sound like a President we already know?

This guy is no smarter than Bush and at 72 he's not going to get any smarter.

This gaffe doesn't begin to cover the damage McCain will do to women's reproductive health, should he be elected.

We should expect McSame to continue Bush policies regarding birth control, which the Bushites want to BAN now! We are well beyond the issue of whether Health Insurance should cover both Viagra and Birth Control. The Bush administration is proposing to reclassify most Birth control as abortifacients. That's right! NO pill.

I have been dying for this subject to come up. While I wouldn't mind if insurance companies decided to offer birth control on the list.....I in NO way what so ever put Viagra on the same par as EQUAL with birth control.

Viagra is so a man can have an equal opportunity to have SEX just like woman can have.

Men don't get free condoms so they can have birth control....so woman are one up on the boys!

It's a stupid angle to go after McCain on. Go after the Insurance companies. Good luck to ya!

www.youtube.com/YouTube - Obama gaffe

I meant to add this to my letter, sorry.

This site should add this right beside McCain's flub, no one is infallible ha!

"The spot uses recent footage of McCain struggling to express his opinion when asked what he thought of some health care companies' decision to cover Viagra, but not birth control."

Viagra treats a medical condition, a breakdown in the body. Fertility is not a health hazard or disease. It is the way women are made. To treat normal fertility with powerful drugs is not practicing good medicine. If a physician really wanted the best for his patient he/she would help the woman understand how her body works, and then she can decide to not have sex on the five days a month she is fertile. That is something everyone can live with; no one is subjected to harmful drugs, painful and debilitating procedures and pollutants in our water systems.

Ovulation Test Strips work by allowing you to detect your "LH Surge" - the sudden, brief increase in luteinizing hormone present in your urine just before you ovulate. Because fertilization of your egg can only occur within 24 hours after ovulation, predicting ovulation is the key to pinpointing your window of fertility. These are cheap at about a dollar a strip and no one has ever died from having to skip sex for 5 days,

To teach a women how her fertitlity works is good medical treatment and the woman's body is protected and kept healthy until that time when she decides to have a child.

Planned Barrenhood will not like this suggestion because it produces no cash for them.

The point of the commercial misses the point - it is a PRIVATE health plan they are talking about. It is not PP's decision, nor the federal gov'ts decision to dictate which drugs are covered under a PRIVATE health plan.

If I was running the healthplan, I know as an employeer, I would not be covering woody pillls in my plan.

What Obama ought to be looking at about PP is this:

http://hvcljournal.typepad.com/lifenet/2008/06/students-for-life-of-america-sfla-vs-planned-parenthood.html

Many insurance compainies already pay nearly 100% of birthcontrol for women. Some may cover 100%. Men are not covered for birth control. Where's the outrage ha.

John McCain is pro-life why would he care what Americas biggest baby killing machine thinks.
Planned Parenthood is a terrible organization that has killed more babies in the womb than many World Wars.
Life is precious, talk is cheap.Obama is for abortion, partial birth abortion and infanticide.
Obama be proud of your Plannede Parenthood endorsement it speaks to who you are. Jerry White, Springfield, IL

Despite the fact that I am pro-Obama and pro-choice, I do agree that the time McCain took to answer is not something worth criticizing. I'd rather a candidate actually *think* about an issue, regardless if s/he agrees with me or not, then just spit out some token answer.
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That aside, natural family planning is not a reliable method of birth control in that not every woman has the coveted 28 day cycle. Many women have difficult cycles and are unable to reliably predict when they are fertile and when they aren't.
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Also, I'd be interested to see anyone who considers Obama in favor of "infanticide" be told that their unborn infant has a seriously life complicating malformation or trisomy and see what they would do. There truly are some fates worth than death. If a child is apt to be born into this world and have no real quality of life, a family should be able to let their baby go if they feel that is the right decision for them. THIS is what Obama wants to protect--this ability to decide what is best for every woman and family. Preserving life at any cost and any quality level is both selfish and cruel. We allow our own pets to die a dignified death when they're suffering and ill, yet families are judged when they allow their child to be born early when that child is certain to live a life rarely removed from a hospital setting or unable to even grasp what happiness is.
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If you aren't going to help that woman raise her child every day and care for him/her, then I cannot understand how you think you can dictate how she chooses to live her life.

Anna, I have a daughter with full trisomy 18, a condition that Planned Parenthood references as "incompatible with life" and rife with "severe defects". She was born at home, and aside from a nasty respiratory bug when she was 1 1/2, has never been hospitalized. She is happy, healthy, and a joy to all who know her. She is full of laughter and life, and has never experienced a moment of frustration or anger in her life. Her older brother and sister completely adore her, as do their friends. She will be 8 next week. Please do not presume to speak for parents of children with challenges. We know our own truth.

You can only imagine my horror when she was a few months old and I was opening the mail while nursing her, and got something in the mail from Planned Parenthood looking for money, and in it they talked about women being "forced" to carry to term babies with Trisomy 18 who have no hope for survival, when the mothers face risks to their health by carrying to term. Um, like what? There are NO medical risks to the mother attributable to T18. What they are alluding to are risks associated with pregnancy in general. Since there is never a guarantee of a healthy child anyway, it's just silly to behave as if pregnancy is so risky that women should abort. These babies have NO hope for survival if they aren't given a chance. And please don't give me the argument that some people can't handle it. NO ONE is prepared to handle it. We fall in love with our babies, every one of us, and then we figure it out. Trust me, my 10 and 13 year olds, who are chromosomally normal and generally good kids, are still much more challenging and exhausting than the one with "special needs".