Fresh from her victory of using the Montgomery County Council to drive a wedge between needy women and the pro-life pregnancy centers, Duchy Tractenberg seems to be setting the stage to drive county tax revenues to foisting pro-abortion "reproductive health services" on these same women. The February 10th issue of the Gazette reports on a report released by the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services in Washington, D.C.
This report claims that - wait a minute; I'm going to quote the Gazette article so you can get a flavor of the bias of this Washington-Post-owned publication, but I'll make my own emphasis. Here goes. "The report, released Jan. 31, found that in 2006 about half of the county's 201,690 women needed contraceptive services and supplies, and of those, more than 30,0000 women and teens in Montgomery County were in need of publicly supported contraceptive services and supplies based on their income and age....Reproductive health services, or contraceptive services, include STD testing, regular gynecologic visits, cancer screenings and family planning services, including abortions, Trachtenberg said."
Let's digest this. We're being asked to believe that half of Montgomery County's female population wants contraception and/or abortion. Duchy, if you're reading this, please tidy up your vocabulary. "Contraceptive services" do not include cancer screenings. Please differentiate more carefully, especially if you're going to attempt to legislate using such sloppy terminology.
I also dispute the use of the word "need" in terms of abortion. No woman "needs" abortion any more than she "needs" rape, assault or any other violence to her person, for indeed abortion is violence against women.
This cockamany theory is based upon - bet you can't guess! - a survey of the county's six publicly-supported "women's health clinics". The solution - to "serve" approximately 100,000 women is to open at least 14 more of these centers, to make up the 20 that Trachenberg thinks is a minimum requirement.
As you can see from the article, the report was developed by a task force on which sits Tractenberg's husband, Alan Trachenberg, along with medical "experts" and representatives from NARAL and Planned Parenthood. Notice that there is no representation from that other group that truly does serve needy women. I speak of the pro-life pregnancy centers - the four privately-funded centers that Tractenberg succeeded in partially stifling. Thus, a "task force" of pro-abortion people and even those in the abortion business (such as Planned Parenthood) is the sole source for a report that will be used to divert more public funds to anti-life enterprises? Boys and girls! Can we all say, out loud, "CONFLICT OF INTEREST"?
So there you have it. Duchy et al work to hamper the pro-life centers. Then she paves the way to open more abortion business in the county. I suppose she feels she has to, since elections are just around the corner, and that pro-abort PAC money is probably looking very tempting right now!
Perhaps, though, I'm getting worked up for nothing. Tractenberg did say that she'll address this when the county's financial situation improves. If the Messiah Most Miserable succeeds in tanking out the US economy, all this may well be moot.
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