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True or False? Obama Claims Bush Opposed Cutting Funds to Planned Parenthood

Oct. 16, 2012 10:29pm Billy Hallowell

During tonight’s debate, President Barack Obama attempted to differentiate between Republican candidate Mitt Romney and former President George W. Bush. Among his claims, Obama said that Bush opposed cutting funds to Planned Parenthood, while Romney is calling for such funding restrictions.

The situation, though, is more complicated that Obama framed it. On the international front, Bush not only supported cuts to the controversial organization, but he actually took action — twice — to place restrictions on federal funds going to Planned Parenthood. LifeNews reports:

“Bush didn’t propose turning Medicare into voucher,or defund Planned Parenthood. Romney’s gone to more extreme place,” Obama claimed.

However, President George W. Bush during his first days in office, cut taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood.

In 2001, Bush issued a memo ensuring that the Mexico City Policy prohibited the USAID agency from funding pro-abortion groups. The pro-life Mexico City Policy, first instituted during the Reagan administration, prohibits the federal government from giving taxpayer funds to international organizations that perform or promote abortions in other countries, including the International Planned Parenthood Federation.

Not only did Bush initially cut Planned Parenthood funding immediately after entering the White House, he cut it again in 2003 — issuing a memorandum to the State Department expanding his Mexico City Policy.

While domestic programs covered by the organization weren’t the focus of Bush’s policies, on an international front, he did, indeed, make cuts to Planned Parenthood. In fact, the former president’s funding restrictions impacted the International Planned Parenthood Federation, which the American branch of the organization helped to found.

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GringoBushPilot
Posted on October 18, 2012 at 7:49am
Absolutely no reason to cut support to Planned Parenthood – or in fact cut taxes at all. Simply tax every church in the USA. Catholic, Mormon, Islam, Christian Fundamentalists, Protestants. Jewish Synagogues, Scientology, including all cults and covens of witches. Of course I would exempt David Copperfield and Chris Angel magic shows. They admit their doing illusions.
Time to put a stop to these sucker shows and modern day tent revivals avoiding taxation because of some silly magical belief delusions. Pay up you faerie believers. Game’s up kiddies.

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BannedByHuffpo
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 7:18pm
Tonight, President Barack Obama told America, “There are millions of women all across the country who rely on Planned Parenthood for mammograms.”

False:

Planned Parenthood itself has admitted that it does not perform mammograms for women — something the Komen for the Cure breast cancer charity confirmed last year.

LifeNews.com and pro-life blogger Jill Stanek followed up with phone calls to various Planned Parenthood centers and confirmed they do not do mammograms.

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limerickmaster
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 6:11pm
My folks taught me never to whine,
To own up to faults that are mine;
But when shove comes to push
Obama blames Bush—
The trait of a man with no spine.

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Conservative Democrat
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 11:50am
Yeah, Planned Parenthood………Honey Bo Bo supports Obama….Nuff said!

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Bohump
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 9:37am
Blame it On Bush, .. You Blame him for Everthing that’s happen in the World to Date anyway !

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PeteOH
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 8:47am
I miss W!!!

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carl_in_ohio
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 4:13am
I wish the President would stop referring to former President Bush.

President Obama should run on his own record and achievements. Its been four years. Show us what YOU’ve done…stop making excuses by blaming someone else.
you’re the President…be a leader. stop being a victim.

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- RightUnite
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 6:33am
  Well, when you can’t run on your own record, you have to run on something!! ;-)
  
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- borismolly
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 6:53am
  Candy Crowley chose the question that asked Romney to compare himself to Bush. It was a waste of time and took away from asking a relevant question.
  
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- rickc34
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 11:23am
  Bush was 100 times the President that Obama is, Obama is clueless .
  
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- mtcountrygrl
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:33pm
  Yeah it’s like a 40 year old blaming his loser life on his parents, at some point you have to own it!
  
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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 2:36am
I’m all for some stater funding for some outfit that could do what it is that PP claims that it is supposed to be doing.. And that ain’t PP. PP can come out of the closet and take all the abortion referrals it wants on their own dime. PP is stranding directly in the spot where a responsible pregnancy and women’s health organization of legitimacy should be standing.
That’s the real crime of PP- they stand in the way and in the path, and we are paying them to do it.
PP is like most liberal organizations. They profit from their failure. They remind me of the Corporate jet fat cats and greedy bankers obama is always talking about. Matter of fact FAR more than they.

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Tretka
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 2:03am
Seriously, can someone please inform Obama this is 2012 and GW has been gone for a long time? Please? And this was yet another foul I pointed out to my husband when Obama said it. I am never sure who catches what (in the media) but I am pleased this one was scooped up. I remember vividly the minor media flurry over Bush’s Mexico City Policy. Obama and camp, wake up kids…or you will stumble as you exit.

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voting-for-romney
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:18am
Gee, with all these kids burying their noses in college books, how do they even have time for sex? Oh, would that suggest individual responsibility, such as getting an education, is just as important as buying birth control that any kid delivering newspapers on his bike could afford? Yeah, that’s really a topic of national debate, or national gossip?

The only war on women, is expecting them to have sex when they don’t need to? Oh, wait, would that suggest Hollywood, with its heavy donations to the Democrat Party, will not feel as guilty, if they can give away free birth control? What doctor would rather go kill a baby, then go help a sick person? This has never been a question about economics, it is about the ethical values we will carry into the stars, if we are allowed to travel among them?

No, I did not invite the Pope into the conversation, that is the job of the AP?

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rightwinglefty
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:16am
The main purpose of sex is for procreation. For some folks the notion of creating another human being is inconvenient and unnecessary. Those folks will do whatever it takes for that not to happen. It is not about women’s health, it is only about actions with absolutely no consequences.

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SITDOWNANDSHUTUP
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 12:17am
BS/BO can say whatever he wants and the only entities to hold him accountable are Republican sponsored ads. If Romney skirts truth, the entire MSM is down on him immediately. That’s exactly why CNN and MSNBC have little or no viewership, yet they still seem to be in control of these stupidly rigged debates.

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Netizen Kane
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:58pm
Man-dley Crowley allowed the question pre-debate from the so-called “undecided voter” who still hates Bush. How the heck was that a fair question for Obama to answer to differentiate between Romney and former President George W. Bush?. A balanced question, and better comparison, would have been how Obama differs from Jimmy Carter.

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Cascadia
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:14pm
Just checked PP’s website. They DO NOT provide mammograms. They provide “connections” to professionals that perform them. Goes without saying, but, another lie perpetuated by the left…

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- jaylew
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 7:37am
  You are exactly correct and I called out VerceofReason on another thread in this forum for spreading the same lie….Planned Parenthood is merely a “brokerage” house of different women’s and men’s services including HIV testing and STD testing. They also provide a statistically insignificant number of adoption services. BUT their big gun, their howitzer is as the brokerage house of abortion services. So using Planned parenthood’s own statistics from the year 2010 there is very little “Parenthood” in their entire program list of services and frankly very little “Planning” either…..PP is a place to go get tested for AIDS and other diseases caused by sexual contact. It is also a place to go to get an abortion referral. It is NOT a place where anyone “planning” to be a “parent” would go to either get advice or in this threads case..a mammogram. All of those so-called women’s health services are NOT provided by PP…those services are provided by affiliate medical outfits. And that is the big lie…by cutting out funding for Planned Parenthood…you cut out their middleman status…and then a man or a woman can discuss their medical needs with a doctor directly…just like health care should be administrated Anyone who thinks that de-funding PP is a blow to women’s healthcare is a complete dolt…and is merely a kool-aid drinker for the progressive agenda. You women out there want an abortion? Go talk to your doctor and leave my tax money out of your plans. .
  
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carbonated
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:13pm
He cites evidence that might be technically true to a degree, but results in false conclusions. Obama is a master of deception.

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Elliesr
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:03pm
I say false. I think Bush wanted to cut funding for Planned Parenthood & PBS but I’m not positive.

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- RightUnite
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 6:34am
  How about you do some research before you call false on anything??
  
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2012hey
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 11:00pm
Obama proved yet again to be the LIAR in chief – wow – he’s for self-reliance???? HAHAHA Since when????

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stoptyranny
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:49pm
I can’t believe somebody asked Romney how he’s different from Bush. Any voter that’s still “undecided” hasn’t been any attention for the last 4 years.

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- mtcountrygrl
  Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:36pm
  I actually think that was a good question, because Obama has been going around saying Romney is Bush. Romney is much more fisically conservative than Bush and I am glad he got to answer that.
  
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Carol1955
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:37pm
Obama doesn’t believe in facts, he makes them up as he goes.

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Baja
Posted on October 16, 2012 at 10:36pm
Obama Haiku:
Mouth opens,
**** falls out.

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