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That article is twisting information to create an issue that doesn't exist to try and paint Planned Parenthood in a bad light. No, the clinics themselves do not provide mammograms, but they do preform breast exams, then refer women to other clinics for a mammogram if need be in the exact same manner that every other gynecologist office does. They also help low income women pay for those services, even though they are carried out at a different facility.
They perform breast exams and pap smears. Pap smears are the most effective method of preventing cervical cancer. They are also big on education. Like them or hate them, PP is definitely in the business of cancer prevention.
Does anyone have any actual knowledge/personal experience whether Planned Parenthood actually provides cancer screening, as in Mammograms. According to this article, there is no PP center in the USA that does this.
I have never had a primary care physician/OBGYN (private, or a clinic when I was younger) that provides mammograms in office. For that sort of service women are usually given a list of places to go. And if they do find something, you are sent to an oncologist. Same thing when I was needing an ultrasound to look at my thyroid. It wasn't done by my primary care physician, I was sent elsewhere. Nothing strange about that. On the other hand, PP does provide pap smears which is a cancer screen, and they also provide pre-cancer and cancer therapy for those cases.
I have never had a primary care physician/OBGYN (private, or a clinic when I was younger) that provides mammograms in office. For that sort of service women are usually given a list of places to go. And if they do find something, you are sent to an oncologist. Same thing when I was needing an ultrasound to look at my thyroid. It wasn't done by my primary care physician, I was sent elsewhere. Nothing strange about that. On the other hand, PP does provide pap smears which is a cancer screen, and they also provide pre-cancer and cancer therapy for those cases.
That's true.
PP can provide a portal into the system for breast care even if they do not actually have mammogram machines physically in their facility. If PP facilities close due to lack of funding, that door closes.
Hundreds of millions of dollars a year being spent so they can send these patients elsewhere...
Not sure how this makes sense.
Do poor women not have Google?
Are they unable to find a clinic that offers both breast exams and mammograms all in one place and need to be referred to one by an organization that deals in abortion?
Doesn't the non-abortion providing clinic that dose the mammograms also provide breast exams making PP useless one is looking for something other than a mammogram?
Are they unable to find a clinic that offers both breast exams and mammograms all in one place and need to be referred to one by an organization that deals in abortion?
Doesn't the non-abortion providing clinic that dose the mammograms also provide breast exams making PP useless one is looking for something other than a mammogram?
Why do you object to someone using PP for other than abortion services?
Doesn't the non-abortion providing clinic that dose the mammograms also provide breast exams making PP useless one is looking for something other than a mammogram?
Around here, the hospital does mammograms, and you need a doctor's referral to get one done. That's because the results have to go back to a doctor.
They perform breast exams and pap smears. Pap smears are the most effective method of preventing cervical cancer. They are also big on education. Like them or hate them, PP is definitely in the business of cancer prevention.
Existing community health centers not affiliated with PP currently perform five times as many pap smears as PP so why is it that PP pap smears cannot be done by the numerous unaffiliated community health centers?
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