Your latest dose of Bachmann anti-abortion lunacy

In her latest fit of stupidity and illiteracy, the dumbest woman in American politics is now claiming that Obama wants to take schoolchildren on field trips to have secret abortions without their parents ever knowing. Seriously.

But parents are going to excluded from Planned Parenthood as they write these clinics because the bill orders that these clinics protect patient privacy and student records. What does that mean? It means that parents will never know what kind of counsel and treatment that their children are receiving. And as a matter of fact, the bill goes on to say what's going to go on -- comprehensive primary health services, physicals, treatment of minor acute medical conditions, referrals to follow-up for specialty care -- is that abortion? Does that mean that someone's 13 year-old daughter could walk into a sex clinic, have a pregnancy test done, be taken away to the local Planned Parenthood abortion clinic, have their abortion, be back and go home on the school bus that night? Mom and dad are never the wiser.

She even said this on the House floor, for crying out loud. I don’t suppose any of the other politicians there, those who’ve actually read the damned thing and who know how to compute words with logic, have told her how utterly wrong (and not to mention, rather insane) that was? Especially considering that such actions would be in complete violation of another section of the bill, one regarding requirements that any and all actions on the part of a School-Based Health Clinic must conform with any and all laws regarding parental rights, accountability and privacy:

(i) SBHC services will be provided in accordance with Federal, State, and local laws governing--

(I) obtaining parental or guardian consent; and

(II) patient privacy and student records, including section 264 of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and section 444 of the General Education Provisions Act;

Ed Brayton calls her “delusional”. I call her insane. (Either that, or just too damn stupid to be allowed to live.)

(via Dispatches from the Culture Wars)
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