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Elizabeth Banks’s Planned Parenthood Endorsement And ‘Heavy Flow’ Admission The Best Thing You’ll See All Day


It’s annoying to have to remind people that birth control pills are not just for pregnancy prevention, and actress Elizabeth Banks presents this nicely in a new ad for Barack Obama’s reelection campaign:

“Planned Parenthood was my healthcare provider when I didn’t have insurance after graduating from college. Yes I got birth control, but it was for my massive migraine headaches and my heavy flow. Yes, I’m going on the record saying I have a heavy flow. And unfortunately these are the types of things that I don’t want to discuss with employers…So I’m really grateful that [Planned Parenthood exists].”

Banks adds that Planned Parenthood does more good than harm and only provides a small percentage of “controversial services,” concluding, “For that little 5 percent that Mitt Romney decides he doesn’t agree with, he’s going to take away cancer screenings? What is he doing?…We’re talking about working class ladies who need healthcare. That’s it, that’s Planned Parenthood…President Obama has not compromised women’s rights and that’s why he needs to stay in office.”

I’m not exactly the captain of Banks’ fan club, but I appreciate that she continues to tell us that contraception isn’t simply to keep our wombs empty. It keeps our menstrual cycles regular, can protect us from cancer, and frees us from excruciating cramps we’ve been engineered to experience every month.

[BuzzFeed]

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  • http://twitter.com/Booker_TW Booker T.

    To tell you the truth, Margaret Sanger would be proud. Millions of unborn fetuses haven being aborted over the years is quite nifty if you ask me. And that sterilization seem mighty nice too. Obviously, in the minds of liberal, a woman is reduced to her lady parts. Who’s waging that war on women again?

  • bvicente

    I personally appreciate that someone with lots of money feels free to tell the rest of America that they want the government to be able to take other people’s money, and dedicate it to her pet projects.

    That I don’t want my money going there is irrelevant, I suppose …

  • Adam R. Charpentier

    Can you imagine another million unwanted, disabled, damaged, and otherwise unnecessary mouths to feed on welfare, starving to death, or growing up to continue the cycle to produce a million million more of the same? 

    I’m not necessarily “a liberal” but I’m glad I’m not whatever the hell you are. Somewhere between d-bag and idiot there are people that refer to “lady parts” as such.

  • Adam R. Charpentier

    Planned Parenthood isn’t her pet project, it’s a social service. As for the government, don’t worry, the majority of our money is given to their war machine to kill foreigner babies and blow up hospitals.

  • http://twitter.com/Booker_TW Booker T.

     Your an idiot. That’s for sure.

  • Anonymous

    Morons like you whom aren’t doctors and who aren’t women – but religous nuzi’s trying to inflict your “craziness” – on the rest of America.  We have the right to our beliefs – particularly since yours are so far off the ranch – you’ll be on your dinosaur trying to catch that comet off your flat earth in whatever alternate Universe you’re from.  Free of religious prosecution.  Remember.  You’re beliefs aren’t ours.  The sooner you get over the propaganda of your own religious zealots the better off you’ll be.

  • bvicente

    Right. She just felt important enough about it to make her first, and only, political statement I’ve ever seen about it.
    And as for killing foreign babies … seems liberals would rather we reserve our government money for killing our own babies.

  • Anonymous

    I felt the same way when Bush gave $5 Trillion to the 1% and Koch Bros., Murdoch, and the hate support groups of the GOP like the KKK and NRA; I also felt that way when the Republicans sent over 5,000 US soldiers to their deaths in Iraq for the Koch’s, BP, Chevron and Haliburton, or the 2,000 in Afganistan, and the 2,985 that died while Bush cleared Brush and the nearly 2,000 ignored deaths after Katrina, while he sat on his hands in Texas, as well as the 1,000,000 Iraqi citizens killed in “shock and awe” collateral damage in Iraq.  You’re faux morality is best served on facts and actuallity – not hypotheticals. 

  • Anonymous

    etcha sketch has written checks to planned parenthood for years. the same “entitlement” programs you  all complain about has existed for years. why now that we have a black president there is a big issue about these these programs.  
    “entitlement” programs are also utilized by the elderly & disabled. from the day first day welfare started until today, white people have ALWAYS been the majority of the recipients, more than blacks but the republiklans will never admit that with the exception of newt gingrich admitting that under Obama, white people are the majority of welfare recipients.

    you all claim to be religious, God-fearing people, christian, catholic, but its only for show. if you are a true God-fearing person you know that God/Jesus did more for the poor than anyone else, They did not take from them as you all want to do. God/Jesus encourages helping the less fortunate.

    “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.  God is abundantly generous to the poor.”God also says: “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God” 

  • bvicente

    Well, this is rich. Bush gave money to the KKK and Koch Brothers? Does your moral outrage extend to the additional troops … and corresponding civilian carnage … wrought in Afghanistan since Barack Obama has become president?
    You really ought to check your “facts and actuality”. In Bush’s entire 8 years in office, the public debt didn’t accumulate nearly as fast as it has in less than 4 years with Obama in office. $10 trillion to nearly $16 trillion. Can you count the victims left in the wake of the Obama economy? How about the record number of people in poverty since Obama became president? How about the broken promises of halving the deficit (only to bring it to record levels)? How about Quantitative Easing and its dismal failure and partisan application? Or perhaps you’re not bothered by the fact that not even the Democrat controlled Senate will approve of Obama’s budget submissions. That this government has been functioning without a budget for nearly 3 years under Democrat leadership probably ought to ease your feigned outrage toward GWB somewhat.
    Jazzy, I’m not sure you want to argue this with me … I write a weekly national column on the economy, and am a former newspaper publisher. Hypotheticals make for good discussion. If you really want to delve into facts and actuality, and IF you’re an Obama supporter, you may be armed with a squirt gun, going into a nuclear war.

  • Anonymous

    Why so much hate JazzyJim ?

  • bvicente

    1Sheba: I agree that God will judge us on how we take care of the poor. But please … where doe God authorize a government to steal money from those who have, to redistribute it to those who don’t have? He is not happy with rich who won’t impart of their substance to help the poor. But doesn’t He also say something about stealing? One wrong doesn’t erase another.
    And who ever said that Planned Parenthood is all about supporting the poor?

  • Anonymous

    If you really knew what you were talking about you would know that God/Jesus did as much for the rich as He did for the poor. Also, Jesus was talking to His church not the government.

    “Blessed are you who are the spiritually poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. it will hard for a poor man who believes in riches to solve their poverty problems to enter the kingdom of God.

    You enter the kingdom of God by faith in what Jesus did for ALL men, not works.

  • Adam R. Charpentier

    Haha, no…no. You’re* an idiot.

  • Adam R. Charpentier

    As long as babies are killed, I get my double baby bacon burger bites and I’m satisfied.

    She felt that Planned Parenthood is important and so she spoke…that doesn’t make it a pet project, that makes her an American citizen with a soapbox and an opinion. When that’s not allowed, you’ll have to shut up too.

  • Adam R. Charpentier

    I’m not sure what the f**k (can we swear?) delving “into facts and actuality” means, but if you’re saying that by supporting Obama, the U.S. will no longer be able to produce nuclear armaments, I’m sure we have enough already to make sure that the entire planet dies in a holocaust of radiation and fire, so let’s not.

  • Adam R. Charpentier

    Ya’all keep hoping your magical sky wizard gives you a golden toilet to shit in when you get to Heaven.

  • http://twitter.com/Booker_TW Booker T.

     Douche.

  • http://twitter.com/Booker_TW Booker T.

     So, can we repeal affirmative action now?

  • http://twitter.com/WellYesYouMay WellYesYouMay

     That has got to be the best quote I’ve read all day. I hope you don’t mind, I’m going to steal it. Thank you.
    You know, if people weren’t so obsessed with the idea that we’re all going to a magical Disney Land when we die, we might be able to make our actual verifiable lives better. I suppose it’s easy to ignore the needs and suffering of others when you think that they’re all getting a pony and a barbie dream house in the mystical afterlife.

  • Anonymous

    “Ignorance can be cured …stupid is forever.”

    I pray that your just ignorant and foolish.

  • Adam R. Charpentier

    I don’t think that works for lordy parts, but I’ll give it a go if there’s a noticeable smell.

  • Adam R. Charpentier

    I assume YOU’RE* (spelling isn’t that difficult, people) misquoting Aristophanes, which should be impossible with the magic of the Internet. Translated, it can read: “Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.”

    So, not…cured. Educated! See? The more you know!

    Even your Obama avatar is unimpressed.

  • Adam R. Charpentier

    Haha, feel free. The delusions of fundamentalists (we all feed ourselves lies, hopes, dreams, and baseless beliefs, so it isn’t everyone…I hope and believe) are definitely numero uno on the long list of reasons the world isn’t as perfect as it should be. 

    And I find it very frustrating that they bring Jesus into the Internet. Unless he’s the guy responsible for the majority of pornographic websites (like how he multiplied fish by bread and made fishbread for everyone listening to his beats, perhaps he continuously crosses new nouns and verbs with different outlets for human sexuality to produce strange and uncommon fetishes now familiar the world over thanks, in large part, to 4Chan), I’m not sure why his name keeps invading otherwise interesting conversations. 

  • Anonymous

    Ignorance is a spiritual problem cured by faith in God, which brings understanding.
    A person like yourself can be well educated in worldly things and obviously still ignorant about true knowledge.

  • Adam R. Charpentier

    I agree with everything you have said about how insane you are.

  • bvicente

    I have no problem with her right to spout rhetoric while perched atop her soapbox. I DO have a problem with Hollywood elites waxing passionate about how the government should take more of my money for their pet projects. I’d be more impressed if she ponies up most of her fortune before imploring the govt to reach even further into my pocket.
    Reminds me of Michael Jackson. A Tv network did a special on him in which he spent around $2 million in an hour on trinkets and garbage. 2 months later, he was in DC lobbying members of Congress to budget more money for the homeless.
    Sent from my Kindle Fire

  • Adam R. Charpentier

    It isn’t a Pet Project. Planned Parenthood has been around since 1916. If you didn’t have your head up your ass, you’d figure out how to use Google to check on things like this before being wrong so hard it leaves a bruise.

  • bvicente

    It’s her momentary yen. That makes it her “pet project”. Whatever made you think that someone must have invented his/her own pet project? Not sure where your head is, but try consulting a dictionary. You can find a free one. On Google …
    Sent from my Kindle Fire

  • bvicente

    And while you’re Googling a dictionary, seek a grammar guide. Might help with your run-on sentences.
    Sent from my Kindle Fire

  • Adam R. Charpentier

    Run ons are frowned upon but not incorrect unlike suggesting that “pet project” is in the dictionary. 

  • bvicente

    Run ons are frowned upon because they, by definition, are two separate sentences merged together grammatically incorrectly … with inadequate punctuation. Sorry, Adam. But a run-on sentence is not optional, like ending a sentence with a preposition. It’s simply grammatically incorrect. Since Google would appear to have more credibility to you than I do, check it.
    Sent from my MOTOROLA ATRIX™ 2 on AT&T

    —–Original message—–

  • Adam R. Charpentier

    “It is generally considered a stylistic error, though it is occasionally used in literature and may be used as a rhetorical device.” BAM, wrong again.

  • bvicente

    In my college English classes, I was permitted to make such an error only if I acknowledged it at the end of the paper, and explained exactly why. Not so with ending a sentence with a preposition. Run on sentences are grammatically incorrect.
    You can find anything you want to find on Google. Except, of course Harry Reid’s Bain source.
    Sent from my MOTOROLA ATRIX™ 2 on AT&T

    —–Original message—–

  • Anonymous

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  • Anonymous

    no but i hope to be at least a fly on the wall when your turn is up.

  • Anonymous

    i dont read from the book of morons.

  • Anonymous

    “stupid lasts forever.”you are indeed a prime example. just hope the kids & grandkids did not inherit it.

  • Anonymous

    the REAL God & Jesus, the REAL God fearing people make it their mission   
    2 help less fortunate, those in need,  they turn their back on no1.its phony repubs who find “it easy 2 ignore the needs & suffering of others”. 

    CATHOLIC BISHOPS, who claim to be true persons of God & usually agree w/repubs, said “the ryan plan” is “IMMORAL” “MORALESS” because it strips away all “entitlement ” programs also utilized by the elderly & disabled while raising taxes on the middle class & low income & gives further tax cuts & breaks to the wealthiest. it is NOT WHAT JESUS WOULD DO.

    paul ryan claims his catholic faith assisted in writing his plan yet, the bishops will NOT agree with it because they know this is not how God operates. 

    catholic Nuns have been going state to state to denounce the ryan plan because it is NOT WHAT JESUS WOULD DO. there are so-called catholic republicans who have joked about pulling the NUNS over & pistol whipping them. 

    1) this is exactly why guns dont need 2b in the hands of all americans. especially these idiots who claim to be religious (those who miss use God’s word 4 their own agendas like when white people lynched blacks, up til 1978 the mormons taught that blacks were cursed by God & were nothing, like these anti-gay protest) because these are the the first evil fools who kill in mass numbers claiming its in the name of God. 

    2) you CLAIM to be a God-fearing catholics working in the best interest of americans & after all the gun violence, you “JOKE” about PISTOL WHIPPING NUNS FOR DOING WHAT JESUS WOULD WANT ALL TO DO. you “JOKE” about PISTOL WHIPPING NUNS because they disagree with you.

    i would take that as a threat just like the cop who also “claimed” he was “JOKING” about killing Mrs Obama while showing a picture of the gun he would use to do it with because every time the republiklans make a comment like palin & her crosshairs someone get hurt or dies in some incident where guns are used. & though the incident is fueled by republiklans if not out right set up by them, they walk away as some other idiot goes down for it. they use God as a front because if they truly believed in him they know though we dont, God sees the blood on their hands & come judgement day, they will answer to him, but they go on as if they are exempt from this day.    this is the sick society we live in.

  • Adam R. Charpentier

    That’s very Christian of you.

  • Adam R. Charpentier

    I keep turning it around on you guys, but you’re too dumb to notice. It’s like trying to outwit a carrot. Here’s the deal, I’m willing to continue this conversation and I’ll do my very best to waste your time and make you look foolish, if you promise to keep arguing in the vein hope that in sixty, seventy, eighty years, you can watch me burn in Hell from your poofy little cloud.

  • Adam R. Charpentier

    I’m having a Pillow Pants moment (if you’re familiar with Clerks 2) and this dialogue has gotten freaky and sad. If I explained in all seriousness at work that I was late this morning because the Smurfs needed my help to foil Gargamel’s latest scheme, they’d quietly call a hospital so that I don’t get violently upset (since I am clearly out of my goddamn mind). I’m not seeing the difference whatsoever between that example and all the buffoonery spouted hereabouts.

  • Anonymous

    where is Obama stealing from the rich to give to the poor? not all of the tax money coming from the wealthy is going to the poor. 

    the wealthy have been paying little to no taxes for many years while the middle class & low income were made to pick up the slack. they have been screwing over the middle class & low income for so long. so even if Obama was “stealing” from them, WHO GIVES A %&@#! i’m sure the 98% could care less. 

    the wealthy have a problem with warren buffet because he complained about paying less taxes than his secretary. he may have been complaining all along, trying to do what’s right, but with republicans running the country, it fell on death ears. WHAT REPUBLICANS HAVE DONE & WILL CONTINUE TO DO IS UNFAIR TO THE HARD WORKING AMERICANS WHO MAKE THE WEALTHY WEALTHY.  dems have their faults also but they are the lesser of the 2 evils.

    repiblicans are selfish & evil! “God does not authorize government to screw over it

  • Anonymous

    “That’s very Christian of you”

    no just the bad side of me who likes to see people like you proven wrong.

  • Adam R. Charpentier

    Be honest with yourself. Extrapolate. Satisfying yourself with the sight of someone burning in Hellfire isn’t about being proven right, it’s about sadism. 

  • bvicente

    Get real! The top 10% of wage earners in this country pay 71% of all federal taxes. Do some math. Do you really believe the bilge from Obama that the wealthy pay no taxes?

  • Anonymous

    your point? Obama never said “the wealthy pay no taxes”.  he wants them to pay more especially since some of the wealthy pay less taxes than the middle.

  • bvicente

    Dude … what part of this do you NOT get? The wealthy pay FAR more taxes than anyone else. Far more. So your point is that you believe they should pay even MORE taxes? The wealthy do not pay less taxes than the middle. They pay more.

    Of course, your man Obama wants to steal their money and redistribute it to you and others. Do you really want a president who takes other people’s money to buy votes? Because that’s what you’re voting for if you vote for Obama.

    Do you really think it’s fair that the top 10% wage earners pay 71% of all taxes? Does that sound fair to you?

    Oh, don’t tell me … “Well, they have more money. They SHOULD pay more.” Really? Is that fair?

    This class envy that Barack Obama is pushing is ridiculous. I am far from being one of those high wage earners. But for some politician to think he has a right to take other people’s money through taxes, and give it to other people, is unfair, and is stealing. And for a voter to think that is fair is plain sick and pathetic.

  • http://nursethalia.wordpress.com/ Thalia

    I’m glad people are starting to cover the other uses of birth control… I have severe migraines and primary dysmenorrhea. Without birth control, my migraines are debilitating, and for at least two days of each month before and during my period, I’m nearly completely bedridden: extremely nauseated and dizzy, in horrible, suicide-thought-inducing pain, and constantly throwing up (whether I have anything to throw up or not). I would be missing at least 3-7 days of work each month if my employer didn’t provide insurance that covered my birth control!

  • Anonymous

    etcha sketch paid less taxes than paul ryan rand. etcha sketch said he paid 13% this last year on millions. assuming he’s telling the truth, that’s less than what the low income & middle class pay. familiar with the buffet rule? the right talked smack about warren buffet because warren admitted it was not fair for him to pay less taxes than his secretary. perhaps he said this before but with dishonest presidents & congress, no one would do anything about it. more info came out recently proving etcha sketch is a tax dodger. he was apart of one of the biggest tax avoidance schemes in the history of this country.

    “Do you really want a president who takes other people’s money to buy votes?”
    no & that’s why willie will not not win! if ever after years & years of running for president he scams, cheats, & slither his way into office, it will be his pimps & suger daddys running the country. not mitt.

    “Do you really think it’s fair that the top 10% wage earners pay 71% of all taxes? Does that sound fair to you?”
    its not fair that the middle & low income pay more in taxes than the wealthy because the wealthy have loopholes & off shore accounts.

    “But for some politician to think he has a right to take other people’s money through taxes,”
    but its ok for republicans to dictate what women do with their bodies & take away voting rights granted by the constitution thru unnecessary new voting laws only changed when a black ran for president.

    republicans & their supporters are mostly racist, evil brainwashed liars who are sick & pathetic.

  • Anonymous

    etcha sketch paid less taxes than paul ryan rand. etcha sketch said he paid 13% this last year on millions. assuming he’s telling the truth, that’s less than what the low income & middle class pay. familiar with the buffet rule? the right talked smack about warren buffet because warren admitted it was not fair for him to pay less taxes than his secretary. perhaps he said this before but with dishonest presidents & congress, no one would do anything about it. more info came out recently proving etcha sketch is a tax dodger. he was apart of one of the biggest tax avoidance schemes in the history of this country.

    “Do you really want a president who takes other people’s money to buy votes?”
    no & that’s why willie will not not win! if ever after years & years of running for president he scams, cheats, & slither his way into office, it will be his pimps & suger daddys running the country. not mitt.

    “Do you really think it’s fair that the top 10% wage earners pay 71% of all taxes? Does that sound fair to you?”
    its not fair that the middle & low income pay more in taxes than the wealthy because the wealthy have loopholes & off shore accounts.

    “But for some politician to think he has a right to take other people’s money through taxes,”
    but its ok for republicans to dictate what women do with their bodies & take away voting rights granted by the constitution thru unnecessary new voting laws only changed when a black ran for president.

    republicans & their supporters are mostly racist, evil brainwashed liars who are sick & pathetic.

  • Anonymous

    etcha sketch paid less taxes than paul ryan rand. etcha sketch said he paid 13% this last year on millions. assuming he’s telling the truth, that’s less than what the low income & middle class pay. familiar with the buffet rule? the right talked smack about warren buffet because warren admitted it was not fair for him to pay less taxes than his secretary. perhaps he said this before but with dishonest presidents & congress, no one would do anything about it. more info came out recently proving etcha sketch is a tax dodger. he was apart of one of the biggest tax avoidance schemes in the history of this country.

    “Do you really want a president who takes other people’s money to buy votes?”
    no & that’s why willie will not not win! if ever after years & years of running for president he scams, cheats, & slither his way into office, it will be his pimps & suger daddys running the country. not mitt.

    “Do you really think it’s fair that the top 10% wage earners pay 71% of all taxes? Does that sound fair to you?”
    its not fair that the middle & low income pay more in taxes than the wealthy because the wealthy have loopholes & off shore accounts.

    “But for some politician to think he has a right to take other people’s money through taxes,”
    but its ok for republicans to dictate what women do with their bodies & take away voting rights granted by the constitution thru unnecessary new voting laws only changed when a black ran for president.

    republicans & their supporters are mostly racist, evil brainwashed liars who are sick & pathetic.

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