As previously noted, anti-choicers are beside themselves over the fact that Planned Parenthood is providing subsidized reproductive healthcare to Hurricane Katrina survivors, and have begun efforts to fund anti-choice “crisis pregnancy centers” in the disaster area to divert patients away from full healthcare options, and also to block Planned Parenthood’s funding to reduce the services available to patients through them. “CNS News” - “the Cybercast News Service”, a conservative online newspaper founded by Brent Bozell of the Parents Television Council (the group constantly plaguing the FCC with complaints about dirty words and Janet Jackson’s nipple) - recently ran an article consisting entirely of anti-choice propaganda claiming that Planned Parenthood was diverting donations made for Hurricane Katrina relief into its general-purpose fund. The ground for this claim is such a stupidly incompetent reading of two clearly labeled, completely separate sections of a donation Web page that it is impossible to imagine that the claim was an honest mistake, or that CNS’s reporter could reasonably have been confused about the matter.

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