Hunger Games’ Star Elizabeth Banks Pushes Planned Parenthood Abortion Business

National   |   Sarah Zagorski   |   May 13, 2015   |   1:10PM   |   Washington, DC

Hunger Games star, Elizabeth Banks, promoted Planned Parenthood in a recent piece with Cosmopolitan magazine. Although the majority of the interview was focused on the stars new movie, Pitch Perfect 2, somehow Cosmopolitan and Banks were able to hit on the importance of abortion and Planned Parenthood.

Banks said, “The most important thing is that all-male legislators don’t tell us what to do with our bodies. It’s our medical decisions, it’s our lives – it can LITERALLY be someone’s life. But more importantly, its about parity and equity in the world. Women have to be able to make their own decisions about child-rearing.”

As LifeNews previously reported, Banks promoted Planned Parenthood in 2012 in a blog series called CelebVillage.

She wrote:

Just over a year ago, my son Felix was born via gestational surrogacy. He came out of me nine months early and because of my broken belly, his babycake was baked in a wonderful angel’s oven and now — I can’t believe it — he’s a year old and walking. He has expanded my capacity for joy a thousand-fold.

His life would have been much harder to come by if not for the birth control pill. How’s that, you ask? Well, it’s a simple fact: The pill is used for many situations that have nothing to do with the prevention of pregnancy. The pill was prescribed to me when hormonally induced migraines kept me locked up in dark rooms for days at a time. It was prescribed to me to regulate insanely painful cramps every month — cramps so painful that I often vomited. And here’s a little secret I am happy to blow the lid off of: The pill is often prescribed during the IVF (in vitro fertilization) process to help MAKE BABIES! That’s right, women dealing with infertility are often put on the pill to help regulate a cycle so that they might have a more successful IVF. The pill is used to manage ovarian cysts, endometriosis and other conditions too. Not to mention, it helps couples plan for wanted children.

Obviously, I’m not a doctor. I’m just a woman grateful for my necessary and very helpful medication. And I’m sure glad I don’t have to discuss any of these conditions, including infertility, with my employer.

A girlfriend and I recently wondered what would be more mortifying: having to tell her male employer she needed birth control to mitigate a heavy flow or just bleeding all over herself in the office?

So with that image in mind, I encourage all women — and the men in their lives — to protect access to birth control, and encourage our politicians to take women’s health issues out of the political process.

For more information, please visit the most comprehensive and willing advocates for women’s health in America: Planned Parenthood.

However, Planned Parenthood’s most recent annual report reveals that their business is more about abortion than birth control. In 2013, abortions made up 94% of Planned Parenthood’s pregnancy services while their contraceptive services dropped by four percent in just one year.

Additionally, as LifeNews previously reported, Planned Parenthood makes millions off their contraceptive services and definitely aren’t handing it out for free.

Alliance Defending Freedom explained their “services” like this: “Planned Parenthood doesn’t hand out birth control or abortion inducing drugs for free either.  Planned Parenthood ALWAYS COLLECTS COLD, HARD CASH from their CLIENTS and AMERICAN TAXPAYERS for the birth control it doles out.  Planned Parenthood’s websites show that it charges between $15 and $800 for hormonal birth control, up to $70 for early-abortion pills, and up to $1000 for IUDs.  At the very minimum, it charged low-income women $90 million for contraceptives in fiscal year 2011, and collected more than half a billion dollars in taxpayer money in that same year.”

Watch Banks’ interview with Cosmopolitan in the video below.

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