Wendy Davis trolls for Planned Parenthood speaking gigs in incredible shrinking woman video
The Houston Chronicle has posted an article on Wendy Davis’s new aspiration of “testing out professional speaking” after her gubernatorial effort in Texas bombed:
Davis, a former Democratic state senator from Fort Worth, recently began an “exploratory” relationship with the American Program Bureau….
“We’re trying to determine whether or not we can do the job for her, so we have not made any contractual relationship yet,” said Bob Davis, senior vice president at the agency.
The bureau primarily is pitching Wendy Davis to college and community groups as an authority on women’s health and education issues.
But Davis clearly has a lucrative run on the Planned Parenthood affiliate speaking circuit in her sights. Her bio oddly morphs into a Planned Parenthood infomercial:
In 2013, Davis captured the nation’s attention with her 13-hour filibuster, which demanded that she stand the entire time….
While that bill unfortunately passed into law - a law that is still being challenged - Davis hasn’t stopped working for women’s rights for safe, legal reproductive care. She understands exactly what it means to depend on accessible, safe and affordable care services. “It’s paramount that women have access to the incredible preventive care that Planned Parenthood provides. When I was a young woman, Planned Parenthood was the only source of healthcare I had - for several years. Contrary to what some believe, Planned Parenthood provides a multitude of services, including breast and cervical cancer screenings, HIV testing, routine gynecological exams, diabetes screenings and family planning services. To restrict care for low-income women would mean setting society back decades - to say nothing of putting further strains on the lives of women who need access to these essential healthcare services.” Davis fought her best against Texas Senate Bill 5, the law that attempted to shutter all but eight women’s health clinics, but her efforts were dampened by then-governor Rick Perry.
Likewise, APB Speakers’ comical YouTube promo video features Davis as the incredible shrinking half-woman appearing in the oddest of places, who – again – pitches solely to Planned Parenthood.
Tacky doesn’t begin to describe the production quality. Really, Wendy? lol…
[youtube]http://youtu.be/Guty2QV5NWs[/youtube]
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
I love how she’s discussing how much she supports what PP does while shrinking to the background of the birth control pills and condoms. That just cracks me up for some reason.
Yes, a very oddly done video.
Also: “Planned Parenthood provides a multitude of services, including breast and cervical cancer screenings, HIV testing, routine gynecological exams, diabetes screenings and family planning services. To restrict care for low-income women would mean setting society back decades – to say nothing of putting further strains on the lives of women who need access to these essential healthcare services.”
Oh, NO! You mean, if PP goes away, women will not be able to get breast and cervical cancer screenings, or gynecological exams or any of that stuff?
I’m amazed I’ve been able to survive all these years without ever stepping foot into a PP, even when I was uninsured and broke as a college student.
I guess local health departments and other Federally Qualified Health Centers don’t offer any of that stuff. Who knew!?!?
Yikes! That is some horrible production quality! Audio and video are grossly out of sync, too.
Remember Sandra Fluke.
And, of course, the a-word does not come up once in the entire video. Even when she’s talking about the filibuster at the beginning.
“Remember Sandra Fluke.”
Who?
So anyways, I went to the Youtube video, and so far it has 0 likes and 11 dislikes at 532 views. Off to to a good start.
Remember when Sandra Fluke got a prime-time hour to speak for Obama at the Democratic National Convention? 15 minutes of fame never lasted so long….
I wait for the day — in some not-too-distant future — when Wendy Davis will also draw a crowd of tens of people to hear her speak in a shopping mall parking lot as she tours the Southwest in a Planned Parenthood Pepto-Bus.
Planned Parenthood has an abortion-genie. Rub your pink stinky, pink sneaker and Wendy Davis floats out.
I am the furthest person away from being a techie, but I have seriously seen middle schoolers put together better video than this.
I guess middle schoolers are PP’s target audience though.
Where was she living that Planned Parenthood was the ONLY source of healthcare?
Hi Matt Yonke,
It makes one think of those low budget foreign movies where the lips move and the words come out later.
I thought nothing could be as tacky as Bob Dole doing those ED commercials after losing his presidential bid. Wendy is right up there. No pun intended.
Let’s be fair to American Program Bureau….
They don’t reckon that they are going to make any money off of Wendy’s speaking career. And they probably don’t want to be closely associated with Planned Parenthood or Abortion Barbie.
So they nabbed some likely intern and invited her to design a Wendy Davis promo video. Wendy was okay with it…. done and done.
Oh a terrible flashback…. I was almost forgetting about her and S Fluke. Let me get back to trying again!:)
Truth seeker…. if you see this I did tell MK you missed her and said hello at the DC march. She said by all means to tell you hello and she misses you as well:)