Santorum educates The View: Planned Parenthood doesn’t provide mammograms

On Wednesday, Republican presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum went on the left-wing talk show The View, where the debate turned to one of the more persistent myths about Planned Parenthood’s services.

In response to Whoopi Goldberg asking of Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding, “What will you replace it with if you take it away?” Santorum answered:

Goldberg interrupted to claim, “Yeah, they do,” but Santorum responded:

At Tuesday’s Congressional hearing, Richards testified, “We do not have mammogram machines at our health centers. And we’ve never stated that we did.” Additionally, pro-life organization And Then There Were None recently made hundreds of calls to Planned Parenthood locations, none of which managed to make mammogram appointments.

Co-host Paula Faris then asked, “Will these clinics then provide abortions or where do you want these displaced women to go?” Santorum noted:

While Planned Parenthood cannot technically spend its tax subsidies directly on abortion, pro-lifers fear that they free the organization to spend more of its private revenue on abortion. According to the Susan B. Anthony List, between 2000 and 2013, government Planned Parenthood funding increased by over $326 million, while annual abortions performed rose by 130,583, “a 66 percent increase in the number of abortions.”