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Not Letting Facts Get In His Way

Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) has amended the congressional record to qualify his recent remark about Planned Parenthood which led to the mother of all spin from his flack: “His remark was not intended to be a factual statement.”

The original statement from Kyl: “If you want an abortion you go to Planned Parenthood and that’s well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.”

After Kyl amended his remarks, the congressional record now reads: “If you want an abortion you go to Planned Parenthood and that is what Planned Parenthood does.”

David Kurtz

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