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Louisiana's alternative to Planned Parenthood? Dentists!

Louisiana, led by Republican Governor and Mr. 2016-Presidential-Hopeful-Polling-At-0% - Bobby Jindal - has been attempting to defund Planned Parenthood. However, in this ensuing court battle, the state has had some problems coming up with ways to provide low-income women with family planning care to replace Planned Parenthood should this occur. To help illustrate this point, the state's attorneys declared that Louisiana is home to approximately 2,000 family planning providers to help aid low-income women should Planned Parenthood be defunded. Well, as Inigo Montoya says in the film The Princess Bride with regard to the word inconceivable ("You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."), I have a hunch these attorneys are mistaken on what family planning providers actually are. As Judge John deGravelles said about the matter: "It strikes me as extremely odd that you have a dermatologist, an audiologist, a dentist who are billing for fam...