Dave Smith of strident gay-hatin’ fame has a post over at Illinois Review whining about tax dollars that are given to Planned Parenthood for women’s health services… In his frothy zest to get his screed against women online, he spins himself into a pretzel:

While Planned Parenthood claims that these funds are not used for abortion, obviously having this constant supply of tax dollars coming in as part of your budget makes all other areas of operation much easier to sustain.

Yes, obviously having this “constant supply of tax dollars” coming to provide the women’s health services for which those tax dollars are being granted would make one’s operation easier to sustain… That’s the point, Mr. “anti-family” Smith.

Not every woman can afford health care for herself — thus as the compassionate society we are we “care for our neighbors as we do ourselves.”

Does Mr. Smith complain about other doctors that receive grants in order to perform routine medical care?

(Yes, some — not all — Planned Parenthood clinics provide abortion services. Such medical procedures, as Planned Parenthood has stated, are funded through a combination of donations and direct fees to medical patients. But as most rational folks know, Planned Parenthood provides many more medical services than just the one Mr. Smith finds offensive including counseling, regular exams, disease treatment and prevention, etc.)

And how about those trillions of Mr. Smith’s tax dollars being spent on “collateral damage” for our president’s lies? Is Mr. Smith just as forcefully seeking to cut off that spigot of money and bring our intrepid, loyal troops home? Or does Mr. Smith somehow excuse and apologize for all that?