Talking about women's access to health care on Valentine's Day is akin to urging women to get a 'traditional' abortion for the holiday, according to conservative media.

This week Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards posted a Vine video on Twitter promoting access to basic women's health care, using the hashtag #WhatWomenNeed: 

In the short video, Richards held placards detailing what women need this Valentine's Day: “birth control,” “cancer screenings,” “safe and legal abortions,” “well woman visits,” “breast exams,” “maternity care,” “preventive care,” “Planned Parenthood,” “To make our own decisions.” 

The notion was offensive to the likes of Rush Limbaugh, who accused Planned Parenthood of “urging women to get abortions for Valentine's Day.” According to Limbaugh, the tweet evidenced how Democrats “see women as basically walking vaginas looking to have sex every change they get”:

LIMBAUGH: Democrats see women as basically just walking vaginas. Democrats see women as nothing but walking vaginas looking to have sex every chance they get, and then they go get an abortion whenever they need one, or they got to get them birth control pills or whatever. If you listen to your average liberal Democrat talk about women, that's it. That's what they think the only thing women are concerned about is, is making sure they can have sex whenever they want to have it, and then they're covered, either with contraception or an abortion. And anybody who opposes that is obviously engaged in a war on women. It's nonsense.

Limbaugh wasn't alone in his attacks. Drudge Report promoted a Breitbart.com article about Richards' tweet with the headline:

Breitbart.com's Robert Wilde alleged that Richards was advocating for an “abortion tradition” on Valentine's Day, writing:

In a global Internet search of the varied customs of Valentine's day expressions of love, there were zero mentions of other abortion traditions. It appears that Ms. Richards can safely claim that she is the seminal inspiration for the “avant-garde” concept that having an abortion is a value to be shared on Valentine's day.

Such outlandish comments are par for the course when it comes to right-wing media talking about women's health. Valentine's Day is just another excuse to further their smears.

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