Defunding Planned Parenthood is a step in ending all birth control and abortion of ANY kind in the U.S. Part of this is Forcing white mothers when they get pregnant to have their babies thereby (in the mind of Republicans) increasing the votes for White Republicans. However, I don't think it will work for a variety of reasons. People aren't that stupid nationwide.
This has the possibility of destroying the lives of girls 12 to 18 or 20 who don't understand birth control yet and are new to being women and to adult life and the problems and responsibilities of being an adult.
This has the possibility of destroying the lives of girls 12 to 18 or 20 who don't understand birth control yet and are new to being women and to adult life and the problems and responsibilities of being an adult.
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WASHINGTON
― With so much attention on GOP efforts to repeal Obamacare this month,
there’s a detail to their plan that may slip under the radar: Their
bill will strip all federal funding for Planned Parenthood, too.
“Planned …
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Paul Ryan: We’ll Defund Planned Parenthood In Our Obamacare Repeal Bill, Too
Because why not erode women’s access to health care in multiple ways?
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WASHINGTON
― With so much attention on GOP efforts to repeal Obamacare this month,
there’s a detail to their plan that may slip under the radar: Their
bill will strip all federal funding for Planned Parenthood, too.
“Planned Parenthood legislation would be in our reconciliation bill,”
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said during a Thursday press
conference, referring to the process Republicans are using to pass an
Obamacare repeal bill with a simple majority of votes instead of a
supermajority, which means Democrats can’t filibuster it in the Senate.
The bill still has to pass
the House and Senate, and because the reconciliation process allows for
unlimited amendments, Democrats can try to tie it up.
Republicans have routinely
voted to defund Planned Parenthood over the years, but with President
Barack Obama in the White House, their bills never had a chance of
becoming law. That could change under President-elect Donald Trump.
Some Republicans argue the
women’s health care provider shouldn’t get any federal money because it
provides abortion services. But it’s a misleading claim: The federal
Hyde Amendment already bans federal dollars for abortions, except in
very restricted cases. The overwhelming majority of Planned Parenthood’s
services involve testing for and treating sexually transmitted
diseases, providing birth control, screening for breast cancer and
offering other women’s health care.
House Minority Leader Nancy
Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she’s not surprised the GOP is going after
women’s reproductive rights as part of its Obamacare repeal.
“This is a priority for the
Republicans,” Pelosi said in a Thursday news conference. “So I just
would like to speak individually to women across America: This is about
respect for you, for your judgment about your personal decisions in
terms of your reproductive needs, the size and timing of your family,
and the rest, not to be determined by the insurance company or by the
Republican, ideological, right-wing caucus in the House of
Representatives.
“This is a very important
occasion where we’re pointing out very specifically what repeal of [the
Affordable Care Act] would mean to woman,” Pelosi added.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) was more blunt, saying Ryan’s plan is a “disgraceful assault on women’s health.”
Planned
Parenthood gets most of its federal funding through Medicaid, which
helps low-income women. That’s what Republicans would be cutting. The
health care provider does get some Medicaid money in states, though, and
could keep doing so regardless of what Congress does.
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