These Voices Win The Senate Round
(good for them)
(I trust PP and their Rebuttal)
Major Update from the House Here: Disgusting as it were — a very good rundown.
House Republicans voted to strip tens of millions of federal dollars from their "public enemy No. 1" – Planned Parenthood. Similar efforts have already failed in the Senate — and President Obama is certain to veto any such bill if it came to his desk — but the vote gives GOP legislators an opportunity to reignite a fight against the country's largest abortion provider and win political points for the 2016 election next year ... obvious point. And, the impact on women in America:
Planned Parenthood receives more than $500 million annually in government funding, mostly through Medicaid and grants. That accounts for 40 percent of the organization's budget.
Most of the PP money goes toward providing low-income women with family planning services like STD screening and contraceptive coverage. Planned Parenthood is one of the largest providers in this space: Of the 6.7 million women who rely on public programs to pay for contraceptives, 2.4 million of them — 36 percent — do so at Planned Parenthood's 817 clinics across the country.
Because Planned Parenthood is such a large provider in this space, it's hard to see other clinics stepping in to fill the gap that it would leave.
Original post starts from here: the re-edited version for FOX /and RW versions of Planned Parenthood video
A deceptive video from a conservative group purports to show a Planned Parenthood official(s) discussing prices for the illegal sale of fetal tissue and body parts from abortions for profit.
Now, this major update from Vox.com and the GOP-run House and their sneaky crap:
From Vox.com this fine article about the impact if funding is cut off with this headlines:
That number is startling and worrisome, but from this GOP, not totally unexpected, in fact, rather routine: Their sustained attacks on women and their health care decisions and care all the while they seek to blame someone else - anyone except themselves.
Here CNN explains the next crappy new GOP tactics and it stinks... to wit (my emphasis in red):
Washington (CNN) – Top House Republicans are actively exploring a plan to avoid a government shutdown by targeting Planned Parenthood funding through a stand-alone budget tactic and passing a stop-gap measure that is free of restrictions on the abortion rights group.
The Original Story from the Senate re: their failure to defund which is the heart of the whole story from The Nation here and more from FOX here:
House Republicans voted to strip tens of millions of federal dollars from their "public enemy No. 1" – Planned Parenthood. Similar efforts have already failed in the Senate — and President Obama is certain to veto any such bill if it came to his desk — but the vote gives GOP legislators an opportunity to reignite a fight against the country's largest abortion provider and win political points for the 2016 election next year ... obvious point. And, the impact on women in America:
Planned Parenthood receives more than $500 million annually in government funding, mostly through Medicaid and grants. That accounts for 40 percent of the organization's budget.
Most of the PP money goes toward providing low-income women with family planning services like STD screening and contraceptive coverage. Planned Parenthood is one of the largest providers in this space: Of the 6.7 million women who rely on public programs to pay for contraceptives, 2.4 million of them — 36 percent — do so at Planned Parenthood's 817 clinics across the country.
Because Planned Parenthood is such a large provider in this space, it's hard to see other clinics stepping in to fill the gap that it would leave.
Original post starts from here: the re-edited version for FOX /and RW versions of Planned Parenthood video
A deceptive video from a conservative group purports to show a Planned Parenthood official(s) discussing prices for the illegal sale of fetal tissue and body parts from abortions for profit.
But the full, unedited footage and transcript released by the group undermines their own sensationalist claims.
That unedited video (the actual footage) shows at least three crucial edits that reveal, in fact, that the main Planned Parenthood official that had everyone, mostly on the GOP-RW side at least, up in a hissy fit and rage, was instead discussing the reimbursement cost for consensual, legal tissue donations and NOT any illegal selling of body parts.
FOX news once again shows their true color and label: “Unfair and Unbalanced.”
From Vox.com this fine article about the impact if funding is cut off with this headlines:
"CBO: 630,000 women could lose access to care if Planned Parenthood is Defunded"
Here CNN explains the next crappy new GOP tactics and it stinks... to wit (my emphasis in red):
Washington (CNN) – Top House Republicans are actively exploring a plan to avoid a government shutdown by targeting Planned Parenthood funding through a stand-alone budget tactic and passing a stop-gap measure that is free of restrictions on the abortion rights group.
The idea, which has been discussed for weeks by senior House Republicans, has not yet been explicitly endorsed by House Speaker John Boehner — and it's far from clear that it will pass muster with House conservatives who are demanding the party leadership take a tougher line against the organization.
But the plan is gaining steam in the upper ranks of the House GOP conference — and it would remove the most controversial barrier standing before House Republicans over how to attack Planned Parenthood without shutting down the government at month's end.
Under the proposal, the House would approve a short-term, stop-gap measure to keep the government afloat until later this fall. Republicans would instead target Planned Parenthood's roughly $500 million in annual funding through a legislative process known as budget reconciliation, which cannot be filibustered in the Senate.
President Barack Obama, however, could still veto the reconciliation legislation, and Democrats would still hold enough votes to sustain a veto.
And, thus the GOP avoids blame while blaming Mr. Obama... neat trick, isn't it? But, you know what? The votes are not a dumb as, or at least as much as, GOP conservative base voters who are rabid and easily moved to crap like this.
The Original Story from the Senate re: their failure to defund which is the heart of the whole story from The Nation here and more from FOX here:
The GOP, or better, GOPer in general just do not get it when it comes to a woman's decision regarding her own health care:
A key source of federal family planning funding, known as Title X, has seen a 10 percent cut in its budget since fiscal year 2010.
Title X-funded clinics have already shed services for some 667,000 clients — capping a generation of funding declines since the 1980s, according to the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association. For more than 4,100 clinics nationwide, these cuts have not only coincided with diminished services but outright closures. Under continual budget strains, about one in three family planning clinics in South Dakota, and one in five Maryland clinics, have vanished.
For that uninsured minimum-wage worker, her local Title X clinic is a fraying lifeline: she relies on it for (1) birth control, (2) health counseling, (3) cervical cancer and (4) HIV screening (Title X funds, along with federal Medicaid, are BY LAW (Hyde amendment) restricted to non-abortion services).
In 2013, according to Guttmacher Institute, “the contraceptive services provided by clinics alone helped women to prevent some 1.4 million unintended pregnancies, thereby helping women avoid 705,000 unplanned births and 485,000 abortions.” Even Republicans should be glad to know that publicly funded family planning prevented 164,000 unplanned preterm or low birth weight births.
No "war" on women, right ... bullshit – it’s real and this GOP in general is in denial ...
P.S. The women of America know, too.
As I always say: stay tuned - it ain't over yet.
A key source of federal family planning funding, known as Title X, has seen a 10 percent cut in its budget since fiscal year 2010.
Title X-funded clinics have already shed services for some 667,000 clients — capping a generation of funding declines since the 1980s, according to the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association. For more than 4,100 clinics nationwide, these cuts have not only coincided with diminished services but outright closures. Under continual budget strains, about one in three family planning clinics in South Dakota, and one in five Maryland clinics, have vanished.
For that uninsured minimum-wage worker, her local Title X clinic is a fraying lifeline: she relies on it for (1) birth control, (2) health counseling, (3) cervical cancer and (4) HIV screening (Title X funds, along with federal Medicaid, are BY LAW (Hyde amendment) restricted to non-abortion services).
In 2013, according to Guttmacher Institute, “the contraceptive services provided by clinics alone helped women to prevent some 1.4 million unintended pregnancies, thereby helping women avoid 705,000 unplanned births and 485,000 abortions.” Even Republicans should be glad to know that publicly funded family planning prevented 164,000 unplanned preterm or low birth weight births.
No "war" on women, right ... bullshit – it’s real and this GOP in general is in denial ...
P.S. The women of America know, too.
As I always say: stay tuned - it ain't over yet.
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