The House has approved a Republican proposal to block federal aid for Planned Parenthood.
The 240-185 vote on Friday is a victory for anti-abortion forces led by Indiana GOP Rep. Mike Pence. He says taxpayer money should not go to groups that provide or promote abortion.
"This afternoon's vote is a victory for taxpayers and a victory for life," Pence said Friday. "By banning funding to Planned Parenthood, Congress has taken a stand for millions of Americans who believe their tax dollars should not be used to subsidize the largest abortion provider in America."
Democrats say Planned Parenthood provides contraception and other valuable family planning services, and that cutting off the money will make it hard for women to get such basic help.
Planned Parenthood provides services in hundreds of clinics around the country. Pence aides say the group reported receiving $363 million in federal money in its latest report.
You know, about 2% of Planned Parenthood's services involve abortions. Those abortions are not paid for with federal money except in cases of rape or incest, consistent with the Hyde Amendment. So in order to punish Planned Parenthood, Pence and the GOP are willing to strip hundreds of millions from clinics across the country. Nice guys.
And really, the goal here is to punish anyone who happens to have a uterus. It's what Republicans do.
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Another pack of LIES.
Planned Parenthood performs nearly 300,000 abortions per year. They get tax dollars to do it. If abortions are just 2% of their services, then you're telling me Planned Parenthood sees 15 million Americans a year, which is a lie.
So unless every one of those 300,000 abortions was done to save the mother's life, you're a LIAR.
EVERY TIME you lie, I will be there you call you out.
EVERY TIME.
Fuck you, go away you piece of shit.
Hardly a lie. PP doesn't consider the morning after pill to be an abortion, but your site does. So your site lumps those pills with a medical procedure, which is a big stretch, IMO. And, it uses a very strange term 'medical' or 'Chemical' abortion, so it could actually be referring to birth control pills as well as morning after. I don't know if it is, but I didn't see where they defined it.
But, whether they are lumping them together or not, it's fairly clear that PP, and thus Zandar, is not lying in this case. PP says 2% because morning after/oral contraceptive pills aren't counted as an abortion. You apparently do, and you are practically exploding because of it. The only crime Zandar is guilty of is not sharing your point of view with regards to what an abortion is, so it seems to me you owe him an apology.
And I'm going back to my vacation. No idea why I'm posting, but I am a lot more relaxed, thanks.
You know, about 2% of Planned Parenthood's services involve abortions.
It's 3%, but who's counting?
Those abortions are not paid for with federal money except in cases of rape or incest, consistent with the Hyde Amendment.
And Zandar knows this because he's examined every single Planned Parenthood document showing this, right?
So in order to punish Planned Parenthood, Pence and the GOP are willing to strip hundreds of millions from clinics across the country.
Here are the last three annual reports from PP: 2007, 2008, and 2009. In those documents, the following people are named and/or pictured:
Barack Obama
Lisa Edelstein
Kate Walsh
Cynthia Nixon
Christie Hefner
Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D-MT)
Kathleen Sebelius
Heather Tom
Hillary Clinton
Joanne Garcia
Rina Mimoun
Carol Leifer
Olympia Dukakis
Judy Blume
Hector Elizondo
Jane Fonda
Amy Goodman
Janis Ian
Kathleen Turner
Blythe Danner
Gwyneth Paltrow
Taye Diggs
Aisha Taylor
Duncan Sheik
Tamara Tunie
Kathryn Erbe
Alex Trebek
Neil Patrick Harris
Felicity Huffman
William H. Macy
Jessica Lange
Ken Olin
Patricia Wettig
Rich politicians and artists. How is it that all these wealthy people, or even Oprah Winfrey, George Soros, and other wealthy pro-abortion fanatics not on the list, won't pick up the slack?
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