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Republican Senators Introduce Amendment To Stop GOP From Defunding Planned Parenthood
By Lauren Fox
Published December 3, 2015, 3:23 PM EST
Three Republican senators Mark Kirk (R-IL), Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski(R-AK) weren't about to let their party gut Planned Parenthood without a fight.
Collins led the charge on Senate floor Thursday announcing that defunding Planned Parenthood could lead to "the closure of several hundred clinics across the country, depriving millions of women of the health care provider of their choice."
Collins amendment was to strike language in the Senate's budget reconciliation bill, which redirected money from Planned Parenthoods to other community health clinics. Republican leaders included the defund language as a statement against Planned Parenthood, which sting videos alleged was selling fetal tissue.
Planned Parenthood has denied those accusations.
The reconciliation package, which included language to gut Obamacare is expected to be vetoed by the president.
But, moderate Republicans especially those running for re-election in swing states like Kirk had reason to be worried that the mere optics of voting to defund Planned Parenthood sent the wrong message back home. After all, Planned Parenthood does more than provide abortions. The clinics offer women health screenings and access to birth control.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)from time to time - of course it's self-serving but that's better than their colleagues
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)This part of article is "technically true" and yet totally misleading.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)All part of the propaganda being catapulted.
grntuscarora
(1,249 posts)Although I can't recall exactly why. Good on her for this! It takes guts to go against the scary nutjobs that make up her party.
MH1
(17,600 posts)She's still a republican and as such, mostly wrong on mostly everything, but she seems to have a glimmer of a soul left, unlike most of the cretins.
Rex
(65,616 posts)rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)For some reason the religious right hate women.
atreides1
(16,093 posts)The religious right consists of a women that hate their own gender, which means they hate themselves!
Yet, they are at the front of the pack when it comes to taking away the rights that so many women have fought, and some died, for!!!
Photographer
(1,142 posts)Good to hear but did I just wake up in bizarro world?