GOP lawmakers OK bill to defund Planned Parenthood in Iowa

[workinclasszero]

GOP lawmakers OK bill to defund Planned Parenthood in Iowa
By Barbara Rodriguez | AP January 31 at 8:02 PM

DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa will pass up millions in federal dollars in order to remove state funding for Planned Parenthood under a bill approved Tuesday by a group of Republican lawmakers, and the measure has strong support in the new GOP-majority Legislature.

The 8-5 vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee followed hours of stalled debate over the measure, which proposes creating a state-run program that distributes money for family planning services to organizations that don’t provide abortions.

No family planning dollars are now spent on abortions in Iowa, a point that highlights the philosophical differences in the Iowa statehouse after the Nov. 8 election. Democrats lost control of the Senate for the first time in years, and they had previously stopped such legislation from advancing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/gop-lawmakers-ok-bill-to-defund-planned-parenthood-in-iowa/2017/01/31/fdc2d14e-e817-11e6-903d-9b11ed7d8d2a_story.html

[madaboutharry]

1. Despicable people.

I wish I believed in Hell so I could tell them to go there.

[workinclasszero]

2. The next four years

Republicans and Trump will war against the poor.

Poor women that got free health care at PP will die just like the 44000 a year when the terrorist republican party kills the ACA

[Maru Kitteh]

3. Having spent years in that area (Iowa/Nebraska)

Misogyny is thickly woven and absolutely overt in the culture, more so even than most of the rest of the US. Gender roles and conformity are strictly enforced. Don't forget, this is the area where Brandon Teena was raped and murdered for violating gender norms and daring to be himself. "United States of Shame" identified Nebraska as having the highest rate of violence against females.

A misogynist law designed to force women to conform to white male heterosexual Christian Fundamentalist ideas of gender and place? This development does not surprise me in the least.