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spanone

(135,843 posts)
Fri Apr 14, 2017, 07:57 AM Apr 2017

Coward: Trump privately signs anti-Planned Parenthood law

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump privately signed a bill on Thursday that allows states to withhold federal money from organizations that provide abortion services, including Planned Parenthood, a group frequently targeted by Republicans.

The bill, which the usually camera-friendly President signed without any media present, reverses an Obama-era regulation that prohibited states from withholding money from facilities that perform abortions, arguing that many of these facilities also provide other family planning and medical services.

The bulk of federal money Planned Parenthood receives, though, goes toward preventive health care, birth control, pregnancy tests and other women's health services. Federal law prohibits taxpayer dollars from funding abortions and Planned Parenthood says 3% of the services it provides are abortions.

The signing comes weeks after Vice President Mike Pence, a social conservative who regularly touts his anti-abortion stances, cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate after two Republicans opposed the measure.


http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/13/politics/donald-trump-planned-parenthood-money/index.html
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Coward: Trump privately signs anti-Planned Parenthood law (Original Post) spanone Apr 2017 OP
What a fucking chickenshit. dalton99a Apr 2017 #1
I can't think of a better way to increase the number of abortions. Vinca Apr 2017 #2
what did people think was going to happen when they let Trump win??? beachbum bob Apr 2017 #3
They couldn't do pics MyOwnPeace Apr 2017 #4
Thank goodness all those female rural supporters dont need NoMoreRepugs Apr 2017 #5
Mother f-cking, cock s-cking, sh-t eating, scumbag, worthless, misogynistic GOP. Ligyron Apr 2017 #6
 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
3. what did people think was going to happen when they let Trump win???
Fri Apr 14, 2017, 08:30 AM
Apr 2017

elections have consequences and not supporting "lesser of 2 evils" have REAL cost to america...wtf man.....the only people to blame are those who would vote or voted 3rd party

MyOwnPeace

(16,927 posts)
4. They couldn't do pics
Fri Apr 14, 2017, 08:40 AM
Apr 2017

because it took 3 people to remind him why he had come into the room to begin with.............

What a worthless steaming pile he is!

NoMoreRepugs

(9,435 posts)
5. Thank goodness all those female rural supporters dont need
Fri Apr 14, 2017, 08:52 AM
Apr 2017

Planned Parenthood 4 their health care and birth control.... oh wait, thats where many obtain it.... until NOW.

trumpettes make Forrest Gump look like Einstein.

Ligyron

(7,633 posts)
6. Mother f-cking, cock s-cking, sh-t eating, scumbag, worthless, misogynistic GOP.
Fri Apr 14, 2017, 09:49 AM
Apr 2017

Just wait til they can get a "pro-life" lawsuit before the SCOTUS with their new, (see above for descriptive adjectives) Justice now in place.

Once we get back in power, if we ever do, it will take us a decade to even begin repairing the damage they caused.

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