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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCoward: 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.
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
Mother f-cking, cock s-cking, sh-t eating, scumbag, worthless, misogynistic GOP.
Ligyron
Apr 2017
#6
dalton99a
(81,513 posts)1. What a fucking chickenshit.
Vinca
(50,276 posts)2. I can't think of a better way to increase the number of abortions.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)3. what did people think was going to happen when they let Trump win???
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
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
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.
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.