The GOP's crusade to defund Planned Parenthood nationwide, explained - Vox.com

[Bill USA]

Most Americans support Planned Parenthood. Defunding it could backfire on Republicans politically. Why do they keep trying anyway?

http://www.vox.com/identities/2017/1/12/14189500/defund-planned-parenthood-congress-paul-ryan-republicans

Republicans in Congress are taking the first of three steps necessary to repeal the Affordable Care Act: The Senate passed the budget resolution to start that process at 1 am on Thursday, and the House is expected to do the same on Friday.

And as they work to repeal the ACA, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan promised last week that Republicans in Congress also plan to defund Planned Parenthood.

The GOP has been trying for years to do both of these things, and now they have the chance to make both happen in one fell swoop — through a process that Democrats will be powerless to stop on their own.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee is working out the details of the Planned Parenthood defunding bill, Ryan’s office told Vox, and the committee hasn’t released those details yet. One possible model could be a bill that passed the House last year, which prohibits Planned Parenthood from receiving federal funds for one year, unless its affiliates and clinics stop performing abortions.
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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. I think they wont be happy until we have nightly reports of women dying in back alley abortions.

[Bob Loblaw]

2. They believe

in part that if people don't have the means to avoid unwanted or unplanned pregnancies they'll stop having recreational sex which of course they believe is a sin.

[Raster]

4. they only believe recreational sex is a sin...

...if you or I are doing it.

[Bob Loblaw]

6. Or

if only one of us is doing it.

[Raster]

3. Yes, let's defund Planned Parenthood...

... even though, BY LAW, no public monies or funds are used for abortions.

... even though less than 4% of Planned Parenthood's annual budget is used for pregnancy terminations.

... even though the vast majority of Planned Parenthood's works are providing low-cost medical services TO MEN AND WOMEN: STD screenings and treatment, birth control and family planning education, cancer screenings, mamograms, prostate cancer examinations and education.

This is not about abortions. This is about the ability to control another's body, especially their reproductive freedom.

[Vogon_Glory]

5. It's more than an attack on abortion

It's more than an attack on abortion. I believe that even if Planned Parenthood denounced abortion tomorrow and prohibited its employees from even mentioning the a-word, the Radical Right would continue attacking it. The Radical Right has used the abortion red flag for DECADES as its stalking horse for restricting access to birth control and treatment of women's reproductive health.

Look at the Right's bogus crisis pregnancy clinics. Do they offer family planning services? Do they provide cancer screenings? Do they provide on-site medically sound advice and treatment by medical professionals? We know the answer to that: no they don't.

Yet we're supposed to believe that they really care about the mothers and the baybees.

[Turbineguy]

7. Ryan is always going on giving Obamacare terrible names.

I guess the idea is that their system of nothing will be great. He should really let go of the "capitalist imperialist running dog" shtick.

Ryan is the looter Ayn Rand failed to warn us about.

[Hortensis]

8. Good article. I didn't really know what the Title X

program was and its place in our system before. And certainly not that George H.W. Bush introduce it and Richard Nixon signed it into law.