She called the escalation “un-American”. “It is a choice – a choice millions of women make freely and proudly”.
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There has been ample hemming and hawing from Republicans concerning the motivations of Robert Dear, the suspect involved in the Planned Parenthood shooting that occurred over the weekend in Colorado Springs, CO. Instead of trying to defund it, he said, he hoped that legislators would move to expand its services.
There are less than two weeks until a deadline to pass the massive spending bill, which would fund every Cabinet agency and avoid a holiday season government shutdown. “They’re donors, they’re activists, they’re volunteers”, Jacobson said of the event Thursday night at Ecce Art Gallery.
I think what weve seen, as a result of all the hyped-up rhetoric youre getting from the Republican side of the presidential race, is an increase in harassment of the clinics, what youre seeing is an increase in arson all those facts are out there, Boxer told reporters on Tuesday. As far as federal funding for abortions go, Congress has outlawed such funding since 1977, except in cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother.
Emphasizing national security issues would keep Republicans on more comfortable ground than would a push to strip federal funding from Planned Parenthood.
House Democrats are calling on House Speaker Paul Ryan to disband a congressional panel investigating Planned Parenthood, saying heated rhetoric by lawmakers contributed to the deadly shootings at a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado.
In a statement, Alabama’s Bentley said Planned Parenthood revised its reimbursement policy following the video uproar.
In a speech on the Senate floor Monday afternoon, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid also called for an end to committee in the aftermath of the shooting, which he described as an act of “domestic terrorism”. “There are no plans to disband the committee”, she said.
“Alabama women will continue to be able to access care at Planned Parenthood using their Medicaid coverage”, the statement said. And we’ve seen that across the country from all sorts of speakers in the last few months. Senator James Lankford has been one of the leading members of Congress who stands against Planned Parenthood, but the President of Planned Parenthood has said “hateful rhetoric has real impact”.
Republicans have been vague about what they will fight to include in the spending bill, but Mr. McCarthy said Monday that security concerns have become the top GOP priority in the wake of the Islamic State attacks on November 13 in Paris.
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Police arrested Dear after an hourslong gunfight on Friday during which three people – including police officer Garrett Swasey – were killed and nine wounded.
