Planned Parenthood Action Fund announced today that it will endorse Hillary Clinton for President of the United States – marking the first time in the organization’s history that it has endorsed a candidate in a presidential primary. Clinton has actively stood with Planned Parenthood in her stump speeches, her website and on Twitter. It’s a bad situation going on with Planned Parenthood.
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The Planned Parenthood Action Fund plans to spend $20 million on presidential and Senate races the 2016 election cycle, which will go towards key battleground states like New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
The Planned Parenthood endorsement comes on the heels of a Clinton endorsement by NARAL Pro-Choice America PAC, a national abortion rights group.
“Let’s be clear-reproductive rights and health are on the ballot in 2016”.
Planned Parenthood is one of the nation’s leading providers of abortions and reproductive health services.
Hillary Clinton followed up by expressing her support of the embattled women’s health organization.
The grim political and social climate spurred the organization’s endorsement, Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards told the New York Times.
Millions of Americans rely on Planned Parenthood for essential reproductive health care; millions of women access birth control through their health insurance; and close to a third of women will have an abortion in her lifetime. O’Malley received a single $250 donation from Planned Parenthood Maryland, according to his October filing.
Keep showing that out-of-touch GOP who’s the boss!
The landscape for women’s rights in the United States in 2016 is no doubt bleak.
Most of the Republican presidential candidates – including businesswoman Carly Fiorina, who famously called out the abortion provider for its unethical activities during a debate in September – have pushed for defunding the group. Planned Parenthood is a polarizing topic and the group suffered damaging public relations setbacks this summer when anti-abortion rights activists released video of an official from the group discussing the price of providing fetal parts. PP clinics have been the subject of terrorist attacks, and a high profile campaign of defamation has seen Republican presidential candidates take up wild and hysterical positions against PP.
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Almost every Republican seeking the presidency has backed the effort to defund Planned Parenthood, while Clinton, O’Malley, and Sanders have said that they would protect its taxpayer haul, which accounted for more than 40 percent of its revenue a year ago.
