Under his plan, Bush says the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. could earn legal status by passing a criminal background check, paying a fine and learning English.
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“The next president should defund Planned Parenthood”, said Bush, the former Florida governor, garnering a lengthy round of applause.
“I would like to ask him, ‘Gov”.
“You only empower bullies by ignoring them”, Bush said. She pointed to a recent study by George Washington University that found Texas’ limitation of funding to Planned Parenthood would result in long wait times at community health centers, less comprehensive contraceptive options for clients, and and potentially increased costs to clients. “Tell it to the teenager who avoided an unintended pregnancy because she had access to contraception”.
Republican hopeful Jeb Bush is cleaning up his worst political mess since stumbling over questions about the Iraq War months ago, a troublesome turn for a candidate selling himself as the party’s steadiest option.
And Bush shot back at Clinton on Twitter, too, writing, “what’s absolutely, unequivocally wrong is giving taxpayer $ to an org whose practices show no regard for lives of unborn”. I promise you that Jeb Bush knows this perfectly well.
Democrats weren’t convinced by Bush’s mea culpa.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, the presidential frontrunner for the Democrats, was quick to reply.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who’s challenging Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, slammed Bush in a fundraising email Tuesday and said, “We need to be spending a lot more money on women’s health care”.
The remark drew applause at the convention, which event organizers said 13,000 people attended, but proved much more controversial outside it. One Republican also voted against terminating the measure, at least for now.
Will Jeb Bush’s gaffes prevent him from becoming the GOP nominee for president in 2016? When you attack Planned Parenthood, you attack women’s health.
According to the Real Clear Politics average, Bush is sitting in third with 12.2 percent support behind Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (12.7 percent) and Trump (22.2 percent).
In talking about Planned Parenthood today, Jeb Bush made a comment about funding women’s health that ended up getting some fierce social media reactions. He added that critical services must be accessible to all, more specifically to women having low incomes. The campaign said the first version was a draft.
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Bush and aides say their critics are working to take his statements out of context.
Bush’s campaign said he had been trying to criticize funding of Planned Parenthood.
By saying they want to defund the women’s health organization, Republicans are setting up a false dichotomy between Planned Parenthood and community health centers.
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Bush’s campaign has said that the former governor was not involved in any projects associated with the reproductive health program, but the story nonetheless caught fire in conservative news outlets.
