Defunding the organization, however, would mean that thousands of Connecticut women will have no access to birth control, no prenatal services, no cervical and ovarian cancer screenings.
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Planned Parenthood has come under attack because of edited, undercover videos published by the anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress that show officials of Planned Parenthood affiliates in other states discussing the sale of fetal body parts after abortions.
The Obama administration has attempted to downplay the scandal exposed by the Planned Parenthood videos and vowed to oppose any congressional effort at defunding the abortion giant. The app is called Planned Parenthood Direct™ and is a part of an app the organization launched last year, Planned Parenthood Care™.
Have you heard? Planned Parenthood is making a fortune selling baby parts! Their utmost concern, they emphasize, is “the decades-long campaign of harassment against Planned Parenthood and those they serve”.
Conway supports women’s right to abortion.
The State Journal in Frankfort reported Beshear’s response to Bevin: “No state money goes to Planned Parenthood“.
“We didn’t have a way at the department to regulate or the ability to get getting that information and to know if it was going on”, Christ said. “And really, we would even shy away from calling it fetal tissue research because just calling it tissue sanitizes it-the women don’t necessarily think about the body of their baby, they’re just thinking about blood and tissue”, said Johnson. It has nothing to do with abortions, it has to do with family planning. “I respect human life and do not want Alabama to be associated with an organization that does not”. “Matt Bevin has proven over and over again he doesn’t understand any of these issues”. But they also said that about the grisly scenes unveiled two years ago, when Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell was convicted of murder for performing hundreds of illegal late-term abortions, sometimes delivering the baby alive and then killing it. “America doesn’t need Planned Parenthood“.
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina said over the weekend that she would not hesitate to shut down the federal government in order to defund Planned Parenthood of taxpayer dollars. It needs to be realized that no matter what, health is always important, and for many, Planned Parenthood is the answer.
Bush leapt at the chance Tuesday to prove his anti-abortion bona fides before a group of largely conservative Christian voters at a meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Women’s health care is under attack. I will continue to stand with them, along with countless Connecticut women who have benefited from them. Altogether, those services may account for millions more men, women, boys, and girls. It had a 4.5 percent margin of error. In 2012 Planned Parenthood affiliates sold 327,166 abortions, and PPGC plans to sell more at a regional abortion center that is building on Claiborne Avenue in New Orleans. Check out our story calendar for more. Meanwhile, more than 90 percent of its services went toward other reproductive care.
And by existing federal regulations, none of the funds being withheld by the states could have been used to provide abortions.
Planned Parenthood offers something that other medical clinics don’t.
The U.S. Senate blocked Republican legislation to cut off federal funding to Planned Parenthood August. 3. He issued a statement saying he “misspoke” when speaking about women’s health funding and was referring only to the “hard-to-fathom $500 million in federal funding” for Planned Parenthood.
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Melissa Patrick writes for Kentucky Health News, an independent news service of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, based in the School of Journalism and Telecommunications at the University of Kentucky, with support from the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky.
