“Watch a fully formed fetus on the table, it’s heart beating, it’s legs kicking while someone says we have to keep it alive to harvest its brain”. The organization has kept that largely unknown, except for those actually seeking abortions, by repeating the now discredited assertion that abortion makes up only 3% of Planned Parenthood “services”.
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So far the video has a whopping 2.6 million views. The fact is, both the Washington Post and Slate, liberal news outlets, say this number is manipulative.
In a wide-ranging interview, Fiorina also told Herald Radio that Gov. Charlie Baker and former Bay State Sen. Admit that federal funding goes to abortion, and Planned Parenthood is violating federal law.
The White House has made it clear that President Obama is prepared to veto any sort of bill that deals with defunding Planned Parenthood.
Live Action started a petition supporting defunding Planned Parenthood.
House Republicans Tuesday advanced a resolution creating a special subcommittee to investigate Planned Parenthood following recent revelations about the taxpayer-funded group’s fetal tissue harvesting. It exposes the depths of their contempt for women’s health and their total indifference to the priorities of hard-working American families. Political maneuvering and grandstanding do not give these issues – or women – the respect they deserve. “Fortunately, it was a pretty narrow ruling so it only affected the three women”.
Absolutely not, and whether I personally find the Hyde Amendment to be terribly discriminatory against poor women in this country but that is the law of the land and Planned Parenthood follows the law of the land and so except in very extreme limited circumstances rape, incest, life of the mother, no federal funds can or are used for providing abortions. Headquartered in Chicago, the Society fosters support for these causes by providing high quality pro bono legal services from local trial courts all the way up to the United States Supreme Court. Patty Murray said GOP leaders are pandering in their efforts to defund the organization. When they call for privatizing Medicare and Social Security, and turning these programs into profit centers for big corporations and Wall Street, they are doubling down on their attacks against the healthcare and financial security interests of senior women.
“We understand that the House will soon have new leadership”, they wrote.
Republican presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina has spent the last two weeks repeating an erroneous description of videos secretly recorded by anti-abortion activists. But that would have defeated the partisan goal of the show horse hearing.
DHEC hasn’t yet been questioned by the committee, which won’t meet again until November. It is allowing citizens who would otherwise be unable to pay for reproductive and health services the opportunity to receive them.
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The organization also provides abortion services. Anti-abortion supporters are quick to demonize Planned Parenthood because they seem caught up in this one service, but we need to grow up and realize this is a non-negotiable service.
