Bobby Jindal cut state Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood on Monday because recent videos of employees appearing to discuss the sale of fetuses from abortions “does not represent the values of the people of Louisiana”. “We need to know that Planned Parenthood is operating legally and complying with state laws regarding the safety of clinics”. “I’ll keep standing up against attempts to defund women’s health care”. But Democrats argued that the defunding would hurt patients who turn to Planned Parenthood for breast exams, cancer screenings and other services – not just abortion.
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“The question is, do we want taxpayer dollars to continue to support an organization that treats human body parts like a product on the shelves of a store?”
Meanwhile, the group behind the undercover recordings, Center for Medical Progress, says it has 8 to 10 more videos to release, including a segment that reportedly shows that babies were born alive before their parts were sold.
The legislation failed to garner enough votes to advance.
“All you’ll do by creating this line in the sand once again is to shut down the federal government”, Murphy said about the threat, “sucking thousands of jobs out of our economy and leading to tens of thousands of stories of individual misery”.
“The revelations we’ve seen from Planned Parenthood are deeply disturbing”, McConnell said Monday. Rand Paul, a 2016 Republican presidential candidate, told CNN on Sunday. Planned Parenthood provides contraception, testing for sexually transmitted diseases and abortions in clinics from coast to coast. Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., has said he expects to get several dozen signatures on a letter opposing any spending bill containing money for Planned Parenthood, and some GOP senators, including Cruz, Paul and others, have voiced similar sentiments. According to the organization’s 2014-2015 annual report, abortions constitute 3 percent of services provided by Planned Parenthood branches. “Because that is American women’s lived experience with Planned Parenthood“.
Carole Joffe, a professor at the University of California San Francisco who specializes in reproductive health politics, said Planned Parenthood has been a convenient target of conservatives since the 1970s, crystallizing anxieties about women’s liberation and loosening of sexual mores.
Cecile Richard, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, called the failed GOP effort on the bill on Monday evidence that the issue was a “political non-starter”.
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“It’s a very interesting moment, because it’s a big gamble”.
