In Aurora, Illinois, a Planned Parenthood clinic was able to open its doors the day after someone set a fire outside its front door in August – in part because the building was created to weather such attacks, said Carole Brite, the CEO of Planned Parenthood of Illinois.
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There has been ample hemming and hawing from Republicans concerning the motivations of Robert Dear, the suspect involved in the Planned Parenthood shooting that occurred over the weekend in Colorado Springs, CO.
“I do not see a shutdown happening”, Mr. McCarthy said.
Planned Parenthood Southeast CEO Staci Fox released a statement following the announcement of the settlement: “The courts have made it clear across the country that these are losing battles that ultimately waste resources and harm patients”. “Even when the gunman was still inside of our health center, politicians who have long opposed safe and legal abortion were on television pushing their campaign to defund Planned Parenthood and invoking the discredited video smear campaign that reportedly fed this shooter’s rage”. Attacking Planned Parenthood is part of a concerted effort to roll back women’s access to reproductive health care, including abortion.
“I see a lot of anxiety and I see a lot of dislike for Planned Parenthood, there’s no question about that”, Trump said.
Huckabee would do well to remember that fetuses are not, in fact, human babies and that Planned Parenthood is certainly not dismembering them.
The organization filed a lawsuit in Texas last week, and federal judges have blocked attempts to stop Medicaid funding in Louisiana, Arkansas and Utah.
The motion says that Planned Parenthood Southeast’s Medicaid provider agreements with the state were reinstated as of October 28.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) he was “not optimistic about anything” regarding the spending bill after meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) on Monday for 25 minutes.
“I don’t know any pro-life leader, any – if you can tell me one, please correct me – I don’t know of anybody that suggested violence toward Planned Parenthood personnel or some act of violence toward their clinics”. Republican presidential candidates have rejected any link between anti-abortion rhetoric and the shootings.
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A special committee formed to investigate Planned Parenthood should be disbanded following the killing of three people at a Colorado clinic, New Jersey Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman and other Democrats on the panel said Tuesday. A law enforcement official said Dear told authorities “no more baby parts” after being arrested, an apparent reference to secretly recorded videos of Planned Parenthood officials discussing tissue donations that have fueled an uproar among congressional Republicans and abortion opponents nationally.
