{"id":8500,"date":"2012-07-30T10:37:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T17:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8500"},"modified":"2012-07-30T10:37:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T17:37:20","slug":"new-republican-assault-on-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/30\/new-republican-assault-on-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"New Republican Assault on Planned Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"

To set the record straight, in advance, I am not pro abortion.  I consider every abortion that takes place a tragedy.  Nevertheless, my right to my own beliefs ends at the tip of your nose.  I also recognize that sometimes the mistakes we make limit our choices, so that we are left with finding the least harmful choice of the options available .  I have no right to direct which choices individual women make with their doctors, so I support the right of women to make their own choices, but that\u2019s not the only reason I support Planned Parenthood.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"30PlannedP\"Even with a persistent gender gap in a presidential election year, House Republicans have not given up on their campaign to narrow access to birth control, abortion care and lifesaving cancer screenings. Far from it. <\/p>\n

A new Republican spending proposal<\/a> revives some of the more extreme attacks on women\u2019s health and freedom that were blocked by the Senate earlier in this Congress. The resurrection is part of an alarming national crusade that goes beyond abortion rights and strikes broadly at women\u2019s health in general<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

These setbacks are recycled from the Congressional trash bin in the fiscal 2013 spending bill for federal health, labor and education programs approved by a House appropriations subcommittee on July 18 over loud objections from Democratic members to these and other provisions. <\/p>\n

The measure would bar Planned Parenthood\u2019s network of clinics, which serve millions of women across the country, from receiving any federal money unless the health group agreed to no longer offer abortion services for which it uses no federal dollars \u2014 a patently unconstitutional provision<\/strong>. It would also eliminate financing for Title X, the effective federal family-planning program for low-income women that provides birth control, breast and cervical cancer screenings, and testing for sexually-transmitted diseases<\/strong>. Without this program, some women would die, and unintended pregnancies would rise, resulting in some 400,000 more abortions a year and increases in Medicaid-related costs, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a leading authority on reproductive health\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <NY Times<\/a>><\/p>\n

Photo credit: Emily’s list<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

I also support Planned Parenthood, because of the many services they offer, so that the vast majority of what they do is completely unrelated with providing abortions.  However, those services do prevent thousands of abortions every year.  As someone who does not like abortion, I also support Planned Parenthood, because they are primarily an abortion prevention resource.<\/font><\/p>\n

On the other hand, I do not support the Republican war on women that would goose-step women\u2019s rights back to the 19th century.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To set the record straight, in advance, I am not pro abortion.  I consider every abortion that takes place a tragedy.  Nevertheless, my right to my own beliefs ends at the tip of your nose.  I also recognize that sometimes the mistakes we make limit our choices, so that we are left with finding the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}