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Mike Pence just cast tie-breaking vote to gut family planning
[font size="3"]Thanks to a tie-breaking vote from Vice President Mike Pence, the Senate just moved to roll back an Obama administration rule which provided family planning organizations like Planned Parenthood with protection from discrimination under Title X. This would be devastating to women and families, especially those living under conservative state governments. The final vote will come soon.[/font]
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Womens health and family planning capabilities are once again being targeted by Republicans, as the Senate just voted to roll back crucial protections, put in place by President Obama, that shielded organizations like Planned Parenthood from discrimination in funding by state governments.
And Vice President Mike Pence was all too happy to help them do it:
[div style="border:1px solid #000000;padding:10px;" class="excerpt"] Steven Dennis ✔ @StevenTDennis
Smiling VP Mike Pence just cast tie-breaking vote on bill allowing states to block public-health grants to Planned Parenthood.
11:37 AM - 30 Mar 2017 · Washington, DC
Enacted in 1970 notably with bipartisan support Title X is a critical program which provides federal funds to non-profit organizations which offer family planning services and information. According to Guttmacher, for 40 percent of people who receive care at Title X clinics, it is their only source of health care especially low-income, uninsured, or underinsured people, and for those living in rural communities with limited access to health care options.
Title X clinics are a critical source of preventive sexual health services such as STI testing and treatment, gynecological exams, contraception education, and cancer screenings. In 2016 alone, these clinics provided such services to approximately 4 million women and men at nearly 4,000 health centers around the country.
In December 2016, in the remaining weeks of his presidency, the Obama administration issued a new rule to bar states from withholding federal family-planning funds from Planned Parenthood affiliates and other health clinics that provide abortions. The regulation was intended to protect people in states with conservative governments which have long held organizations like Planned Parenthood squarely in their sights for defunding and other attacks.
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Mike Pence just cast tie-breaking vote to gut family planning (Original Post)
Bill USA
Mar 2017
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riversedge
(70,182 posts)1. and he did it with a smile!!
Skittles
(153,138 posts)2. this is a man who cannot trust himself to be with a woman unchaperoned
what a sanctimonious piece of shit he is
SunSeeker
(51,549 posts)3. K & R for exposure.