GOP Again Seeks to Eliminate Funding for Family Planning, Planned Parenthood & other Health Services

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http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2011/09/29/house-budget-seeks-eliminate-funding-family-planning-planned-parenthood-other-critical-health-services-0

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor-in-Chief, RH Reality Check

September 29, 2011 - 9:14pm

The House GOP is nothing if not determined to show just how little regard they have for the health and well-being of women in this country.

Just a day or two after launching a politically-motivated "investigation" of Planned Parenthood--demanding audits with taxpayer funds of programs that have already been audited with taxpayer funds--the House leadership released a draft Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 Labor, Health and Human Services appropriations bill that is a retread of attacks on women and the working poor. The bill would:

•Prohibit federal funding for Planned Parenthood through programs such as Medicaid which provides low-income women with preventive health care, including birth control, breast and cervical cancer screenings, annual exams, and STD testing and treatment;
•Eliminate funding for the Title X Family Planning Program, which provides access to birth control, cancer screenings, and other family planning services to five million low-income women each year, and through which women can avoid unintended pregnancies that would otherwise lead to abortion;
•Ban insurance coverage of abortion in the new health exchanges under the Affordable Care Act — taking away a common health benefit that most women currently have;

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1. Will the media call them on this in 2012? This has absolutely

nothing to do with jobs, which they campaigned on in 2010.

[Guilded Lilly]

2. It is high time for all women to call for the defunding of the GOP and firing their

misogynist butts.

They fear women so much??? GIVE THEM MORE REASON.


ENOUGH.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. I cannot express the contempt I have of these old, white, men.