A woman's rights to her own life, her own body

[Aglaopheme]

Quite the maiden speech for a female Rep.


http://m.host.madison.com/ct/news/l...-9cec-378a17bf472e.html#.VgbCxtUIkhI.facebook

Jacque said the result will be more resources for a broader network of health care providers serving all Wisconsinites' interests, not just those of one interest group. He argued the bill is an effort to end Planned Parenthood's "monopoly" on the funds.

Rep. Janel Brandtjen, R-Menomonee Falls, delivered her maiden speech on the Assembly floor in support of the bill. She said Planned Parenthood shouldn't receive government funds, arguing that it encourages "young women with promiscuous lifestyles."

"Planned Parenthood is nothing more than a maintenance garage that treats women like sex objects," Brandtjen said. "Women need access to real health care. Let’s get that done."

Brandtjen argued that the funds would be better directed to the Wisconsin Well Woman Program and county health departments, while Rep. Katrina Shankland, D-Stevens Point, countered that the Well Woman Program only serves women ages 45-64.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

They smeared the profession of legitimate journalists, and entangled journalism with a propaganda effort.

It was a worthwhile risk for this pair of anti abortion operatives.
They created "proof" for a false meme, that will not go away.

False meme- Abortion clinics profit from killing the fetus. They sell fetus for profit!
Planned Parenthood sells body parts of fetus! Planned Parenthood harvests organs from fetus! We have proof! We filmed it and recorded it!

It took a long time, and much effort to debunk the meme.
The meme carries on, as if the truth never came to light.

The Right Wing politicians that were elected on the promises of fighting Planned Parenthood, do not care if the accusations are true or not. A lie serves the purpose just as well as the truth does. The purpose is to justify an attack.

This results in a belief in a conspiracy, that the highly edited videos are the original videos.Or, supporting the premise of a conspiracy without belief, because it is useful as a weapon against another community that they consider rivals and competitors for resources. If one particular religion contains the majority of the population, there is an interdependent network in operation.

What of the voters that wanted to believe Republicans would remove Planned Parenthood from their state ?

What was the reasoning behind believing the videos show that fetuses are dismembered for profit ?

The people that fight legal abortion rights are a community.
They have made their decision based on religion.
For those who have truly invested belief in religion, they may have based their decision in a state of fear.
They do not want to be punished in the afterlife, after death.
They may truly believe that they must defend the fetus, at all costs.
Their decision is based on the fear of death. Life does not matter.
Life does not last for an eternity. They fear an eternity of punishment, for opposing the will of their God/ god. The woman became pregnant, and that was their God's/god's will, that a baby be born.

These religious true believers might have the mind set, that they have been forced to choose one side, or the other.

Those obedient to their God's will, and those who choose to oppose their God's will. They choose between saving another human being from an eternity of punishment, and avoiding punishment themselves, or being accused of being a conspirator, siding with a person that chooses defiance, against the will of their God/god, and compounds danger to themselves for not preventing the loss of a baby that their God/God willed into existence. I, myself, would not hazard to guess that the punishment they fear, is for interfering with their God's/God's plans for the future. Though, I have seen in print, that some fear that abortions have prevented an aspect of their God/God from returning to Earth. Their demigod, Jesus the Christ. The oquestion does arise, as to what the fetus might have been born to be, as an adult. Or, someone similar to Albert Einstein? Or, a human being similar to a prophet from their religious texts ?

Uncertainty has been built into their belief system. The religious true believers do not know for certain, of what will be forgiven, and what will not be forgiven. I have no idea how anyone could convince themselves that everything in their power to decide, was decided to someone else's satisfaction. Prayer might serve the purpose of blocking out doubt. But pleading with another, that you never get confirmation from ? It seems to be a religion that promotes uneasiness.

They choose to believe there is only one God/god. Their God/god. To the true religious believer, it is better that a woman suffer agony and physical torture until her death, than to be spared agony, suffering, and death, by means of modern medical assistance.

7 August 2016

Florida senator Marco Rubio has said women infected with the Zika virus should not be allowed to have abortions, even if their babies have microcephaly, the severe developmental disorder than can result from infection with the disease.

In the Senate, Rubio has supported the provision of funding for work against Zika. In May, after a $1.1bn funding measure he sponsored passed the Senate, he cited an estimate from the CDC director, Tom Frieden, that the lifetime cost of caring for a child born with microcephaly could reach $10m.

The bill that would have provided funds to fight Zika failed

There was a bill that had bipartisan support, but the Democrats refused to go along with the attached provisions to the bill that imposed restrictions on abortion, overturned clean water regulations, defunded parts of the president’s healthcare law, and sought to undo a ban on flying the Confederate flag at federal cemeteries.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...rtions-florida

Are the candidates that the Republicans elect, merely mercenaries sent into a war on Democrats ? Do the Republican who send them to Washington know that the word they speak are hollow, and are just phrases that are weapons against Democrats ?



It was clearly demonstrated that the Republicans do not give a sincere fuck about the unborn babies they weep over during an election campaign. The Republicans took a national emergency as an opportunity to win the war on Democrat. They asked the Democrats if they were desperate enough to cave in to all of their demands.

Everything they have been fighting for, since President Obama began to help our nation back onto its feet.

Cut funds to Obamacare and Ebola research. Restrictions on federal grants for Planned Parenthood. We are in the middle of a crisis that involves pregnancy and sever birth defects, and the Republicans want to restrict who funding for contraceptives, and who hands out the contraceptives ? Do Republicans really believe that a confederate flag on a gravesite, is more important than an epidemic that may have a health crisis on millions ? It just proved that Republicans do not stop Political Posturing, no matter what.

It has been said, that Republicans use the fact that Democrats care, against Democrats.

Republicans gave the whole nation the middle finger, and went on a 7 week vacation.
The Republicans have set up the gameboard according to their preferences, and they return to it on September 6, 2016

September 29, 2015

Republicans promised their clients that they would kill Planned Parenthood.
Republicans promised to stop abortion.
Republicans spend much of their time and much of taxpayers money,persecuting Democrats.

The purpose of forcing Democrats to defend themselves ?

Money.

Do not give the Democrats money.

Do not give voters who choose Democrats money.

Force Democrats to lose money.

Interrupt their work, interrupt their funding.

Force them to spend money on lawyers.

Force them to spend their time defending themselves.

Disrupt and destroy.


"...a group going under the mysterious name the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) managed to turn this obscure urban legend into a national controversy by releasing what they claimed was a hidden camera video of a Planned Parenthood doctor supposedly admitting to being a part of this conspiracy."

The claim was a lie. The nine-minute video was heavily edited from hours of footage to make it seem like the doctor was admitting to those things.

But those who watched the longer video quickly realized the doctor was saying exactly the opposite of what CMP accused her of saying. In the longer version, she repeatedly makes it clear that Planned Parenthood does not sell fetal tissue. Instead, they donate fetal tissue, tissue that would otherwise go into biowaste, to medical research at the behest of that patients, most of whom are undergoing later abortions because of medically necessary reasons.

http://www.salon.com/2016/07/14/anat..._the_scammers/


After months of investigations, every state looking into Planned Parenthood’s involvement in selling fetal tissue has come up with nothing

Eight of the 20 states that have led investigations didn’t even have enough evidence to start one. And on Tuesday, a Houston grand jury indicted the anti-abortion activists behind the highly-edited videos misleading viewers to believe Planned Parenthood profited off fetal tissue — concluding that they tampered with government evidence and illegally purchased human organs. The jury cleared the local Planned Parenthood staff of any illegal involvement.


Texas announced its plan to halt all state Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood due to the organization being “no longer capable of performing medical services in a professionally competent, safe, legal and ethical manner.” Again, this major decision was solely based on the activists’ videos.

https://thinkprogress.org/gop-lawmak...d-fd4b1d254355


26 July 2016[

A Texas judge on Tuesday dismissed all criminal charges facing two anti-abortion activists who had assumed false identities in an attempt to buy fetal tissue from a Planned Parenthood in Houston and film the transaction

Planned Parenthood issued a scathing response to the news that Daleiden would not face prosecution.

“The decision to drop the prosecution on a technicality does not negate the fact that the only people who engaged in wrongdoing are the extremists behind this fraud,” said Melaney A Linton, the president of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast. “Daleiden and other anti-abortion extremists … spent three years creating a fake company, creating fake identities, and lying. When they couldn’t find any improper or illegal activity, they made it up. They spread malicious lies about Planned Parenthood.”


. In February, the presiding judge in the National Abortion Federation’s lawsuit against the center ruled that Daleiden had not “use[d] widely accepted investigatory journalism techniques” or produced “pieces of journalistic integrity, but misleadingly edited videos and unfounded assertions of criminal misconduct”.


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...rges-dismissed

Just another lie, in the sea of lies that the Republicans use against Democrats.
Democrats do not have to waste energy inventing lies, because what Republicans do, is sufficient material to work with.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Oklahoma State Rep. Justin Humphrey has the opinion, that because I was born female, the Constitution does not apply to me ?

In an interview with the Intercept, this is how Humphrey justified the unconstitutional bill he recently introduced, which requires pregnant women to get the fetus’s father’s permission to obtain an abortion:

Ultimately, he said, his intent was to let men have a say. “I believe one of the breakdowns in our society is that we have excluded the man out of all of these types of decisions,” he said.


“I understand that they feel like that is their body,” he said of women. “I feel like it is a separate — what I call them is, is you’re a ‘host.’

And you know when you enter into a relationship you’re going to be that host,and so, you know, if you pre-know that then take all precautions and don’t get pregnant,” he explained. “So that’s where I’m at. I’m like, hey, your body is your body and be responsible with it. But after you’re irresponsible then don’t claim, well, I can just go and do this with another body, when you’re the host and you invited that in.”


http://theslot.jezebel.com/oklahoma-lawmaker-pregnant-women-are-hosts-whose-bodie-1792303950


I have seen and heard the message loud and clear.
A doctor went against the hospital policy, or there is an unspoken policy.
If you use contraception or interfere with birth in any way, a doctor will now condemn you to death. You are not human to them. You are a living, breathing, fetus delivery system and it does not matter if you die. If you were unfortunate enough to be born with a less than perfect reproductive system, you are condemned to die. If you were raped, you are condemned to suffer from nature's fate.

Unless, you are ultra rich and politically connected.
If so, every medical advance will be there for your safety and comfort.
Because some people are "more equal than others."


The decision makers are completely objective.
Except, for when they are not...

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Saturday, women, and their supporters risked frostbite in Boston.

The Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts organized the rally in response to a leaked federal proposal that pledges to defund Planned Parenthood clinics across the country. Massachusetts’ five clinics may lose approximately $2 million in Medicaid reimbursements if the proposal becomes law.

http://news.wgbh.org/2017/03/04/local-news/hundreds-rally-against-proposed-planned-parenthood-cuts


Trump invites Planned Parenthood into a typical Trump game.

Trump tells Planned Parenthood he will not remove funds, if they
discontinue providing abortions.



https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/us/politics/planned-parenthood.html?_r=0


Trump Offers to Let Planned Parenthood Keep Its Funding—If It Stops Performing Abortions


The women's health organization has rejected his proposal


The Times reported that White House officials have even offered a possible increase in federal money for Planned Parenthood if it stops providing abortions.

Currently, several proposals to defund Planned Parenthood are moving through Congress. One was approved by the House, another was introduced in the Senate, and a third cropped up in a draft of the proposed bill to repeal Obamacare.

The measures would make Planned Parenthood and any other clinic that offers abortions "prohibited entities" for the use of Medicaid. This means that low-income patients with Medicaid coverage would be barred from using their federally funded benefits at Planned Parenthood—even to obtain non-abortion health care, such as pap smears, cervical cancer screenings, STI testing, and contraception. It is already illegal for Medicaid to cover most abortions, and it has been for more than 40 years.


http://www.motherjones.com/politics...-parenthood-funding-if-they-cut-abortion-care

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

The Trump administration may weaken or eliminate the provision for full coverage of contraception in the Affordable Care Act, experts say, and it may not require any action from Republican allies in Congress.

The provision that allows women to receive full coverage for birth control — including insertion and removal of an IUD — could be eliminated or at least weakened through regulations, guidance, or law. Reproductive rights advocates are also waiting to see whether the Trump administration will continue to defend the mandate in the courts on Tuesday.


Trump appointed Tom Price Secretary of Health and Human Services


During his confirmation hearing, Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) asked Price about his 2012 statement on birth control because her constituents say birth control without a co-pay is essential to their health care. Price refused to commit to full coverage of birth control.


https://thinkprogress.org/birth-control-coverage-is-in-serious-danger-ddfbaba5ef68#.vq3c4mp7k



http://littlegreenfootballs.com/page/323343_Birth_Control_Coverage_Is_in_S accesskey=


Trump promise to remove Obama Care, remove birth control option

If federal funding for family planning services is cut, and if Medicaid reimbursements decline under an ACA replacement law, Albert and other advocates for women’s health say many thinly financed clinics may have to close their doors. That’s already happening in Indiana, Adams said.

The Jan. 21 Women’s March on Washington and other grassroots women’s movements that have sprung up since the November election have raised awareness of the potential for funding cuts to Planned Parenthood and other family planning centers under the new administration and Republican-led Congress.

“We’ve been hearing from doctors and other providers over the past several months that many women are concerned that the contraceptive coverage now available to them will vanish,” Albert said.


http://www.philly.com/philly/health...omen-stock-up-on-birth-control.html?mobi=true

 

[adrina]

You know what I would love to hear in a conversation about abortion?


"I trust the woman to make the decision that she thinks is best."


It seems that is a foreign concept. It shouldn't be.

 

[BotanyBoy]

You know what I would love to hear in a conversation about abortion?


"I trust the woman to make the decision that she thinks is best."


It seems that is a foreign concept. It shouldn't be.

Capitalism is dead....government gets to tell you how to manage your genitals, enjoy the socialism.

 

[adrina]

Capitalism is dead....government gets to tell you how to manage your genitals, enjoy the socialism.

Well that's some ass backwards bit of thinking.

 

[urguyscott]

Ya for Women's Strike Day

Wouldn't it be safer for women if Planned Parent Hood did what their name says? Teach both men and woman safe sex, proper health and care of their bodies? Instead they say go ahead and get knocked up and we'll provide an abortion, that may or may not be harmful to you. It is also the same people who are against the death penalty and who are for objectors in war and call themselves anti-war (even when committing violence), but say late term abortion is OK.

Women in this country have more rights and protection, including getting an abortion (my wife got one when she was in high school and the jerk boyfriend, who Plan Parenthood doesn't seem to want to take their share of the pregnancy, didn't even go with her) than the majority of women in the world. The woman who is behind the so called Women's Protest is a Muslim from Chicago who firmly believes in the dark age view of woman in the Middle East. The women protesting do not really know what they are protesting for, only that it is the fad right now. Next week it will be the length of skirts.

Please don't get me wrong. I think it is a great for women to go on strike. Think of it. We men will have what the heroes in the Middle East have all the time. A day without women driving, going to school, or work, voting, not spending OUR money on shopping. Hey we are the ones with the holiday. If only we could have the complete wonderful days of the dark ages back the way these women wish. Then if a woman didn't do her chores or pop out boy kids we could sell her or stone her and buy us a new woman for a couple of goats.

The really funny part about the leftist and their so called "protests" and desires is if they get what they want and wish in the way of government than they will all be stood against the wall by the very leaders they put in power. Gays and women rights do not exist any more than unions and job safety and environmental controls do in a leftist country. No protests, no voting, no choice of what you want to do in life. Only the rich party members get rich and happy, while the 99% become slaves, serfs or peons. And nothing for the women.

Thank you ladies, the roads were so nice today without you.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

This ink cannot be disolved, or faded.You cannot make it disappear.

Every womam with self respect and self worth took note of what he said.


Someone plastered posters of Donald Trump's sexual assault monologue all over the East Village in NY

Mar 08, 2017

posters read:

“I did try and fuck her. She was married.

I moved on her like a bitch,

But I couldn’t get there.

And she was married.

You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful.

I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss.

I don’t even wait.

You can do anything…

Grab them by the pussy.

You can do anything.”

The President of the United States of America

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Women are accessories, to some men in America. An education, a job, a position,a business, call for a wife, a house, some children. Badges of a full fledged legitimate membe of the community.(I was given badges while in Girl Scouts! We had to know what to do, if the USA was nuked.)

Then, again, there are bachelors to be found. Not all professions frown on single men.

It is 2017. Not every woman is seeking to reproduce.

February 19, 2017

“If businesses are forced to pay women the same as male earnings, that means they will have to reduce the pay for the men they employ, simple economics,” Green wrote. “If that happens, then men will have an even more difficult time earning enough to support their families, which will mean more Mothers will be forced to leave the home (where they may prefer to be) to join the workforce to make up the difference.”


And having more women in the workforce would create competition for jobs, “even men’s jobs,” Green wrote. That will, in turn, lower the pay for all jobs and force “more and more Mothers” into the workforce, he argued.

That’s “bad for families and thus for all of society,” Green wrote. “It’s a vicious cycle that only gets worse the more equality of pay is forced upon us. It’s a situation of well-meaning intentions, but negative unintended consequences.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...and-society/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.75e6fd27eb3d


Are they stuck in the 1950s in Utah?

 

[BettyPoop]

Wouldn't it be safer for women if Planned Parent Hood did what their name says? Teach both men and woman safe sex, proper health and care of their bodies? Instead they say go ahead and get knocked up and we'll provide an abortion, that may or may not be harmful to you. It is also the same people who are against the death penalty and who are for objectors in war and call themselves anti-war (even when committing violence), but say late term abortion is OK.

Women in this country have more rights and protection, including getting an abortion (my wife got one when she was in high school and the jerk boyfriend, who Plan Parenthood doesn't seem to want to take their share of the pregnancy, didn't even go with her) than the majority of women in the world. The woman who is behind the so called Women's Protest is a Muslim from Chicago who firmly believes in the dark age view of woman in the Middle East. The women protesting do not really know what they are protesting for, only that it is the fad right now. Next week it will be the length of skirts.

Please don't get me wrong. I think it is a great for women to go on strike. Think of it. We men will have what the heroes in the Middle East have all the time. A day without women driving, going to school, or work, voting, not spending OUR money on shopping. Hey we are the ones with the holiday. If only we could have the complete wonderful days of the dark ages back the way these women wish. Then if a woman didn't do her chores or pop out boy kids we could sell her or stone her and buy us a new woman for a couple of goats.

The really funny part about the leftist and their so called "protests" and desires is if they get what they want and wish in the way of government than they will all be stood against the wall by the very leaders they put in power. Gays and women rights do not exist any more than unions and job safety and environmental controls do in a leftist country. No protests, no voting, no choice of what you want to do in life. Only the rich party members get rich and happy, while the 99% become slaves, serfs or peons. And nothing for the women.

Thank you ladies, the roads were so nice today without you.

Spoken like a true Republican. It's time to fill the cemeteries with these animals.

 

[VeraBad]

Spoken like a true Republican. It's time to fill the cemeteries with these animals.

It is all Republicans now.

 

[dan_c00000]

Instead they say go ahead and get knocked up and we'll provide an abortion

According to Planned Parenthood a mere 3% of all their services are abortions. That's probably about the same amount of brain you used on this shitty post.

It sounded like an especially pathetic MRA screed too.

 

[DomKev]

Wouldn't it be safer for women if Planned Parent Hood did what their name says? Teach both men and woman safe sex, proper health and care of their bodies? Instead they say go ahead and get knocked up and we'll provide an abortion, that may or may not be harmful to you. It is also the same people who are against the death penalty and who are for objectors in war and call themselves anti-war (even when committing violence), but say late term abortion is OK.

Women in this country have more rights and protection, including getting an abortion (my wife got one when she was in high school and the jerk boyfriend, who Plan Parenthood doesn't seem to want to take their share of the pregnancy, didn't even go with her) than the majority of women in the world. The woman who is behind the so called Women's Protest is a Muslim from Chicago who firmly believes in the dark age view of woman in the Middle East. The women protesting do not really know what they are protesting for, only that it is the fad right now. Next week it will be the length of skirts.

Please don't get me wrong. I think it is a great for women to go on strike. Think of it. We men will have what the heroes in the Middle East have all the time. A day without women driving, going to school, or work, voting, not spending OUR money on shopping. Hey we are the ones with the holiday. If only we could have the complete wonderful days of the dark ages back the way these women wish. Then if a woman didn't do her chores or pop out boy kids we could sell her or stone her and buy us a new woman for a couple of goats.

The really funny part about the leftist and their so called "protests" and desires is if they get what they want and wish in the way of government than they will all be stood against the wall by the very leaders they put in power. Gays and women rights do not exist any more than unions and job safety and environmental controls do in a leftist country. No protests, no voting, no choice of what you want to do in life. Only the rich party members get rich and happy, while the 99% become slaves, serfs or peons. And nothing for the women.

Thank you ladies, the roads were so nice today without you.

I know wouldn't it be great if Planned Parenthoood... oh just for a few examples:
Provided Pregnancy tests
Provided tests for STDs
Provided contraceptions
Provided cancer screenings
Provided prenatal care
....
I Joke of course because planned parenthood provides ALL of those services. http://www.factcheck.org/2015/09/planned-parenthoods-services/

WOuld some aditional education also be a good idea? QUite possibly depending on who's giving it (we already know abstenance based for example is completely useless) but thats going to require more money something that right now the government doesn't want to do. Personally I think this isn't entirely a bad thing... if private individuals banded together to fund planned parenthood we could take it away form this kind of government nonsense entirely but eliminating or reducing funding by itself is a bad idea.

 

[Boxlicker101]

I know wouldn't it be great if Planned Parenthoood... oh just for a few examples:
Provided Pregnancy tests
Provided tests for STDs
Provided contraceptions
Provided cancer screenings
Provided prenatal care
....
I Joke of course because planned parenthood provides ALL of those services. http://www.factcheck.org/2015/09/planned-parenthoods-services/

WOuld some aditional education also be a good idea? QUite possibly depending on who's giving it (we already know abstenance based for example is completely useless) but thats going to require more money something that right now the government doesn't want to do. Personally I think this isn't entirely a bad thing... if private individuals banded together to fund planned parenthood we could take it away form this kind of government nonsense entirely but eliminating or reducing funding by itself is a bad idea.

I wouldn't say abstinence is completely useless, because it does prevent pregnancies and STD's and AIDS, but I wouldn't call it the best way either. As a writer of porn, I'm certainly not going to recommend it. Oral or anal sex or masturbation should maybe be considered.

And, FWIW, I'm strongly pro-choice.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

1969

Women might ask their doctors for answers, but it did not mean that they would get them. Most gynecologists and obstetrician were men. There are many more women lin the medical system, now. It is more likely for a woman to get the answers that she needs. Nearly fifty years later, men in Washington DC have women's lives in their hands. These men know absolutely nothing about how a women's body functions. A man actually testified at a hearing, that women's bodies could "shut down" a pregnancy resulting from rape. A grown woman testified that a rape kit contained medical instruments used for aborting a fetus.How could a grown man go through life still believing school rumors ?

Public schools were squeamish about discussing sexuality in class. Nothing was discussed in detail. Some left the students uninformed.



Women started talking to each other, and sharing information in the late 1960s.

Norsigian tells WGBH's Marilyn Schairer the genesis for the book developed in 1969 at a women's liberation conference in Boston, where women gathered to discuss their sexuality and the condescension of a male dominated profession of physicians, who she says knew little about the issues facing women and their bodies. "Women were reacting to the sexism, the paternalism, and the condescension that was interfering with getting good health care and information," according to Norsigian.


March 27, 2017

Our Bodies, Ourselves: 50 Years Later, Progress And Setbacks



1971 Newton's Judy Norsigian co-authored the book, "Our Bodies, Ourselves," which emphasized women taking ownership of their bodies. It was revolutionary.


"Women were reacting to the sexism, the paternalism, and the condescension that was interfering with getting good health care and information," according to Norsigian.

The book, "Our Bodies, Ourselves", is now in its 9th edition and also includes information relating to childbirth and menopause.

http://news.wgbh.org/2017/03/27/news/our-bodies-ourselves-50-years-later-progress-and-setbacks

I was lucky. This book was available in Massachusetts book stores.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Fuck you, Mike Pence

Thursday afternoon, the Senate voted to pass a bill allowing states to withhold federal family planning funds from abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood. Once again, Vice President Mike Pence provided the tie-breaking vote. The bill now goes to President Trump for his signature.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/03/mike-pence-senate-bill-planned-parenthood

Vice President Mike Pence rushed to the Senate to cast a tie-breaking vote to let states block federal grants for family planning centers like Planned Parenthood.

March 30, 2017

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) slammed it as a “very discriminatory bill,” warning of its impact on poor and rural women.

“I continue to be amazed by how little empathy there seems to be for the millions of women in our country who don’t have the resources to travel to major hospitals outside of their communities, and desperately need these local clinics to stay healthy,” she warned in a speech on the Senate floor Thursday afternoon. “This bill would hurt women in small towns and rural communities more than anyone else. It would cause lower-income women to struggle even more.”

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), a member of Democratic leadership, called it “unprecedented” to have a vice president “breaking a tie vote on an attack on women's health across this country.”


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/pol...ates-defund-family-planning-article-1.3013900


Republicans want to see the power to distribute Title X money returned to the states

(meaning state governments can choose which providers are funded and which aren’t)


The vote is widely seen as an attack on Planned Parenthood, which said in a statement that the Senate’s ruling “could have far-reaching implications for people’s access to health care through the Title X family-planning program across the board, and could embolden states to discriminate against family-planning health-care providers, both Planned Parenthood health centers and independent clinics.”


It’s a sign of the repeal measure’s unpopularity that it almost died before it could be passed — earlier today, Pence and GOP Senator Johnny Isakson (who was literally wheeled to and from the Senate chamber due to a recent back surgery) were called in to cast tie-breaking votes that allowed the measure to proceed. And because the vote took place under the Congressional Review Act, which allows regulations to be overturned by a simple majority, there was no chance for dissenting lawmakers to filibuster.



Two Republican senators initially voted against the measure, and one — Senator Susan Collins — pointed out that it was pretty redundant. “It’s important to recognize that there is already a bar against using federal funds for abortion, and that bar stays in effect,” she told Politico. She added, “We’re talking about federal family-planning funds and I don’t think that those funds should be subjected to state restrictions.”



http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/03/senate-votes-to-block-planned-parenthoods-title-x-funding.html


We’re talking about federal family planning funds and I don’t think that those funds should be subjected to state restrictions,” Collins told POLITICO. “It’s important to recognize that there is already a bar against using federal funds for abortion and that bar stays in effect. That’s a prohibition that I personally support, but I’m a strong supporter of family planning funds.”

A spokesperson for Murkowski said the vote is "consistent with the senator's long-held belief that men and women should have access to the family planning and reproductive health services they need, including cancer tests and health screenings."

Sen. Patty Murray said the move was "cruel, and it would have [the] greatest impact on women and families who need it the most.” The Washington Democrat added, “It would undo a valuable effort by the Obama administration to ensure that health care providers are evaluated for federal funding based on their ability to provide the services in question, not on ideology.”


https://secure.politico.com/story/2...isakson-planned-parenthood-vote-senate-236702

 

[Boxlicker101]

Ever since I worked for Medicaid, processing payments for medical providers, including for abortions, I have considered an abortion to be a wise use of money. First, it is fairly cheap, especially early in the pregnancies. Second, it is probably no more expensive than pre-natal care and the birthing process, so it is actually economical. More important, it negates the need for AFDC or other forms of support. Maybe the most important, it means one fewer unwanted child out getting into trouble and going to prison.

I also favor allowing women and girls to make the choice in their lives but, for economy alone, it is a good idea.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

(gsgs comment- The women, that have sold all of America's women down the river./end gsgs comment)

"...alignment to male power leaves you entirely subject to it."

"Without sisters, love, you’re not “doing it for yourself” – you’re doing what the boys’ club decides."

- Van Badham
Columnist @GuardianAus, MC, campaign strategist, feminist menace.


"I have written – again and again – of the novel’s iconic character, Serena Joy. She’s an anti-feminist activist before the coup and the victory of her own mission results in her subsequent disempowerment, confinement and misery."

"In a world where white women voters assisted the delivery of American government to the pussy-grabbing Donald Trump, I am clearly one of many for whom the ghost of Serena Joy haunts political conversations about women and power, and not just because of Kellyanne Conway or the en-towered Melania Trump. I see Serena lurking around the repeated, sly advice to women that there is greater value in sidling up to male power than there is in sisterhood and autonomy."

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...to-men-trope-is-back-so-is-the-handmaids-tale

 

[Boxlicker101]

Yeah. Show your independence and your initiative and intelligence by doing exactly what we tell you.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Panels of law, consisting of men, deciding what the needs of women, are. Their basis, does not include the fact that women's reproductive organs are not identical perfect clones. The heterosexuals among them, enjoy the fact that genetics creates endless variations. Some of them perv on the fact that Mother Nature makes mistakes.

Why would they not, then recognize that Mother Nature sometimes produces internal organ mistakes ?

If that were not enough, a clear example of genetically produced mistakes, affecting the fetus-

A nurse in an obstetrics wing, was so experienced in being exposed to genetic aberration, she knew by sight that there was severe consequences for the new born.

To surgery after just emerging from his mother's body. If heart defects can be readily acknowledged, why not reproductive organ defects ?

(Jimmy Kimmel, this past week.)

Why do they condemn more than half of the country to suffer, when they know nothing about the subject ?

This is beyond the level of indifference, to have no one. but politicians on a panel, judging such things. This is approaching the level of hatred, to have no honest medical professionals on these boards.

 

[Chris_Michael]

Meanwhile, in Muslim Utopia...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=smbj3ypCabY

 

[Rightguide]

Just as when the homeowner who rents space in his house to a tenant loses absolute rights to his domain, because the tenant has rights; so should a woman who puts herself on the market and takes on a tenant. Nowhere in society except law enforcement and the military do we leave the life of another to the authority of one person without due process of law.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Well that's some ass backwards bit of thinking.

That's what (D)'s call progress.

Government control = perfection on Earth in all things at all times, angelic and pure in it's intentions.

SOooooo much better than evil liberty and capitalism where each individual can make their own choices. Whatever we do we can't allow that ever to happen under any circumstances. The government must micromanage every single waking thought/choice of every citizen or you're a racist xenophobe.