"... going after family planning services eliminates funding for essential preventative care. That means access to cancer screenings, family planning services and STI tests." Thanks, GOP!

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COMMENTS:
*  We can talk all we want about the GOP clown bus but it isn't going to make any difference.  After all, we are talking about the passengers of a clown bus.  Short of the bus falling off a bridge into the ocean you can expect the clown bus will travel on and on, leaving in it's wake a seemingly endless stream of silliness, anti-Americanism, anti-Christianity, anti-middle class, anti-working poor, anti-environment, and pretty much anti-anything that might or would make life better for all the people of the Republic.  It's some kind of virus.
*  Planned Parenthood is not doing anything illegal.  Abortion is legal in the United States.  They also do lots of other things that are needed by women in this country.  Tax dollars cannot be used for abortions.  OK.  Then why are these governors cutting needed funding for the care of women?  This goes a long way in the detractors of the Republican party that scream that they are waging a war on women.  Looks like fuel for their fire.
*  The current conservatives' attempt to stop the free contraception program in Colorado which has dramatically reduced teen pregnancies, abortions and saved the taxpayers millions is the living PROOF that conservatives neither care about abortion nor tax dollars: they only care about people having SEX.  Simply put, they firmly believe that people having sex should suffer what they refer to  as "consequences".
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Let them have herpes and breast cancer! GOP’s family planning plan without the spin

Christie and Walker talk tough about their "pro-life" cuts to family planning. Here's what they really did

By Katie McDonough, February 27, 2915

One of Chris Christie’s biggest boasts at CPAC on Thursday was about his “pro-life” bona fides. (His other big brag: His habit of telling people to shut up.) “I just stand on my record,” he told conservative radio host Laura Ingraham. “I’m pro-life. I ran on a pro-life platform in 2009. I vetoed Planned Parenthood funding five times out of the New Jersey budget.”

This was a big applause line. Showing how badly you’ve gutted, or how much you’d like to gut, funding for family planning services has become something of a litmus test for Republican presidential hopefuls. Like Christie, Scott Walker eliminated funding for Planned Parenthood under the mantle of attacking abortion access. Rand Paul has previously voted to defund Planned Parenthood and said he would “stop the flow of tax dollars to groups who perform or advocate for abortion.” Marco Rubio joined Paul in the vote to defund the health provider, and has made no secret of his plans to further restrict access.

But because state and federal laws already prohibit public dollars from funding abortion, it’s not abortion access that’s on the chopping block. Instead, going after family planning services eliminates funding for essential preventative care. That means access to cancer screenings, family planning services and STI tests.

What that amounts to is a 2016 GOP platform of Let them have herpes and breast cancer.

Take Christie’s and Walker’s records as a case study in what happens when you grandstand about abortion at the expense of thousands of low-income people who need basic healthcare. (And “basic healthcare” means the ability to avoid pregnancy, safely carry pregnancies to term, check out a lump in your breast and treat syphilis before it makes you lose your vision/go insane. These are not luxury services.)
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