SMACKDOWN - Liz Warren Stands with Planned Parenthood

I come to the Senate floor today to ask my Republican colleagues a question: Do you have any idea what year it is? Did you fall down, hit your head, and think you woke up in the 1950s? Or the 1890s? Should we call for a doctor? Because I simply cannot believe that in the year 2015, the United States Senate would be spending its time trying to defund women’s healthcare centers.

You know, on second thought, maybe I shouldn’t be surprised. The Republicans have had a plan for years to strip away women’s rights to make choices over our own bodies. Just look at the recent facts.

In 2013, Republicans threatened to shut down the government unless they could change the law to let employers deny women access to birth control.

In March of this year, Republicans held up a non-controversial bipartisan bill to stop human trafficking. Why? Because they demanded new anti-abortion restrictions to cover private funding meant to help the victims of human trafficking.

In June, House Republicans passed a budget eliminating funding for the Title X family planning program — the only federal grant program that provides birth control, HIV tests, STD screening, and other preventive services for poor and uninsured people.

Over the past few years, Republicans have voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act more than 50 times, including the portions that require insurers to cover contraception.

And let’s be clear: It’s not just Congress. Over the past five years, Republican state legislators have passed nearly 300 new restrictions on abortion access. This year alone, Republican state legislators have passed more than 50 new restrictions on women’s access to legal healthcare.

So Madam President, let’s be really clear about something. The Republican scheme to defund Planned Parenthood is not some sort of surprised response to a highly edited video. Nope! The Republican vote to defund Planned Parenthood is just one more piece of a deliberate, methodical, orchestrated, rightwing attack on women’s rights. And I’m sick and tired of it. Women everywhere are sick and tired of it. The American people are sick and tired of it.

Scheduling this vote during the week of a big Fox News presidential primary debate, days before candidates take trips to Iowa or New Hampshire, isn’t just some clever gimmick. This is an all-out effort to build support to take away a woman’s right to control her own body and access to medical care she may need.

Please pray (or send good thoughts) for my nephew's wife, who gave birth to a baby girl a week ago...baby is healthy, but mom had to be re-hospitalized for evaluation of possible complications. Thanks.

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Markle wrote:

Planned parenthood charges their costs for harvesting fetal tissue and shipping it to research facilities using the material for medical research aimed at understanding and eradicating numerous diseases.

The abortions are legal, and without medical research, the entire fetus would be tossed with the garbage, like any wasted meat.

Fact:  Semi Sane exhibits no concern for the welfare of poor people, underpaid workers, black or brown people, and any poor person in desperate need of healthcare.  Considering that reality, one quickly realizes his alleged deep concern for human fetuses is as plastic as his other interests -- all of which are centered in helping oligarchs and blood sucking corporations get richer and richer.  If you think he truly gives a shit about fetuses, you belong in the rabid teajadist section of the republican bleachers.  Pushing the hardcore, fundamentalist agenda of the batshit crazies of the republican base -- and serves the needs of the Koch Bros., and the Military Industrial Complex.  Reality.

So their policy is "plus stamps and handling" for whatever body part you like. FREE SHIPPING if you buy an entire baby!

How then is the doctor going to get her Lamborghini?

Your personal attacks are fun. As anyone knows, they show your weakness.

Floridatexan wrote:
Please pray (or send good thoughts) for my nephew's wife, who gave birth to a baby girl a week ago...baby is healthy, but mom had to be re-hospitalized for evaluation of possible complications.  Thanks.

My prayers are with your nephew, his wife and loved ones for a speedy recovery.