Planned Parenthood fears it may be first casualty of rekindled abortion war

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Planned Parenthood officials are scrambling to prepare for the likelihood that Congress next year will cut off more than a half-billion dollars in federal funding to the group, fulfilling the wishes of abortion foes who are planning an aggressive push to roll back abortion rights under President-elect Donald Trump.

Officials with the 100-year-old women’s health nonprofit organization are leaning on donors, new and old, and preparing to lobby friendly lawmakers at the state and local level to stem some of the loss. They have started gaming out which communities might be able to withstand a loss of services. They are asking supporters to get their medical care at Planned Parenthood clinics to increase the proportion of privately insured patients.

The effort to defund Planned Parenthood is likely to be just the opening salvo in a new battle over abortion rights touched off by the election. Empowered by joint Republican control of Congress and the White House for the first time since 2006, antiabortion activists see a historic opportunity to outlaw certain procedures and perhaps reverse Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationally four decades ago.

Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) said in an interview that she plans to introduce a bill that would eliminate the provider’s funding as “one of the first orders on the agenda” when the new Congress convenes next month.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/planned-parenthood-fears-it-may-be-first-casualty-of-rekindled-abortion-war/2016/12/12/4e253f84-bd7d-11e6-ac85-094a21c44abc_story.html?utm_term=.266ac50c2caa&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1

[MadamPresident]

1. It will absolutely be defunded federally.

Say good bye to that.

We're going to be saying good bye to so many things we fought so hard for. This is so tragic, so damn sad.

[COLGATE4]

2. Bastards. I hope they all rot in hell.

[J_William_Ryan]

3. Such is the ignorant, idiotic right.

The great bulk of what Planned Parenthood does addresses women’s health issues, having little to do with abortion.

This is an attack not only on the privacy rights of women, but an attack on low income women that will in no way reduce the number of abortions being performed.

[0rganism]

5. i think they'll prefer to reduce the perception of the number of abortions performed

and the best way to do that is to continue tracking legal abortion numbers, then make it illegal and say the illegal abortion count is impossible to quantify but the legal count has dropped to 0.1% of what it is now. so much "winning" to be done.

just wait until they unveil the fantastic job creation numbers, they'll make your head spin

[volstork]

4. Fuck Diane Black

She is a piece of shit

[TrekLuver]

6. We are going to need all of us to pick up the phone and call call call call call these

muthafuckas....even Senators in other states. A zip code is easy to look up and call because you are a constituent.

[ismnotwasm]

7. They see this as a "moral" issue

While they might as well be shit demons from the fecal level of hell spraying their infections so women suffer.

[CousinIT]

8. WTF do these goddamned psychopaths know of 'morals'?

That would require something they just don't have: a conscience.