18 REPUBLICAN MEN Just Signed on to Shut Down The Govt in Order to Defund Planned Parenthood [View all]

[misterhighwasted]

FROM EMILY'S LIST:

07/30/2015

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is fast-tracking a bill to defund Planned Parenthood. And thanks to the pressure Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and other anti-choice Republicans are putting on McConnell, the Senate is expected to vote on it before they leave D.C. for their August recess next week.

If it doesn't pass, 18 House Republicans have signed a letter committing to shutting down the government if Planned Parenthood isn't defunded. All 18 of them are men.

Ted Cruz and Rand Paul have made denying women access to reproductive health care a cornerstone of their 2016 presidential campaigns. Anti-choice Republicans won't let up their pressure on Mitch McConnell anytime soon — and they won't stop until they defund Planned Parenthood once and for all.

Stand against Republicans like Mitch McConnell, Ted Cruz, and Rand Paul and help keep anti-choice Republicans out of the White House. We need to elect Democratic Women in 2016.

McConnell's hypocrisy here is stunning.
In 1993 he voted on a bill which legalized the donation of fetal tissue to support life-saving medical research. That's exactly what Planned Parenthood does, and the research has helped create vaccines and is spurring even more research that could help prevent miscarriages.

But anti-choice activists are using deceptive, heavily edited videos in an attempt to smear Planned Parenthood's work. And anti-choice Republicans are leaping on them in order to achieve their goal of finally defunding Planned Parenthood.
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On Edit:
Here's a link to politico on this subject. I received the EMILY's List heads-up in my email today and am looking for a list of the 18 men lead by Ted Cruz who will vote to shut down the government over this.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/government-shut-down-planned-parenthood-120787.html