2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Planned Parenthood didn't endorse Clinton, its Political Action Committee did. [View all]
This seems like a distinction with out a difference, but there's a big difference.
Money donated to Planned Parenthood itself does not get donated to candidates, and does not get spent on advocacy on behalf of candidates, or any kind of policy advocacy.
It gets spent on providing health care to poor women.
If people want to withhold donations to Planned Parenthood Action Fund over the donation to the PAC, hey I guess that's fair. They're certainly not entitled to the donations of people who are supporting a rival candidate.
But people who are encouraging a 'defunding' of Planned Parenthood itself are trying to hurt poor women by preventing them from getting healthcare treatment. That's what Republicans are doing when they make such a call, that's what Bernie Sanders supporters are doing when they call for people to withhold donations to PP over the Clinton endorsement.
Republicans are shitty human beings when they do that. So is everyone else.