WASHINGTON (AP) — West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin says he will back a Republican bill cutting off federal aid for Planned Parenthood.
Manchin is a moderate and his decision Monday was not a complete surprise. Even so, Republicans were still expected to lose a Senate vote later Monday to halt federal assistance to the group.
Republicans introduced their bill after an anti-abortion group began releasing secretly recorded videos showing Planned Parenthood officials describing how they provide tissue from some aborted fetuses to researchers. The bill says it would transfer Planned Parenthood’s aid to other women’s health care providers.
Manchin said in a statement that until questions about Planned Parenthood are answered, the organization should not receive taxpayer funds.
Planned Parenthood provides contraception, sexual disease treatment, abortion and other services across the country.
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Keep pandering to those hillbillies you sumbitch.
WV: “Where ignorant armies clash by night”.
– Matthew Arnold
Of course he did. He still thinks he has a chance at getting re-elected. Well, you go ahead boy and give it your very BEST shot. I think it’s pretty clear that the reason he declined to re-run for Governor is that he realized he’d lose handily. Same thing will happen on the Senatorial side as well.
WVA has joined the Deep South and I really don’t think it can either be changed or is worth worrying about. It’s done. If so many poor women in WVA think that PP is just there to “kill babies” and is not worth fighting for, well then, there’s your answer.
Planned Parenthood helps women nationwide get access to mammograms, as part of the range of health care Planned Parenthood health centers provide to nearly three million people a year.
There’s only one problem: Planned Parenthood does not manage a single licensed mammography facility in the U.S. Not one. Of the 8,735 licensed mammography facilities in America, Planned Parenthood operates exactly zero.PP does nothing but lie.
He’s the ultimate DINO.
You realize that breast exams and mammograms are not the same thing, right moron? And that an organization can “help women get access to mammograms” without actually performing mammograms? Do you understand how referrals work? I think someone is lying here, and I’m pretty sure it’s not Planned Parenthood.