We won’t stand for these attacks.
Their new plan is called “Tax Cuts and Jobs (and anti-abortion) Act.”
We see you, Senate GOP.
And we won’t let you take away our care.
Call your Senator today and tell them to stop Trumpcare: www.istandwithpp.org/call
Donald Trump just sent a terrifying message to the people of America: Your health and your lives are not important. We can stop the most hateful, divisive presidential tickets in a generation. Fight back: http://ppact.io/Not-My-Ticket
Another Thursday, another sham hearing: We're having déjà vu to exactly this time last month. RIGHT NOW, anti-abortion politicians are running a hearing on Planned Parenthood — and didn't invite Planned Parenthood to speak. Instead, they invited only longtime anti-abortion activists to speak. #TBT
If the takeaways from the first Judiciary Committee hearing are any indication, this hearing will see extreme politicians make unfounded political attacks with no attempt to find the truth, and no requests for full, unedited source footage for the discredited smear videos that they are basing their false claims on.
Let’s call this what it is: An all-out attack on safe and legal abortion in this country.
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5-RING CIRCUS ALERT: The House just voted to create a special committee to investigate Planned Parenthood despite the lack of any evidence of wrongdoing.
Republican leadership has apparently become obsessed with Planned Parenthood, to the detriment of almost any other legislation: Today, the House voted to create a special committee to investigate Planned Parenthood. This marks the fifth committee investigating Planned Parenthood based on false claims that have been totally discredited. And it happened in the sixth legislative week in a row that Congress has focused on attacking Planned Parenthood and women’s health instead of the priorities they once said they had.
All Those Things Congress Hasn't Done While Focusing on Planned Parenthood...
At the beginning of 2015, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell laid out their plan for Congress in a Wall Street Journal op-ed — priorities that they’ve obviously let drop while getting caught up in the fishing expedition against Planned Parenthood:
- Measures authorizing the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline;
- The Hire More Heroes Act, legislation encouraging employers to hire more of our nation’s veterans;
- A proposal to restore the traditional 40-hour definition of full-time employment;
- Legislation to help protect and expand America’s emerging energy boom;
- Legislation to support innovative charter schools around the country;
- Addressing the “insanely complex” tax code that they stated “is driving American jobs overseas”;
- Addressing a “savage global terrorist threat that seeks to wage war on every American”;
- Addressing “excessive regulations and frivolous lawsuits” that they said are “driving up costs for families and preventing the economy from growing”; and finally
- Addressing a ” national debt that has Americans stealing from their children and grandchildren, robbing them of benefits that they will never see and leaving them with burdens that will be nearly impossible to repay.”
Few of these priorities have been addressed. Instead, congressional leadership has been obsessing over women’s access to basic health care, making our country pay the price. Here’s are just some examples of how:
- The 9/11 first responder health care bill to continue care for first responders who risked their lives on September 11 expired just last week.
- Perkins student loans, the nation’s oldest student loan program, expired.
- The 50-year old Land Water Conservation Fund expired.
- The Export-Import bank remains shut down for the first time in its 81-year history.
Attacks on Planned Parenthood Were Motivated By Politics — and Are Now Embarrassing to Congress
- This focus on Planned Parenthood and restricting women’s health care has already proven to be an embarrassment for congressional leadership. In the last hearing. reporters noted that Republican leaders interrupted Cecile Richards at least 44 times, not letting her speak throughout the hearing.
- These attacks are unabashedly political. In other words, “Let’s Make Planned Parenthood the Next Benghazi:” GOP leaders proclaimed they will continue to investigate Planned Parenthood — despite multiple investigations showing no wrongdoing. What’s more, House Majority Leader and possible candidate for Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) revealed the blatantly political nature of the attacks on Planned Parenthood, threatening to do to the organization what he claims to have done to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton with the Benghazi special committee.
Bottom Line: Congress Should Stop Wasting Time Attacking Reproductive Health
Americans don’t want their members of Congress focused on restricting reproductive health care. It’s time for Congress to give up this obsession, and get back to work.
This man is running for president...
How would YOU describe a politician who wants to shut down the government in order to defund Planned Parenthood?
A Republican for Planned Parenthood Weighs in on the First GOP Debates
By Kim Smith, Republican Outreach Manager for Planned Parenthood Action Fund
Last night’s debates reconfirmed that the Republican presidential candidates are not friends to women’s health. Over and over again, we witnessed candidates who oppose abortion (even in the case of rape and incest), support personhood legislation (which could outlaw certain forms of birth control), and support defunding Planned Parenthood (which would, of course, cut millions of women off from basic, reproductive health care).
What is so frustrating is that I am a Republican. I am a Republican who believes in my party’s founding principles of smaller and smarter government. Many Republicans like me have seen our party co-opted by an extreme minority and turned into something we no longer recognize. Unfortunately, it has evolved into an intolerant group of politicians who have no qualms using the power of government to deny women the ability to attain comprehensive health care and reproductive freedom.
Despite three national polls in two weeks that show the majority of American voters stand with Planned Parenthood — as well as veto threats by President Obama and a Senate vote to defund Planned Parenthood that failed — the GOP candidates continue to battle over who can be the most extreme when it comes to restricting women’s access to reproductive health care.
Unfortunately, last night’s attacks against women’s health are not new. In 2012, Mitt Romney’s anti-women’s health views and calls to defund Planned Parenthood drove the biggest gender gap in recorded history.
Romney’s loss is a lesson for candidates in 2016: Dismiss and demean women at your peril. You cannot win a national election by restricting access to birth control, defunding Planned Parenthood and ending access to safe and legal abortion.
Bottom line: Promising to restrict women’s health issues are not the way for Republicans to win elections and build the big tent our party was so famous for in the past.
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GOP debate time means PP Action BINGO time! How many times will the #NotMyCandidate candidates say "Planned Parenthood"? "Abortion"? The more they do, the more you win. Enjoy!
Yesterday, Jeb Bush made clear what Florida women have known for years: He doesn't think women's health is worth much. Based on his abysmal record (like slashing funds for family planning, signing 6 anti-abortion laws, and forcing single moms to advertise their sex history in the newspaper), we can be sure that women will lose access to health care if he becomes president. #NotMyCandidate
BREAKING: Wisconsin Governor and GOP presidential candidate Scott Walker just signed an extreme, dangerous abortion ban that (at his request) does not have exceptions for rape or incest. More reasons why he's #NotMyCandidate: In the last four years, Walker signed a dozen measures to restrict women’s health, including ones to block access to birth control and preventive cancer screenings.