More grabbing
The Senate voted Thursday to let states block federal family planning money from going to Planned Parenthood affiliates and other abortion providers.
Senators approved the Republican legislation 51-50. Vice President Mike Pence cast the tie-breaking vote after two GOP senators, Maine’s Susan Collins and Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, voted with Democrats against the measure.
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The Senate measure would roll back a regulation Obama issued shortly before leaving office. It bars state and local governments from denying federal family planning funds to organizations unless they are unable to provide those services. Some states have passed laws preventing abortion providers from receiving the funds.
There is already a ban on using federal funds for abortion except for rare instances.
Democrats assailed the legislation as an attack on women, two months after Trump’s inauguration prompted a women’s march on Washington that mushroomed into anti-Trump demonstrations around the nation.
They’re scum. Scum.
Serioiusly, Ophelia, stop holding back. Tell us what you really think.
I weep for this country. No, I don’t weep. I scream, I shout, I swear, I rage.
I was just speaking with my son, who keeps in contact with my family through FaceBook. He is preparing to unfriend some of them because of the shit they post. Because of their hateful bigotry. Because of “the Irish were slaves”. Because of all this horrible misogynistic nastiness. He was shocked to find they thought this way; I wasn’t. This is the only world I knew growing up.
If this is a nightmare, I’m ready to wake up now.