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Vice President Mike Pence cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate on Thursday to overturn an Obama administration rule and allow states to withhold Title X family planning money from Planned Parenthood.
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The Senate could have advanced the resolution with a 52-member majority, but moderate Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) voted with the Democrats to uphold the rule, leaving a tie. Pence, who has led the fight against reproductive rights for more than half a decade, voted with Republicans to move forward with the resolution.
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The Title X federal grant program, enacted by President Richard Nixon in 1970, subsidizes preventive health care and family planning services for 4 million low-income Americans, roughly half of whom are uninsured. Planned Parenthood serves about a third of Title X patients, using the $70 million a year it receives in family planning grants to provide birth control and sexually transmitted infection screenings for people who can’t afford them.
Good.
Now it's up to the states to decide how they want to proceed.
Is everyone missing the point? It will be up to the states!!
If our federal tax dollars are used primarily to fund the military, I wonder if our federal taxes will go down at all. And then if costs for things like this are moved from the federal government to the states, our state taxes will go up. I have a feeling we're going to end up paying more taxes than ever.
We certainly don't want low-income Americans to get the birth control or screening for STD's they've been getting from Planned Parenthood.
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Originally Posted by 1grin_g0
If you truly care about low-income access to abortion, then pay for it out of pocket. Make it happen.
This isn't just about abortion. It is also about educating and preventing unwanted pregnancies and STDs.
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