Pence Breaks Senate Tie... Senate Approves States' Ability To Defunding of Planned Parenthood (healthcare, stats)

[steven_h]

Originally Posted by carcrazy67

Is everyone missing the point? It will be up to the states!!

I think that went straight over their heads.

[Midpack]

Originally Posted by carcrazy67

Is everyone missing the point? It will be up to the states!!

Of course. These days too many folks, right and left, are looking for anything they can find to be outraged and indignant about - to parrot their views, no listening or thinking required. And the answer only has to remotely address the actual question. It can be hard to tell bots from humans anymore...

[Freak80]

Great, now conservative states will have even more dirt-poor people reproducing another generation of dirt-poor people.

[Midpack]

Originally Posted by Freak80

Great, now conservative states will have even more dirt-poor people reproducing another generation of dirt-poor people.

Wow, elitist much?

[Seacove]

While I think this is truly terrible, the net result will be worse health care for women and more unwanted pregnancies in those states, which will increase the poverty level and increase social costs for those states. If Republicans want to turn the country into this sort of social experiment, then by all means, let's take the 50 individual states at their word and let each state contribute a flat percentage to national security and leave it at that. No more blue state funds going to red states and let the red states turn their societies into "The Handmaid's Tale".

[Marlow]

Yay! Let's hear it for cancer, no access to birth control, and unplanned children!

MAGA!!!

[Seacove]

Originally Posted by Freak80

Great, now conservative states will have even more dirt-poor people reproducing another generation of dirt-poor people.

That's exactly what will happen. Blue states need to build a wall.

[DRob4JC]

States can still put money in the pot. No services have been terminated. People are free to still get whatever services they need.

[evilcart]

Originally Posted by carcrazy67

Is everyone missing the point? It will be up to the states!!

one of the jobs of a democracy is to avoid the tyranny of the majority. Many states will not. that is perhaps the 2nd biggest reason to even have a federal government.

funny how so many forget that when it suits them.

[AminWi]

Originally Posted by Listener2307

Cecile Richards is President of Planned Parenthood. Her salary is $600,000 and her net worth is $4M.

Evidently being compassionate and concerned pays pretty well.

While $600K is nothing to sneeze at, it hardly compares with the salaries of presidents of other similar-sized companies. For example, the president of Mayo, which has 1.3 million patients/year (less than Planned Parenthood's 2.5 million) makes $2Mil.