Senate Rejects Attack on Planned Parenthood, But the Political Assault Continues

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Senate Rejects Attack on Planned Parenthood, But the Political Assault Continues Instead of a serious debate about the facts, for GOP candidates who sit in the Senate this is “all about politics.” By John Nichols Aug 3, 2015, thenation.com

This coming presidential election will see some major differences between the political parties brought to light. One major difference is "are women second class citizens?". The ultra-conservative Republican Party, of course wants to go back to the 1950's, and put women in their places with fewer rights, less pay and with men telling them what they can or can not do with their bodies. This article in The Nation Magazine, gives a good account of the recent battle in the war on woman's rights. The current attack involves defunding Planned Parenthood, which proves health services for millions of women.

The first Republican presidential debate is officially on August 6 in Cleveland. But the contenders for the party’s nomination were already scrambling on Monday to outflank one another as the party’s most ardent foe of reproductive rights. In advance of a Senate vote on a proposal to defund Planned Parenthood, Republican candidates who sit in the Senate made moves that seemed at every turn to confirm Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards’ observation that the effort to cut federal support for clinics across the country was “all about politics.”

Determined to identify themselves as the most reliable champions of the social-conservative agenda that holds sway with likely Iowa caucus participants and a lot of Republican primary voters in states across the country, Republican candidates have seized on the Planned Parenthood funding issue since controversial videos focused attention on the practice of providing fetal tissue to scientific researchers.

Planned Parenthood’s Richards spent much of Monday countering the over-the-top claims of critics. “There were no laws broken. It’s absolutely illegal to make any profit and we do not. Planned Parenthood makes zero profit on any fetal tissue donations,” she explained Monday on MSNBC. “We are 100 percent non-profit and we make zero money from fetal tissue donations.”

So do Republicans really think women are second class citizens? Yes some do, that's why they choose that Party. They hate women, love guns, think the solution to poverty is "let'm starve", and willing to give up their rights for a promise of security from the Plutocrats. But the wealthy of the party (corporations like Goldman-Sachs) most likely don't care about Planned Parenthood or abortion, they see the confrontation as a distraction while they financially fleece us of all we have (it's not personal, it's just business).

On the other hand, the Democratic Party supports women's rights and women should be flocking to that party to work to promote their agenda (note: agenda is not a bad word).

Read the complete article at: http://www.thenation.com/article/senate-rejects-attack-on-planned-parenthood-but-the-political-assault-continues/
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1. Kick for the dinner crowd. nm

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2. The little bastard who heads that anti-choice group was on CNN...

And was just as much a smarmy, condescending little twit as his buddy O'Keefe.

During the interview with Daleiden on Tuesday, Camerota pointed out that biotech companies had confirmed that Planned Parenthood never sold fetal tissue and that the group was only reimbursed for the cost of storage and processing as allowed by federal law.

Daleiden called it "really cute" that the biotech companies would back up Planned Parenthood. And he promised that the group would release a new video later on Tuesday even though they were already facing two restraining orders.

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/08/cnn-confronts-man-behind-planned

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3. K & R

For the casualties in the war against women.