NH Executive Council rejects Planned Parenthood funding

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Source: WCAX.com

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - The Republican-led Executive Council has rejected roughly $650,000 in state funding for Planned Parenthood to provide health services such as contraception, STD testing and counseling.

The debate Wednesday comes amid national scrutiny over Planned Parenthood's policies regarding voluntary fetal tissue donation for medical research. GOP councilor Chris Sununu, who has supported Planned Parenthood in the past, voted against the contract, saying the state should be investigating the practices of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. The group does not offer voluntary tissue donation in New Hampshire.

The council did approve contracts for family planning services with the Concord Feminist Health Center, the Joan G. Lovering Health Center on the Seacoast and Weeks' Medical Center in the North Country.

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1. People who believe in providing women's health need to fight back

These assholes need to be voted out, or whomever appoints them need to be voted out. To the exclusion of all other issues if need be. This cancer needs to be stomped on and removed with extreme prejudice.

[onyourleft]

2. Most of...

...the comments are disgusting, exactly what one would expect of Republicans.

[AllFieldsRequired]

3. Ignorant people filled with hate in positions of power, very sad.

[Fred Sanders]

4. The idiot politicians believing this idiot PP scam manufactured and funded by idiots and Fox need to be

the ones defunded, along with the idiot, lazy, co-dependent media too cowardly or ignorant or both to speak the truth about the scam and it's malicious consequences on real people.

[shenmue]

5. I'm going to volunteer for PP and I'm going to donate

Fuck the religious fanatic liars. Fuck them.

[secondwind]

6. I was a clinic escort for several years in Boston.. It is a great organization