Obama vows to defend abortion rights at Planned Parenthood event [View all]
Source: Washington Post
President Obama spoke to nearly a thousand Planned Parenthood supporters Friday, telling them that moves to restrict abortion access across the country represented an effort “to turn back the clock to policies more suited to the 1950s than the 21st century.”
“When you read about some of these laws, you want to check the calendar,” Obama told the crowd at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Northwest Washington. “You want to make sure you’re still living in 2013.”
The appearance underscored the central role played by women in helping to reelect Obama in November. It also marked the first time that a sitting U.S. president has delivered a keynote address to Planned Parenthood, one of the nation’s largest providers of abortions and other women’s health services.
Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards praised Obama for preserving the group’s federal funding during budget negotiations with Republicans and for providing full coverage for birth control as part of the administration’s health-care law.
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