Holding Womenâs Health Hostage with LisaLyn Jacobs, Vice President of Government Relations, Legal Momentum (formerly NOW LDF)
House Republicans threaten to shut down the government over federal funding for Planned Parenthood. After weeks of federal budget negotiations, the focus shifted from economic issues to a particular rider that would eliminate all gov't funding to Planned Parenthood through the Title X family planning program. Conservatives are targeting Planned Parenthood because some of its clinics provide abortions, even though those abortions make up less than 3% of Planned Parenthood's services and federal money is not used to pay for abortion services. What was proposed by the House of Representatives is to say that women can no longer go to Planned Parenthood to get their cancer screenings, to get their birth control, to get any kind of services through federal programs. ********************* Highlights From The Money for Jobs, Not for War Rally
Thousands of protesters attended the largest national antiwar protest in years. The rally juxtaposed the Democrats and Republicans haggling over budget proposals that in any event slashed billions in life-sustaining programs. As the rally organizers stated Head Start, Medicare and Medicaid are being threatened -- but there is always money for another war â but, if we brought the troops home now, the deficit could be wiped out in a heartbeat. Saturdayâs demonstration represented a renewal of the antiwar movement and we will bring its highlights.
Produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
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