I really do not understand why the GOP wants to defund Planned Parenthood!

[akbacchus_BC]

That system is totally geared towards womens well being, how on earth the GOP wants to defund it. It is a necessity for women.

Gosh, I benefitted from it when I moved to Barbados in 1990, had to go there to get examined and then they recommended a doctor for me to see.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

1. I think they are pandering to their base and it is a serious miscalculation

that will hurt them in the election.

[cheapdate]

3. Mosty it's not pandering. It's who they are. It's about abortion.

When they say abortion is about "murdering babies", they mean it. Any other perspective on the matter is what William James called a "dead hypothesis" for them. Abortion is murder. Period. That's how they think.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

8. It's who their base is. That's not how the majority thinks.

I do think they are full of crap and will say anything for votes. The base they are speaking to believe that, but I think the candidates are just saying whatever it takes to get the nomination. However, the independents will be very important to the election and recent history has shown that actions during the primary can have consequences in the general. It is not as easy as at used to be to move to the center and hope people forget what you said and did in the primaries in the age of social media.

[cheapdate]

12. If that's what you think, fine.

But, I'd say that if you doubt the conviction of Reps. Trey Gowdy, Marsha Blackburn, Roy Blount, Diane Black, Todd Akin, Justin Amash, Mo Brooks, or any one of the many, many representatives earning a score of 100% for their voting record from the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), then you're mistaken.

Here's the NRLC scorecard:
http://capwiz.com/nrlc/scorecard.xc?chamber=H&state=US&session=114&x=11&y=14

Here's the Susan B. Anthony list of pro-life incoming congress members:
http://www.sba-list.org/node/2606

I'm from Tennessee. Almost our entire delegation has a NRLC score or 100%. I can tell you for certain, that these people are for real. It's not a "game" to them. It's a life and death struggle of good versus evil. They are the base.

[xfundy]

13. And what percent of what PP does is abortion?

I think it's like 3%, but even if it be 30%, still a small part.

[cheapdate]

19. It's a very small part.

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I'm staunchly pro-choice, as are my wife, my family, and most of my true friends.

But I live in the deep red, deep conservative, evangelical South.

What I'm saying -- and I say this with high confidence based on a lifetime of close, personal interaction with people who are deeply against abortion -- is that congress members, such as Tennessee Reps. Marsha Blackburn, Diane Black, and Scott DesJarlais, are not "pandering". They share the deeply held convictions of "the base" that abortion is murder.

[drm604]

5. I think some of them are pandering, as you say, and that it's a total miscalculation.

But I also think that some of them may be true believer anti-choicers who believe that PP is evil and needs to be stopped.

The GOP originally pandered to these people for votes, but now they've been infested by the very people they were pandering too, which was the inevitable outcome of that strategy.

[yeoman6987]

6. If the election were this November then it would hurt

14 months from now? Who knows. That's a lifetime of politics yet to come.

[akbacchus_BC]

2. What I gather from the GOP is that women are not important.

Looking at how they are grilling the CEO of PP is so frigging annoying, you want to pelt something at the TV!

These GOP assholes are so useless and their base is pandering to them. What happened to positive thinking in the US?

[yeoman6987]

4. It's a smidgen on the budget

It's hardly worth the energy of fighting it because the money is so small. But leave it Cruz to yell and scream about it. By the way it passed 77-19. So even Repugs yawned at cruz's antics.

[akbacchus_BC]

7. Good, am so glad it passed! So many women benefited from PP, it is unbelievable!

Did you see that asshole bashing the CEO about her salary. How low are these republicans going to go?

[yeoman6987]

10. Yes it was repulsive and hypocritical.

It was sexist too because except for the banks(which they were begging for money). They have never questioned CEO men's salaries ever.

[Gman]

9. It's really simple

2016 is an election year. It's simply grandstanding. Red meat for the base. Get out the vote stuff.

[MFM008]

11. its all a dance for their base

when I was younger, I used them for an examination and my pregnancy test. That positive pregnancy test turned 32 yesterday.
Not everyone has used it for abortion and those idiots could care less.

[rusty quoin]

14. They choose a target and go after it.

Birth control? It doesn't matter. They target again and again. Just don't be surprised to who is next. Attack...hate..and attack.

[B Calm]

15. Religiously Insane fruitcakes control the GOP.

[djean111]

16. They intend to get rid of all safety nets. PP is just, for them, low-hanging fruit and a

great sound bite and campaign opportunity.
Poor GOP voters will vote against their best interests, as usual.
First they came for ACORN, then PP, and then I will assume that Medicaid, Medicare, the ACA, and Social Security and Disability are on their list.
IMO they are just greasing the skids. Enough DINOs, and they will be able to check all those items off of their list.

[PeaceNikki]

17. Because women are evil, responsible for original sin and must be punished

by the pain of childbearing.

[oberliner]

18. They think PP kills babies and harvests their organs?

Or they think their tea party constituents believe that so they want to seem to be standing up for "life" or something?

[Javaman]

20. further their control of women. and it's not the "GOP" per say...

it's the ultra right arm of the right wing.

they know that the majority of women vote for the Democratic Party.

this is just part of a long term plan to silence women.

first it's their bodies, then it's their voice and finally their vote.