House Republicans Slip Anti-Abortion Language Into Education Bill

[hue]

Source: HUFFPOST

House Republicans attached language to a major education bill Wednesday night that would financially penalize school districts that allow school-based health centers to provide information about abortion to pregnant high school students.

The amendment to the Student Success Act, a GOP overhaul of No Child Left Behind, would withhold federal funding from school districts that contract with health centers unless the center certifies that it will not provide abortions or give students any information about abortion, including directions to the nearest abortion provider. (School-based health centers already do not provide abortion services.)

The House Rules Committee slipped the new language into a part of the bill known as the "manager's amendment," which is normally reserved for non-controversial fixes to a piece of legislation that are agreed to ahead of time.

"This amendment is a cowardly attack on young people's access to the full range of information about their reproductive health care," said Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. "This provision ties the hands of health care professionals in schools, and would deny teens access to important and basic information about their health care options."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/26/abortion-education-bill_n_6761816.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

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Repukes=shifty creatures.

[Botany]

1. Why would anybody vote GOP?

Their product is inferior and it hurts the American people.

[onehandle]

2. As an old bumper sticker I had read... 'It's Easier Than Thinking.' nt

[Botany]

3. Especially women because it seems they want their noses up in a "women's bizz ness" ....

... and the right to tell her what to do w/ her body.

[awoke_in_2003]

24. Because Jeebus. nt

[christx30]

5. To be fair,

people still buy cigarettes. <shrug>

But it's pretty fitting. An education into not trusting republicans.

[PatrynXX]

20. often wondered that

even when the men go after their wives for having a miscarriage and call it murder smh

[sinkingfeeling]

4. They do this because they know that the majority of the public doesn't support it.

[calimary]

11. And the majority of the public damn well better stop it.

[geretogo]

6. The totalitarians never give up do they ?

[AngryDem001]

7. I hate the GOP.

I really, truly hate them with the fire of 1000 suns.

They are nothing but a plague upon this country. They bring only pain, misery, death and destruction. They make it their mission to stomp on anyone who is not like them.

I LOATHE the GOP.

[Hepburn]

9. + a ga'zillion! n/t

[KamaAina]

8. Because teen motherhood is such an important family value.

[awoke_in_2003]

25. They want their

future cannon fodder.

[heaven05]

10. troglobite americans

voted these homo habilis into office, let those who voted for these clowns deal with the consequences. Too bad the rest of us will have to also.

[cui bono]

12. Slipping unrelated policy into bills should be illegal.

I don't understand why it's allowed.

Vote on the issue at hand. You want something else too? Write a bill for it.

[old guy]

15. Yep.

I have never understood why this practice is allowed. Maybe the Senate will throw it out but you never know.

[Thor_MN]

30. If you can't win on merit, change the rules...

The only way Republics can enforce their idiotic hate and fear is to cheat.

[adieu]

13. Have the democrats

ever done something like this? Slipping an amendment into an innocuous piece of legislation, knowing that if that slipped portion were to go through as a stand-alone bill, it would have never even make it out of committee?

Why is it, time and time again, that the GOP slip unsavory amendments into bills, generally popular bills, just because they know it won't pass otherwise? Is it just a bias I have or is this really the case?

[blkmusclmachine]

14. You can't trust a Republican. Ever. Always keep that in mind, people. Watch your backs...

[Iliyah]

16. Uneduacted are easy to control and brainwash.

GOPers at this point in time will remain anti towards abortion, healthcare, minorities, women, and the LGBT community, and taxes.

One sure thing tho, they will remain pro guns, death and war.

[eggplant]

17. Feeling pissed off about this?

Please give generously: http://fundabortionnow.org/

[kimmylavin]

18. They really just can't help themselves, can they?

It's almost Pavlovian at this point.
ANY chance to insert anti-choice legislation - even in bills that have nothing to do with abortion - and they'll take it.
It's insane.

[Duppers]

19. oh, fricking hell!

Thanks for posting this. Just got an email from PP that I've not yet opened; it's probably about this.

Most of these assholes pander to their base while privately helping their female family members get the help they need. It's all about winning votes.


Edited to add:
"Scott DesJarlais, Pro-Life Republican Congressman And Doctor, Pressured Mistress Patient To Get Abortion"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/10/scott-desjarlais-abortion-pro-life_n_1953136.html

[iandhr]

21. Jesus

Pun intended

[SoonerShankle]

22. The GOP just...

killed the overhaul of the ESEA if this sticks. The ESEA desperately needs to be rewritten and reauthorized (as it is 7 years overdue for reauthorization). The ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act) is the mechanism for federal funds to be appropriated to school districts for federal programs (think Title programs). Until 2002, the ESEA was regularly reauthorized with little fanfare. Since NCLB, getting the regular reauthorization has become a political minefield.

Teachers and parents are asking for help and support as we try to get a sane version of this bill passed. As the California Teachers Association says on its website, "This reauthorization of ESEA/NCLB is an opportunity to set a new vision for a public education system that promotes opportunity, equity and excellence for all students. A system where students and teachers can focus on learning over testing."

CTA and NEA both also urge EVERY EDUCATOR, PARENT and COMMUNITY MEMBER TO CALL 866-331-7233 and tell Congress to pass a new ESEA/NCLB bill that provides more opportunity for all students--and not gum it all up with this kind of wedge issue language that has nothing to do with helping students.

[msanthrope]

23. Some Democrat should name that amendment for Bristol Palin. nt

[Turbineguy]

26. Because it's so much easier

to succeed at school when you're pregnant?

[SoapBox]

27. Pukes and Baggers, always up to no good.

[47of74]

28. Goddamn fucksticks.

Pardon my sailor talk there.

[on point]

29. Another filibuster needed to kick the repukes back to sq 1

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

31. Repukes=shitty creatures