Trump quietly signs bill allowing states to withhold money from Planned Parenthood

[kstewart33]

Source: CNN

Trump privately signed a bill today that allows states to withhold federal money from organizations that provide abortion services, including Planned Parenthood, a group frequently targeted by Republicans.

The bill, which the usually camera-friendly president signed without any media present, reverses an Obama-era regulation that prohibited states from withholding money from facilities that perform abortions, arguing that many of these facilities also provide other family planning and medical services.

The bulk of federal money Planned Parenthood receives, though, goes toward preventive health care, birth control, pregnancy tests and other women's health services. Federal law prohibits taxpayer dollars from funding abortions and Planned Parenthood says 3% of the services it provides are abortions.

The signing comes weeks after Vice President Mike Pence, a social conservative who regularly touts his anti-abortion states, cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate after two Republicans opposed the measure.


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/13/politics/trump-today-live-updates/index.html

[niyad]

1. fuck that woman-hating sexual predator and all who voted for, and enable him.

[CincyDem]

2. OK - so, like...don't hold back. lol.

That said, you are a master of understatement !

[Coventina]

11. + infinity. So sick of articles posted here defending Trump voters.

Or trying to elicit sympathy for them.

[niyad]

12. I know. "make nice" BS BS BS BS BS I have nothing but contempt and hatred for what

they have done to this country.

[Coventina]

15. You and me both, sister. They knew what they were doing.

And that includes the women-hating WOMEN who voted for this monster.

[world wide wally]

31. Totally agree with you

If they want a fucking war, let's give it to them.

[Initech]

25. [phone]

I hate this man. I hate him more every single day.

[emmadoggy]

26. What you said!!!!

[jpak]

3. Fucking coward

yup

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. They despise women having say so over their own bodes, make no mistake.

[niyad]

13. women are only good for servicing men and being brood mares.

[hibbing]

5. Every day

The pace of dismantling progress is astounding.

Peace

[underpants]

6. So he remembered to sign that one?

[niyad]

14. yes, THAT one he would sign.

[n2doc]

7. as Doonesbury noted

Add it to the list...Evil bastard

[ananda]

8. Can PP take this to court?

Of course, with Gorsucks seated, well ...

[SpankMe]

9. Why, yes, Trump and Republicans are motherfuckers! Why do you ask? n/t

[Hekate]

10. Mike Pence must be having wet dreams about Red Don's impeachment-to-be....

Just wait till Pence gets his chance at presidentin'!

[ailsagirl]

16. That SOB

[mac56]

17. Not just a shit weasel

he's a cowardly shit weasel.

[bronxiteforever]

18. big man 45 drops bombs but hides from the women of the country

Nevertheless they will persist.

[HockeyMom]

19. Trump wanted Tiffany aborted

when his then GF Marla Maples got pregnant. Audio exists of him saying so. Howard Stern Show? Given his history, how many more abortions he himself paid for?

Fine when the father wants an abortion and pays for it, but no choice for the woman who can't?

Tiffany apparently knows this. Where is SHE around her Father like her Half Sister?

[Freethinker65]

20. States' rights. Hmm. This might help us in the midterms

[muntrv]

21. Withhold sex from Drumpf and all pro-fetus politicians.

[aintitfunny]

22. I imagine that it has already

except for the uptick in purchases from the US Government and maybe a few foreign governments as well.

[DesertRat]

23. Deplorable

[Dig Deep]

24. We already have the HYDE amendment dealing with this issue

no tax money to be used for abortion. They seem to forget that women who chose to have an abortion also pay taxes, they are discriminated against.

[SunSeeker]

29. Exactly. What they are defunding now is birth control --- which will lead to MORE abortion.

And they are defunding life-saving cancer screenings for poor women. The bill, and Trump, is utterly hateful and murderous.

[barbtries]

27. misogynistic pigs

after they bomb the world back into the stone age they'll probably just knock women out and drag them by their hair back to their caves to rape them. it'll be perfectly legal because they don't think women are people.

motherfuckers.

[SunSeeker]

28. Where did Ivanka stand on this bill that defunds women's cancer screenings?

By her silence, she is complicit.

[niyad]

32. don't forget, according to her, complicit means "being a force for good" or some such

opposite to the actual meaning of the word. and hey, SHE can afford health care, so screw everybody else.

[world wide wally]

30. I say if Trump wants at least half the country against him, we give him what he wants and more

[Blue_Tires]

33. If nothing else, I'm glad the "Hillary is no worse than Trump" contingent has STFU...

[dalton99a]

35. +1

[dalton99a]

34. Like a coward that he is