Posted on 12/21/2014 7:51:45 PM PST by Morgana
Women’s health agencies and their supporters, including Gov. Maggie Hassan, are bracing for yet another attempt to strip state funding for Planned Parenthood and other groups that perform abortions.
Rep. Warren Groen, a Republican from Rochester, plans to introduce a bill that would “ban public funding going to any organization or group that does abortions or refers for abortions.” Groen filed a legislative service request for a bill “prohibiting the use of public funds for abortion services,” and he said it’s currently being drafted. Groen said he has a long history of opposing abortion and has assisted crisis pregnancy centers.
“Imagine how poverty-stricken the state has to be, when in order for women to get health care they have to reach out to an organization that kills babies for a living?” Groen said. “How poverty-stricken do you have to be? That’s scraping the bottom of the barrel.”
This issue is nothing new. Groen was one of several legislators who backed a previous attempt to do essentially the same thing. Introduced in 2011, that bill – with a title that was near-identical to the current one – passed the House of Representatives the following year but was tabled in the Senate. Funding for Planned Parenthood has also been the subject of recurring debate in the Executive Council.
During her campaign for re-election, Hassan repeatedly underscored her support for abortion access and warned against future attempts to undermine women’s reproductive care.
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Their relationship is incestious and you come up with retards! (No offense to those with Trisomy 21)
This is long overdue in all state and federal government. Stop ALL funding now.
I wish they would do this.
They of’course, will not do it. Not with current gop-e/rinos in charge. The solution is to get a conservative speaker with an agenda and a love to fight, plus an intelligence to handle the dems and media, and the same in the senate.
Also defund any organization that makes any contributions to political parties, campaigns, or participates in lobbying. Too much taxpayer money is funneled through nonprofits and then directly into political activities.
defund all non-government operations, defund all those idiotic grants too.
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