How Romney and Ryan Plan to Close Your Family Planning Clinic

[eridani]

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/08/romney-ryan-family-planning-clinics

The GOP candidates envision a one-two punch that will shut down family planning clinics nationwide—even in blue states.

Women's health clinics around the country rely on federal funding for family planning. Almost all of that money comes from two sources: Medicaid, the joint federal-state health care program for low-income people, pregnant women, and infants; and the decades old program known as Title X.

GOP governors like Texas's Rick Perry and Wisconsin's Scott Walker have targeted both of these income streams in their states, blocking many clinics from receiving crucial funds. But Romney and Ryan would gut both programs on the federal level, all but ensuring that clinics in blue states have to close, too.

"What has [been] done in Texas, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan would do in all 50 states if elected," says Dawn Laguens, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the advocacy and political organization that works to protect Planned Parenthood health centers nationwide.*

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. this is a super important election

[Dawson Leery]

2. Bring on the Gianna Centers for voodoo medicine!

http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/gianna-centers-pro-life-medicine-seeks-to-expand-beyond-new-york/

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/catholic-hospitals-value-babies-lives-over-mothers

[ananda]

3. Boy that's extreme!

nt

[kestrel91316]

4. They intend to make birth control illegal.