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turbinetree

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Mon May 20, 2019, 07:59 PM May 2019

Pence 'mafia' is working behind the scenes to kill women's health care

By Emily Singer -
May 20, 2019

Pence has installed his cronies at the Department of Health and Human Services to gut women's health care.

It turns out Vice President Mike Pence has been up to something other than praising Trump's "broad shoulders."

Pence has been quietly working behind the scenes to carry out the Trump administration's goal of gutting funding for women's health care — which Pence helped accomplish by installing allies from his from his days as governor of Indiana, which Politico described as a "cadre of officials that one HHS official called 'Indiana mafia.'"

Installing allies whom he had relationships with back in Indiana — such as Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, Surgeon General Jerome Adams, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Seema Verma — have helped Pence push for one of his key priorities: defunding Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood provides sexual and reproductive health care to more than 4.6 million people per year. Yet Pence has been working to strip funds from the organization — a lifeline to millions of women and men who often cannot afford reproductive health care services elsewhere — since his days in Congress.

https://shareblue.com/pence-mafia-hhs-womens-health-care/

This white hair asshole and this comment is just beyond any form of reasonable principle..................maybe this asshole should look at what the fucking governors and state legislatures in "red" states are doing to the right to PRIVACY....................

Your ass should be LOCKED UP...........for criminal intent also.........

November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough....................

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