"Do you have any idea what year it is?" Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) begins in the speech above. "Did you fall down, hit your head, and think you woke up in the 1950s? Or the 1890s? Should we call for a doctor? Because I simply cannot believe that in the year 2015, the United States Senate would be spending its time trying to defund women’s healthcare centers."
Senator Warren is absolutely right in everything she says in her speech, and even touches on the real reasons Republicans are pushing defunding of Planned Parenthood.
It seems to me that if the Republican Party is really upset at being accused of waging a war on women, then maybe they ought to, oh, I don’t know, stop the Republican Party’s war on women!
Writing on Salon, Bob Cesca points out that all sorts of states have exonerated Planned Parenthood from the smears in that defamatory selectively-edited extreme rightwing propaganda video. But Republicans have seized on that propaganda hit job as an “excuse” to defund Planned Parenthood. In his article, Cesca also details the dire consequences for women—poor and minority women in particular—if the Republicans succeed.
Senator Warren succeeded in stopping the Republicans—for now. The battle is far from over, however, and we know the Republican presidential
Like I said: If the Republican Party is really upset at being accused of waging a war on women, then maybe they ought to stop waging their war on women.
Related: Vox explains the propaganda video and what’s going on:
Related: Vox explains the propaganda video and what’s going on:
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