Christie Vetoes Funding For Women’s Healthcare
Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey (R) vetoed $7.5 million dollars in funding for family planning clinics just before the July 1, 12:01 deadline.
The women’s health bill would have provided funding for Planned Parenthood as well as other clinics offering preventive health care such as mammograms, pap smears and cancer screenings. The funding would not have covered abortions.
So, women of New Jersey, if you’ve been hit hard and don’t have a job or can’t afford insurance, Gov. Christie has made sure you will not be able to visit a healthcare clinic that will help you with preventative care—care that ultimately reduces costs. In other words, if you get sick, too bad for you!
Ask any member of The Tea Party and all you will hear about when Planned Parenthood is mentioned are abortions—which are still legal. If the Republicans dominate the next election, you can bet Roe v. Wade will be overturned faster than John Boehner can manufacture tears for the camera.
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9:54 am
Romney to female voters: “The GOP has your back.”
Meanwhile, Republican Senators vote against anti-domestic violence legislation,
… the governor of Wisconsin repeals “equal pay for women” legislation,
… conservative pundits and politicians claim that men deserve higher pay for equal work because “men need the added income more than do women” or because “men know more stuff than do women”,
… Congressional and state Republican legislators strive to make affordable access to contraception and breast cancer screenings more difficult with their assault on PP and health insurance coverage,
… female state legislators are shunned and silenced for uttering the word “vagina” (gasp) during an abortion debate,
… and GOP-controlled state legislatures mandate that women seeking an abortion provide social conservative politicians with “a womb with a view”.
So much for the tea party/conservative movement’s mantra: “small, non-intrusive government”.
The 2012 GOP campaign slogan: A chicken in every pot and a spy-cam in every uterus.
American women to Republican Party: “WE will decide whether or not our rights are being assaulted by conservative policies, thank you very much.”
12:22 pm
I concur.