Post by Logan on Jan 21, 2016 1:30:13 GMT -6
Senate adopts civil service, Planned Parenthood bills
Along party lines, senators voted 18-14 for a bill that would restrict how much Planned Parenthood could be reimbursed for prescription drugs, stripping it of perhaps $4 million a year, according to a rough estimate by Planned Parenthood. A second measure the Senate approved would cut another $3.5 million in government payments to Planned Parenthood.
The moves come four years after Republicans made other funding cuts to Planned Parenthood, which the group says led to the closure of five rural clinics that provided birth control and health screenings but not abortions.
Democrats argued Republicans were allowing their ideology to prevent some women from getting birth control.
"We have no right to dictate our faith on another, that's what the Constitution says," said Sen. Lena Taylor (D-Milwaukee).
Continued at www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/senate-takes-up-bills-on-planned-parenthood-civil-service-b99655156z1-365926491.html .
Along party lines, senators voted 18-14 for a bill that would restrict how much Planned Parenthood could be reimbursed for prescription drugs, stripping it of perhaps $4 million a year, according to a rough estimate by Planned Parenthood. A second measure the Senate approved would cut another $3.5 million in government payments to Planned Parenthood.
The moves come four years after Republicans made other funding cuts to Planned Parenthood, which the group says led to the closure of five rural clinics that provided birth control and health screenings but not abortions.
Democrats argued Republicans were allowing their ideology to prevent some women from getting birth control.
"We have no right to dictate our faith on another, that's what the Constitution says," said Sen. Lena Taylor (D-Milwaukee).
Continued at www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/senate-takes-up-bills-on-planned-parenthood-civil-service-b99655156z1-365926491.html .