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URGENT MESSAGE FROM: Cecile Richards, President
Planned Parenthood Action Fund:
Minutes ago, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to strip Planned Parenthood of all federal funding for any purpose whatsoever. That means no funding to Planned Parenthood health centers for birth control, lifesaving cancer screenings, HIV testing, and other essential care.
By far, this is the most dangerous legislative assault on women’s health in our history, and it cannot go unanswered. We need you to stand united with us now. We need you to stand with us and with the three million women, men, and teens who rely on Planned Parenthood and who are now at risk of losing access to basic care.
We’ve drafted an open letter to every single representative in the House who voted for this cruel, unconscionable, unthinkable bill, and to every senator who still has a chance to stop it. Will you sign it — and share it right now?
AN OPEN LETTER TO CONGRESS
To the members of the House of Representatives who voted for the Pence Amendment to H.R. 1:
How could you?
How could you betray millions of women — and men, and teens — who rely on Planned Parenthood for basic health care?
How could you condemn countless women in this country to undiagnosed cancer, unintended pregnancies, and untreated illnesses?
Your vote was not only against those who seek care at Planned Parenthood health centers, but against every one of us who has ever sought care there, and against every one of us who knows that when we are healthy, when we are in charge of our lives, we thrive.
It was a vote against me.
To every senator who will soon consider this legislation:
I stand with Planned Parenthood to say to you: STOP THIS.
I stand with Planned Parenthood and the hundreds of thousands of people from every walk of life and every corner of this country who join me in signing this letter to tell you that we will fight this bill and we expect you to do the same.
I stand with and for the millions of women, men, and teens who rely on Planned Parenthood, and I expect you to do the same.
To every member of Congress, know that we stand together today against this outrageous assault, and together we will not lose.
This fight will continue next week when our legislators return to their home districts, and when the vote heads to the U.S. Senate the following week. Your voice, your strength, and your unwavering support are absolutely critical, now and in the weeks ahead. I am so glad to know you are with us during this very challenging time.
Sincerely, 
Cecile Richards, President
Planned Parenthood Action Fund
7 Responses to “Action Alert: Save Planned Parenthood”
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I can’t wait till the roll call is published so I can find out who the 11 Democrats are who voted for this bill. I’d be delighted to line up everyone of these Yahoos on a street corner and publicly castrate them with a corkscrew.
Leslie, there were 10: Boren, Costello, Donnelly (IN), Lipinski, McIntyre, Peterson, Rahall, Reyes, Ross (AR), and Shuler.
Thanks. I looked but couldn’t find the vote list.
YW, Leslie. I could not find it either until I dug out that it was the Pense Amendment to the budget bill.
(What the–? I posted a comment last night, but it’s not there anymore. Attempt #2 . . . )
It’s chilling that something like this could pass in the House. I hope this legislation doesn’t survive in the Senate, or it could have devastating consequences for reproductive rights and public health.
I’m sorry, Ahab. That rarely happens. I never saw it. If I had and deleted it, I would have said so. I agree, and I doubt that it will. It’s attached to the GOP budget.
I did delete one comment yesterday. It was a screed from a Supply-side pseudo-Christian about the horror of murdering babies. He went by christian_soul and his IP revealed he comes from Houston, Texas. I did not censor his comment because of what he said, but because he gave a bogus email address: nunyabiz @ fu.net
If he want’s to tell us FU, he isn’t much of a Christian soul.