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republican war on women is expensive

NHPR:

Earlier this week, the Executive Council blocked a $1.8 million dollar contract for Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. That loss of revenue is compounded by a similar reduction in the budget passed by the Legislature on Wednesday. Planned Parenthood says the cut could have a devastating effect on the some 16 thousand clients they serve.

What are the services devastated by these cuts?

Last year in New Hampshire, Planned Parenthood saw more than 15,000 patients and provided:

• 6,112 breast exams
• 5,548 cervical cancer screenings
• 18,858 tests for sexually transmitted infections
• 13,242 contraceptive care consultations

Why would Executive Councilor Dan St. Hilaire do this to New Hampshire women?

“Actually funding an agency that performs the actual event is something that I would object to, and I have objected to. That’s what I voted against it.”

The so-called ‘event’ is abortions.

(No public money, of course, goes to this legal “event.”)

Recently, lawmakers opposed to the law of the land did much the same in Indiana. But the judiciary branch just put a stop to that kind of legislative activism:

Planned Parenthood of Indiana expects to start offering services to Medicaid patients again Saturday after a federal judge ruled the state is not allowed to cut off the organization’s public funding for general health services solely because it also provides abortions.

Here in New Hampshire, Tuck reported that “Planned Parenthood is investigating the possibility of filing a lawsuit against the state.”

How much will Dan St. Hilaire cost the state of New Hampshire?

25 June 2011 ·