Fresh off of victories over women in Mississippi, Kentucky, Alabama and South Dakota,
Women in large swaths of the U.S. are dying younger than they were a generation ago, reversing nearly a century of progress in public health and underscoring the rising toll of smoking and record obesity.
the GOP set it's sights on North Carolina, slashing Planned Parenthood funding to zero just as the clock passed midnight.
A woman in Panama now has a life expectancy two years longer than a woman in Clay County Kentucky. This GOP progress will help stop illegal immigration. What woman in Panama will migrate to Kentucky to live a shorter, more impoverished and more brutal life? A woman in Viet Nam now has the same life expectancy as a woman in western Kentucky.
Women from Mississippi can now migrate to Mexico to live longer and better lives!
The country (Mexico) has gone from being overwhelmingly rural to mainly urban; [1] between 1930 and 2000 average life expectancy rose from 34 to 75 years; the conditions in which women do housework and care for children and the sick — still almost exclusively their responsibility — have changed enormously: the majority have running water, gas for cooking, indoor toilets, and homes with flooring. [2]
Because GOP governors and legislators have been so successful in cutting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid costs in Kentucky, Alabama and Mississippi and reversing immigration, they now are implementing their plans across America to cut out unnecessary services for unnecessary people. As the clock struck midnight in North Carolina, the GOP overturned Governor Perdue's veto of the Republican budget bill that slashes education and zeroes out Planned Parenthood and unnecessary medical services to unnecessary people.
God bless the North Carolina GOP. They are such paragons of virtue.
Conservative state lawmakers have been flogging Planned Parenthood for its association with abortions this past week during debates over the defunding bill and another bill that would restrict access to abortions. Rep. Pat McElraft (R-Emerald Isle) told her colleagues on the House Floor a tearful story about her nephew and his girlfriend's experience with Planned Parenthood 14 years ago.
"She went to Planned Parenthood, asked them what her choices were," she said. "They told her she would have a deformed baby because of her drug use, her only option was abortion."
"He went with her to what she describes as a very dark house. In that very dark house, a nurse attended to her. My nephew asked the nurse if she could at least see the ultrasound. The nurse said, 'I can't do that, I'll get fired.'"
McElroy later admitted that the incident happened in Georgia, not North Carolina, and that the "dark house" where the abortion occurred was actually not a Planned Parenthood clinic. The family planning provider estimates that abortions account for less than 3 percent of the services it provides.
According to a recent poll, 57 percent of North Carolina voters oppose the measure to defund Planned Parenthood and teen pregnancy prevention programs, and Reed said people have already started sending donations to keep PPNC afloat.
If we can just keep progressives from funding Planned Parenthood and voting the GOP out of office, the GOP will make North Carolina just like Mississippi.
Please see Hounddog's diary for the detailed, snark free story on the NC GOP's PP cuts.