Arizona Governor Jan Brewer Signs Bill To Ban Planned Parenthood

And she calls herself a woman? What's up with this archiac thinking? Obvioulsly she isn't looking for reelection! I say UNITE WOMEN! Kick this filly to the curb!

When are women going to make their own choices without politicians telling us what we can and cant do. I'm tired of old men in congress and governors trying to take our rights away.

I grew up with a mother who was President of Planned Parenthood in our county. I saw what they did there: a tremendous amount of counseling and helping women to better plan their lives so that children would not be born into environments where they were not wanted. Planned Parenthood focused on women's health. It is sickening to watch the radical right coninually lie and distort the truth about what Planned Parenthood does. It's getting harder to believe that America has any future. We are already a laughingstock in the eyes of the rest of the developed world as far as our pathetically backwards notions about health care and women's rights.

This woman is a total idiot.

~ this is seriously f*up! So much for women's rights in this country …

Andrea~here's what you don't get. State governors are starting to react to the fact that democrats in their state legislation and dems in Washington want to con't to ask taxpayers to support PP, and abortions. It's not that the GOP/republican govs are against PP on a whole. But, they are against making taxpayers who are against supporting abortion, support PP. And, Andrea, many women like her and myself are not trying to end abortion rights, even if we don't agree with it, but we should have the right to NOT be for supporting clinics that do abortions, just as YOU have the right to feel pro-abortion. Separate PP abortions from federal funding, and PP won't be a target anymore. That's the message.

I am not for abortion, but I also do not believe that a woman's rights should be taken from her. Does Plannearenthood not do more than just provide abortions? If they do how can one right out weigh the other?

Is Jan Brewer a woman? She must be brainwashed to push this bill through, curtailing woman's rights.

I hate when politicians speak for me. Why not ask me what I want instead of assuming it's what you want. You know what happens when you assume……….

Kerri Tang, they do. Planned Parenthood has said repeatedly that they don't use and govt funds for the abortions. Educate yourself on both sides of the issue. Go to the PP website, talk to people from PP. Here in St.Louis there are many PP clinics and only one does abortions and they only do them on certain days. They do ALOT more for women than you conservatives are willing to realize. I don't think my tax money should go to pay for anymore wars or to pay farm subsidies or to oil companies but it does and there isn't anything I can do about it. No one wants to take up those causes because it's not popular to pick on the rich guys. Only the poor and uninsured.

You guys need to read this all the way, I stole this from @Kerri Tang I agreed even before reading this.

here's what you don't get. State governors are starting to react to the fact that democrats in their state legislation and dems in Washington want to con't to ask taxpayers to support PP, and abortions. It's not that the GOP/republican govs are against PP on a whole. But, they are against making taxpayers who are against supporting abortion, support PP. And, many women like her and myself are not trying to end abortion rights, even if we don't agree with it, but we should have the right to NOT be for supporting clinics that do abortions, just as YOU have the right to feel pro-abortion. Separate PP abortions from federal funding, and PP won't be a target anymore. That's the message.

Kerri Tang … But Kerri… I am against Wars that abort my child I gave birth to .. Yet I still have to give my tax dollars to support that!!!!… If we are going to pick and choose where our tax dollars go to then lets do it across the board.. don't you think!!!

That's the problem with Christian hephers, just like the rest of this country there trying to take over and tell is whenwhere and what we can or can't do! Makes me sick!!!!

That's the problem with Christian hephers, just like the rest of this country there trying to take over and tell is whenwhere and what we can or can't do! Makes me sick!!!!

Dawn Bess Yeah well guess what? I don't approve of my tax dollars being used to fight futile, open-ended wars in places like Iraq. I don't approve of my tax dollars being used to imprison marijuana-users. I don't approve of LOTS of things the govt. uses my tax money to pay for. That's the price you pay to live in a society with a government. Unfortunately each taxpayer doesn't get to choose how eachof their tax dollars is spent. This is a disgusting and disingenuous attack on health care for the poor. every time some *&% like Jan Brewer opens her mouth and lies some more about what Planned Parenthood really is, this country dies a little bit more.

And your last line shows that youdon't see what's really going on here. Brewer and her extremist ilk are saying that even if Planned Parenthood simply REFERS a woman to an abortion provider, then that means they should lose ALL federal funding for anything that they do; the rationale is that by giving them funds for A,B,C,D,E,and F, the government allows them to save money on A,B,C,D,E, and F and allocate more moneyfor abortions. the only end-goal of that sort of bogus logic is the termination of any funding whatsoever. So more poor women won;t get mammograms and other useful services, because of the selfishness and intolerance of the religious right. Screw them.

Dawn Bess Yeah well guess what? I don't approve of my tax dollars being used to fight futile, open-ended wars in places like Iraq. I don't approve of my tax dollars being used to imprison marijuana-users. I don't approve of LOTS of things the govt. uses my tax money to pay for. That's the price you pay to live in a society with a government. Unfortunately each taxpayer doesn't get to choose how eachof their tax dollars is spent. This is a disgusting and disingenuous attack on health care for the poor. every time some *&% like Jan Brewer opens her mouth and lies some more about what Planned Parenthood really is, this country dies a little bit more.

And your last line shows that youdon't see what's really going on here. Brewer and her extremist ilk are saying that even if Planned Parenthood simply REFERS a woman to an abortion provider, then that means they should lose ALL federal funding for anything that they do; the rationale is that by giving them funds for A,B,C,D,E,and F, the government allows them to save money on A,B,C,D,E, and F and allocate more moneyfor abortions. the only end-goal of that sort of bogus logic is the termination of any funding whatsoever. So more poor women won;t get mammograms and other useful services, because of the selfishness and intolerance of the religious right. Screw them.

Kerri Tang In a democracy, everyone pays taxes, and I would bet that there is not a single thing that gets funded by those taxes that doesn't have someone who doesn't want their dollars going to it. Abortion is no different. PP has 3% of their budget going to abortion services, so I imagine that the amount of tax dollars going to fund those abortions is absolutely miniscule. You are free to donate money to adoption agencies, or other agencies that don't support abortion to counterbalance the minute amount of money that you are paying toward PP. In so doing, you are promoting your beliefs, yet still assisting (though in a small way) to fund an agency that does nearly all of its work in cancer screenings, pap smears, birth control, and other basic women's health needs. For many poor women, PP is the only health care they have. Those are the women you are hurting. Is that REALLY what you intend? So you see, it isn't us that "doesn't get it."

Kristin.. This is why it is important to send a message in November… Vote. Your Vote added to all the other women in this country will send a message. We WILL NOT be controlled by Religion, Political agendas or other groups that want to put us " In our Place". We fought too hard to get thus far and we won't go back. Nor do we want our daughters or Grand daughters to live in a world of suppression.

Kerri Tang I should have the right to have my tax dollars not fund health care for wealthy senators and representatives. You have the audacity to call your party "pro life" when your supporting measures that will literally sentence women to death? SHAME!

Dawn Bess ~you are misinformed, dear. THEY DO. Ck out who you vote for, see what they vote for. It's all there in b/w. PP says they don't, but that's the lie. I'll believe what I see in senators records, and what they vote on, before I believe what PP has to say about it. Another myth PP has circulated in that past yr or so, during this issue they call a war on women, which it is not…….is, that they don't do many abortions, or that they didn't start out doing abortions, which is exactly what PP started out doing the most of. I AM informed. It is you who are not. Again. You are implying that conservatives are against ALL that PP does. We are NOT. We are against who pays for it. PP can stand on their own, w/private funding, and some of us feel they should. There are other places I don't want my tax dollars to go for, but right now we're talking about PP. And, there is something you can do about it. Who you vote for makes a difference. Just as those who voted for Jan Brewer feel they are making a difference.

Yes.. Nancy.. Planned Parent Hood does MUCH MUCH more. They helped me back in the 70's and not with abortion either.

Ok, this Repub crap is just plain and simple getting way out of control. I mean really, do we all see the pattern developing here. This bill as others that have passed and are attempting to get passed target women, children and the poor. How long are people going to tolerate this kind of nonsense and put their foot down and let their elected officials know that we are not going to take it anymore? Being poor is not a choice, do you think that these people said when they were growing up, "Hmmm, I just think I'll be poor and have to beg for everything the rest of my life." Yes I know that there are abusers of the system out there, but I don't believe they make up the majority. There are hardworking men, women, single parents, etc. out there working hard and getting no where and need help. Are we really going to let the Repubs do this to our segment of the population that needs it the most? Keep in mind this poem, and just insert the word poor and middle class in there and then just think about it.

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me.
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

" Martin Niemöller".

If we continue to let this go unchecked we are all in a world of hurt and the only people who will have anything are the top 1%. Think about it folks.

Karen Hope Carter ~I sympathize with your statement that wars have casualties. Wars weren't created to kill off our young people w/no thought to how that affects all of our lives. But the possibility of war is hard to ignore, when someone attacks your country, or your allies are under siege by someone like Hitler. Should we stand by and not do anything to protect our freedoms?

Between the Sherrif and the Governor of Arizona, this state is doomed…..

Planned Parenthood is NOT just for abortions! They educate both women amd men on their reproductive organs, provide low cost healthcare for women and men and offer women abortions AND alternatives to abortions. Get a CLUE Arizona!

Where are teens supposed to go for help or women supposed to go if they were raped and they got pregnant it's their choice to have an abortion or not. It's not anyone's decision to choose for them. Why are our rights being taken away?

Kerri Tang lol… "protect our freedoms?" …. your freedoms to take away other people's freedoms?

It amazes me, Carlyle, how you can say women need to stand up against politicians who are supposedly compromising your rights as a women, but clinics those same women support have not problem w/financial support from federal $$. If you don't want any interference from the govern't, then support clinics like PP, and tell them to fund their clinic w/private $$.

Jan Brewer is on a mission to thrust her beliefs on the United States of America. She, like others who think like her, believe that the Constitution exists only for them. Where as the Constitution was designed to protect ALL people, cultures and religions from one group forcing another group to believe as either group believes. People with Jan Brewer's views even go against their fellow Christians that don't subscribe to her views. After they finish with this do you for a moment think they won't go after people of faith that don't agree with them?

I'm so sick of people trying to tell me what I can and cant do with MY body! I don't care if for or against abortion IT'S NONE OF ANYONES BUSINESS WHAT I DO WITH MY BODY! especially some 80 year old man(or women) in congress! I fail to understand what business it is of yours! to have an abortion is a very PERSONAL choice! and when I was raped your telling me that I have to raise that child that was created without my permission? no I did not! I had an abortion! so how about this…all u people that have nothing better to do than bitch about other peoples lives and choices and decisions..why don't u people try this…MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!

Chris Hewitt Uh-yeah thats what I said only in a less angry manner.

I know you shouldn't have an abortion just because you feel like having one but under certain reason's I feel people have the right to choose.

I know you shouldn't have an abortion just because you feel like having one but under certain reason's I feel people have the right to choose.

I know many women who did not have the financial means to private insurance and went to Planned Parenthood for their Pap smears and check ups. Why are they so hung up on the abortion issue alone? Denying women access to planned parenting will lead to back room or self abortions, trash can babies, abused babies and children! Instead of attacking the abortion issue, change the adoption laws! so that parents who really desire children can do so easily and aren't running to China, Russia or South America to get a child they so desparately want!

I agree, but it's also important to note that 1 percent of abortions occurs due to rape while women in their 20’s are responsible for more than half of all abortions.

Abortion is wrong period!! Woman should beable to go somewhey can go our special needs

I've just got one question, well maybe two for everyone on this thread yelling and screaming about women's rights being taken away. Where do you get the belief that just because some of us do not want the Fed Gov. to fund PP that women are losing rights? PP will still be there performing abortions, and other services so you are not losing your RIGHT to go to PP. The only Right and it is NOT your right that you will lose is going to PP for an abortion and make someone else pay for it. You do not have the right to stand up yelling at the country, government, old men, ect. to stay out of your business, keep their, or our hands off of your body, stay out of your bed room and Dr. Office, then expect us to pay for your abortion. It is our wallet, our right to spend the money in it the way we want, it is not your right to get in it. YOUR RIGHTS STOP WHERE OUR RIGHTS BEGIN!! What about the rights of all of those innocent children being murdered? Just because the women and men are not responsible enough to spend .75 on a condom, or $9.00 a month for the pill. Really if you are old enough to stand up and demand your rights, then you are old enough to take care of yourself.

Planned Parenhood does NOT hide behind womens health issues. The abortion issue was settled with Roe Vs. Wade. It's a womans right to choose when she gives birth – PERIOD. Removing Planned parenthood removes cheap/free birth control so that the woman CAN choose to have a baby when she wants to. They are a WOMANS HEALTH CLINIC.
Abortion is not about whoring around. Even married women have abortions. Either they're not ready, their birth control failed in some manner, or they just don't have enough money to support a baby. IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE MONEY FOR BIRTH CONTROL YOU DO NOT HAVE THE MONEY TO HAVE A BABY AND TAKE CARE OF IT.
For all of you vilifying the doctors who perform them, they are taking care of the womens health.
I've never had an abortion, I have one healthy baby on the ground, but it was a bad pregnancy. If the pregnancy had continued to get worse, threatening my life, I would have aborted. If I get pregnant again, and it threatens my life, I will abort it. I have an obligation to live for the child on the ground, not the one in my womb, and I will NOT orphan my child.
No one, NO ONE will take MY right away to decide what happens to MY body. Not government, not a doctor, NO ONE.
And by the way, if a doctor has ISSUE with performing a medical procedure, that doctor SHOULD NOT be a doctor. Go take your religious morals OUT of the medical field and fuck yourself with them. You are a DOCTOR, YOU GET PAID TO PERFORM MEDICAL PROCEDURES. DO YOUR FUCKING JOB!
Planned Parenthood does not use federal funding for abortions, federal funding is segrated for birth control, std testing, etc.
FOr those of you who feel you can impose your moral values on another human being and object to abortions for rape victims, the child might be innocent, but the mother is t…oo. Carrying the result of a rape for 9 months is a constant reminder of your victimization, and emotionally scarring. So I guess you think it's ok to torture a woman who has already been victimized and is suffering. Great job on your morals.
Then there are pregnancys from incest. Lets blame the girl for her father/uncle/brother for RAPING her, abusing her and emotionally scarring her for life. Then add a layer by making her carry the result of the sexual abuse to term, making her give birth to her sister/brother/cousin/neice/nephew. Yeah, great job on that one too.
If you don't like abortions, don't fucking get one. But your rights and morals end where MINE begin. Your opinion should matter FUCK ALL where my personal rights are concerned.
And don't condem those women who have NO CHOICE but to get an abortion. You don't know what happened to them, you don't know what drove them to this choice, and you certainly have NO RIGHT to judge them. Having an abortion is an emotional decision. You second guess yourself right up to the table for the procedure. They give you EVERY chance to change your mind, but they don't push you into it. They don't discourage or encourage the decision. They leave it up to you and your personal beliefs. It's called NON JUDGEMENTAL MEDICAL CARE and the GOP should stay out of my uterus. Some people really have NO CHOICE.See More.

You know… I am not one to wear my faith like a badge to be seen by everyone. I believe in " You shall know them by their fruits". But what I can't comprehend is why those of us who believe in feeding, clothing and caring for the least of us, aren't taking a stronger position in this battle of eradication of( so called) selective sins? Vanity, greed and Pride are sins too. Charity isn't about writing a check or dropping money in the offering box on Sunday. Charity is seeing a need with your own eyes and coming forth with a helping hand. Charity is action that produces direct comfort with no thought of reward. I see my tax dollars as a form of charity going toward causes that ease pain and suffering. I may not always agree as to were my tax dollars go but I do know that many times they do go to help my fellow human beings to be able to exist better than without my tax dollars. The charity of our tax dollars doesn't stop there, it goes further with seeing needs of others and stepping up to assist when we can. I am glad to be able to help when I can and to give to my Government so they can help where I can't. It is just as simple as that. I choose to focus on the good that my tax charity does. There will always be those that take advantage of goodness but I don't concern myself with those people as it is their behavior on the day of judgement. That is how I believe. That being said I take my faith and quietly go back to doing what I believe.

Kerri Tang PLANNED PARENTHOOD SEGRAGATES FUNDING FOR ABORTIONS. Quit spouting the GOP party line – do your own research. They DO NOT use federal funding to provide for abortions.

Kerri Tang PLANNED PARENTHOOD SEGRAGATES FUNDING FOR ABORTIONS. Quit spouting the GOP party line – do your own research. They DO NOT use federal funding to provide for abortions.

AND IF YOU DON"T LIKE ABORTIONS, DON"T GET ONE! Don't think to judge me for having one, if I am ever forced to do so. Take your morals and go fuck yourself. My morals don't judge women forced into this decision by timing and circumstance

AND IF YOU DON"T LIKE ABORTIONS, DON"T GET ONE! Don't think to judge me for having one, if I am ever forced to do so. Take your morals and go fuck yourself. My morals don't judge women forced into this decision by timing and circumstance

This is terrible. I may not completely agree with abortion but the fact that they are removing it completely is not right. I personally have been to planned parenthood and couldn't be on birth control any other way. What about that and the fact that they help abused women get away from their attackers. and help you plan if you are going to have a child. why get rid of planned parenthood when they help more then any one out there.

This is terrible. I may not completely agree with abortion but the fact that they are removing it completely is not right. I personally have been to planned parenthood and couldn't be on birth control any other way. What about that and the fact that they help abused women get away from their attackers. and help you plan if you are going to have a child. why get rid of planned parenthood when they help more then any one out there.

Shame, shame, shame on you Jan Brewer! You don't want to use taxpayer money to fund an abortion, but who in the hell do you think will support the majority of those unwanted children – the TAXPAYERS of course – DUH!

Shame, shame, shame on you Jan Brewer! You don't want to use taxpayer money to fund an abortion, but who in the hell do you think will support the majority of those unwanted children – the TAXPAYERS of course – DUH!

That is really sad there ruining it for people that really do need help. I just want people that really do need help to get help

That is really sad there ruining it for people that really do need help. I just want people that really do need help to get help

Federal funding is NOT used for abortions. It's used for the OTHER just as important medical services that are offered. Do your research – just because you SUPPORT the clinic, doesn't mean your tax money is being used, EVEN INDIRECTLY to support the abortions performed.

Kerri Tang The federal $$ does not go towards abortion at planned parenthood. They use other funds for that. please check it out.

Does this "WOMAN" , a loose term , remember the days when women had to use coat hangers and quinine to try and help themselves and end up dead. Back in the day women were not allowed to say "NO" to men because "WE" had no rights. Men had all the power and the say so. PPH helps lots of women who can't afford to get that HIGH-ASSED" insurance to cover their health needs. So you let some (GOP) Guard Of the Past turn you around now you have lost your mind. In my deepest , deepest heart I don't approve of "ABORTION" , but I will never stand in the way or judge a woman who needs to use her rights to choose what is best for her. Gov. you are what I call a contributor to the rising number of the poor. All those women who can not choose then they should bring those children to you so you can clothe, feed and take care of their medical needs; however, it's " OUTRAGEOUS" that some of these women end up in the NEWS because of crimes committed against innocent children some of them ddid not want in the first place.As far as I'm concerned those women should bring those children to your doorstep so you can take care of them, because here's a "REALITY CHECK": even adoption and foster care is not always safe. BTW not everyone wants to be on the public dole.

The federal funding they receive does not support abortions, it helps low-income / no income women get proper medical check ups and health education so they can raise helathy responsible children. They also provide vaccinations, pediatric services, health classes and a whole slew of other programs. PP is a target because it is the most widely recognized organization that offers abortion services AT SOME clinics, this is why they are the poster child in this case NOT because the $$ from the fed goes to abortion.

Taralee McCloskey how do you no its not used for abortions? yeah they said they "don't" but have you looked at there spending? We are against who pays for it. PP can stand on their own, w/private funding, and some of us feel they should.

Kevin Jennison Federal funding DOES NOT GO TO FUNDING ABORTIONS. It funds OTHER necessary healthcare for women. It's SEGREGATED. Look up your facts and quit spouting your parties bullshit line.

Gail Finnell ~I have, I suggest you do some deeper looking. PP got started w/the help of the federal governt. If their website does not reflect that, then they are purposely covering that up. And what are those other "funds"?

Dionne Adele Savage Haring They receive both private and government funds. We have to trust that they do not use the funding incorrectly, just like we trust the government to use its funds accordingly.

Why should a woman's rights supercede the rights of an unborn child?

Right on Kevin.

Kevin Jennison … How do you know that YOUR tax dollars went to pay for an abortion? Once you pay your taxes it goes into a communal fund which pays for more than abortions. It pays for Prostrate exams too. It pays for men's health also. Taxes are not gender related. Taxes pay for wars that most women don't agree with. Why should my tax dollars go to pay for my child I didn't abort just so I can send them off to a war I didn't create so they can be aborted? I don't agree with that but I do give my money to fund it. How is your paying taxes to the Government any different than that? Killing is killing. Before you come back on me about killing a fetus .. I have NEVER had an abortion. But I don't think it is my right to control another's conscience anymore than I can control where my money goes once it leaves my wallet.

And, Chris, that radical right you talk about is sick of PP distorting the truth. They started out as an abortion clinic above all other care they offer (now). Not a word about any war on women's rights, until this election yr, and the left saying the GOP is against PP. They are not against what they offer to women in need. They ARE against fed. funds, which PP contends don't exist. Well, they do. Washington votes on each yr.

Is rather my tax dollars go to planned parenthood for preventive care and consulting then have it used as welfare to support families that could no longer afford the most effective birth control.

IF you got raped it should be the person's choice of what they wanted to do not anyone telling you what you can or can't do !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dionne Adele Savage Haring They are willing to make their budgeting public, but no one has asked, so they can continue to spout lies and propaganda. As long as there is NO personal health information attached to it, so they can protect the women who come to them for health.

My feelings about abortion aside, the general public should not be forced to pay for abortions. If planned parenthood provides all these other services then they should be able to continue but my tax dollars should not be used to supply services that are are not accepted as basics care. If planned parenthood wants to continue conducting these procedures then their funding needs to come from somewhere other than tax dollars.

Kerri Tang It STARTED with the help of the federal gov't – the fed gov't does not rund abortions – the other funds ie private donations, the other services they offer come on a sliding scale based on your income. I have done all the deeper looking I need to, until all those that are against federal funding PP and or abortion stand their collective happy butts outside abortion clinics and offer the hand of help to those considering it, ie adopting the child paying their medical bills etc, then they need to shut up because then and only then will the battle over this issue stop! Healthcare is a basic right of humanity ALL humanity.

Natasha Rene'é So you're saying We meaning the USA should have took no action after 911?

Kerri Tang I'm with you Kerri, where are those other funds coming from?

Gail Finnell I don't trust the government and i believe they use our money on useless stuff

Danyelle Sawyer I agree!

Dawn Bess I don't know why my reply was directed at you. I hit "reply" to respond to Kerri Tang. Obviously I'm not taking issue with you.

You know.. I got to thinking about what this argument is REALLY all about. It is about where our tax dollars go. If we determine not to fund Planned Parenthood with our tax dollars simply because we think it funds 1 service we don't agree with then when does it stop? Will we then be able to tell the Government we won't fund wars? Prisons? A Highway because it crosses a brothel? Or will be be able to deny access to funds to schools because of 1 subject taught we disagree with? Where does it end? Again I say, once you pay your taxes you HAVE no Idea where your money goes. Once that money leaves your hands it becomes the property of the Government and is NO longer yours.

Dawn Bess Just because PP says it doesn't mean its true.

Kerri Tang you can obfuscate all you want with lies like "they started out as an abortion clinic" but you're still wrong. Margaret Sanger started the American Birth Control League in Brooklyn in 1916. She was soon arrested under the Comstock laws. You got it? BIRTH CONTROL. Is abortion one form of brith control? Yes. Was Planned Parenthood started as an abortion mill? No.

Kerri Tang You're lying again. Planned Parenthood most assuredly did NOT get started with the help of givernment funding. Planned Parenthood began in 1916 (although it was not called Planned Parenthood until 1942). It was not until 1970 under Title X that the federal government began giving financial assistance to Planned Parenthood. The terms of Title X stipulated that no federal funds be used for abortions.

Ron Miller DUH private donations and other services they provide on a sliding scale.

Paula Qualls Gurley – and just because The governor says it does doesn't mean its true either.

Dionne Adele Savage Haring – We agree on that point.

I was never aware that taxpayers dollars were funding abortions. I always thought abortions, obviously, came out of the pockets of the person getting them. Whether it's the mother to be doing it alone or both would be parents involved. If that's the case and the issue at hand I sure as hell don't want MY tax dollars going towards a woman trying to rid of her baby when getting pregnant is highly preventable. With abortion around most woman are casual and feel why be on expensive birth control when there's an abortion clinic right around the corner that's not right. I can state this because I knew of some women that were like that. Use a condom; I can't feel nothing… Go on birth control; it's too much money, my insurance doesn't cover it, I don't feel like it or whatever the reason maybe. I'll just get an abortion, Not on my tax dollars your not.. Especially when irresponsibility is involved. Really? My tax dollars should not be spent on irresponsible people. Planned Parenthood in it's entirety should not be banned they provide affordable health care services for those that do not have insurance even there birth control is extremely affordable. Birth control out of pocket at the pharmacy, generic is $260, name brand the price shot up to $320.00 PP $90… If I don't have health insurance which route do you think I'm taking? It's obvious, they provide so much health services they are beneficial to the community and to those who are not insured. Ban abortion services from the clinic but not the entire clinic itself.

*Their birth control is extremely affordable*….

Hey uneducated judges of Planned Parenthood…. they provide much more than abortions! they are all about women's health! I got my birthcontrol there for many years in the 70's as I did not want my parents or the doctors in my neighborhood to know my business. Abortions are a tiny part of what they do…

Ummmm, so where are these women supposed to go for health care and family planning? Oh yeah, the states are going to take care of them….yeah, right.

Chris Hewitt ; I concur.. Kerri speaks as if women are ONLY upset with the abortion issues; Laws are being formed against birth control. Arizona is trying to pass a law that would state that a fetus is a person two weeks before conception. Tell me that isn't giving States leeway to put every women in jail for getting her period… Get your period and you commit murder of a fetus that hasn't even been conceived yet!!!!.. sheesh… How much dumber can you get as a law maker.. ????

I meant to say: Laws are being created against Birth Control and reproductive rights in general .. such as the law stating a fetus is a person two weeks before conception.

Fair enough Eddy James… Can I tell the Government I don't want my tax dollars going to feed and house those rapists we put in prisons? I don't like the Idea of paying to keep criminals in jail but I do just as you and everyone else does.

The problem with that Lori, is they don't want woman using birth control either! Unless it's for "medical purposes" and not contraceptive purposes. They're using the abortion as an excuse to stop them. I hope planned parenthood sues like in Texas and the feds stop funding AZ like in Texas.

I meant the problem with that, Lori,… Lol damn punctuation. You're not the problem.

abortion is not health care, what blows me away is all the blacks that support planed parenthood after what Margaret Sanger was all about. if she had her way there wouldn't be any blacks left on earth.

Please, Please, Please // Someone put this stupid, ignorant, C*#^ out of her misery.

Well, doesn't that sound like a brilliant thing to do!!?!

Ron Miller Those "other funds" come from people like me and millions of other intelligent people who know the good that PP does -like the many Pap smears they have done that have saved women from cancer,etc. Didn't you pay attention when Komen pulled their stunt? We stepped up.

A major step back in time for women.

Karen Hope Carter And following on from that, I am not happy my tax dollars went to bomb Iraqi children. Where can I sign up for a refund? The DoD and Halliburton's funding needs to come from somewhere other than tax dollars. :/

Karen Hope Carter And following on from that, I am not happy my tax dollars went to bomb Iraqi children. Where can I sign up for a refund? The DoD and Halliburton's funding needs to come from somewhere other than tax dollars. :/

Women who get abortions pay taxes

Planned parenthood isn't used for just abortions. I'd be screwed without them for birth control. I'm so thankful I live in a state like Oregon where this would NEVER happen. Shame on this woman. I hope she gets an unwanted pregnancy and is stuck with a bastard child. Great idea! Let's get more women on welfare and kids having kids! You idiot…..

Kerri Tang Fact. Less than three percent of what PP does is abortion. Fact.

Wow, seems like the republican war on women continues…..

Maybe it's just me, but I find it hypocritical when the same legislators who supposedly value the sanctity of life will then turn around and cut food and housing programs that are necessary to sustain life. This is not about the children, it's about control. Tax payers do not pay for abortions, but you do pay to subsidize healthcare for rich legislators and their families; but let's not demonize them for taking advantage of taxpayer funds because it's easier to pick on the people who are in need and less fortunate. Jan Brewer and other women like her don't care about women's health or women's rights because they will not be affected by this. Brewer already enjoys generous health care benefits that she probably has access to for the rest of her life, why should she care if other women don't?

Well I guess in Ms Carters world we will just let Rapists run the streets because we don't want to pay to house them. I'm all for that brilliant idea. As for Ms LaCapria, how dare you accuse our military of bombing children as if it was their mission and pleasure to do so. You obviously have never served in our armed forces and have no clue as to what those men and women sacrifice for your freedom. Our government is flawed and I absolutely do not agree with many of the things that we fund but abortion is a different issue than the prison system and the DOD.

". . . helping women to better plan their lives so that children would not be born into environments where they were not wanted."

You prove our point right there with your own words.

Who are you to say that someone should not have a chance at life merely because they're unwanted, merely because the mother isn't ready? Who are you to destroy that chance, who is the mother to destroy that chance of another human being, even if that human being is her child, especially when that human being is her child.

Do you support the right of women to throw their new borns in a dumpster too, or does being able to see it magically make it different? Or is it that being on the outside of the womb rather than the inside make it magically different. You know, as though if I put my baby in a closet, it somehow changes their importance as a human being.

Why don't we ask the baby what they want, oh that's right we can't because they aren't yet old enough to decide. Well, I am old enough now, and I'll tell you, I want my chance.

I bet half of you are proving me right right now as you indignantly wish I had been aborted because I refuse to close my eyes and turn a blind eye to what abortion really is. Shrugging me off as though I'm some sort of closed-minded zealous bigot. LOL, I scoff because you make fools of yourselves, denying reality so that you can have your pretense, and enjoy your nights of momentary pleasure without guilt for for what it is you're really causing. Some of us don't prefer to bury our heads in the sand. Some of us prefer to face the pain, and acknowledge reality so that we can create a more fair and better tomorrow for all, not just the some that can be heard and seen. Life is precious, human life even more so, and a child's life, nothing is more precious, regardless of the stage of development. Who is anyone to say that one stage supersedes another. We all have to see all stages of life, we are still alive through each and every single stage from conception until death.

I wonder, did your mother show you the part where they pressure impressionable girls to get abortions when they believe them to be too young or not ready? You know, that "environments where they were not wanted" part you were talking about that easily extends to perceived unhealthy environments when the mother is probably not ready? Did you see that too, because my cousin sure did. And she almost did abort thanks to Planned Parenthood, another baby dead, and another dollar in their coffers. Fortunately, my cousin found sense enough to in her whole screwed up life, for once, not to be brainwashed by others and to honor her child's divine and unalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. She's 5 now, and if you were to ask her now, even at 5, she'd definitely want her chance as well.

And don't think it doesn't happen, every person they "help," every procedure they do calls for more funds to be donated, for more federal funds to be requested. They had enough to figure out how to bring Susan G. Komen back after what, like 22 hours, and every dead child they helped to murder brings in even more.

Don't be naive. When you have only $3 to use for lunch, you have to decide how to use it, to drink or to eat something, but not both. If the office pools some money together and gives you another $3 because of how "helpful" you've been, but says you can't use it to buy a drink because some of them are morally opposed to it. Well, guess what that first $3 is now going to go to . . . that's right, the drink.

One way or another, our funds help abortions if any of them go to Planned Parenthood, either directly or indirectly. And that alone, forcing people to pay money into that which they find morally, ethically, and religiously wrong is in of itself morally wrong. But if you ever chose to follow such true rules of fair play, most Liberal organizations wouldn't even be around today, proving how few actually support today's Liberal philosophies.

And guns usually are not used to kill people, Nuclear weapons have never yet been used irresponsibly, and our biggest polluters provide countless jobs, great retirements, and wonderful health benefits, Nazi Germany made many medical improvements that we now use today because of their horrific experimentation upon Jews.

Just because there seems to be some good in it that someone can point too doesn't mean that their whole organization isn't tainted by the horrid things they do, and it doesn't justify me being forced to give my money in support of anyone for anything who would willingly murder a child.

A lot of you are missing the entire point.

Since when should a mother, or anyone have the right to choose to murder their child for any reason? I cannot fathom how anyone in their right mind can be okay with the murder of a child merely because that child is not yet fully developed.

What I meant to say is, why is the government sticking their noses in womens business. I'm tired of people telling me what I can and cant do, its my body and I will make choices or decisions for me. We are not under the fingers of the old farts in Washington or our own local governments, we have a voice and we will use it. We want to be treated equal and not like some inferior human being. Women have come a long way and I am glad for the change. I'm 62 years old and things were harder when I was young. We had to deal with sexual remarks from fellow workers or be groped and just pass it off as "they're just being boys." One day things are going to be better for women and womens rights will be honored and left alone. Lets face it, its still a mans world until we change it. I hope I'm alive to see it.

Get off your high and mighty place now. If you truly are opposed to abortion stand outside the clinics and adopt the babies, plain and simple.

when is somebody going to kill this dumb bitch.