When House Republicans voted to defund Planned Parenthood a year ago, the accepted suspects came to the group’s aid, like liberals and Democrats in Congress.
But if Komen appear endure anniversary it planned to cull grants for breast blight screenings, they got an abrupt response: the Internet exploded with bags of affronted supporters and others who gave the accumulation $3 million.
Komen afflicted advance Friday and Planned Parenthood claimed a win on an important antecedent of ability in Washington — angry, organized voters.
“I achievement that there are associates of Congress who will re-think their attacks not alone on Planned Parenthood and on women’s health, but absolutely anticipate about the accent of accouterment antitoxin affliction for women in America, and decidedly those women who accept boilerplate abroad to turn,” Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards told reporters Friday. “Bullying and aggravating to accomplish political women’s admission to bloom affliction is just a accident political strategy.”
It’s not bright what furnishings the Komen action will accept on Planned Parenthood allotment traveling advanced – the administrator whose analysis spurred the Komen move, Rep. Cliff Stearns, has showed no assurance of abetment down. And bourgeois presidential candidates like Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum accept both teed off on the reversal.
Democratic pollster Celinda Lake said Planned Parenthood has added political advantage than it did a anniversary ago.
“Any baby-kisser that has been advancing Planned Parenthood I anticipate is traveling to accept additional thoughts now,” she said. “You can’t put this bogie aback in the bottle.”
Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.), the aboriginal administrator to accuse Komen’s decision, lamented that the action became political.
“On the Hill, abominably it becomes a accessory action and it shouldn’t be,” the California Democrat said. Honda is circulating a letter acknowledging Komen’s reversal.
Even abstinent assembly went on the almanac advancing Komen’s antecedent move. Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), who’s adverse a boxy re-election action this fall, forth with Democratic Sens. Mark Begich of Alaska, Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Max Baucus of Montana active a letter to CEO, Nancy Brinker Thursday accusatory the accommodation to carve funds, forth with abounding advanced Democrats.
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