THE SENATE GOP REVEALED THEIR HEALTH CARE BILL TODAY, AND
THEY ALSO REVEALED SOMETHING THAT I THINK WE ALL FEARED
BUT ALSO EXPECTED.
DEFUNDING PLANNED PARENTHOOD.
THE GOP BILL FOLLOWS THE SAME LANGUAGE IN THE HOUSE
PASSED HEALTH CARE BILL AND BLOCKING MEDICAID
REIMBURSEMENTS TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD WHICH OBVIOUSLY
PROVIDES WOMEN'S HEALTHCARE AND ABORTION SERVICES.
WHAT THIS MEANS IS THAT 60% OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD'S 2.5
MILLION PATIENTS WILL NO LONGER BE ABLE TO GO THERE FOR
AFFORDABLE BIRTH CONTROL, PAP SMEARS, TESTING AND TREATMENT
FOR SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS, OR BREAST EXAMS.
THE FAMILY-PLANNING PROVIDER WOULD LOSE NEARLY A HALF $1
BILLION IN FEDERAL REIMBURSEMENTS, FINANCIAL
HIT THAT WOULD FORCE MANY OF ITS CLINICS TO CLOSE,
ESPECIALLY IN POOR AND RURAL AREAS.
THOSE THE PEOPLE THAT THIS BILL IS GOING TO
DISPROPORTIONATELY AFFECT.
OBVIOUSLY, ESPECIALLY WOMEN WHO ARE LIVING IN LOW INCOME AREAS.
THE CBO ESTIMATED THAT THIS WOULD CAUSE 15% OF LOW INCOME
ENROLLMENT TO LOSE ACCESS TO ANY KIND OF FAMILY-PLANNING SERVICES
AND THIS ISN'T JUST SORT OF, WE THINK THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN.
WE HAVE SEEN THIS HAPPEN BEFORE DIAMONDBACK, WHEN TEXAS CUT
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OUT OF ITS HEALTH PROGRAM BACK IN 2011,
30,000 WOMEN LOST ACCESS TO PUBLICLY FUNDED FAMILY-PLANNING
SERVICES AND THE MATERNAL MORTALITY RATE IN THE STATE
DOUBLE AND SO I THINK THAT IS SOMETHING THAT IS REALLY POOR TO
FOCUS ON BECAUSE A LOT OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE OPPOSING THIS ARE
PRO-LIFE AND OBVIOUSLY, WHEN YOU ARE INCREASING MORTALITY RATE
THAT IS NOT A PRO-LIFE STANCE.
IN FACT, AND THE KIND OF FURTHER THAT POINT THERE, A LOT OF THE
FEDERAL FUNDING, ALL OF IT THAT GOES TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD IS
JUST SO THEY COULD BE REIMBURSED FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE MEDICAID.
IT DOESN'T ACTUALLY FUND ABORTIONS AND I THINK
PEOPLE GET REALLY CONFUSED ABOUT THAT BECAUSE THERE'S
SOMETHING THAT IS CALLED THE HYDE AMENDMENT WHICH
DOESN'T ALLOW FEDERAL FUNDING FOR ABORTIONS.
THIS IS JUST GOING TO HURT WOMEN WHO ARE TRYING TO GET BIRTH
CONTROL WHICH IS A HUGE PREVENTER WHEN IT COMES TO
POVERTY.
WOMEN WHO ARE TRYING TO PREVENT SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED
DISEASES LIKE WE SAW WHEN FORMER GOVERNOR PANTS TRIED TO
SHUT DOWN PLANNED PARENTHOOD'S IN INDIANA AND WE SAW THIS
HUGE HIV BB OUTBREAK AND WOMEN WHO ARE TRYING TO PREVENT
CANCER BY GOING TO GET BREAST EXAMS.
THIS IS DEVASTATING TO WOMEN ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY
REGARDLESS OF THEIR SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUND,
BUT ESPECIALLY FOR LOW INCOME WOMEN.
FIRST POINT ON THIS IS THE PRO-LIFE THING.
I KNOW MY PEOPLE CALLING THEMSELVES PRO-LIFE.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY ANTICHOICE, BUT I THINK PEOPLE GET THE CALL
THEMSELVES WHATEVER THEY WANT.
HAVING SAID THAT, THEY'RE NOT ACTUALLY PRO-LIFE.
LET US BE CLEAR ABOUT THAT.
THEY ARE ANTIABORTION, BECAUSE ACCORDING TO THE POLLING,
THE GREAT MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE WHO CLAIM THEY ARE PRO-LIFE
ARE IN FAVOR OF THE DEATH PENALTY.
NOT REALLY A PRO-LIFE POSITION TO BE IN FAVOR OF, AND BY
THE WAY POSITIONS THE POPE DISAGREES WITH AND
CHRISTIAN LEADERS DISAGREE WITH, BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER, IF
YOU ARE CONSERVATIVE, YOU'RE LIKE I REALLY WANT TO KILL
THOSE GUYS BUT I'M PRO-LIFE.
NO YOU ARE NOT.
YOU JUST WANT TO STOP ABORTIONS.
THAT'S FINE, IT'S YOUR OPINION JUST BE UP FRONT ABOUT IT.
SO THE MATERNAL CARE, I'M ACTUALLY PRO-LIFE.
IF THE KID DIES BECAUSE, I DIDN'T WANT TO PAY FOR IT.
OKAY.
BUT I'M GOING TO GO FURTHER THAN THAT IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE.
THIS BILL WILL ALMOST CERTAINLY CREATE, EVEN IF ALL YOU
CARE ABOUT IS ABORTION AND I THINK YOU SHOULD JUST ADMIT
THAT THAT IS ALL YOU CARE ABOUT, THIS BILL WILL ALMOST
CERTAINLY CREATE MORE ABORTIONS.
WHY?
THE WHOLE POINT IS PLANNED PARENTHOOD DOES ABORTIONS,
WE DEFUND THEM, WE GOT THEM.
PERSONAL, YOUR MONEY NEVER WENT TOWARD ABORTIONS IN THE
FIRST PLACE.
2ND
OF ALL, THE MAIN THING YOU'RE GOING TO DO IS CUT BIRTH CONTROL
THAT PEOPLE WERE ACCESSING THROUGH PLANNED PARENTHOOD.
I KNOW YOU LIVE IN A FANTASY WORLD WHERE IF YOU CUT
BIRTH CONTROL PEOPLE STOP HAVING SEX BUT ON PLANET EARTH
THAT IS NOT HOW IT WORKS.
SINCE WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS, WE STILL HAVE SEX AND THEN YOU
HAVE A LOT MORE PREGNANCIES.
THAT'S THERE'S NO QUESTION ABOUT IT.
COMMON SENSE.
YOU HAVE MORE PREGNANCIES AND WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT,
YOU WILL HAVE MORE ABORTIONS.
ABORTION IS LEGAL IN THE COUNTRY.
CONGRATULATIONS, PRO-LIFERS, YOU JUST ABSOLUTELY DID THE
MOST COUNTERPRODUCTIVE THING YOU COULD DO ABOUT THE ONE
CAUSE YOU ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT.
THAT IS THE THING, THEY'RE GOING TO BE MORE ABORTIONS
AND ALSO MORE UNSAFE ABORTIONS.
IT IS INCREASING DEATH WHICH IS SUPPOSEDLY SOMETHING THAT A
LOT OF THESE PRO-LIFERS ARE AGAINST.
IT IS A MATTER OF REALLY TAKING YOUR I OFF YOUR
STATED GOAL BECAUSE THEY HAVE CREATED THIS IDEA THAT
PLANNED PARENTHOOD IS THE ENEMY, AND THAT IS ENOUGH.
THAT IS THE DESTINATION WITHOUT REALLY THINKING THROUGH ALL
THE RAMIFICATIONS OF SMITING YOUR ENEMY WHICH CREATES
MORE PROBLEMS THAN WERE EXISTING BEFORE YOU ACTUALLY GOT THEM.
THEY ARE THROWING THE BABY OUT WITH THE BATHWATER IS WHAT IS.
ALMOST LITERALLY IN THIS CASE.
ONE MORE THING, VOTING MATTERS, AND LOOK, NO ONE AGREES
WITH YOU ON THE FRUSTRATION OF OUR DEMOCRATICS, SO-CALLED
TODAY THAN I DO, I JUST PARTICIPATED IN A DEBATE AT
OXFORD, I DO DECLARE, WHERE I WAS FOR THE POSITION THAT
DEMOCRACY IS FOR SALE, ESPECIALLY IN AMERICA WHERE
WE HAVE LEGALIZED BRIBERY OF POLITICIANS.
I GET YOUR FRUSTRATIONS, BUT FROM TIME TO TIME, VOTING REALLY
DOES MATTER BECAUSE AS BAD AS HILLARY CLINTON WAS AND AS
SYSTEMATICALLY CORRUPTED AS SHE WAS, IF SHE HAD ONE YOU WOULDN'T
HAVE DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD ARE THESE CONSEQUENCES.
IF YOU EVER USE PLANNED PARENTHOOD IN THE PAST OR
WILL, YOUR BOAT WOULD HAVE MATTERED IN YOUR LIFE YOU DUCK
BY THE NUMBERS, THAT IS ONE IN FIVE WOMEN.
ALSO, EVEN IF YOU ARE GOING TO USE PLANNED PARENTHOOD,
OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW HASN'T, AND REALLY ALL YOU CARE ABOUT
IS YOUR WALLET, TAX PLAYERS.
DONE A FEW VIDEOS RIGHT TALK ABOUT AND WRITTEN A FEW
ARTICLES TALKING ABOUT BIRTH CONTROL.
A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE LIKE, THERE SHOULDN'T BE CONTRACEPTION
COVERAGE THAT WOMEN SHOULD JUST PAY FOR BIRTH CONTROL THEY
WANTED.
BUT IT'LL THINK THEY UNDERSTAND THE ECONOMIC RAMIFICATIONS OF
THAT AND THE FACT THAT WHEN YOU ARE PAYING FOR WOMEN TO HAVE
BIRTH CONTROL COVERAGE AND PAYING FOR THINGS LIKE PLANNED
PARENTHOOD SO THEY CAN GAIN ACCESS TO BIRTH CONTROL THEN YOU
ARE AVOIDING LATER COSTS OF PAYING FOR KIDS WHO ARE IN
POVERTY.
SITUATIONS LIKE THAT, RIGHT?
THE OTHER COMPONENT OF IT IS THAT THESE WOMEN WILL THEN
BE ABLE TO GO ON AND GET FURTHER EDUCATION AND THEN BE
CONTRIBUTING TO SOCIETY MORE.
ALSO, IF YOU CARE ABOUT IS YOUR WALLET, THERE'S A HUGE
ECONOMIC BENEFIT TO HAVING FUNDING FOR THINGS LIKE
PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND CONTRACEPTION COVERAGE.
THERE'S NO REASON FOR THIS AT ALL IF YOU THINK IT THROUGH.
IT IS SO FRUSTRATING THAT I FEEL LIKE THERE'S GOT TO BE THIS
MOMENT THE FUTURE PEOPLE LOOK UP AND SAY WHAT ARE WE
FIGHTING FOR?
ABSOLUTELY.
YOUR OUNCE OF PREVENTION IS WORTH A POUND OF CURE.
THIS IS THE OTHER PREVENTION.
I'VE NEVER HEARD IT ARTICULATED TO ME ANY REAL REASON FOR
GETTING RID OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD BECAUSE NO
DOLLARS ARE LEGALLY ALLOWED TO GO TO FUND ABORTIONS AND
YOU ARE JUST CREATING WAY MORE PROBLEMS THAT YOU HAVE SAID
YOU ARE AGAINST AN THAN THE LAST THING IS JUST, ASIDE FROM
THAT, ALTHOUGH PROCEDURAL ISSUES OF THIS.
THE IDEA THAT THIS MIGHT NOT EVEN STAND UP TO THE FINAL VOTE
BECAUSE DEFUNDING SOMETHING TAKES IT OUT OF THE BUDGET
PROCESS, THE FILIBUSTER PROOF BUDGET PROCESS JUST GOES HOW
SHOW HOW, GATED AND RIDICULOUS THE PROCESS ITSELF IS THAT A
FUNDING MEASURE TAKES OUT OF THE FILIBUSTER PROOF BUDGET PROCESS.
IS CRAZY.
I DON'T UNDERSTAND.
ALSO, THE REPRESENTATIVES WHO ARE VOTING ON THIS OR NOT
VOTING ON WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT.
62%
OF AMERICANS DON'T WANT PLANNED PARENTHOOD TO BE DEFUNDED
SO THESE REPRESENTATIVES AREN'T EVEN REPRESENTED ON PEOPLE.
WHEN IT SAYS 99%, THEY VOTED WITH PRO-LIFE GROUPS.
WHICH BRINGS IT BACK TO VOTING.
ALMOST EVERYTHING DONE IN CONGRESS NOW IS TO MAKE THE
DONORS HAPPY.
THIS WAS ACTUALLY NOT ONE OF THEM.
THIS IS THE RARE EXCEPTION.
THIS IS THE ONE THING THAT REPUBLICANS ARE DOING TO
APPEASE THEIR VOTERS.
WHO ARE THE VOTERS?
YES, OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF THE COUNTRIES IN FAVOR
PLANNED PARENTHOOD BUT NOT NECESSARILY REPUBLICAN VOTERS.
81% OF WHITE EVANGELICAL VOTERS VOTED FOR DONALD TRUMP.
81%.
YOU KNOW HOW MUCH TURNED OUT?
85% OF WHITE EVANGELICALS TURNED OUT TO VOTE.
THEY GOT THE ONE THING THAT THEY WANTED.
RIGHT OR WRONG, WHETHER IT MAKES SENSE OR NOT, THEY WANTED
TO KILL PLANNED PARENTHOOD SO THEY ARE GOING TO DO IT.
IF YOU WANT THE THINGS THAT YOU CARE ABOUT NOT ONLY TO PROTECT
THINGS LIKE PLANNED PARENTHOOD BUT TO HAVE MAYBE POSITIVE
CHANGE IN THE WORLD, WHY DON'T YOU VOTE 85%?
HAVE THAT KIND OF VOTER TURNOUT THAN ON THE RARE CASE WHERE
IT'LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND THIS IS THE CASE, THEN YOU WILL
HAVE THE POWER INSTEAD OF THEM.