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Title: Does the Susan B. Anthony List Know Santorum Supports Funding Planned Parenthood?
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Religion Dispatches
URL Source: http://www.religiondispatches.org/d ... ts_funding_planned_parenthood/
Published: Feb 19, 2012
Author: Sarah Posner
Post Date: 2012-02-19 16:44:05 by Brian S
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Views: 1587
Comments: 3
The Associated Press is reporting that the anti-choice group The Susan B. Anthony List is set to endorse Rick Santorum, marking the first time the organization has endorsed a candidate in a presidential primary. The Susan B. Anthony List, which has made defunding Planned Parenthood one of its signature goals, might be surprised to find out that Santorum supports funding Planned Parenthood. As I discussed earlier this week, Santorum told an interviewer in 2006 that he had voted for Title X (even though he thinks contraception is harmful to women and doesn't even work). Title X is the federal program that funds family planning services for low-income women, and goes to health care providers including Planned Parenthood. Today Santorum appeared on CBS to address Foster Friess's aspirin-between-the-knees "joke." Santorum, as in the 2006 interview, made an effort to demonstrate that although he personally opposes birth control, he does not intend to restrict access to it. In doing so, he once again said he supported Title X funding. Of Friess's "bad off-color joke," he told Charlie Rose, "It's not reflective of me or my record on this issue. You know, it's funny that I've been criticized by Governor Romney and by Ron Paul for actually having voted for something called Title X, which is actually federal funding of contraception." Watch: According to the SBA List website, Santorum has pledged to defund Planned Parenthood. So he's either misleading them, or he's misleading everyone by attempting to use his past record on Title X funding to pretend he supports access to contraception.
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#1. To: Brian S, *Extended Clip Progressives* (#0)
They're pro-choice. They choose not be homicidal maniac baby killers. Santorum is a neo-progressive liberal who's eager to kill babies anywhere in the world, and adults too, just like Oilbomber. If must be tough for you to decide which is the more bloodthirsty, and most worthy of your vote.
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
Right now I'm struggling on where to vote for Romney or Santorum in the MI primary next week. ;)
Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'! Come on, this is the Republican primary. You've got to vote for the craziest guy in the room. Everybody else will. Vote for Pope Rick. Often.
anti-choice group The Susan B. Anthony List
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#2. To: hondo68 (#1)
If must be tough for you to decide which is the more bloodthirsty, and most worthy of your vote.
#3. To: Brian S (#2)
Right now I'm struggling on where to vote for Romney or Santorum in the MI primary next week. ;)
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