The new Republican proposal to eliminate all funding for the many services provided by organizations such as Planned Parenthood are not merely anti-choice, they are also anti- health, anti-woman, and anti-poor. The Republican proposal would eliminate the title X family planning which gives millions of American women access to primary and preventive health care. These budget cuts would deny crucial health services and cancer screening just to women. Their proposal would set up insurmountable cost barriers to family planning, just for the poor. Their vision of smaller government would expand the government's power over a women's choices. It is wrong, it is shortsighted, and it is unjust. Let's turn to the business of creating jobs and economic opportunity and away from the business of ruling other people's lives. ____________________
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