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WA's Two Senators Speak Up For Women's Health Care
Following up on fiery speeches last month from women in the US House---including Wisconsin Rep. Gwen Moore, who talked about her unplanned pregnancy at 18---Democratic women, including Washington State's senators, Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, had their say in the Senate yesterday afternoon.
(The US House voted last week to eliminate all federal funding for Planned Parenthood, which provides cancer screenings, STD tests, contraceptives, annual exams, and mammograms to one in five American women. For many low-income women, their yearly visit to Planned Parenthood for an annual exam is the only visit they make to a doctor all year. Federal funding does not pay for abortions or abortion-related services, which make up just 3 percent of Planned Parenthood's services anyway. A recent study showed that eliminating federal funding for family planning would nearly double the abortion rate among poor women.)
Murray:
And Cantwell:
Seventeen of the Senate's 100 members are women; 76 of the House's 435 members, or about 17 percent, are women.
(The US House voted last week to eliminate all federal funding for Planned Parenthood, which provides cancer screenings, STD tests, contraceptives, annual exams, and mammograms to one in five American women. For many low-income women, their yearly visit to Planned Parenthood for an annual exam is the only visit they make to a doctor all year. Federal funding does not pay for abortions or abortion-related services, which make up just 3 percent of Planned Parenthood's services anyway. A recent study showed that eliminating federal funding for family planning would nearly double the abortion rate among poor women.)
Murray:
And Cantwell:
Seventeen of the Senate's 100 members are women; 76 of the House's 435 members, or about 17 percent, are women.
