When did Planned Parenthood become a federal program? Just asking...

Hey Babs, your bud Harry Reid said women would be "denied cancer screenings" at Planned Parenthood.

HE AND YOU LIE like many of your breed do.

Call any PP and ask for an appointment to get a breast xray and screening. They will all tell you they do not provide that service.

You all lie and your sheep never take it upon themselves to search the truth.

Time for you to go Babs, your time is up and your addiction to OPM is in need of an intervention. That intervention is called SPENDING CUTS including the useless and the murderous.

@JM

In 1970 under Nixon.

Mr. Hoyer: how come your party did not pass a budget last year when your party controlled everything in the Government: House, Senate and Presidency?

Planned Parenthood gets federal funding to provide birth control and other health related services. The federal funding does NOT include abortion services. Only about 40% of PP centers provide abortions. These are all privately funded.

apparently Anonymous has never heard of cervical cancer

Hey Anonymous, Babs is here for another six years. Get over it. Maybe if your party would stop nominating right-wing extremists, cranks, and gadflies and find a decent Republican in the mold of a Mac Mathias, Connie Morrella, or Glenn Beall, then maybe you would have a chance.

I suppose lesbians dont care as much for aborted fetuses as heterosexual women, perhaps because they usually dont have kids anyway. Whether the abortion function of Planned Parenthood is federally funded or not, to give federal funding to this organization allows for more women going there for services, some of whom will choose abortion. I have seen pictures of some of the babies cut up with a pile of limbs and body parts laying there. Too bad these kids cant tell their side of the story.

Barb M is supposed to be Catholic but she votes like she's not. Must she tell the priest in the confessional how many babies she's helped kill on a daily basis ?

Here's a crazy idea.... let's stop paying these idiots so much money. That ought to close the gap in the budget.
(Unrealistic, completely crack-induced thinking, I know... )

The Washington Post has an excellent summary of what Planned Parenthood does -- and does not -- do, here:

http://tinyurl.com/6x6t5lv

Only 3% of their services are for abortion services, and none of that is federally funded. Eliminating the services of Planned Parenthood is shameful. I am proud of Senator Milkulski for standing up for the women and children of this country.

De-funding PP is a great idea! This country needs more welfare moms that can't care for their kids!

Love you, Babs, keep fighting the fight. That's why we elected you! Please convince them of their folly soon so we don't see a shut down.

@Teajay - How many Catholic priests, bishops, and cardinals who sexually abused children are still within the Catholic Church?

Thank you Senator; well done.

I have never had to get an abortion, but I HAVE been poor and without health insurance. If it wasn't for planned parenthood giving me the pap smears, cancer screening and breast exams JM claims they don't provide I would not have known I had pre cancerous cells until they turned into cancer and killed me.

Some narrow minded people are so caught up in their no choice but my choice mentality that the fail to see the good planned parenthood provides.

Mikulski is a another Nero - fiddling while the country burns. She, Dutch & the rest rubber-stamp every ridiculous spending initiative Obama/Reid et al push down the taxpayers throat. We're trillions in debt & the Dem clowns can't find 38 billion to cut - get real. While they cater to those on the public dole, illegals et al the country is dying.

Uhhh, I searched for the truth on their website. It clearly says they do cancer screening in the form of breast exams and pap smears - depends on the resources each office has of course. Maybe when JM called he accidentally got Pizza Hut or something.

I am very sad today, I thought that we Americans were more caring for our brothers & sisters. Women's health is so important to our future, we carry the next generations. this is a cultural saga, a decision that the women should be allow to make that choice.
are we really only talking about birth control?
I applaud you and the other women for taking a stand for us all.

When I was young, a nurse midwife at Planned Parenthood detected a tumor in my right breast----and possibly saved my life.
Are we going to sacrifice health care and contraceptive services to those most in need----and end up with higher costs because of denying these preventive services!
Frankly, if this is all
about spending, then let's save money by providing preventive care and fund contraceptive services..

I am totally embarrassed that Milkulski is my Senator from the state of Maryland. To accuse the Repubs of waging a radical agenda against women is an atrocious lie that unfortunately, many of the liberal sheep will believe. Very disgusting, wasn't it Obama himself that said we need to be civil (Arizona speech), what a joke the Dems are, acting like little children because they can't ram more spending down our throats. This will cost the left in the next election.

I am down in D.C. for a long planned weekend away with my husband.We were going to the museums, the monuments...and well, we are in the middle of a republican nightmare. Not one person in any conversation I have heard is in favor of this game they are playing. The facts as everyone here sees them are about the budget, nothing else!

Cut PP funding...this and many other wastes of money such as Sen Reid's prized annual cowboy poetry festival. These items are well outside the responsibility of the federal govt. These are at best state issues. PP has how many hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank? Why do they need my tax dollars? Revamp the tax codes, keep the majority of the money in the states, and put the federal govt on a budgetary diet!

I don't know Teajay. The bishops seem to look the other way when certain pols are blatantly thumbing their noses at Church teaching. Babs still milks much of the ethnic Catholic vote in E. Baltimore.Our hypocrisy standards need to be reset.

u can tell from these posting which are teabaggers with health insurance. hyde amendments prevents federal funding for abortion, notice that rethugs conveniently forget to include this in their lying tirades. thank goodness md is a blue state, because looking around at these ideologues in red states turns my stomach. we don't have a deficit prob we have a revenue prob. ever notice that rethugs on these threads NEVER, EVER demand that corp wall streeters pay thier fair share of taxes. they only want more blood from poor and middle class. glad to see so much buyers remorse in rethugs states but also feel they are getting what they deserve. barb thanks for standing up for women, against the assault by rethug taliban. to those of u who love the rethugs so much get the hell out of maryland and leave the state to those of us who appreciate not having the gov up our skirt

If Senator Milkulski feels so strongly that Planned Parenthood should stay in the budget, why does she not reach across the isle and say 'Make cuts to these programs that I champion instead of Planned Parenthood because the services they provide are more vital.' At least then her grandstanding would contain more substance than much of the Democratic grandstanding going on with this budget debate. She would at least contribute to the plan.

If Senator Milkulski feels so strongly that Planned Parenthood should stay in the budget, why does she not reach across the isle and say 'Make cuts to these programs that I champion instead of Planned Parenthood because the services they provide are more vital.' At least then her grandstanding would contain more substance than much of the Democratic grandstanding going on with this budget debate. She would at least contribute to the plan.

Use your own money to kill your baby. Not mine.

No one is saying we don't want help for women who can't afford it. We do. But there is documented discrestions against PP. I do believe they should not be involved in abortions. There are tax paying Americans that believe that is morally wrong and do not want to be a part of it in any way. That should be up to the individual if they have an abortion and not funded by all Americans.

@ proudbluestater, From the sound of your bitter post, I doubt if you have to worry about the government, or anything else, being "up your skirt".

As someone who value privacy and has little use for govt snooping other than investigations of violent crime,I have no problem with abortion as a personal choice(one way or the other). But, as a fiscal conservative who also is sane enough to know that the gvt's primary spending should be to pay off debt and phase out or drastically reduce nearl all federal programs, funding birth control, nonprofit provision of health care of any sort, or yes, abortions or breast exams, aren't a federal responsibllty. The Feds got into heathcare big in the Sixties because of the huge Dem majorities after the Goldwater debacle and LBJ's unquestioned legislative skill in ramming through a host of expensive programs that Congress had rejected for years. Now the costs of those programs, as well as the Warfare State LBJ also inflated, are too high. We are broke. If we can stabilize the federal debt, which will take years, prevent the collapse of the dollar, and thus create new private jobs in the US for citizens,not intruders from the collapsed Third World, then private persons, associations and even counties might have access to resources now cornered by the Feds. Then Planned Parenthood can make its case to various communities. I have no doubt it will find a sympathetic ear in most of MD. In the meantime, Planned Parenthood, Homeland Security, EEOC, EPA, and agricultural and tax subsidies for foreign oriented corporations need to step down. The "vulnerable" is the United States of America which is closer to default than the Democrat/Progressive Coaltion either realizes or wants to admit. Or perhaps they don't care, which is quite possible given the intelligence of its leaders from the Nairobi WonderBoy on down.

didactic1,

Wow, you made some reasoned arguments, but then you showed your true racist birther colors at the end there...the rest of your post now has no meaning. Good job.

you know what "American Annie"? there are tax paying Americans who think the death penalty is morally wrong and the war is morally wrong, among other things. No one is stopping those things from getting public funding, are they?
Get your morals out of my uterus.

I am actually glad she decided to fight against the defunding... No one has the right to tell a woman what to do when it is a life decision like having a child. I don't care what your God wants.
besides, people could always seek out back-alley abortions and end up in worse shape. If you're desperate enough, you're GOING to do whatever it takes whether there is a clinic or not. Simple as that.