Jan Schakowsky: Boehner exit signals GOP move ‘to the more extreme’
Jan Schakowsky: Boehner exit signals GOP move ‘to the more extreme’ Meredith Shiner
Political correspondent Septemberý ý30ý, ý2015
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) told Yahoo News she believes Republicans’ focus on Planned Parenthood is about a larger campaign to cut access to women’s health care programs. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
House Republicans’ flirtation with a government shutdown over their goal of defunding Planned Parenthood isn’t just about Planned Parenthood, but a broader policy agenda that is anti-women’s health, a top progressive House Democrat told Yahoo News Wednesday.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, a leading House progressive and ally of Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, cited a vote Tuesday to allow states to block Medicaid payments to health-care providers that facilitate abortions in any capacity and the Republican budget, approved earlier this year, that would have eliminated the Title X funding for family-planning services in place for the past 45 years.
On Sirius XM 124’s “Yahoo News on POTUS,” Schakowsky was asked whether she believed this month’s shutdown fight over Planned Parenthood, inspired by the release of controversial videos from a conservative group attacking the health services provider, was more about the party’s long-held anti-abortion views than the videos themselves.
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