19 senators support Biden's efforts on Planned Parenthood

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN) - Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, along with 18 other Democratic senators, penned a letter Wednesday in support of Vice President Joe Biden's effort to maintain government subsidies for Planned Parenthood in the final budget negotiations for the 2011 funding bill.

The group said a Republican-led proposal to de-fund the organization would harm the economy.

"This ideological agenda cloaked in a budget document isn't even good fiscal policy....As a matter of creating jobs and bolstering the economy, this rider would have the opposite effect: not only will health centers be forced to close but many uninsured women and their families also may go without care, become more ill, and be kept away from their jobs," the senators wrote.

Top Republicans, including House Speaker John Boehner and Indiana Rep. Mike Pence, have proposed stripping some $75 million in federal funding from Planned Parenthood because it offers abortion procedures. Planned Parenthood offers health care assistance to women in need and currently has the ability to use government subsidies in all services they provide, aside from abortion procedures.

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Finally some leadership.

I would really appreciate the administration making some noise about the war on women that's being conducted. Some VERY LOUD NOISE.