Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund, talks with Rachel Maddow about the Republican disinformation campaign in its attack on women's health services.
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Kenya could get condom manufacturing plant, Santorum announces exploratory committee, Indiana won't require women to hear breast cancer lies before an abortion, and Philadelphia's teen condom campaign causes controversy.
Last week the fate of the entire federal government revolved around birth control. Yes, birth control. Analysis of the ongoing war against women being waged in Congress and in state legislatures nationwide.
The vast majority of women who identify as Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and of other faiths have sex and use contraception at some point in their lives. Contraception is not controversial to real-life people. It only is when men in the far right repeat this ad nauseum. Let's stop repeating after them.
Stephen Colbert creates #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement hashtag in response to Sen. Kyl's remarks on Planned Parenthood; NRLC won't score the budget; Huckabee supports "heartbeat" bill; and Alan Simpson rails on GOP social conservatives.
Little did Senator Jon Kyl's office realized that when they said his lies about Planned Parenthood on the floor of the Senate were "not intended as factual statements," they were describing the entire basis of the anti-choice movement.
