Dear John,
Lauren Boebert recently introduced her first bill of the 118th Congress: an uninspired copy/paste of the cliched right-wing crusade to "defund" Planned Parenthood.
The list of reasons why these "defund Planned Parenthood" bills are ineffective and stupid is much too long. Cutting off federal funding to Planned Parenthood would harm millions of women (and men), many of them low-income and/or persons of color, who rely on Planned Parenthood for routine reproductive healthcare at clinics across the country. These bills also conveniently ignore that federal funding for abortions has been prohibited since 1973 under the Hyde Amendment.
In short, Boebert's pointless bill is just as empty and vapid as Boebert herself.
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