Senate Democrats said a new bill that would reallocate $540m from the group’s other programs represents ‘worst of the attacks on women’s healthcare’The political firestorm set off by secret anti-abortion videos reached new heights on Wednesday,as Republicans in the US Senate unveiled legislation to defund Planned Parenthood and Hillary Clinton acknowledged the undercover footage of the group’s employees discussing fetal tissue sales was “disturbing”.
The controversy over the videos has reverberated in the 2016 presidential contest, kicking off yet another tall-profile debate over reproductive rights in America – even as Senate Democrats said the new bill represented “the worst of the attacks on women’s healthcare”.
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Source: theguardian.com