http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/5/1545312/-Senate-Republicans-continue-anti-Planned-Parenthood-political-games-with-Zika-funding
"Planned Parenthood is not a "special interest." It's a first-tier health care provider for millions of men and women, and in particular low-income women. Which makes it a first-line defender in a disease like this one. We've seen all the arguments before in the Republicans' jihad against Planned Parenthood—if the federal funds don't go to it, they'll just go to other providers, like community health clinics. And we'll see community health clinics, again, say that they aren't going to have the capacity to take on an influx of new patients. This means, as usual, there's one population that Republicans are punishing. Peter Shin, a public health professor at George Washington University, nails it: "When they're taking money away from Planned Parenthood, they're basically taking it away from young, high-risk women." Young, high-risk women who now could be giving birth to fatally and tragically deformed babies. So there's John Thune's special interest: Young, poor, high-risk women who are in no position to deal with having profoundly disabled children."
