Mike Pence really is one of, if not the, biggest jackoff in congress. After months of campaigning to defund Planned Parenthood, Pence is now walking-back his rhetoric and claiming that he never intended to defund critical health services for women. Of course the problem for him is that federal funds were never used for abortion anyway.
WASHINGTON – Republican-led efforts to defund Planned Parenthood over its abortion services are complicated by an awkward fact: The bill's chief sponsor admits that Title X funding provides "important" aid to poor women and children.
Yet Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) pushed through a measure in the House to cut off all $317 million in Title X funding to Planned Parenthood and all abortion providers, even though the money by law must be used on services other than abortion. Supporters argue that money is fungible, and therefore any federal funds for such groups are effectively abetting abortion care.
"I've never advocated reducing funding for Title X," Pence said Monday in a radio interview with WYPR. "Title X clinics do important work in our inner cities. They provide health services for women and children that might not otherwise have access to them."
Oh, did your hand get caught in the cookie jar? Too late now. You've been exposed as a misogynist douche.