Rand Paul invokes Obamacare as a reason to defund Planned Parenthood
By Adam B. Lerner
7/28/15 1:41 PM EDT
Rand Paul has long supported defunding Planned Parenthood, but on Tuesday he invoked a new reason: Obamacare.
“I think there’s a strong argument, even for those on the other side of the coin, that guess what, you know, we have free health care everywhere now, we don’t need Planned Parenthood,” the Kentucky Republican, who is an ardent critic of Obamacare, said in an interview with Kelly Golden on WSC-FM. “We have community health centers that have doubled in their funding. We’ve put $5 billion into community health centers,” he said, referring to a recent funding extension. “They do everything that Planned Parenthood does, except for abortion.
“There’s absolutely no reason for any money to go into Planned Parenthood,” he added.
The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, invested heavily in community health centers, creating the Community Health Center Fund to allocate $11 billion over five years to centers across the nation.
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