Screenings to std testing, and planned parenthood does get 500 million from the federal government for clinics nationwide, most of which comes from medicaid reimbursement, but none of that money goes for abortions. Yet the republicans plan to overhaul the Affordable Care act would stop any patient with coverage through medicaid or another provider from using planned parenthood. The Organization Says cutting off 1. 5 million primarily poor or minority women from their planned Parenthood Health services and taking a huge bite out of the nonprofits funding. Planned parenthood executive dawn lagin. Its really defunding women from being able to use their medicaid insurance to come to planned parenthood for care. Reporter donald trump acknowledged planned parenthoods services during the president ial campaign but said when it came to federal subsidies i would defund it because im prolife, but millions of women are helped by planned parenthood. Reporter now in a statement to cbs news, mr. Tru
Planned parenthood is saying no deal to a proposal from President Trump. He said that he would keep funding the nations largest Family Planning provider if it stopped providing abortions. We have more now from anna werner. Reporter planned parenthood clinics like this one in washington, d. C. , provide Reproductive Health Care Services for women like nora franco. It does make me very angry when i hear about politicians sort of looking to defund an organization that does so much good for so many women. Reporter one in five women in the u. S. Have visited a planned parenthood clinic. A lot of people go to planned parenthood for just one reason the flu shot. Controlling asthma. Reporter the vast majority of health services, 97 , range from preventing unintended pregnancies and cancer screenings to std testing, and planned parenthood does get 500 million from the federal government for clinics nationwide, most of which comes from medicaid reimbursement, but none of that money goes for abor
Old. There are computers that are 15 years old and they use zip drives and they are all on the verge of breaking. And 43 states, the voting machines, electronic computerized voter machines, our 10 years old or older. There will be a need for massive investment for Voting Technology around the country or youll have these lines. But even that creates opportunities to integrate that with electronic registration and other sorts of things can make a so that everybody was eligible to vote can vote. Its going to be one more way in which the fight to put will continue, to which its not only the formal rules but everything around it thats going to be contested but that ultimately hopefully can lead to continued progress. Thank you all so much for coming. You can get the books in the back or at brennancenter. Org. [applause] [inaudible conversations] heres a look at some upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country. For more information, booktv will be coming to watch previous
About france . We love france. I will start and you will finish. France is really important. Did people hear her . We are talking about france. The pivot of our book we would agree. What we needed to do was get jefferson out of virginia. He was having a rough time there as you know, and give him a chance to be a visionary, to get some perspective on the American Revolution and the state of virginia. Being in france enabled him to do that. To suddenly see that a space that he wanted, had great doubts about his fellow virginians and they are all over his book about the state of virginia. In france those doubts diminished because he saw something much worse. He saw the old regime and he said what we have in america, we have wholesome families, farming their farms, this is the foundation of a healthy, Natural Society and also, this is the crucial argument we make and it is one of annettes great contributions of course it is all her book, to our understanding of jefferson, that is how jeffe
And no political power. There is in france no legislature, theres no way for the people to be able to actually speak and to change things. And so he sees a decadent political system that he locates as decadent because of the family. The family life in france is decadent to him. Women, women out in the street scary. Was scary. He liked them, you know, obviously. [laughter] women out in the street, all these things. Sigmund was not around then, zig money freud was not around then Sigmund Freud was not around then, but women out in the streets looking for pleasure, they should be back in their nurseries, theyre not attending to whats at home. Is so he has this idealized version of family. We talk about the importance of home, of family, hes not at home until he gets to retirement. Hes there 17 years. Family, heath idealizing the women. His wife is dead and hes there by himself. He begins to look at the world, at virginia, in a very, very through a sentimental haze. And he begins to look a