Planned Parenthood Action Fund Statement on Tonight’s GOP Primary
For Immediate Release: May 31, 2016
Washington, DC – Planned Parenthood Action Fund released the following statement regarding tonight’s GOP primary.
Statement from Dawn Laguens, Executive Vice President of Planned Parenthood Action Fund:
“Donald Trump is going to be the GOP nominee for president of the United States. That should strike fear in the hearts of all Americans.”
Background: A Donald Trump presidency is truly frightening
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Donald Trump would divide the country
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Donald Trump demonizes Mexican immigrants by calling them “rapists” and drug dealers and stirs up fear about Muslims –– all to try and legitimize his divisive and dangerous policies that would rip millions of immigrant families apart and ban all Muslims from entering this country. He threatens violence against those who disagree with him.
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Women cannot trust Donald Trump to lead this country
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Donald Trump threatens women’s access to health care, promising to appoint anti-abortion judges to the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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Trump has said he would punish women and/or doctors for accessing or providing abortion
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Trump told GOP voters that electing him president is their best chance at banning abortion.
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Trump supports shutting down the government over Planned Parenthood funding.
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Trump promises that in his first 100 days, he’d start to repeal Obamacare, stripping women of no-copay birth control, which at least 55 million women have benefitted from.
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