Las Vegas Sun

March 29, 2024

GOP’s Heck, Hardy vote to defund Planned Parenthood

Cresent Hardy

Cresent Hardy

Joe Heck

Joe Heck

Democrats went on the attack today after the GOP voted to defund Planned Parenthood for the third time this year, casting party members as insensitive to women.

The GOP passed the measure on near party lines by a vote of 240-189.

Southern Nevada’s GOP Reps. Cresent Hardy and Joe Heck both supported the measure and are squaring off with Democrats in high-profile election campaigns.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said Hardy’s vote proves “he can’t be trusted to look out for Nevada women and families.”

The Nevada Democratic Party said Heck’s vote would deny “women access to vital preventative health care services.”

Heck’s office said the vote was consistent with his record; Hardy’s office declined to comment.

The political jousting from Democrats comes as both parties make strong appeals to women voters before the 2016 election.

In Nevada, Catherine Cortez Masto will take on Heck in the U.S. Senate race to fill Harry Reid’s seat.

Hardy, the 4th Congressional District incumbent, has a long list Democrats battling in a primary to replace him.

Planned Parenthood, which offers preventive care, pregnancy testing, abortions and cancer screenings, has about 22,000 annual patients in Nevada. Most Planned Parenthood patients are women earning less than 150 percent of the federal government’s poverty threshold.

Today’s vote marks Heck’s seventh vote to defund the program and Hardy’s third.

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