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Jeb Bush “Not Sure We Need Half a Billion Dollars for Women’s Health”

HeadlineAug 05, 2015

In more news from the campaign trail, Republican candidate Jeb Bush has sparked outrage with his statement that women’s healthcare is overfunded. Bush made the comments when responding to an interviewer’s question about the Planned Parenthood sting videos, which are edited to appear to suggest that the organization sells fetal tissue, an allegation Planned Parenthood vehemently denies.

Interviewer: “Shouldn’t we make that an issue and say not one more red cent to Planned Parenthood?”

Jeb Bush: “We should, and the next president should defund Planned Parenthood. I have the benefit of having been governor, and we did defund Planned Parenthood when I was governor. We tried to create a culture of life across the board. The argument against this is, well, women’s health issues are going to be — you’re attacking — it’s a war on women, and you’re attacking women’s health issues. You could take dollar for dollar, although I’m not sure we need a half a billion dollars for women’s health issues.”

Jeb Bush later partially walked back the statement, saying he was not speaking about community health centers but only about Planned Parenthood’s “hard-to-fathom $500 million in federal funding.” He had a Twitter war with Hillary Clinton, who was questioning his saying he did not support women’s healthcare in America.

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