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Planned Parenthood disappointed in Brown’s silence on Republican Party platform

September 12, 2012 By Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund

Massachusetts voters need and deserve to be represented by a senator who will stand up for us, and stand up for women’s health, no matter what.

That’s why we – the Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund of Massachusetts – sent a letter to Senator Brown this morning to express our disappointment in his failure to exert a leadership role on women’s health and convince local Republican leaders to keep an extreme women’s health plank out of the Massachusetts Republican party platform, as the Globe reported yesterday.

As I’m sure you know, this plank was recently adopted by the National Republican Party at its convention in Tampa and is the most restrictive abortion platform in history. Although Senator Brown sent a letter to national GOP leadership asking them to “recognize the views of pro-choice Republicans” in the party platform, he quickly abandoned his advocacy around women’s health and said “it’s up to others now” to take action.

Now two weeks later, Senator Brown is still on the sidelines as the Massachusetts Republican Party prepares to adopt dangerous and out-of-touch principles that have no place in Massachusetts.

Read the full text of our letter to Senator Brown.

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  1. Donald Green says

    September 12, 2012 at 2:30 pm

    Sen Brown’s muscles and strength are for triathlons not for his constituency. His voting record in the Senate gives him an 80% approval by major anti-abortion groups. The only way to have it both ways is hide from his record. As the campaign heats up he will not be able to continue to do this. For his voting record, policy beliefs, and supporting groups head over to votesmart.org .

  2. theloquaciousliberal says

    September 12, 2012 at 4:08 pm

    I’ve always thought this quote from Massachusetts leading anti-abortion group (which, again, endorsed Brown in 2012) sums it up well:

    “We consider him a senator who votes prolife,” said Anne Fox, president of the Massachusetts Citizens for Life. “We have to take his word for it when he says he is pro-choice. But what we’re looking for is someone who votes pro-life, and he does.”

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