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cbabe

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5. Mike Pence's Defining Moment As Governor? Enabling An HIV Outbreak.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Jan 20, 2023, 08:18 PM

Jan 2023

https://www.huffpost.com › entry › mike-pence-indiana-hiv_n_57f53b9be4b002a7312022ef

Mike Pence's Defining Moment As Governor? Enabling An HIV ... - HuffPost

Pence slashed state health spending. Pence first laid the groundwork for Indiana's HIV outbreak as a member of Congress back in 2011, when the House passed his amendment to defund Planned Parenthood. Then, in 2013, Pence's first year as governor of Indiana, Scott County's one Planned Parenthood closed in the wake of public health spending cuts.

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Mike Pence's Defining Moment As Governor? Enabling An HIV Outbreak. cbabe Jan 2023 #5