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Carolyn Smithers


Carolyn Telling Her Story

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A Sarasota, FL mother recounts how a Planned Parenthood health center saved her life. Like millions of American women, Smithers relied on Planned Parenthood for basic preventive care when she was a young student lacking health insurance. A Pap test she received at age 19 showed that she had developed cervical cancer.

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What did liberals do that was so offensive to the Republican party?  I'll tell you what they did. Liberals got women the right to vote. Liberals got African-Americans the right to vote. Liberals created Social Security and lifted millions of elderly people out of poverty. Liberals ended segregation. Liberals passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act. Liberals created Medicare. Liberals passed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act. What did conservatives do? They opposed them on every one of those things ­ every one.