 |
|
| photo: Sonia Sones | |
Wow. Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, and his wife, children's book author and illustrator Lisa Brown, are giving $1 million to Planned Parenthood. In a tweet, they explained: "We've been very fortunate, and good fortune should be shared with noble causes."
House Republicans want to cut federal aid to Planned Parenthood, and some are threatening to shut down the government unless this happens. Planned Parenthood receives more than $500 million a year in federal aid, mostly from Medicaid, which goes to providing a range of health care services for mostly lower-income women such as screening and treating infections and STDs and birth control, but not abortions.