“We cannot afford to lose the Medicaid funding for low-income women to have health care services,” Hutchison said. “We cannot. We keep turning back federal funds that every state gets and then try to find money in our budget, which is already being cut in key areas like education. I do think that the governor needs to sit down with the federal government and work it out so we can have our share — our fair share not more — of money for Medicaid to help low-income women have their health care services…I think Planned Parenthood does mammograms, they do so much of the health care — the preventive health care and they’re doing that, we need to provide those services, absolutely.”

????“It makes no sense to make this attack on women,” Murkowski stated. “If you don’t feel this is an attack, you need to go home and talk to your wife and your daughters.”