Posted on 02/01/2016 6:36:22 PM PST by Morgana
The House of Representatives will vote Tuesday on the reconciliation bill President Barack Obama vetoed that would de-fund the Planned Parenthood abortion business, which was caught selling the body parts of aborted babies. Hearings have exposed how the abortion company likely violated federal laws to sell the body parts.
The measure also repealed the abortion-funding Obamacare legislation and Obama cited that as the primary reason for vetoing the overall bill. The vote override vote comes just days after more than half a million Americans are expected to March for Life in the nationâs capital and solemnly mark the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, which has resulted in the deaths of 58 million unborn babies since 1973.
The House voted 240-181 to de-fund Planned Parenthood with Republicans voting 239-3 for the bill and Democrats voting 1-178 against it. Unfortunately, with so many pro-abortion Democrats voting against the bill, it does not appear the House will achieve the two-thirds majority needed to override Obamaâs veto. If every member votes, pro-life advocates need 290 votes to override the veto.
Family Research Council president Tony Perkins, in an email to LifeNews, underscored the importance of the override vote.
âIn a historic move, the House and the Senate sent to the president for the first time a bill that would extricate taxpayers from funding Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the country, currently under investigation for the harvesting and sale of baby body parts. Unfortunately, President Obama, a great friend of Cecile Richards and Planned Parenthood, quickly vetoed this landmark bill,â he said.
âIn addition to eliminating a significant portion of federal funding for the nationâs largest abortion provider, the Reconciliation bill also cuts fines contained in ObamaCare related to the employer mandate and the individual mandate. It cuts the âprevention fundâ which is a government slush fund, and it also repeals key taxes in ObamaCare. Further, it contains a provision to cut government subsidies for health care plans that include elective abortion coverage,â Perkins continued.
He added: âThe vote to override the veto on this pro-life Reconciliation bill is an important step in shifting the moral responsibility of funding scandal-ridden abortion businesses from the shoulders of taxpayers to the shoulders of the president alone. Representatives need to hear how important this vote is to their constituents. Let your Member of Congress know this veto must be overridden.â
Although Obama vetoed the bill, SBA List president Marjorie Dannenfelser said the vote is important because it shows a similar de-funding bill can get to a pro-life president in 2017.
âThe reconciliation process which brought this bill to the presidentâs desk is the most important process because it is the one way to avoid a Senate filibuster, ensuring a similar bill could go to pro-life president in 2017,â she said. âIt is the first bill ever to get to the presidentâs desk that would achieve this longtime pro-life goal. We applaud the House and Senateâs passage of this reconciliation legislation as the most important vehicle for actually achieving the goal of defunding Planned Parenthood.
Speaker Paul Ryan is not shocked at President Barack Obama today vetoed a bill that would repeal Obamacare and de-fund the Planned Parenthood abortion business. He promised the House would hold a vote to override the veto.
âItâs no surprise that someone named Obama vetoed a bill repealing Obamacare. But we will hold a vote to override this veto, taking this process all the way to the end under the Constitution,â he said. âBut hereâs the thing. The idea that Obamacare is the law of the land for good is a myth. This law will collapse under its own weight, or it will be repealed. Because all those rules and procedures Senate Democrats have used to block us from doing this? Thatâs all history.â
âWe have shown now that there is a clear path to repealing Obamacare without 60 votes in the Senate. So, next year, if weâre sending this bill to a Republican president, it will get signed into law,â Ryan continued. âObamacare will be gone. And then, for all the people who have seen their premiums go up, for people who have lost their plan or their doctor, for people who have to deal with all the mandates, the restrictions, and the red tape, we can replace this law with a truly patient-centered health care system. Itâs just a matter of time.â
The bill would block, for one year, most federal payments to Planned Parenthood. At least 89% of federal funding of Planned Parenthood would be blocked by this bill. The bill would repeal a number of major components of the Obamacare health law, including two of the major provisions that will lead to rationing of lifesaving care â the âIndependent Payment Advisory Boardâ and the âexcess benefits tax.â
In August, Senate Democrats defeated an effort to revoke taxpayer funding for the Planned Parenthood abortion business by filibustering the bill and preventing a vote on it. Republicans were unable to secure the 60 voted needed to invoke cloture and stop debate on the bill, allowing an up or down vote. Republicans could only get 53 votes to shut off debate.
Then, in September, Senate Democrats voted to defeat a government funding bill that would de-fund the Planned Parenthood abortion business after it was caught in a series of 10 videos selling aborted babies and their body parts. The Senate voted 52 to 47 against ending debate.
Dozens of leading pro-life groups have already indicated their support for the bill, including the National Right to Life Committee. In a letter to members of Congress that NRLC provided to LifeNews.com, the group indicated it strongly supports the bill to de-fund Planned Parenthood.
âNRLC strongly supports the language in the bill that would block, for one year, most federal payments to affiliates of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). It would close the largest pipeline for federal funding of Planned Parenthood, Medicaid, and apply as well to the CHIP and the Title V and Title XX block grant programs, thus covering roughly 89% of all federal funds to Planned Parenthood. The amounts denied to Planned Parenthood in effect are reallocated to community health centers,â the pro-life group explained.
âOver one-third of all abortions in the U.S. are performed at PPFA-affiliated facilities. Longstanding objections to the massive federal funding of PPFA have been reinforced by recent widely publicized undercover videos, which illuminate the callous brutality that occurs daily in these abortion mills,â NRLC added.
The reconciliation bill also repeals portions of Obamacare,including its rationing components. With regard to the rationing aspects of Obamacare, NRLC strongly supports a repeal.
âIn addition, NRLC has always opposed the Obamacare law and advocated its repeal. With respect to H.R. 3762, we particularly endorse the components that would repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) and the âexcess benefits taxâ (âCadillac Taxâ), both dangerous mechanisms that would ultimately contribute to the rationing of lifesaving care,â the right to life group said.
Leading pro-life groups that also support the reconciliation bill to de-fund Planned Parenthood include Susan B. Anthony List, National Right to Life, Family Research Council, March for Life, Concerned Women for America, Students for Life, Priests for Life, Operation Rescue, and American Life League, among others.
A new Congressional report finds that de-funding the Planned Parenthood abortion business â even for one year â would save âseveral thousandâ unborn babies from the nightmare of abortion. The report also finds de-funding Planned Parenthood would save the federal government $235 million.
The exposeâ videos catching Planned Parenthood officials selling the body parts of aborted babies have shocked the nation. Here is a list of all eleven:
In the first video: Dr. Deborah Nucatola of Planned Parenthood commented on baby-crushing: âWeâve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so Iâm not gonna crush that part, Iâm gonna basically crush below, Iâm gonna crush above, and Iâm gonna see if I can get it all intact.â In the second video: Planned Parenthoodâs Dr. Mary Gatter joked, âI want a Lamborghiniâ as she negotiated the best price for baby parts. In the third video: Holly OâDonnell, a former Stem Express employee who worked inside a Planned Parenthood clinic, detailed first-hand the unspeakable atrocities and how she fainted in horror over handling baby legs. In the fourth video: Planned Parenthoodâs Dr. Savita Ginde stated, âWe donât want to do just a flat-fee (per baby) of like, $200. A per-item thing works a little better, just because we can see how much we can get out of it.â She also laughed while looking at a plate of fetal kidneys that were âgood to go.â In the fifth video: Melissa Farrell of Planned Parenthood-Gulf Coast in Houston boasted of Planned Parenthoodâs skill in obtaining âintact fetal cadaversâ and how her âresearchâ department âcontributes so much to the bottom line of our organization here, you know weâre one of the largest affiliates, our Research Department is the largest in the United States.â In the sixth video: Holly OâDonnell described technicians taking fetal parts without patient consent: âThere were times when they would just take what they wanted. And these mothers donât know. And thereâs no way they would know.â In the seventh and perhaps most disturbing video: Holly OâDonnell described the harvesting, or âprocurement,â of organs from a nearly intact late-term fetus aborted at Planned Parenthood Mar Monteâs Alameda clinic in San Jose, CA. ââYou want to see something kind of cool,ââ OâDonnell says her supervisor asked her. âAnd she just taps the heart, and it starts beating. And Iâm sitting here and Iâm looking at this fetus, and its heart is beating, and I donât know what to think.â In the eighth video: StemExpress CEO Cate Dyer admits Planned Parenthood sells âa lot ofâ fully intact aborted babies. The ninth video: catches a Planned Parenthood medical director discussing how the abortion company sells fully intact aborted babies â including one who âjust fell outâ of the womb. The 10th video: catches the nationâs biggest abortion business selling specific body parts â including the heart, eyes and âgonadsâ of unborn babies.The video also shows the shocking ways in which Planned Parenthood officials admit that they are breaking federal law by selling aborted baby body parts for profit. Unreleased Videos: Unreleased videos from CMP show Deb Vanderhei of Planned Parenthood caught on tape talking about how Planned Parenthood abortion business affiliates may âwant to increase revenue [from selling baby parts] but we canât stop themâ¦â Another video has a woman talking about the âfinancial incentivesâ of selling aborted baby body parts. The 11th video: catches a texas Planned Parenthood abortionist planning to sell the intact heads of aborted babies for research. Amna Dermish is caught on tape describing an illegal partial-birth abortion procedure to terminate living, late-term unborn babies which she hopes will yield intact fetal heads for brain harvesting.
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The full, unedited videos have confirmed that revelations that some aborted baby remains sold by Planned Parenthood go to biotech companies for the purpose of creating âhumanizedâ mice. Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood has been exposed as having sold body parts from aborted babies for as much as 15 years.
The federal law that technically prohibits the sale of aborted babies and their body parts was written by a pro-abortion Congressman decades ago and essentially spells out a process by which sellers of aborted baby body parts can meet certain criteria that allows the sales to be legal. Thatâs why a Colorado congressman has introduced legislation to totally ban the sales of aborted baby body parts.
in all seriousness, it wasn’t long ago in our country’s history where this article would have been a tasteless one in Cracked magazine. (I liked Mad)
how scary
I will never understand why legislators put more than one issue in a bill. If you want failure, continue this ridiculously stupid practice.
Let us see what happens. This attempt to override Obamas veto of bill to defund Planned Parenthood may be a way for lawmakers to make their voting records look good. After all, the states have never delegated to Congress, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for anything like Planned Parenthood.
In other words, the House should never have appropriated taxes to fund Planned Parenthood. So this possible veto override is constitutionally bass ackwards.
Remember that both Houses must override veto with 2/3 supermjaority vote (1.7.2).
7 years later — they are finally growing a spine?
It’s an election year, did you expect them to do anything different being they are the ones who voted to fund it in the first place?
I am just cynical enough to say, that failure is exactly what they want.
Naw...they’ve voted about 50 times to de-fund Obamacare
I thought they voted to fund PP, Obamacare and everything else Obama wanted in the Omnibus spending bill in December? If that is the case, this is likely just a show vote that they know has no hope of over riding Obama’s veto in the Senate, but they think will keep us rubes happy.
I agree. Ryan/McConnell are good with funding everything Obama and the GOPe want.
In this case it was a double eff-you... I think it deserved the bill :-)
Hey it is in the great American eff-you tradition... though I would rather they “I” him (impeach).
More Paul Ryan Theatrics
Huh? You think it deserved the bill? What deserved the bill?
They must already know it won’t pass
The two eff-yous that went in it, deserved it (as their carrier).
I hear ya
f em all
I wish I had the pic of the Anthony Hopkins guy in Legends of the Fall
that figures.
i still remember Star Wars the musical in one magazine lol.
Han Solo said he was stuck with a gay robot.
was only 9 or 10 at the time and didn’t know what it meant :)
They did, this is just more smoke and mirrors from the lying scum in DC. I hate loath and despise the phony lying professional politicians stupid voters send to DC.
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