Posted on 07/22/2015 2:19:47 PM PDT by NYer
In the wake of two shocking videos showing top Planned Parenthood doctors arranging the sale of body parts form aborted babies, more than 80 members of the House of Representatives have introduced a bill that would immediately de-fund Planned Parenthood.
Yesterday Representative Diane Black (R-TN) and 80 original cosponsors introduced H.R. 3134, the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015, which would immediately halt all sources of Federal funding to Planned Parenthood and its affiliates for a one year period.
Black, a Tennessee Republican and a nurse for more than 40 years, told LifeNews that the shocking video provides yet another reason to ensure the Planned Parenthood abortion company does not receive taxpayer dollars.
“The legislation has the support of 80 original cosponsors and would place an immediate moratorium on all federal funding of Planned Parenthood for the span of one year while Congress conducts a full investigation into the organization’s activities. Introduction of the bill follows the release of multiple undercover videos showing Planned Parenthood employees discussing the harvesting of aborted babies’ tissue and organs,” she said.
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“The fact that Planned Parenthood performs upwards of 327,000 abortions a year is heartbreaking and barbaric enough on its own. The news that its employees engaged in the harvesting of aborted babies’ body parts is almost too much to bear and is incredibly revealing as to the true nature of the big abortion industry,” Black said.
Since 2013, Congressman Black has sponsored H.R. 217, the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act, which would combat one of Planned Parenthood’s major government revenue streams by withholding Title X grants from any health care provider that performs abortions or gives funds to organizations that do. However, a nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) study released earlier this year found that Planned Parenthood also received $1.2 billion from Medicaid over a three year window – making it clear that legislation is needed to combat any possible source of federal funding for the scandal-ridden abortion mill.
Last night, Congressman Black took to the House floor to speak in support of the Defund Planned Parenthood Act. A full transcript of her remarks as prepared for delivery is provided below the video:
Mister Speaker, Planned Parenthood has blood on its hands. Over the last week, we’ve seen multiple videos showing its employees brazenly discussing the harvesting of aborted babies’ tissue and organs. But the truth is, Planned Parenthood’s culture of depravity runs much deeper than a couple of videos.
In my home state of Tennessee, Planned Parenthood, the supposed champion of safe abortions, sued to overturn our state’s informed consent and mandatory licensing laws – measures put in place to protect women’s health and safety. When I authored an amendment to our state Constitution allowing legislators to reinstate these protections, Planned Parenthood ran an ill-fated smear campaign attempting to confuse the facts and turn Tennesseans against the measure.
You see, Planned Parenthood doesn’t empower women – it deceives them at their most difficult and vulnerable moments. It values convenience over truth and profit over life.
As a nurse, I’ve seen the big-abortion-industry’s shameful tactics with my own eyes. That is why, for two years now, I’ve sponsored the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act to address one of Planned Parenthood’s largest government revenue streams. I continue to urge passage of this legislation, but in light of these latest videos, we must take the fight a step further.
For these reasons, I have just introduced the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015 – legislation that would enact an immediate moratorium on all federal funding for Planned Parenthood while Congress carries out a full investigation.
I eagerly await the findings of this forthcoming investigation, but you know what, Mister Speaker? No matter, what it reveals, here’s the truth – Planned Parenthood has made a business out of destroying that which God has created.
It performs over 327,000 abortions a year, all while receiving roughly $500 million in annual funding from the taxpayer dollar. The one-sided relationship between Planned Parenthood’s ever-growing bank account and American taxpayers must be severed.
House Republicans previously approved bills to de-fund the Planned Parenthood abortion business.
In 2011, House members voted 241-185 for a resolution that would prohibit the Planned Parenthood abortion business from qualifying for family planning funds. The vote saw almost all Republicans supporting de-funding while Democrats generally opposed it. That was the second vote taken to de-fund the abortion giant. An earlier vote in 2011 saw the House de-funded Planned Parenthood on a 240-185 margin.
Last year, Planned Parenthood Federation of America rleased its 2013-2014 Annual Report.The report indicates Planned Parenthood did 327,653 abortions in 2013, an increase over the 327,166 abortions it did in 2012.
While it remains America’s biggest abortion corporation, the “nonprofit” continued to make money — bringing in $305.4 million last year and $305.3 million this year. Planned Parenthood continued to receive over a half-billion dollars in taxpayer money, as it took in $540 million in 2012 and $528 million in 2013.
Black told LifeNews in a statement: While Planned Parenthood and its counterparts like to repeat the company line that federal dollars do not directly fund abortions, commonsense tells us differently. According to Planned Parenthood’s own annual report, the organization performed 327, 653 abortions in 2013 alone – all the while receiving more than $528 million in funding from Uncle Sam. The sad truth is they are not alone. Similar organizations continue to threaten the lives of the unborn while cashing in on our tax dollars. My legislation will stop this shameful practice in its tracks.”
Some other takeaways from Planned Parenthood’s own figures:
FYI ping!
Good. Make the Democrats go on record defending PP.
Make REPUBLICANS go on record defending PP.
Why was money for PP included in the budget, to begin with?
Because liberals who campaigned on working with Obama control the House and Senate.
Lesser evil you see...
This is good news. What I don’t get anymore on FReeRepublic is the Republican bashing. I just saw several posts saying “and the Republicans are doing nothing.” Well, the facts don’t support that assertion. I believe we need all Democrats on record supporting this PP and its hideous crimes and Obama making it happen. They own abortion and all its horrors.
There is a petition to sign at the link. I would dearly love this to pass. It is a national shame that we do not protect the unborn but instead torture them and tear them limb from limb.
The horrible juxtaposition in the mind’s eye of pre-born infants being scalded by saline, crushed or poisoned and the pampered and privileged PP officials sipping wine and nibbling on salad while planning how best to murder these innocent’s and sell their organs is is truly nauseating.
There are limits to what another should have to suffer because of failed birth control, accidents or even violation. These children are not at fault. With a president who doesn’t want his daughters punished by a pregnancy we move ever closer to the abyss where life is no longer sacred except to its owner and might makes right instead of the rule of law and morality.
The Republican leaders of the House are using this Bill to fool the hicks back home.
They know it will never pass.
If the Republicans in Congress really cared about abortion, they would attach the de-funding of PP to the must-pass Highway Bill.
The bill mentioned in the article is just theater for the fly-overs.
Does not the GOP house control spending for such projects?
No, they would have never allowed it to be funded to begin with.
But yes. this is a reactive dog and pony show.
It’s a start. Arrests, prosecutions, convictions. incarcerations, de-licensing of certain “physicians,” and systematic minimization of the loudest voices for deviance would be better.
You might be right. Because if by some chance the bill did pass, Obama would certainly veto it. Maybe it's worthwhile theater, but it's still theater.
But it is a good start to see what happens.
Call your Congressman, even if he’s a Democrat in a safe district.
Make sure to get a roll call vote, not a voice vote, so there is a record of those who vote to continue taxpayer funding for this sickening business that kills babies and chops them up to sell their body parts for extra money. We need to know who to vote out of office next year.
This PP mess has brought this lurker out.
I’d love to see someone work up a graphic for the insanity of the US taxpayers footing the bill for this awful group. It would be similar to that National Lampoon cover “buy this magazine or we’ll shoot this dog.”
Instead it would have a sonogram with some menacing forcepts and the words from PP that say “give us your tax dollars or the baby lives!”
Maybe its been done but ridiculing these people feels like fighting back.
Good news.
We will be watching to see how far it goes.
Why stop @ PP?
I don’t recall giving Congress the authority to give taxpayer $$ (OUR $$$, stolen from those whom EARNED the same) to any NUMBER of recipients (welfare, SS, mediXYZ, foreign aid, EPA, etc.). In fact, there’s the 5th, 9th, 10th and 13th that says SPECIALLY the opposite.
Yet another dog and pony show from the perfumed princes(esses) in D.C. Watch how the great GOP beat their chest to fecklessness. *Maybe*, after they win the WH too, they’ll FINALLY pass it....along with de-funding OCare and the rest of the political promises make before 2012.
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