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Cruz: Congress Should Use ‘Any Procedural Means Necessary to Defund Planned Parenthood’
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Posted on 07/29/2015 11:28:02 AM PDT by SoConPubbie

(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told CNSNews.com that Congress should use “every and any procedural means necessary to defund Planned Parenthood,” especially in light of recent videos released by the Center for Medical Progress, which appear to show Planned Parenthood officials negotiating the transfer of tissue and organs from aborted babies.

On Tuesday, at a Capitol Hill rally demanding an end to taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood, CNSNews.com asked Senator Cruz: “Should the Republican Congressional leadership include language prohibiting federal funding of Planned Parenthood in the CR (continuing resolution) they must pass by September 30th?”

“We should use every and any procedural means necessary to defund Planned Parenthood," Cruz replied. "It is unacceptable that federal taxpayer dollars are going to fund an ongoing criminal enterprise.”

“Planned Parenthood has been caught on video with its senior officials repeatedly confessing to what appear to be multiple felonies with long jail terms,” he continued.

“Federal taxpayer dollars should not go to funding the trafficking, the buying and selling of the body parts, the hearts, lungs, and livers of unborn children. It is shameful and it is time for Congress to stand up and be counted to lead and to listen to the American people,” Cruz concluded.

Given its power of the purse, Congress could include language -- either in the law funding HHS, or in a continuing resolution (CR) funding numerous government agencies -- prohibiting taxpayer dollars from flowing to Planned Parenthood.

Ultimately, Planned Parenthood cannot receive federal funding in fiscal 2016 unless the House of Representatives agrees to allow it.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cruz; tedcruz
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1 posted on 07/29/2015 11:28:02 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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2 posted on 07/29/2015 11:28:47 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie

God Bless Ted Cruz.


3 posted on 07/29/2015 11:29:45 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: SoConPubbie

TED CRUZ fears the Lord, which is the beginning of wisdom.

TED CRUZ 2016
https://www.tedcruz.org/


4 posted on 07/29/2015 11:32:44 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: SoConPubbie

To the contrary, like the Ex-Im bank, “any procedural means necessary” will be used to protect it.

For the Congress is replete with “campaign conservatives.” They’re only conservative just before November.


5 posted on 07/29/2015 11:33:58 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

How bad is the baby organ trafficking story for Planned Parenthood? So bad that the nation’s largest abortion provider has hired a pricey PR firm to bully media outlets into not covering the scandal. According to Politico, Planned Parenthood hired Democratic megafirm SKDKnickerbocker to handle its public relations effort surrounding the widening organ trafficking scandal. In a series of undercover videos released by the Center for Medical Progress, multiple top Planned Parenthood executives are captured haggling over the prices of aborted baby body parts and discussing ways to maximize money earned through the harvesting and sale of human organs. Unsurprisingly, preventing coverage of the videos is apparently key to Planned Parenthood’s survival strategy: “The group circulated a memo to reporters and producers late Monday that discouraged them from airing the undercover videos, arguing that they were obtained under false identification and violated patient privacy.”

http://townhall.com/


6 posted on 07/29/2015 12:18:33 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 (Send 'slob boy of the oval office' back to Kenya ASAP, and save America...)
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To: SoConPubbie

Maybe the reason is they won’t is they are receiving a slice of the profits from this company mentioned last night on Fox.

StemExpress a huge seller of aborted baby body parts as mentioned on Megan Kelly last night has an interesting connection to the House leader..

“StemExpress” and the owner listed is Cate Spears Dyer, from Rescue, CA, who’s sister is a staff member to John Boehner, Charlotte Spears Ivancic who’s recently “celebrated by Nancy Pelosi for working so hard to get the “doc fix” done!

Who is making the profits from harvesting and selling these baby body parts?


7 posted on 07/29/2015 12:22:14 PM PDT by stockpirate (A corrupt government is the real enemy of the people.)
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To: SoConPubbie

The Totalitarian Triumvirate, aka the executive, legislative, judicial, is extracting payment from the citizens of the republic for pre-meditated pulling parts out of murdered babies for profiteers in their collectives.

Abort totalitarians/National Socialists from the body politic.

Debt, slavery and the pursuit of baby parts for profit. Government of the grisly. ZERO representation. No prison for the progressive profiteers selling the baby parts of unwitting ex-mothers? No reparations?


8 posted on 07/29/2015 12:47:10 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: SoConPubbie

Indeed they should, but it seems that McConnell is complicit with continuing funding -

he had a voice vote on it so that he could mask who voted to continue funding.


9 posted on 07/29/2015 12:48:17 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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