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Posted on 07/29/2015 1:20:22 PM PDT by markomalley
This week, the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) released it’s third video documenting Planned Parenthood’s participation in baby part harvesting. If you watch the video (you must watch the video,) be warned—it’s nauseating. I don’t give these kinds of warnings lightly.
When CMP first launched its campaign against Planned Parenthood, conservatives in the Senate came together to draft legislation defunding Planned Parenthood and its affiliates. The team, headed up by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), today introduced S.1881, which includes three main objectives:
In a press conference announcing the bill, sponsor Joni Ernst spoke out against PPFA’s harvesting-for-profit scheme, saying, “As a mother and grandmother, I find this footage of Planned Parenthood’s role in the harvesting of the organs of unborn babies morally reprehensible and vile… The American people are horrified by these videos as well. Simply put, this legislation ensures that funding for women’s health is protected and that taxpayer dollars will not go to Planned Parenthood.”
You can watch that press conference here:
video at link
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell confirmed today that Ernst’s efforts will get a vote before August recess.
Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul (R-KY) was instrumental in the push to get this bill an early vote. From Real Clear Politics:
video at link
It means I must be doing something right when the socialists and left-wingers and the mayor of New York is going after me.
But, you know, I’m horrified by these videos, and everybody is. When I think of ultrasound, I think of the pictures of my kids before they were born and the happiness we had. To imagine that doctors are using ultrasound to manipulate the body around, turn the body around to take body parts from a baby, it just — it sickens me.
And so I’ve been fighting to defund Planned Parenthood, I don’t think they should get any taxpayer dollars. And we got good news today, we are going to get a vote on this. The Senate will vote on defunding Planned Parenthood before we leave in August.
Paul also makes the point that, although many senators (especially in the Democratic caucus) are pro-choice, the scope and tragedy of what has been displayed in these undercover videos could cause some Democrats to cross the aisle and vote for defunding.
I think he’s right. This specific issue has nothing to do whatsoever with a woman’s right to choose. These are barbarous acts completely separate from the barbarous act of abortion; efforts to equate the defunding of a private organization that may very well be in violation of federal law with the destruction of a court-created right to terminate a pregnancy will serve as a distraction, but in this case, I don’t think that those efforts will be able to derail the messaging behind this bill.
Co-sponsors of Senate bill 1881 include:
When asked his thoughts about conservative efforts to defund PPFA, Minority Leader Harry Reid had this to say:
“Good luck,” Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said of the uphill Republican drive to garner the 60 of 100 Senate votes they will need to cut off Planned Parenthood’s money. “We’re dealing with the health of American women, and they’re dealing with some right-wing crazy.”
Unfortunately for Reid, this could be the slice of “right wing crazy” that finally ends PPFA’s assault on the right to life.
We’ll keep you updated on the bill’s progress.
But good that they did what they did today.
How can this be? The Trump people just said that he was the one behind getting this done. How could it be being pushed through the Senate without the Donald?
Hmmm...
Cruz perhaps?
Note Ron Johnson as co-sponsor of this Bill.
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Thoughts:
They should of tacked this on the highway bill and let that idiot in the White House veto. Then come back with a bill that defunds PP and the illegal executive amnesty. After a veto, come back with a bill that defunds Obamacare/IRS and PP and executive amnesty, and so on.
On a pragmatic line, they could have cut the funding to PP in half (a third, forth, etc.) on the transportation bill.
There are numerous approaches that they could have taken, but simply refused. FWIW
How odd. Didn’t McConnell nix a vote on defunding? Did he change his mind?
I doubt there will be the 60 votes in the Senate as Democrats will vote in lockstep in opposition. However, let them balk as more shocking videos are revealed. The American people even many who regard themselves as “pro choice” are incensed. The mainstream media is once again pathetic in its reporting of this story. They have whipped the public into a frenzy over the killing of Cecil the lion, but give scant mention of Planned Parenthood executives nonchalantly drinking wine while they discuss less “crunchy” methods of killing babies so as to maximize the harvesting of their organs.
He knows this vote will fail.
He is playing with a nuclear explosion here.
For later.
God Bless NO God Save America
Sick.
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