Posted on 08/03/2015 5:40:20 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Pro-Abortion Minority Blocks Senate Bill to Defund Planned Parenthood Despite Bipartisan Majority’s Vote to Cut Tax Dollars
BREAKING: The U.S. Senate has voted to continue the federal funding of Planned Parenthood despite the fact that they harvest and sell the body parts of aborted babies.
Did your Senator vote to continue this barbarity? We have the list here.
A pro-abortion extremist minority in the U.S. Senate has filibustered a vote to defund Planned Parenthood.
A bipartisan majority of the Senate voted to close debate and vote to cut off the abortion giant’s taxpayer funding, falling short of the 60-vote threshold to avoid a filibuster.
This means that a minority of the Senate – led by Planned Parenthood’s pro-abortion political allies – have blocked a vote.
Planned Parenthood continues to rake in over $500 million of our tax dollars a year. It continues to murder nearly 330,000 babies a year. And it continues to pad its bottom line by selling these murdered babies’ body parts.
Yet 45 Members of the Senate voted to allow this barbarity to continue to be funded by you and me, the taxpayers.
You need to know their names.
The following Senators voted to continue sending half a billion of our tax dollars to Planned Parenthood as it murders babies and sells them for parts:
Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO)
Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ)
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
Senator Benjamin Cardin (D-MD)
Senator Thomas Carper (D-DE)
Senator Robert Casey (D-PA)
Senator Christopher Coons (D-DE)
Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL)
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
Senator Al Franken (D-MN)
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
Senator Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND)
Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI)
Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA)
Senator Angus King (I-ME)
Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL)
Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
Senator Edward Markey (D-MA)
Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO)
Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
Senator Christopher Murphy (D-CT)
Senator Patty Murray (D-WA)
Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL)
Senator Gary Peters (D-MI)
Senator Jack Reed (D-RI)
Senator Harry Reid (D-NV)
Senator Bernard Sanders (I-VT)
Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI)
Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY)
Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
Senator Jon Tester (D-MT)
Senator Tom Udall (D-NM)
Senator Mark Warner (D-VA)
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR)
While we must hold these Senators accountable for their vote for barbarity, it is equally important to thank those Senators (a bipartisan majority including Senators Manchin (D-WV) and Donnelly (D-IN)) who spoke out to stop subsidizing Planned Parenthood’s abortion business.
Our fight to defund the abortion giant will not be deterred. A majority of the Senate and a majority of Americans do not want to be forced to pay for this evil.
We continue to work with members of both houses of Congress on key committee investigations of Planned Parenthood’s potentially illegal activity.
We are also directly representing the Center for Medical Progress and some of its board members who have been targeted by big abortion with a federal lawsuit to censor and silence their pro-life investigative journalism. The abortion industry doesn’t want the truth to come out. It doesn’t want its horrific abortion tactics to be exposed to the American public. We’re defending these pro-life journalists in federal court.
Stand with us. Demand the evil sale of murdered babies end, and call on investigations into big abortion’s horrific practices. As we defend those who are exposing Planned Parenthood in court, sign our petition today.
Looks like one Republican joined the baby-killers:
Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL)
No kidding. This is a joke, kind of like all those votes against gay marriage that the GOP put us through . . . before they were for it.
sigh - not that we are surprised
Mitch McConnell meaningless show vote after refusing to let it be attached to the highway bill.
If only those schmucks mother’s had visited a Planned Parenthood office when they got pregnant with those spawns of Satan, have you ever wondered why it seems that the ones who love abortion the most have themselves, never been aborted
The GOP is so good at the “gee, but we did our best” game.
It’s a very simple argument to me. A unique human life begins at conception. Abortion is opposed to any value for human life.
Agreed.
But let it be known, the Republican Party has the power to put this on the President's desk.
A political vote to make the GOPe look good when they know Dems will vote the other way and look bad.
NO DEFUNDING OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD, NO END TO THE KILLING, JUST AN EMOTIONAL ISSUE KARL ROVE STYLE TO SUCK IN THE RELIGIOUS FOLKS TO SUPPORT THE GOPE IN 2016.
My thoughts also.
Add Mitch McConnell to that list.
And Lindsay Gramnesty as well (he was a no-show for the vote).
(Yes, I have heard the arguments that McConnell did so for a tactical reason so he could bring it up in the future. When he *actually* brings it up in the future, please ping me to that action)
Mitched tanked this. No one else. The GOP leader led the Democrats.
The way to do it is to attach an amendment to an important bill and see what happens, even it means shutting down the government.
Hopefully this will do great damage to Bob Casey when voters find out he’s a party hack despite having his daddy’s name, love to see him out of work.
[Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL)]
KIRK is up for re-election. Pray for a qualified opponent to take him out.
Gotta get rid of Tammy Baldwin.
“Republican Party has the power to put this on the President’s desk.”
That’s bee our problem all along. The Republicans are afraid of speaking the truth.
Many conservative social issue voters still haven’t learned that the GOP is using them and hoisting up these symbolic votes for political gain.
This vote was an opportunity for many Republicans to look good. Special interest groups inside the beltway will use this vote to sucker in religious voters to support GOPe candidates using this vote to falsely portray fakers as “Pro Life” and “Pro Family” and so on.
Its a look good tactical vote by the politicians of a party who see their grassroots fed up with them demanding real and meaningful action on many issues not just social ones.
The political system is failing with an honest and sincere civil disobedience movement looking like a better option than this pretense or faith in some messiah named “Donald”.
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