Posted on 12/16/2015 1:08:41 PM PST by wagglebee
WASHINGTON, D.C., December 16, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) -- The House's new Speaker has unveiled a $1.67 trillion budget that fully funds Planned Parenthood for the next nine-and-a-half months.
The budget comes five months after a series of videos showed Planned Parenthood officials haggling over the price of unborn baby parts, as well as appearing to discuss illegal partial-birth abortions and illegal modifications to abortion.
While the House appears ready to pass the bill on Friday, a board member of the group that conducted the undercover video investigations said the funding shows "the corrupt, establishment Republicans are once again walking lockstep with the pro-abortion Democrats to give the criminal enterprise Planned Parenthood more money."
"Over the past six months, we have proven that Planned Parenthood routinely engages in gross criminal conduct," said Operation Rescue's Troy Newman. A founding board member of the Center for Medical Progress, Newman said that Planned Parenthood's "gross criminal conduct" includes "Profiting from the sale of fetal body parts, changing the abortion procedure to put their profits ahead of women's safety, and killing children that were born alive."
In September, Democratic insistence on funding America's largest abortion company -- which gets more than $500 million between state and federal programs -- nearly led to a partial government shutdown. A number of pro-life Members in the House and Senate insisted on shifting 80 percent of Planned Parenthood's federal funding to federally qualified community centers.
Medicaid reimbursements total approximately four of every five federal tax dollars sent to Planned Parenthood. The other 20 percent comes from Title X "family planning" programs.
However, a number of moderate Republicans in both chambers insisted on avoiding a fight. Just 20 of 54 Senate Republicans opposed funding Planned Parenthood in a bill that funded the government through December 11. In the House, 151 out of 246 Republicans opposed funding Planned Parenthood in the House's version of the same bill.
Short-term funding bills have kept the government running until this week, with passage of the omnibus expected on Friday.
In an e-mail to media outlets, House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-WI, praised the bill because it "maintains important pro-life provisions, including the Hyde Amendment, and prohibits taxpayer funding for abortion."
However, the Hyde Amendment does not ban all federal funding for abortions, because it allows funding for abortions in the cases of rape, incest, and life of the mother.
Pro-lifers have also expressed concern about the fungibility of funds provided to Planned Parenthood, as well as opposition to FDA-approved contraceptives that double as abortifacients -- the latter funded through Title X.
The bill does include two partial victories for pro-life advocates. The first is a seven percent reduction in the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) that was included over concerns of UNFPA's involvement in China's coercive One-Child Policy.
The second was a doubling of Sexual Risk Avoidance funding from $5 million to $10 million. The abstinence advocacy group Ascend praised the inclusion, saying in a statement that "pregnancy-prevention-only programs are not enough for our youth."
“We are encouraged that Congress is committed to reinforcing and amplifying the good decisions of the majority of youth," the statement continued.
The omnibus bill continued to fund Sexual Risk Reduction -- also known as "comprehensive sex education" -- programs, with $90 million allocated. Such programs typically involve promotion of contraceptives, acceptance and encouragement of teenage sexual activity, and abortion.
However, March for Life Action Vice President Tom McClusky said in a statement that the bill does not protect conscience rights for churches in California that the state is requiring to fund abortion.
"California churches will continue to be forced to pay for abortions through their own insurance, a violation of federal law," said McClusky. "With this spending bill, Congress shoulders the responsibility alongside the Obama Administration for this gross violation of our First Amendment rights. Ironically, the text of this bill came out on the 224th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office declined to comment to LifeSiteNews about the bill. However, Newman said that "Planned Parenthood should be wondering how they are going to make bail instead of getting more free government money."
And NOBODY should be surprised!
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Oh look Steve! More lesser evil we called several months ago.
Good thing no one pays attention.
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Yep, and they actually sold us out on everything else too. Nice folks.
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EVIL plan hatched in the middle of the night. GOD will not be mocked.
No. The GOP leadership openly campaigned on working with Obama. Nome of this was some smoky back room plot. They CAMPAIGNED on it.
And as in 12, the human garbage that support them DEMANDED we elect them ‘no matter what” because it was a lesser evil.
Demanded this. They just didn’t mention the downside of following their advice. Had people not drank their lesser evil KoolAid, they too would have seen the flippin obvious.
Just more proof that Republicans are liberals masquerading as conservatives. Send these backstabbers packing in 2016.
One would think the GOP base would have caught on to the scam by now and thrown the scoundrels out of office. But they continue to drink the KoolAid election after election. What does that say about the base?
What I’ve said for years that people refuse to hear. Most so called conservatives are at best, moderates. Some are flat out liberals that hate their country with Democrat intensity. And they prove it with their words and their votes every 2 years.
Before this thread ends you will see several hit dogs howl.
But then I misspoke. ‘SUB’ human Garbage.
Fixed it.
$3 Billion so Obama can buy a job at the United Nations
You’re right. Those calling it a betrayal either weren’t listening or didn’t want to believe.
Steve, myself and others shouted it from the rooftops. Not that we had to. These liberals did it themselves. But nope, no one would believe their own ears. Or eyes. Because they WANT liberalism. They WANT IT. Win no matter what. They STILL say it to this day. This is what.
How is that NOT victory before principle? How is that NOT victory before country?
Answer? It IS.
Paul Ryan-o is nothing but Boehner in a new wineskin. He an Kevin McCarthy and the rest of what is euphemistically referenced as the "Republican""leadership" are nothing but the new mouthpieces of Wall Street, K Street, US Chamber of Crony Commerce, gulling the suckers of the GOP base who, in many cases, still believe that "leadership" cares about issues other than $$$$$$.
Many have heard of the "Hastert Rule" named for the now retired Child Molester of the House (currently on his way to the federal hoosegow) who decreed that no bill which failed to obtain majority support in the Republican Caucus would be debated much less passed in a Republican led House. If 151 of 246 Republican House Members oppose funding Big Murder, then the "Hastert Rule" must be dead (at least when Obozo, Reince Priebus, McConnell and Ryan-o want it to be).
Most so called conservatives are at best, moderates.
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True that. If I was a Democrat I would thank my lucky stars everyday for the GOP. Nothing better than having a weak, confused opponent who is always ready to roll over, capitulate, and betray its voting base.
This is a classic example of: `Watch what they do, ignore what they say’.
“Paul Ryan-o is nothing but Boehner in a new wineskin.”
BUT he was going to rein in Romney because he was a conservative!!!!!!!!
We tried warning people. “People” knew better.
GOPe in action. I believe only Trump can stand up to this.
My only shock is that the Repugnicans have not passed comprehensive gun ban legislation.
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