Senate blocks Lee's vote to defund Planned Parenthood

thehill.com ^ | July 26, 2015 | Sarah Ferris

[PROCON]

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) was rebuked by his Senate colleagues on Sunday as he tried to force a vote on defunding Planned Parenthood.

Lee had tried to attach an amendment eliminating all federal funds for Planned Parenthood to the vote on Congress’s must-pass highway legislation.

The amendment was rejected by the chair of the Senate, who called it out of order because it was not germane to the highway bill.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) decided last week that he would only allow two amendments to the bill – a repeal of ObamaCare and a reauthorization of the Export-Import bank – while blocking all others in a procedure known as “filling the tree.”

[Nuc 1.1]

We’ll see. I think McCain is toast in AZ. I would vote for a ground squirrel b4 voting for him. We have a lady doctor running against him and while she hasn’t said much of substance she is NOT McCain!

[Rome2000]

That’s BS

McConnell can change the Rule on Filibusters to include legislation, just like he said he would if Reid went nuclear.

Guess he was LYING then too.

[pepsi_junkie]

Republicans, ask yourself if Harry Reid were still running the show, would anything over the past 8 months have been done differently in the Senate? Ruminate on that and tell me again how we need to hold our noses and support RINOs simply to stop democrats.

[AIL]

Republicans as a whole have been lying for years when they say they are against abortion. There is no difference between them and Democrats. I had someone tell me that Mr. Obama would be impreached if the Republicans gained control of the House and Senate. I told him they would not since they are in agreement with him. They will not defund PP since they are cool with butchering babies (mostly black) and selli g their body parts to the largest bidder so they can drive Lamborghinis.

[i_robot73]

How ‘bout...JUST FOLLOW THE CONSTITUTION (as they are obligated to do)?

Something along the lines of “I cannot lay my finger upon...”; let alone the 5th/13th A.

The PP funding would be a moot point.

Next year’s ‘lesser of two’ cheerleaders should be ‘fun’....

[Liz]

Did Planned Parenthood ask Congress for federal grants that were specifically outlined in federal budgets for one use that were then diverted for another use?

THIS IS CONSIDERED FRAUD---REPORT MAIL FRAUD HERE:
https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/contactUs/filecomplaint.aspx

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(1999 EXCERPT--WND.COM). Then-Pres Clinton is credited w/ opening up the market in fetal body parts. Since Clinton signed the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993, “fetal-tissue research” has expanded into a federally subsidized multi-million dollar industry of selling human spare parts salvaged from abortions.

For example, the NIH budgeted $21 million in fiscal year 1999 for grants and awards for fetal tissue research. At the University of Washington, the NIH subsidizes the central laboratory for human embryology.

According to a lab notice obtained by WorldNetDaily, it “can supply tissue from normal or abnormal embryos and fetuses of desired gestational ages between 40 days to term. Specimens are obtained within minutes of passage, and tissues are aseptically identified, staged, and immediately processed according to the requirements of individual investigators.” The notice is signed by Alan G. Fantel of the department of pediatrics.

At the time, two organizations that profited from this growth industry were (the now defunct) Opening Lines, a business formerly located in West Frankfort, Illinois...... and Anatomic Gift Foundation, headquartered in Laurel, Maryland.

Opening Lines gives credit to President Clinton for opening up the lucrative business in fetal tissue trade.

According to Opening Lines, on January 22, 1993, Clinton lifted the moratorium on federal funding. “This action created a great demand for fetal tissue and has made possible the development of treatments for individuals afflicted with serious diseases and disorders,” says the sales brochure.

Both companies served as wholesalers for the marketing of baby body parts to researchers, drug companies, hospitals and universities. These groups harvest the parts from abortion clinics and ship them to their customers.

Opening Lines provides fetal tissue researchers with a “fee for service schedule,” which gives prices for each body part. For example, Opening Lines charged:

<><> $150 for a spinal column;

<><> $400 for an intact embryonic cadaver;

<><>$75 for 8-week-old baby's eyeballs (40% discount for a single eye);

<><>$150 for two arms or legs; and,

<><> $100 for the skin of a 12-week-old baby.

[Liz]

The "kind-hearted" smiling, reassuring Clintons told us abortion would be "safe, legal and rare."

The Clintons "forgot" to mention opening the gates to the trafficking in baby body parts.

Now, more then ever---it is imperative that we determine whether the companies trafficing in baby body parts, their principles, subsidiaries, tangenital companies, and so on......contributed to:

<><> the Clinton Foundation

<><> and/or The Clinton Foundation's multiple offshoots.

<><> Hillary Clinton's present campaign

<><> Hillary Clinton's previous campaigns

<><> Bill Clinton's campaigns.

AND whether the billionaire Clintons have a financial interest in companies selling baby body parts.

As the video’s come out (and there are plenty more to come), we will continue analyzing the legal ramifications of Planned Parenthood’s admissions and developing a comprehensive legal strategy to expose and shut down the abortion giant in the courts, in Congress, and in the court of public opinion.

[Mr Rogers]

Am I the only one who keeps hoping he’ll wake up one day and find out a certain senator was killed in a car crash? Mitch McConnell is doing everything in his power to make conservatives stay home in 2016!

[Liz]

Looking Away From Abortion
New York Times ^ | July 25, 2015 | By Ross Douthat / / FR Posted by Brad from Tennessee

In an essay in his 1976 collection, “Mortal Lessons,” the physician, Richard Selzer, describes a strange suburban scene. People go outside in the morning in his neighborhood, after the garbage trucks have passed, and find “a foreignness upon the pavement,” a softness underfoot.

Looking down, Dr Selzer first thinks he sees oversize baby birds, then rubber baby dolls, until the realization comes that the street is littered with the tiny, naked, all-too-human bodies of aborted fetuses.

Later, the local hospital director speaks to Dr Selzer, trying to impose order on the grisly scene. It was an accident, of course: The tiny corpses were accidentally “mixed up with the other debris” instead of being incinerated or interred. “It is not an everyday occurrence. Once in a lifetime, he says.”

And Dr Selzer tries to nod along: “Now you see. It is orderly. It is sensible. The world is not mad. This is still a civilized society."

“But just this once, you know it isn’t. You saw, and you know.” (Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ....

[The Cajun]

I consider the current Republican party pro-abortion now without any doubts.

That makes them pro-evil, no less than Reid, Pelosi and the Rats.

There's no other way to put it, glad I am no longer a member.