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Planned Parenthood Defund Bill Fails in Senate; Democrats Claim Baby Parts Aid Women's Health
Christian Post ^ | 08/03/2015 | Michael Gryboski

Posted on 08/03/2015 3:19:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

The U.S. Senate has rejected a bill to defund Planned Parenthood and transfer its estimated $500 million in federal funds to other women's health sources.

Senate Bill 1881 failed to get the 60 votes required to have debate closed and a vote on the proposed legislation granted, with the results largely falling along party lines.

Introduced by Senator Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, S. 1881 called for the defunding of Planned Parenthood and placing it in other sources for women's health.

"All funds no longer available to Planned Parenthood will continue to be made available to other eligible entities to provide women's health care services," read S. 1881.

"Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Federal funds may be made available to Planned Parenthood Federation of America, or to any of its affiliates, subsidiaries, successors, or clinics."

For years, pro-life activists have attempted to push legislation removing the estimated $500 million Planned Parenthood annually receives from the federal government.

Last month, a pro-life group named the Center for Medical Progress released undercover videos showing Planned Parenthood officials speaking about selling aborted baby body parts.

In the first video released, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood's senior director for medical services, spoke about selling baby body parts while eating a salad and drinking wine.

"We've been very good at getting heart, lung, liver … I'm not gonna crush that part," said Nucatola in the video. "I'm going to basically crush below, I'm not gonna crush above, and I am gonna see if I can get it all intact."

"At the national office, we have a litigation and law department which just really doesn't want us to be the middle people for this issue right now … But I will tell you that behind closed doors these conversations are happening with the affiliates."

Other videos released provided more evidence indicating that Planned Parenthood profited from the sale of aborted baby parts.

For their part, pro-choice activists have argued that the videos were deceptively edited and that, at worst, Planned Parenthood provides human tissue for research purposes, which is legal.

During the debate over S. 1881, supporters of the bill argued that the bill would place the money in community health centers untarnished by political scandals like Planned Parenthood.

"Instead of subsidizing a political group, this bill would protect federal funding for health services for women," said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

"Instead of subsidizing a political group, this bill would insure funds continue to flow to community health centers and hospitals that provide more comprehensive health services and may have many, many more facilities nationwide."

Critics of the bill, including Senator Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., argued that the bill would have unjustly harmed Planned Parenthood and put those funds in facilities that are ill-equipped to provide more healthcare for women.

"Millions of American women depend on Planned Parenthood for much-needed health services," said Sen. Reid, who called the bill "just another Republican attack on the health of millions of women."

"Here we are once again, faced with another Republican attempt to limit women's access to health care."

Although S. 1881 was defeated, other congressional efforts in response to the furor over the undercover videos including an investigation of Planned Parenthood are still under development.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: 114th; abortion; defunding; plannedbutcherhood; plannedparenthood
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To: SeekAndFind

Harry Reid and Barbara Boxer are two good reasons for retroactive abortions.

Just think how much better and safer the world would be without them. I’ll even throw up, or throw in, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer (ah hell, all the Democrats in the Senate) as well.


61 posted on 08/03/2015 4:46:08 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: SeekAndFind

Voting NO on the bill gives MCConnell the right to call the bill up again at a later time.


62 posted on 08/03/2015 4:47:49 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: SeekAndFind

WTF is Ocare for??? Scuse my English


63 posted on 08/03/2015 4:50:52 PM PDT by goodnesswins (hey..Wussie Americans....ISIS is coming. Are you ready?)
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To: Freee-dame

RE: Voting NO on the bill gives MCConnell the right to call the bill up again at a later time.

In other words, it was strategery ( as W. would say ).

But as I said before, even if ALL Republicans voted for the bill, it would still need 6 Democrats to get to the magic 60. Good luck with that.


64 posted on 08/03/2015 5:02:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Monsters!

It is time to take stern measures against these babykillers.


65 posted on 08/03/2015 5:03:26 PM PDT by miserare (Rest in Peace, Officer Sean Bolton, Memphis P.D.)
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To: SeekAndFind

God Bless Joe Manchin!

He has not abandoned those good oldfashioned values of the people of his state.


66 posted on 08/03/2015 5:05:50 PM PDT by miserare (Rest in Peace, Officer Sean Bolton, Memphis P.D.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Good question. Answer: absolutly nothing.

“There are many causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.” ~~ Albert Camus


67 posted on 08/03/2015 5:09:49 PM PDT by miserare (Rest in Peace, Officer Sean Bolton, Memphis P.D.)
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To: G Larry

Yes—50% of them black.

Do black lives really matter to Democrats?


68 posted on 08/03/2015 5:11:47 PM PDT by miserare (Rest in Peace, Officer Sean Bolton, Memphis P.D.)
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To: RoosterRedux
What does Planned Parenthood have to do with women’s health?

The end of it if one is a female baby in the womb.

69 posted on 08/03/2015 5:13:59 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (Restoring our Republic at 9.8357x10^8 FPS)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Mark Kirk Illinois’ fredo to dick (head) durbin as Michael corleone


70 posted on 08/03/2015 5:15:09 PM PDT by slapshot ("Tan, drunk and stupid is no way to govern Mr. Boehner".)
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To: SeekAndFind

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/publiccatholic/2015/08/senate-vote-to-defund-planned-parenthood-falls-7-votes-short/?ref_widget=trending&ref_blog=samrocha&ref_post=titles

No roll call yet. Another dark day for the Grand Old Party. They couldn’t get seven votes, and one of those votes was McConnell? Shameful. Shame on the Republicans.


71 posted on 08/03/2015 5:20:02 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: odawg
they are therefore now complicit with the organization, and incur the same blood guilt as that organization.

The American taxpayers are likewise complicit and have incurred the same blood guilt. Senators can do nothing without taxpayer funds. Nothing.

72 posted on 08/03/2015 5:25:55 PM PDT by Buttons12
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To: SeekAndFind

Tell me, how did Reid get everything he wanted done by bending the rules and doing it with 51 votes? When McConnell starts playing the same way about something as important as funding murder and the sale of body parts, I’ll start listening.


73 posted on 08/03/2015 5:29:01 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why do they make it so hard to find the vote tally? Its like stores that put the milk way in the back to get you to walk thru the entire store.


74 posted on 08/03/2015 5:37:33 PM PDT by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: Jane Long

“”I’d guess Collins may be one.””

Nope - she introduced her own bill for the DOJ to INVESTIGATE PP but voted Yes...but not until she spread the same lies all the dems were spreading.

I wish whoever had choked her and left her with that awful voice had finished the job..

McConnell was the last vote - NO - and Kirk was the other R-No. I saw McConnell walk in like he had stayed away on purpose, cast his vote, then it was over and he went on immediately to introduce a cyber security bill.

Here’s the vote...http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=114&session=1&vote=00262


75 posted on 08/03/2015 5:44:22 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: goodnesswins

“”WTF is Ocare for??? Scuse my English””

That’s what I was screaming through the whole pitiful show. Had they never heard of or voted for obamacare which was to provide QUALITY HEALTH CARE for all regardless of station in life, race, sex, religion or whatever!!!

I have never witnessed more lies in one place than I saw today in that Senate chambers. The Republicans could have shoved their faces in most of those but I guess they have to pretend to be dignified. Why for crying out loud?? It doesn’t make any sense. Call a spade a spade - sorry if that offends anyone - HA! But then the facts the Republicans did manage to get out didn’t even phase those dem idiots - they may as well have saved their breath and I may as well have continued to do something useful.


76 posted on 08/03/2015 5:48:19 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: RoosterRedux
What does Planned Parenthood have to do with women’s health?

About the same that public schools have to do with education.

77 posted on 08/03/2015 5:53:02 PM PDT by LouAvul (There is no more GOP. There is RAT, and RAT lite.)
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To: Thank You Rush

As many others have already posted....

It’s ALL Kabuki Theatre. If the R’s truly wanted to defund PP, they would’ve attached this to the highway bill.

They didn’t. They’re lying traitors with blood on all of their hands.


78 posted on 08/03/2015 6:00:29 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: joemsewi
Here is the list

Alexander (R-TN), Yea
Ayotte (R-NH), Yea
Baldwin (D-WI), Nay
Barrasso (R-WY), Yea
Bennet (D-CO), Nay
Blumenthal (D-CT), Nay
Blunt (R-MO), Yea
Booker (D-NJ), Nay
Boozman (R-AR), Yea
Boxer (D-CA), Nay
Brown (D-OH), Nay
Burr (R-NC), Yea
Cantwell (D-WA), Nay
Capito (R-WV), Yea
Cardin (D-MD), Nay
Carper (D-DE), Nay
Casey (D-PA), Nay
Cassidy (R-LA), Yea
Coats (R-IN), Yea
Cochran (R-MS), Yea
Collins (R-ME), Yea
Coons (D-DE), Nay
Corker (R-TN), Yea
Cornyn (R-TX), Yea
Cotton (R-AR), Yea
Crapo (R-ID), Yea
Cruz (R-TX), Yea
Daines (R-MT), Yea
Donnelly (D-IN), Yea
Durbin (D-IL), Nay
Enzi (R-WY), Yea
Ernst (R-IA), Yea
Feinstein (D-CA), Nay
Fischer (R-NE), Yea
Flake (R-AZ), Yea
Franken (D-MN), Nay
Gardner (R-CO), Yea
Gillibrand (D-NY), Nay
Graham (R-SC), Not Voting
Grassley (R-IA), Yea
Hatch (R-UT), Yea
Heinrich (D-NM), Nay
Heitkamp (D-ND), Nay
Heller (R-NV), Yea
Hirono (D-HI), Nay
Hoeven (R-ND), Yea
Inhofe (R-OK), Yea
Isakson (R-GA), Yea
Johnson (R-WI), Yea
Kaine (D-VA), Nay
King (I-ME), Nay
Kirk (R-IL), Nay
Klobuchar (D-MN), Nay
Lankford (R-OK), Yea
Leahy (D-VT), Nay
Lee (R-UT), Yea
Manchin (D-WV), Yea
Markey (D-MA), Nay
McCain (R-AZ), Yea
McCaskill (D-MO), Nay
McConnell (R-KY), Nay
Menendez (D-NJ), Nay
Merkley (D-OR), Nay
Mikulski (D-MD), Nay
Moran (R-KS), Yea
Murkowski (R-AK), Yea
Murphy (D-CT), Nay
Murray (D-WA), Nay
Nelson (D-FL), Nay
Paul (R-KY), Yea
Perdue (R-GA), Yea
Peters (D-MI), Nay
Portman (R-OH), Yea
Reed (D-RI), Nay
Reid (D-NV), Nay
Risch (R-ID), Yea
Roberts (R-KS), Yea
Rounds (R-SD), Yea
Rubio (R-FL), Yea
Sanders (I-VT), Nay
Sasse (R-NE), Yea
Schatz (D-HI), Nay
Schumer (D-NY), Nay
Scott (R-SC), Yea
Sessions (R-AL), Yea
Shaheen (D-NH), Nay
Shelby (R-AL), Yea
Stabenow (D-MI), Nay
Sullivan (R-AK), Yea
Tester (D-MT), Nay
Thune (R-SD), Yea
Tillis (R-NC), Yea
Toomey (R-PA), Yea
Udall (D-NM), Nay
Vitter (R-LA), Yea
Warner (D-VA), Nay
Warren (D-MA), Nay
Whitehouse (D-RI), Nay
Wicker (R-MS), Yea
Wyden (D-OR), Nay

79 posted on 08/03/2015 6:08:50 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: SeekAndFind

And that still would not have been enough. You just can not pull the the rat votes out of the air and put them over to the Republican site if they don’t vote for it


80 posted on 08/03/2015 6:13:05 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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